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Constructing activist identities in post-apartheid South Africa
Includes bibliographical references.
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2015
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| author | Kelly, Claire |
| author2 | Foster, Don |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11202 Constructing activist identities in post-apartheid South Africa Kelly, Claire Foster, Don Literary Studies Includes bibliographical references. With the understanding that every generation shares a generational consciousness, which locates individuals not only in a common geographical location, but also a historical one, this study uses social-constructionist accounts of collective identity, narrative inquiry and positioning theory to trace the moral careers of twenty-six young, middle-class activists, based in Cape Town, South Africa. In doing so it explores the relationship between their activism and identities, and how this relationship is contingent on the social and political context of post-apartheid South Africa. The first part of this study provides an account of the dynamics of political community formation amongst this group of activists, how they generate a shared understanding of the world, how they construct borders of belonging and influence, and how these borders sometimes mirror broader social cleavages in post-apartheid in South Africa. The second part examines how participants draw on two major narratives, or morality plays, with which to construct their activist identities. The most significant of these is ‘the Struggle’, the story of the struggle against apartheid. The other is the ‘the TAC Method’, the story of the Treatment Action Campaign’s struggle for the treatment of those living with HIV and AIDS. 2015-01-03T18:23:39Z 2015-01-03T18:23:39Z 2013 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11202 eng application/pdf Department of Psychology Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Literary Studies Kelly, Claire Constructing activist identities in post-apartheid South Africa |
| thesis_degree_str | Doctoral |
| title | Constructing activist identities in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_full | Constructing activist identities in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Constructing activist identities in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Constructing activist identities in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_short | Constructing activist identities in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_sort | constructing activist identities in post apartheid south africa |
| topic | Literary Studies |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11202 |
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