Koni Benson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3614236 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Koni Benson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Koni |
| FAMILY NAME | Benson |
| SIGNATURE | BENSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7076-0246 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Heimat schaffen, nicht sich nehmen. Anti-Imperialismus und Anti-Zionismus, gesehen von Südafrika heute
Bibliographie: Benson, Koni: Heimat schaffen, nicht sich nehmen. Anti-Imperialismus und Anti-Zionismus, gesehen von Südafrika heute, PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur, Nr. 174-175 (2-2024), S. 242-249. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v44i2.07 ----- Open-Access-Lizenz: Dieser Beitrag ist ab dem 11.12.2024 im Open Access unter der Creative-Commons-Lizenz CC BY 4.0 (Namensnennung 4.0 International) verfügbar. Weitere Informationen zur Lize…
Mapping the Social Lives of The Namibian Review
Thirty-two editions of The Namibian Review (1976–87) were published by anti-apartheid revolutionaries in a decade of intensifying struggle for independence from the South African occupation of South West Africa. This teaching tool discusses the wider history of political orientations and networks surrounding The Namibian Review, presenting a creative approach to African history research and political education aimed at challenging the ongoing leg…
Graphic Histories of Solidarity, in Solidarity
Revolutionary experiments require building revolutionary relationships. This praxis of material and social creativity to reorganise power dynamics and weave connections across weaponised divides, are evident in the content, the form and the backstory woven into Janet Biehl's Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the War on ISIS. Written and illustrated by Janet Biehl, it is a graphic memoir that can be read as both an historical narrati…
Revolutionary Papers
Periodicals played a key role in the making of left, anticolonial, and anti-imperial institutions, politics, and cultures in the global south. This issue of Radical History Review investigates how journals operated as a device for the creation and reproduction of counterhegemonic formations, often under conditions of extreme repression and neglect. This article builds on a multiyear project entitled Revolutionary Papers, as well as the contributi…
Counter Streams
Pan-Africanism, feminism and popular education in the struggle against water grabbing in Africa
This interview with Coumba Toure, feminist, Pan-African activist, and educator took place as part of a debriefing session at the end of a three day strategic planning workshop that brought together activists, artists, trade unionists, educators and organisations fighting imperialism, sexism and the privatisation of water in the face of the upcoming World Water Forum to be hosted in Dakar Senegal in 2021. The gathering was co-hosted by the Blue Pl…
Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements
This chapter reflects on the context, process, and challenges of the Know Your Continent (KYC) popular education course which we ran in Cape Town in the second half of 2015. KYC brought together people from local high schools, community activist networks, universities – both students and academics, and others into conversations emerging from themes and debates in African history and their relevance and relationship to our own contemporary context…
African history in context
This chapter reflects on the context, process, and challenges of the Know Your Continent (KYC) popular education course which we ran in Cape Town in the second half of 2015. KYC brought together people from local high schools, community activist networks, universities – both students and academics, and others into conversations emerging from themes and debates in African history and their relevance and relationship to our own contemporary context…
Graphic Novel Histories
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A 'Political War of Words and Bullets
This article looks at contemporary activism in Crossroads, South Africa – a famous symbol of women's defiance as one of the longest-surviving squatter camps under apartheid. In 1998 the Women's Power Group staged a four-month sit-in at City Council offices, demanding accountability for undelivered housing and public services. This was one of the first and most prolonged of what have become known as the post-apartheid or neoliberal period ‘new soc…
Collaboration as Resistance? Reconsidering the processes, products, and possibilities of feminist oral history and ethnography
As multiple norths emerge in the so-called souths (and vice versa) and non-government organizations (NGOs) become important partners in knowledge production, it becomes imperative for feminist actors to envision new collaborative methodologies that can simultaneously resist the ‘deradicalization of feminist politics’ in the increasingly corporatized academy as well as in the increasingly donor-driven, professionalized, and state-identified NGO se…
Ukubhinya
This article draws on over 300 criminal court cases of rape and sexual assault of African women and girls for the District of Bulawayo between 1946 and 1956. The analysis of these records provides a rare opportunity to hear African women speaking about their lived experiences in a city undergoing rapid physical and social transformation. Within these stories of rape are reflections of gender relations and power struggles that informed, and were i…
Collaboration as Resistance? Reconsidering the processes, products, and possibilities of feminist oral history and ethnography
As multiple norths emerge in the so-called souths (and vice versa) and non-government organizations (NGOs) become important partners in knowledge production, it becomes imperative for feminist actors to envision new collaborative methodologies that can simultaneously resist the ‘deradicalization of feminist politics’ in the increasingly corporatized academy as well as in the increasingly donor-driven, professionalized, and state-identified NGO se…
A 'Political War of Words and Bullets
This article looks at contemporary activism in Crossroads, South Africa – a famous symbol of women's defiance as one of the longest-surviving squatter camps under apartheid. In 1998 the Women's Power Group staged a four-month sit-in at City Council offices, demanding accountability for undelivered housing and public services. This was one of the first and most prolonged of what have become known as the post-apartheid or neoliberal period ‘new soc…
Revolutionary Papers
Periodicals played a key role in the making of left, anticolonial, and anti-imperial institutions, politics, and cultures in the global south. This issue of Radical History Review investigates how journals operated as a device for the creation and reproduction of counterhegemonic formations, often under conditions of extreme repression and neglect. This article builds on a multiyear project entitled Revolutionary Papers, as well as the contributi…
