Identity, Repression, and the Collapse of Apartheid

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.35293/srsa.v43i2.3602" target="_blank" >10.35293/srsa.v43i2.3602</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Identity, Repression, and the Collapse of Apartheid

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Scholars emphasise that an influx of resources during the 1980s lowered the costs of collective action and nourished a mass nonviolent anti-apartheid movement that eventually brought down the incumbent regime. Utilising a discourse theoretic approach, this study demonstrates that the 1976 Soweto massacre and its antecedent organisational campaign waged by the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) were pivotal yet overlooked historical factors that contributed to the apartheid collapse. While the Soweto massacre led to the detainment of BCM leadership and the death of leader Steve Biko, the event of white police killing unarmed black students in June of 1976 backfired and revealed central antagonisms and contradictions underpinning the apartheid project. Only once political identities were dislocated did the possibility arise for a unified mass opposition movement to form. Alongside weighing economic costs under threat of state repression, this study demonstrates that historical waves of revolutionary mobilisation are also influenced by identity and meanings attributed to repressive events by publics.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Identity, Repression, and the Collapse of Apartheid

Popis výsledku anglicky

Scholars emphasise that an influx of resources during the 1980s lowered the costs of collective action and nourished a mass nonviolent anti-apartheid movement that eventually brought down the incumbent regime. Utilising a discourse theoretic approach, this study demonstrates that the 1976 Soweto massacre and its antecedent organisational campaign waged by the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) were pivotal yet overlooked historical factors that contributed to the apartheid collapse. While the Soweto massacre led to the detainment of BCM leadership and the death of leader Steve Biko, the event of white police killing unarmed black students in June of 1976 backfired and revealed central antagonisms and contradictions underpinning the apartheid project. Only once political identities were dislocated did the possibility arise for a unified mass opposition movement to form. Alongside weighing economic costs under threat of state repression, this study demonstrates that historical waves of revolutionary mobilisation are also influenced by identity and meanings attributed to repressive events by publics.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Strategic Review for Southern Africa

ISSN

1013-1108

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

43

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

ZA - Jihoafrická republika

Počet stran výsledku

29

Strana od-do

308-336

Kód UT WoS článku

000866238800015

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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