Robben Island and Prisoner Resistance to Apartheid

Fran Lisa Buntman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

360 Seiten

2003
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-00782-5 (ISBN)

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Robben Island prison in South Africa held thousands of black political prisoners, including Nelson Mandela, who opposed apartheid. This book reconstructs the inmates' resistance strategies to show how these men created a political and social order behind bars. Survival was their first goal; challenging apartheid was their true aim. So although Robben Island was designed to repress, it was continually transformed by its political inmates into a site of resistance. The book theorizes that, where material conditions permit, the most far-reaching and effective forms of resistance involve constructive political action which seeks to remake existing power relationships. This theory is demonstrated in three focuses of the book: the activism of Robben Islanders, the effects of political prisoner resistance on the apartheid state machinery, and in comparative cases which illustrate various international instances of political prisoners shaping both prisons and political orders.

1. Introduction: prison as a source of politics; 2. Politics and prison: a background; 3: Resistance for survival; 4. Resistance beyond survival; 5. Prisoner politics and organization on Robben Island; 6. Debates and disagreements; 7. Influencing South African politics; 8. Political imprisonment and the state; 9. Theorizing islander resistance; 10. Beyond Robben Island: comparisons and conclusion.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.10.2003
Zusatzinfo	11 Halftones, unspecified
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 229 mm
Gewicht	490 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-521-00782-8 / 0521007828
ISBN-13	978-0-521-00782-5 / 9780521007825
Zustand	Neuware