Pan-Africanism, feminism and popular education in the struggle against water grabbing in Africa
This interview with Coumba Toure, feminist, Pan-African activist, and educator took place as part of a debriefing session at the end of a three day strategic planning workshop that brought together activists, artists, trade unionists, educators and organisations fighting imperialism, sexism and the privatisation of water in the face of the upcoming World Water Forum to be hosted in Dakar Senegal in 2021. The gathering was co-hosted by the Blue Pl…
Graphic Novel Histories
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Ukubhinya
This article draws on over 300 criminal court cases of rape and sexual assault of African women and girls for the District of Bulawayo between 1946 and 1956. The analysis of these records provides a rare opportunity to hear African women speaking about their lived experiences in a city undergoing rapid physical and social transformation. Within these stories of rape are reflections of gender relations and power struggles that informed, and were i…
Mapping the Social Lives of The Namibian Review
Thirty-two editions of The Namibian Review (1976–87) were published by anti-apartheid revolutionaries in a decade of intensifying struggle for independence from the South African occupation of South West Africa. This teaching tool discusses the wider history of political orientations and networks surrounding The Namibian Review, presenting a creative approach to African history research and political education aimed at challenging the ongoing leg…
Ukubhinya
This article draws on over 300 criminal court cases of rape and sexual assault of African women and girls for the District of Bulawayo between 1946 and 1956. The analysis of these records provides a rare opportunity to hear African women speaking about their lived experiences in a city undergoing rapid physical and social transformation. Within these stories of rape are reflections of gender relations and power struggles that informed, and were i…
Collaboration as Resistance? Reconsidering the processes, products, and possibilities of feminist oral history and ethnography
As multiple norths emerge in the so-called souths (and vice versa) and non-government organizations (NGOs) become important partners in knowledge production, it becomes imperative for feminist actors to envision new collaborative methodologies that can simultaneously resist the ‘deradicalization of feminist politics’ in the increasingly corporatized academy as well as in the increasingly donor-driven, professionalized, and state-identified NGO se…
A 'Political War of Words and Bullets
This article looks at contemporary activism in Crossroads, South Africa – a famous symbol of women's defiance as one of the longest-surviving squatter camps under apartheid. In 1998 the Women's Power Group staged a four-month sit-in at City Council offices, demanding accountability for undelivered housing and public services. This was one of the first and most prolonged of what have become known as the post-apartheid or neoliberal period ‘new soc…
Graphic Novel Histories
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements
This chapter reflects on the context, process, and challenges of the Know Your Continent (KYC) popular education course which we ran in Cape Town in the second half of 2015. KYC brought together people from local high schools, community activist networks, universities – both students and academics, and others into conversations emerging from themes and debates in African history and their relevance and relationship to our own contemporary context…
African history in context
This chapter reflects on the context, process, and challenges of the Know Your Continent (KYC) popular education course which we ran in Cape Town in the second half of 2015. KYC brought together people from local high schools, community activist networks, universities – both students and academics, and others into conversations emerging from themes and debates in African history and their relevance and relationship to our own contemporary context…
Pan-Africanism, feminism and popular education in the struggle against water grabbing in Africa
This interview with Coumba Toure, feminist, Pan-African activist, and educator took place as part of a debriefing session at the end of a three day strategic planning workshop that brought together activists, artists, trade unionists, educators and organisations fighting imperialism, sexism and the privatisation of water in the face of the upcoming World Water Forum to be hosted in Dakar Senegal in 2021. The gathering was co-hosted by the Blue Pl…
Counter Streams
Heimat schaffen, nicht sich nehmen. Anti-Imperialismus und Anti-Zionismus, gesehen von Südafrika heute
Bibliographie: Benson, Koni: Heimat schaffen, nicht sich nehmen. Anti-Imperialismus und Anti-Zionismus, gesehen von Südafrika heute, PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur, Nr. 174-175 (2-2024), S. 242-249. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v44i2.07 ----- Open-Access-Lizenz: Dieser Beitrag ist ab dem 11.12.2024 im Open Access unter der Creative-Commons-Lizenz CC BY 4.0 (Namensnennung 4.0 International) verfügbar. Weitere Informationen zur Lize…
Mapping the Social Lives of The Namibian Review
Thirty-two editions of The Namibian Review (1976–87) were published by anti-apartheid revolutionaries in a decade of intensifying struggle for independence from the South African occupation of South West Africa. This teaching tool discusses the wider history of political orientations and networks surrounding The Namibian Review, presenting a creative approach to African history research and political education aimed at challenging the ongoing leg…
Graphic Histories of Solidarity, in Solidarity
Revolutionary experiments require building revolutionary relationships. This praxis of material and social creativity to reorganise power dynamics and weave connections across weaponised divides, are evident in the content, the form and the backstory woven into Janet Biehl's Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the War on ISIS. Written and illustrated by Janet Biehl, it is a graphic memoir that can be read as both an historical narrati…
Revolutionary Papers
Periodicals played a key role in the making of left, anticolonial, and anti-imperial institutions, politics, and cultures in the global south. This issue of Radical History Review investigates how journals operated as a device for the creation and reproduction of counterhegemonic formations, often under conditions of extreme repression and neglect. This article builds on a multiyear project entitled Revolutionary Papers, as well as the contributi…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · South African History and Culture (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Humanities (2 works)