Babel Unbound
Wits University Press (Verlag)
978-1-77614-589-8 (ISBN)
The notion that societies mediate issues through certain kinds of engagement is at the heart of the democratic project and often centres on an imagined public sphere where this takes place. But this imagined foundation of how we live collectively appears to have suffered a dramatic collapse across the world in the digital age, with many democracies apparently unable to solve problems through talk - or even to agree on who speaks, in what ways and where. In this timely and erudite collection, writers from southern Africa combine theoretical analysis with the examination of historical cases and contemporary events to demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied. Drawing primarily on insights and materials from Africa for their capacity to speak to global developments, the authors in this volume propose new concepts and methodologies to analyse how public engagements work in society.
The contributions examine charged examples from the Global South, such as the centuries old Timbuktu archive, Nelson Mandela's powerful absent presence in 1960s public life, and the contemporary debates around the 2015/2016 student activism of #rhodesmustfall and #feesmustfall. These cases show how issues of public discussion circulate in unpredictable ways.
Babel Unbound will be of interest to anyone looking to find alternative ways of thinking about publicness in contemporary society in order to make better sense of the cacophony of conversations in circulation.
Lesley Cowling is Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and an associate researcher at the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative at the University of Cape Town. Carolyn Hamilton is the South African Research Chair in Archive and Public Culture at the University of Cape Town and leader of the research projects on the nature of public discourse. Rory Bester is Associate Professor of Art History and Deputy Head of the Wits School of Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Anthea Garman is a Professor in the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University. Indra de Lanerolle is the Director of the Journalism and Media Lab at the Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Susana Molins Lliteras is a Post-Doctoral Fellow based at the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative and the Historical Studies Department at the University of Cape Town and an African Studies Association (ASA) Presidential Fellow for 2019. Nomusa Makhubu is a Senior Lecturer of Art History at the University of Cape Town and a practising artist. Litheko Modisane teaches in the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town. Pascal Newbourne Mwale is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Chancellor College at the University of Malawi.
Introduction - Lesley Cowling and Carolyn Hamilton
Chapter 1 Rethinking Public Engagement - Carolyn Hamilton and Lesley Cowling
Chapter 2 Tracing Public Engagements in Visual Forms - Carolyn Hamilton, Litheko Modisane and Rory Bester
Chapter 3 Media Orchestration in the Production of Public Debate - Lesley Cowling and Pascal Mwale
Chapter 4 Fluid Publics: The Public-Making Power of Hashtags in Digital Public Spaces - Indra De Lanerolle
Chapter 5 'Now We See Him, Now We Don't': The Media and the 'Black Pimpernel' - Litheko Modisane
Chapter 6 Archive and Public Life - Carolyn Hamilton
Chapter 7 Iconic Archive: Timbuktu and Its Manuscripts in Public Discourse - Susana Molins Lliteras
Chapter 8 The Politics of Representation in Marikana: A Tale Of Competing Ideologies - Camalita Naicker
Chapter 9 Artrage and the Politics of Reconciliation - Nomusa Makhubu
Chapter 10 Anger, Pain, and the Body in the Public Sphere - Anthea Garman
Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.09.2020 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 1 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Johannesburg |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-77614-589-5 / 1776145895 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-77614-589-8 / 9781776145898 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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