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A Case study of “Necklacing”

When the case has a face

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ID21608922
AuthorsLeswin Laubscher (0000-0002-7471-6525), Sipho Mbuqe
Year2022
Volume59
Issue1
Pages66-85
Publication date2022-10-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychology in society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1015-6046 • E-ISSN: 2309-8708
PublisherStellenbosch University (PUBLISHER • ZA)
DOI10.57157/pins2020vol59iss1a5619
LanguageEN
Citations received1

This article reports on, and develops, existing studies by Mbuqe (2010), and Mbuqe & Laubscher (2019). Political violence is the general phenomenon of interest, research and theoretical access to which is granted by a close examination of the “necklacing” murder of Ms. Nombulelo Julia Nokwakwha Dilato in Colesberg, South Africa, on the 2nd of October, 1985. The authors illustrate how their research was upset and troubled by a particularincident – the perpetrators throwing sand on the face of the victim in order for it not to burn – and how revisiting that incident dramatically changed the course and understanding of their research. The authors conclude by suggesting an ethical scholarship, influenced by the work of the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, as well as the imperatives of Unobuntu

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