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The interweaving of objective and subjective forms of racism culminated in the horrific and all-encompassing form of oppression and exploitation in South Africa, known as apartheid (Goldberg, 2008; Posel, 1991). This totalising system of subjugation, which depended on various racisms operating in concert — on political, structural, material, sociocultural and administrative technologies, working in tandem with psychical tendencies — approximated what Foucault (2000) referred to as an apparatus (or dispositif) in his writings on power. As such an ensemble of elements, of heterogeneous mechanisms functioning at different levels of influence, racism must be understood along the lines of a series of mutually reinforcing articulations. If we are to apprehend the ongoing echoes of apartheid racism — and thereby other forms of racism in different international locales — we must view its over-determined historical, material, symbolic and structural bases alongside psychological operations, such as the inferiorisation, exclusion and negation of others.
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Stevens, G., Duncan, N., Hook, D. (2013). The Apartheid Archive Project, the Psychosocial and Political Praxis. In: Stevens, G., Duncan, N., Hook, D. (eds) Race, Memory and the Apartheid Archive. Studies in the Psychosocial. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263902_1
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