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Robben Island and Prisoner Resistance to Apartheid

Buntman, Fran Lisa

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003

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Robben Island and Prisoner Resistance to Apartheid
Autor: Buntman, Fran Lisa
Assuntos: Anti-apartheid movements ; Apartheid ; Black politics ; Blacks ; Blacks - South Africa - Robben Island - Political activity ; Government, Resistance to ; Political activity ; Political opposition ; Political prisoners ; Prisons ; Resistance ; Robben Island ; Social conditions ; South Africa
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Descrição: Robben Island prison in South Africa held thousands of black political prisoners, including Nelson Mandela, who opposed apartheid. This book reconstructs the inmates' resistance strategies to show how these men created a political and social order behind bars. Survival was their first goal; challenging apartheid was their true aim. So although Robben Island was designed to repress, it was continually transformed by its political inmates into a site of resistance. The book theorizes that, where material conditions permit, the most far-reaching and effective forms of resistance involve constructive political action which seeks to remake existing power relationships. This theory is demonstrated in three focuses of the book: the activism of Robben Islanders, the effects of political prisoner resistance on the apartheid state machinery, and in comparative cases which illustrate various international instances of political prisoners shaping both prisons and political orders.
Editor: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Data de criação/publicação: 2003
Formato: 360
Idioma: Inglês

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Buntman, Fran Lisa

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003

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