#FeesMustFall and Youth Mobilisation in South Africa: Reform or Revolution?

ISBN-13: 9780367887452 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 164 str.

Musawenkosi Ndlovu

Opis

This book examines the historical FeesMustFall (FMF) university student protests that took place in South Africa and shows how the enduring historical construction, representation and conceptualisation of South African youth (as typically radical and political) contributed to the (mis)interpretation of FMF protests, and led to a discourse on an

Spis treści

1. Construction of South African youth before #FeesMustFall





2. Were the 2015 student protests a revolution?





3. What the 2015 protests actually were and how they were possible?





4. Ikhohlisan’ihlomile:# FMF students’ engagement with power and their ideological differences





5. Can South Africa’s declining economy inspire a student-led new revolution?





6. Youth’s declining news consumption levels and ideologically-divided media: the (im) possibility of the new revolution





7. Youth’s polysemic interpretation of the ANC regime text and (im) possibility a new revolution





8. Youth’s declining participation levels in the public sphere and (im) possibility a new revolution





9. Conclusion: #FMF protests will not lead to a revolution per se (at least yet), but to wide ranging reforms

O autorze

 Musawenkosi W. Ndlovu is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.