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.
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