Babel Unbound
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Babel Unbound

Rage, reason and rethinking public life

  1. 292 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Babel Unbound

Rage, reason and rethinking public life

About this book

In this timely, original and sophisticated collection, writers from the Global South demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied

The notion that societies mediate issues through certain kinds of engagement is at the heart of imaginings of democracy and often centers on the ideal of the public sphere. But this imagined foundation of how we live collectively appears to have suffered a dramatic collapse across the world, with many democracies apparently unable to solve problems through talk – or even to agree on who speaks, in what ways and where. In the 10 essays in this timely, original and sophisticated collection, writers from southern Africa combine theoretical analysis with the examination of historical cases and contemporary developments to demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied. They propose new concepts and methodologies to analyse how public engagements work in society.

Babel Unbound examines charged examples from the Global South, such as the centuries old Timbuktu archive, Nelson Mandela as a powerful absent presence in 1960s public life, and the challenges to the terms of contemporary debate around the student activism of #rhodesmustfall and #feesmustfall. These show how issues of public discussion span both archive and media, verbal debates in formal spaces and visual performances that circulate in unpredictable ways.

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Yes, you can access Babel Unbound by Rory Bester,Anthea Garman,Indra de Lanerolle,Susana Molins Lliteras,Nomusa Makhubu,Litheko Modisane,Pascal Newbourne Mwale,Camalita Naicker, Lesley Cowling,Carolyn Hamilton, Lesley Cowling, Carolyn Hamilton in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Political History & Theory. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1 : Rethinking Public Engagement
  8. Chapter 2 : Tracing Public Engagements in Visual Forms
  9. Chapter 3 : Media Orchestration in the Production of Public Debate
  10. Chapter 4 : Fluid Publics: The public-making power of hashtags in digital public spaces
  11. Chapter 5 : ‘Now We See Him, Now We Don’t’: The media and the ‘Black Pimpernel’
  12. Chapter 6 : Archive and Public Life — Carolyn Hamilton
  13. Chapter 7 : Iconic Archive: Timbuktu and its manuscripts in public discourse
  14. Chapter 8 : The Politics of Representation in Marikana: A tale of competing ideologies
  15. Chapter 9 : Art-Rage and the Politics of Reconciliation
  16. Chapter 10 : Anger, Pain, and the Body in the Public Sphere
  17. Contributors
  18. Index