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War in Worcester : Youth and the Apartheid State.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Forms of LivingPublisher: US : Fordham University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (270 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823246373
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: War in WorcesterDDC classification:
  • 323.1196068733
LOC classification:
  • HQ799.S5 -- R496 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Ground on Which They Stood -- Induction into Politics -- Untimely Suffering -- Turning and Being Turned -- Three Men and Loss -- Imfobe: The Reach for Moral Principles -- Neutralizing the Young -- Epilogue -- Appendixes -- Worcester -- The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A 1996 explanatory note from the TRC for the public -- The Boland Hearings -- The Commission's Findings on Violence in the Western Cape: An excerpt from Fiona Ross (2003, 103-106) with her generous permission -- Four Figures from the TRC Report -- The TRC's Findings on Children and Youth (1998, 5:254-256) -- The TRC's Recommendations on Children and Youth (1998, 5:321) -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: War in Worcester explores the experiences of the young in taking a stand against the apartheid regime in the 1980s at the height of the struggle for freedom. It combines an analysis of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission's process and findings with a close ethnographic study in a small town. Issues including tactics, pain, betrayal and ethics are examined from the point of view of young activists and the forms of documentation of conflict used by the Commission are critiqued.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Ground on Which They Stood -- Induction into Politics -- Untimely Suffering -- Turning and Being Turned -- Three Men and Loss -- Imfobe: The Reach for Moral Principles -- Neutralizing the Young -- Epilogue -- Appendixes -- Worcester -- The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A 1996 explanatory note from the TRC for the public -- The Boland Hearings -- The Commission's Findings on Violence in the Western Cape: An excerpt from Fiona Ross (2003, 103-106) with her generous permission -- Four Figures from the TRC Report -- The TRC's Findings on Children and Youth (1998, 5:254-256) -- The TRC's Recommendations on Children and Youth (1998, 5:321) -- Notes -- References -- Index.

War in Worcester explores the experiences of the young in taking a stand against the apartheid regime in the 1980s at the height of the struggle for freedom. It combines an analysis of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission's process and findings with a close ethnographic study in a small town. Issues including tactics, pain, betrayal and ethics are examined from the point of view of young activists and the forms of documentation of conflict used by the Commission are critiqued.

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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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