Theatres of struggle and the end of apartheid /

"This is a study of the origins and trajectory of a legendary black uprising against apartheid - the Alexandra Rebellion of 1986. Using insights from the literature on collective action and social movements, it delves deep into the rebellion's inner workings. It examines how the residents...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bozzoli, Belinda
Corporate Author: International African Institute
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, London, ©2004.
Series:International African library ; 29.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Apartheid > South Africa.
Government, Resistance to > South Africa > Johannesburg.
Apartheid > Afrique du Sud.
Résistance au gouvernement > Afrique du Sud > Johannesburg.
HISTORY > Africa > General.
Apartheid.
Government, Resistance to.
Politics and government
Race relations.
Ethnische Beziehungen
Apartheid
Radical movements.
Recollection.
Alexandra (Johannesburg, South Africa) > History > 20th century.
Johannesburg (South Africa) > Race relations.
South Africa > Politics and government > 1978-1989.
Afrique du Sud > Politique et gouvernement > 1978-1989.
South Africa.
South Africa > Johannesburg.
South Africa > Johannesburg > Alexandra.
Alexandra <Südafrika> > Aufstand.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Place, space and frame
  • 3. The failure of the state
  • 4. Bounded revolt
  • 5. Generations, resources and ideas
  • 6. Commanding the territory
  • 7. The private utopia
  • 8. Realism and revolution
  • 9. Nationalism and theatricality
  • 10. From victory to defeat
  • 11. Memory and forgetting
  • 12. Epilogue.

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