The Magic, the Mountain and the Muti: towards an interpretation of Marikana as marronage
| dc.contributor.advisor | Chaturvedi, Ruchi | |
| dc.contributor.author | Adams, Robyne | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-23T09:02:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-02-23T09:02:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2023-02-20T12:09:32Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | In the decade since the Marikana massacre, the many scholarly insights into the event tend towards abstracting these strikes into a universalist ‘working-class' discourse. This minor dissertation departs from this analysis, however, by paying attention to repertoires of resistance that connect Marikana with a longer history of collective resistance in South Africa. To do this, I read specific testimonies given during the Marikana commission inquiry and focus on subsets of acts, symbols, languages, phrases and words – all of which point to strong ontological continuities between Marikana and what I believe to be Marikana's pre-history - the 1850's Cattle-Killing Movement, the 1921 Bulhoek Massacre, the 1960s Mpondo Revolts and the 2000s Xolobeni protests. In light of this, I suggest that the Marikana striker's political praxis are indicative of a unique epistemology of resistance - an epistemology that points to a longer and yet, more invisible lineage of black radicalism. With this history of black resistance in mind, I re-read the forms of collective action that unfolded in Marikana - as akin to a specific, but highly overlooked form of flight from oppression - as sociogenic marronage. I argue that the concept of sociogenic marronage helps us plot a genealogy of black resistance and radicalism that is not captured in Eurocentric frames of understanding collective struggles. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Adams, R. (2022). <i>The Magic, the Mountain and the Muti: towards an interpretation of Marikana as marronage</i>. (). ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Sociology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/37001 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Adams, Robyne. <i>"The Magic, the Mountain and the Muti: towards an interpretation of Marikana as marronage."</i> ., ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Sociology, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/37001 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Adams, R. 2022. The Magic, the Mountain and the Muti: towards an interpretation of Marikana as marronage. . ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Sociology. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/37001 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Master Thesis AU - Adams, Robyne AB - In the decade since the Marikana massacre, the many scholarly insights into the event tend towards abstracting these strikes into a universalist ‘working-class' discourse. This minor dissertation departs from this analysis, however, by paying attention to repertoires of resistance that connect Marikana with a longer history of collective resistance in South Africa. To do this, I read specific testimonies given during the Marikana commission inquiry and focus on subsets of acts, symbols, languages, phrases and words – all of which point to strong ontological continuities between Marikana and what I believe to be Marikana's pre-history - the 1850's Cattle-Killing Movement, the 1921 Bulhoek Massacre, the 1960s Mpondo Revolts and the 2000s Xolobeni protests. In light of this, I suggest that the Marikana striker's political praxis are indicative of a unique epistemology of resistance - an epistemology that points to a longer and yet, more invisible lineage of black radicalism. With this history of black resistance in mind, I re-read the forms of collective action that unfolded in Marikana - as akin to a specific, but highly overlooked form of flight from oppression - as sociogenic marronage. I argue that the concept of sociogenic marronage helps us plot a genealogy of black resistance and radicalism that is not captured in Eurocentric frames of understanding collective struggles. DA - 2022_ DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Theories of Justice and Inequality LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2022 T1 - The Magic, the Mountain and the Muti: towards an interpretation of Marikana as marronage TI - The Magic, the Mountain and the Muti: towards an interpretation of Marikana as marronage UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/37001 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/37001 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Adams R. The Magic, the Mountain and the Muti: towards an interpretation of Marikana as marronage. []. ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Sociology, 2022 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/37001 | en_ZA |
| dc.language.rfc3066 | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Sociology | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | |
| dc.subject | Theories of Justice and Inequality | |
| dc.title | The Magic, the Mountain and the Muti: towards an interpretation of Marikana as marronage | |
| dc.type | Master Thesis | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | MPhil |