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Violence in a Time of Liberation - Murder and Ethnicity at a South African Gold Mine, 1994 (Paperback)
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Violence in a Time of Liberation - Murder and Ethnicity at a South African Gold Mine, 1994 (Paperback)
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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.
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