Decolonisation is now
Photography and student-social movements in South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18956104 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kylie Thomas (0000-0002-4157-0734, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 98-110 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1472-586X • E-ISSN: 1472-5878 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1472586x.2018.1426251 |
| OpenAlex | W2789674402 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 7 |
The 2015–2016 student protest movements to decolonise universities and to bring about free education in South Africa have been accompanied by striking images that capture the Zeitgeist of the post-apartheid state. This paper focuses on photographs taken by students who also took part in the protests and argues that a new iconography has emerged that references the past but that also breaks away from the social documentary forms of representation that characterised the struggle against apartheid. I explore how the resurgence of black consciousness is made manifest in visual images and argue for reading photographs by student-protestor-photographers as tangible signs of the emerging ‘woke’ subjectivities of young black people in South Africa today
Art · Consciousness · Iconography · Media studies · Photography · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Zeitgeist · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · South African History and Culture
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |