Babel Unbound (EPUB) von Lesley Cowling

In this timely and erudite collection, writers from the Global South demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied. Drawing primarily on materials from Africa for their capacity to speak to global developments, they propose new concepts and methodologies to analyse how public engagements work in society.

Introduction – Lesley Cowling and Carolyn Hamilton
Chapter 1 Rethinking Public Engagement – Carolyn Hamilton and Lesley Cowling
Chapter 2 Tracing Public Engagements in Visual Forms – Carolyn Hamilton, Litheko Modisane and Rory Bester
Chapter 3 Media Orchestration in the Production of Public Debate – Lesley Cowling and Pascal Mwale
Chapter 4 Fluid Publics: The Public-Making Power of Hashtags in Digital Public Spaces – Indra De Lanerolle
Chapter 5 ‘Now We See Him, Now We Don’t’: The Media and the ‘Black Pimpernel’ – Litheko Modisane
Chapter 6 Archive and Public Life – Carolyn Hamilton
Chapter 7 Iconic Archive: Timbuktu and Its Manuscripts in Public Discourse – Susana Molins Lliteras
Chapter 8 The Politics of Representation in Marikana: A Tale Of Competing Ideologies – Camalita Naicker
Chapter 9 Artrage and the Politics of Reconciliation – Nomusa Makhubu
Chapter 10 Anger, Pain, and the Body in the Public Sphere – Anthea Garman
Contributors
Index