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Decolonisation is now: photography and student-social movements in South Africa.
- Source :
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Visual Studies . Mar2018, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p98-110. 13p. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- The 2015–2016 student protest movements to decolonise universities and to bring about free education in South Africa have been accompanied by striking images that capture the Zeitgeist of the post-apartheid state. This paper focuses on photographs taken by students who also took part in the protests and argues that a new iconography has emerged that references the past but that also breaks away from the social documentary forms of representation that characterised the struggle against apartheid. I explore how the resurgence of black consciousness is made manifest in visual images and argue for reading photographs by student-protestor-photographers as tangible signs of the emerging ‘woke’ subjectivities of young black people in South Africa today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *DECOLONIZATION
*PHOTOGRAPHY
*EDUCATION
*STUDENT strikes
*BLACK students
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1472586X
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Visual Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 128003940
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2018.1426251