Title Violence in a time of liberation : murder and ethnicity at a South African gold mine, 1994 / Donald L. Donham ; with photographs by Santu Mofokeng

Published Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 237 pages) : illustrations Contents Picturing a South African gold mine : photo gallery by Santu Mofokeng -- White stories -- Ways of dying -- Good Friday at Cinderella -- Freeing workers and erasing history -- Unionization from above -- Motives for murder -- The aftermath : "they were enjoying our freedom." Summary "How can we account for the apparent increase in ethnic violence across the globe? Donald L. Donham develops a methodology for understanding violence that shows why this question needs to be recast. He examines an incident that occurred at a South African gold mine at the moment of the 1994 elections that brought apartheid to a close. Black workers ganged up on the Zulus among them, killing two and injuring many more. While nearly everyone came to characterize the conflict as "ethnic," Donham argues that heightened ethnic identity was more an outcome of the violence than its cause. Based on his careful reconstruction of events, he contends that the violence was not motivated by hatred of an ethnic other. It emerged, rather, in ironic ways, as capitalist managers gave up apartheid tactics and as black union activists took up strategies that departed from their stated values. National liberation, as it actually occurred, was gritty, contradictory, and incomplete. Given unusual access to the mine, Donham comes to this conclusion based on participant observation, review of extensive records, and interviews conducted over the course of a decade. "Violence in a Time of Liberation" is a kind of murder mystery that reveals not only who did it but also the ways that narratives of violence, taken up by various media, create ethnic violence after the fact"--Back cover Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Ethnic conflict -- South Africa Violence -- South Africa Post-apartheid era -- South Africa SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa Ethnic conflict Post-apartheid era Violence Goldbergwerk Mord Ethnizität Arbeitskonflikt Gewaltdarstellung South Africa Südafrika Form Electronic book Author Mofokeng, Santu, 1956-2020 ISBN 9780822393412 0822393417 1283265885 9781283265881 9786613265883 6613265888

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