Apartheid and Fragmented Protest in Contemporary Southern Africa : Life Goes On

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911028728403321
• Autore: Tagwirei Cuthbeth
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2025; ©2025
• ISBN: 1-003-63097-9; 1-04-043007-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (211 pages)
• Collana: Routledge Contemporary Africa Series
• Disciplina: 303.4840968
• Soggetti: Anti-apartheid movements - South Africa; Anti-apartheid movements - Zimbabwe; Protest movements - Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Protest Is Broken -- Introduction -- The (Concomitant) Action - (Good Neighbourly) Reaction Principle -- The Case for Apartheid Studies -- "Protest Is Broken" and Life Goes On -- A Note on "Apartheid's Protest" -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 1 Whose Life Matters?: Reckoning with Protest Triage -- Introduction -- The Protest Triage Paradigm -- Existing Protest Relations Perspectives -- "The Same Black Lives Next Door" -- #ZLM Meets #IstandWithLasizwe: Counter-Mutating Hashtags -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 The Fragmented Cycle of Protest -- Introduction -- In the Beginning Was the Fragment -- The Duality of #ThisFlag -- The Moving Parts of Protest -- The Individual Protestor's Fragments -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 The Protest Hashtag as a Monologic Force -- Introduction -- Nhunzi Patsvina (Flies on Human Waste): Hashtags as Group Areas -- The #FeesMustFall Fragments: Togetherness or Mere Assemblies? -- The Monologic Impetus of #FeesMustFall -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 The Days of #RhodesMustLiveOn -- Introduction -- A Time for Everything: The Stop-Start Nature of Protest -- Reconciling with #RhodesMustLiveOn ; (#RMLOn) -- Same Hands and the Protest Queue -- Which Rhodes Must Fall? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 An Encounter with Apartheid's Protest -- Introduction -- The Return of "Put South Africa First" -- Who/What Is South Africa? -- The Apartheid Queue -- The Slave Ship Sails On -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: An Invitation to Apartheid Studies Work -- Mapping Protest Fragmentation -- The Work of Apartheid Studies -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines protest movements through the lens of Apartheid Studies, the first general theory of apartheid which explores how oppression, harm, injustice, poverty, loss, and inequality persist. It will be of interest to researchers across the fields of social movements, protests, sociology, African Studies, and media studies.