Political Violence and the Struggle in South Africa

ISBN-13: 9780333525968 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 384 str.

Opis

This book provides a unique perspective, at once scholarly and fully engaged, on the political violence in South Africa during 'The Time of the Comrades' in the mid-1980s. The work of a group of social scientists and professionals, whose own work and thinking have been profoundly affected by the political crisis of that time, it provides an in-depth research and analysis as well as critical reflections on the difficult political and theoretical issues raised by political violence and the struggle in South Africa.

Spis treści

Notes on Contributors - Editorial Introduction: The Time of the Comrades: Reflections on Professional Discourses and Political Commitment - South Africa: The Epidemiology and Culture of Violence; S.Marks & N.Andersson - The Concept of Violence; J.Degenaar - Discourses on Political Violence; A.du Toit - The Shooting at Uitenhage, 1985: The Context and Interpretation of Violence; R.Thornton - Symbolising Violence: State and Media Discourse in Television Coverage of Township Protest, 1985-7; D.Posel - From Biko to Wendy Orr: The Problem of Medical Accountability in Contexts of Political Violence and Torture; M.Rayner - Detention and Violence: Beyond Victimology; D.Foster & D.Skinner - State Violence in South Africa and the Development of a Progressive Psychology; L.Swartz, K.Gibson & S.Swartz - Political Oppression and Children in South Africa: The Social Construction of Damaging Effects; L.Swartz and A.Levett - Crowds and their Vicissitudes: Psychology and Law in the South African Courtroom; N.Chabani Manganyi - Violence and the Law: The Use of the Censure in Political Trials in South Africa; D.M.Davis - Sentencing in Cases of Public Violence; C.Plasket - Images of Punishment in the People's Courts of Cape Town, 1985-7: From Prefigurative Justice to Populist Violence; W.Sch rf & B.Ngcokoto - Index