Anti-apartheid and the emergence of a global civil society / Håkan Thörn.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Thörn, Håkan.

Series:

• St. Antony's series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
• St. Antony's series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Apartheid--South Africa.
• Apartheid.
• Race relations.
• History.
• South Africa.
• Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa.
• Anti-apartheid movements.
• South Africa--Race relations--History--20th century.
• Civil society.

Physical Description:

xiv, 251 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Summary:

The author looks at anti-apartheid as part of the history of present global politics. He provides the first comparative analysis of different sections of the transnational anti-apartheid movement. A highly organized system of repression such as apartheid demanded organized resistance: from the late 1950s to the 1990s the anti-apartheid movement performed increasingly well-organized transnational collective action, based on a collective identity, an imagined community of solidarity activists, uniting people across large distances. Analysing a part of twentieth century post-war history mainly from a sociological perspective, this book also highlights dimensions of globalization in an era in which we still live, the power of the media and the power of collective action.

Contents:

• Prologue: Apartheid as a Dark Side of Modernity xiii
• Introduction: Anti-Apartheid, the Media and 'New Social Movements' - Beyond Eurocentrism 1
• The long journey 1
• Across borders 2
• The globalization of politics 4
• Anti-apartheid and human rights 5
• Anti-apartheid and new social movements 7
• Social movements and the mediatization of politics 15
• Border thinking 18
• Notes on material and method 20
• Part I Anti-Apartheid in Global Context
• 1 Narratives of Transnational Anti-Apartheid Activism 29
• Introduction: transnational activists and historical experiences 29
• The activist public official 31
• The activist priest 33
• The exile activist 36
• The movement organizer 40
• The movement intellectual 43
• Conclusion: transnational activism and its contexts 45
• 2 The Globalization of the Anti-Apartheid Movement 48
• Introduction: transnational collective action and globalization 48
• Transnationalism and its tensions: liberation movements, solidarity networks and 'the struggle within the struggle' 49
• ANC, PAC and the armed struggle 50
• Sanctions, boycotts and constructive engagement 60
• Black Consciousness Movement, the IUEF and 'Operation Daisy' 66
• Naming the movement 68
• Political globalization from above 70
• Conclusion: anti-apartheid as globalization from below 72
• 3 National Politics in a Global Context: Anti-Apartheid in Britain and Sweden 73
• Introduction: national politics in a global context 73
• The legacy of the Empire 75
• Nationalism as internationalism 76
• The state and other enemies 80
• Ambivalent relations: the state as friend and foe 84
• The 'image of respectability' versus the 'consensus culture' of the People's Home 86
• Conflicting agendas 90
• The worker's movement and the legacies of socialism/communism 93
• Dealing with diversity 95
• Conclusion: radical or respectable? 97
• 4 The Struggle over Information and Interpretation 99
• Introduction: the importance of media and information 99
• Apartheid media strategies 101
• Media activism and information networks 105
• Approaching established media 110
• Commitment and journalism: in between movement and media 111
• The movement as a stage - protest simulacra and the turn to cultural politics 117
• Conclusion: technology and solidarity 122
• Part II Public Debates on Apartheid/Anti-Apartheid in Britain and Sweden 1960-90
• 5 Beginnings: Sharpeville and the Boycott Debates 127
• Introduction: the role of Sharpeville as a media event 127
• Boycott News 128
• Boycott debates 130
• Sharpeville in the news: 'learning the lesson the hard way' 134
• 'To civilize the African' 137
• Conclusion: framing the struggle 140
• 6 Sports as Politics: The Battle of Bastad and 'Stop the 70s Tour' 142
• Introduction: student activism and sports as politics 142
• May 1968: the Battle in Bastad 143
• Stop the 70s Tour 147
• The quest for order 151
• Conclusion: direct action versus 'law and order' 156
• 7 'A New Black Militancy' - Before and after the Soweto Uprising 158
• Introduction: Tutu's 'nightmarish fear' 158
• 'A new black militancy' 161
• Soweto in the media: 'It's no good firing over their heads' 163
• 'An insupportable tyranny' 168
• Conclusion: increasing polarization 170
• 8 Sharpeville Revisited and the Release of Nelson Mandela 174
• The 'total strategy' and the rise of the UDF 174
• 'Take your bloody money and go' 177
• Langa in the press: 'an uncanny resemblance of Sharpeville' 180
• 'Which black opposition?' 183
• The release of Mandela 185
• Conclusion: the beginning of the end 189
• Conclusion: Anti-Apartheid and the Emergence of a Global Civil Society 192
• Not an easy affair 192
• Organizing and mobilizing transnational anti-apartheid 195
• Mediated interaction and information politics 196
• Mobility - travel and exile 199
• An imagined community of solidarity activists 200
• The emergence of a global civil society 203
• The meaning(s) of solidarity 207
• Epilogue: The Legacy of Anti-Apartheid 212.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-239) and index.

ISBN:

1403939373

OCLC:

62421314

Publisher Number:

9781403939371