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Babel Unbound : Rage, Reason and Rethinking Public Life.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (248 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781776145911
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Babel UnboundDDC classification:
  • 301.592096
LOC classification:
  • JQ1879.A15 .B334 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 : Rethinking Public Engagement -- Chapter 2 : Tracing Public Engagements in Visual Forms -- Chapter 3 : Media Orchestration in the Production of Public Debate -- Chapter 4 : Fluid Publics: The public-making power of hashtags in digital public spaces -- Chapter 5 : 'Now We See Him, Now We Don't': The media and the 'Black Pimpernel' -- Chapter 6 : Archive and Public Life - Carolyn Hamilton -- Chapter 7 : Iconic Archive: Timbuktu and its manuscripts in public discourse -- Chapter 8 : The Politics of Representation in Marikana: A tale of competing ideologies -- Chapter 9 : Art-Rage and the Politics of Reconciliation -- Chapter 10 : Anger, Pain, and the Body in the Public Sphere -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: In this timely and erudite collection, writers from the Global South demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied. Drawing primarily on materials from Africa for their capacity to speak to global developments, they propose new concepts and methodologies to analyse how public engagements work in society.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 : Rethinking Public Engagement -- Chapter 2 : Tracing Public Engagements in Visual Forms -- Chapter 3 : Media Orchestration in the Production of Public Debate -- Chapter 4 : Fluid Publics: The public-making power of hashtags in digital public spaces -- Chapter 5 : 'Now We See Him, Now We Don't': The media and the 'Black Pimpernel' -- Chapter 6 : Archive and Public Life - Carolyn Hamilton -- Chapter 7 : Iconic Archive: Timbuktu and its manuscripts in public discourse -- Chapter 8 : The Politics of Representation in Marikana: A tale of competing ideologies -- Chapter 9 : Art-Rage and the Politics of Reconciliation -- Chapter 10 : Anger, Pain, and the Body in the Public Sphere -- Contributors -- Index.

In this timely and erudite collection, writers from the Global South demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied. Drawing primarily on materials from Africa for their capacity to speak to global developments, they propose new concepts and methodologies to analyse how public engagements work in society.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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