Musawenkosi Ndlovu

#FeesMustFall and Youth Mobilisation in South Africa

Reform or Revolution?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the historical FeesMustFall (FMF) university student protests that took place in South Africa and shows how the enduring historical construction, representation and conceptualisation of South African youth (as typically radical and political) contributed to the (mis)interpretation of FMF protests, and led to a discourse on an

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780367887452
• ISBN-10: 0367887452
• Artikelnr.: 58441419

Autorenporträt

Musawenkosi W. Ndlovu is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Construction of South African youth before #FeesMustFall
2. Were the 2015 student protests a revolution?
3. What the 2015 protests actually were and how they were possible?
4. Ikhohlisan'ihlomile:# FMF students' engagement with power and
their ideological differences
5. Can South Africa's declining economy inspire a student-led new
revolution?
6. Youth's declining news consumption levels and
ideologically-divided media: the (im) possibility of the new
revolution
7. Youth's polysemic interpretation of the ANC regime text and (im)
possibility a new revolution
8. Youth's declining participation levels in the public sphere and
(im) possibility a new revolution
9. Conclusion: #FMF protests will not lead to a revolution per se
(at least yet), but to wide ranging reforms