The spiritual journey to becoming a history-keeper of South African liberation movements
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5761364 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin L Boston (0000-0003-1658-6387, California State University, Sacramento, corresponding author), Tiffany Willoughby-Herard (0000-0002-8312-6893, University of South Africa) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1-3 |
| Pages | 1-20 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Third World Thematics A TWQ Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2379-9978 • E-ISSN: 2380-2014 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23802014.2023.2251939 |
| OpenAlex | W4386984035 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
The editors of this collection reflect on the ways that studying the anti-apartheid liberation movement is a consciousness raising process. We consider the cosmological, spiritual, and affective impact of tarrying with liberation histories. From Vincent Harding’s (1981) conceptualisation of a ‘deep river’ and Cedric J. Robinson’s (1983) notion of a ‘Black Radical Tradition’ to the ‘endarkened feminist storytelling’ offered by Cynthia Dillard in 2000 and 2012 and elaborated upon by Venus Evans-Winters and Bettina Love (2015) and S.R. Toliver (2021), there are a set of devotional and spiritual practices associated with being hailed by and becoming a carrier of the historical memory of the anti-apartheid liberation movement. Contributing authors reflect on the pivotal personal life experiences, and definitive exile journeys, that shaped their families and communities. These early, formative, and mostly non-organisation-based consciousness-raising experiences have been understudied in the historiography of the anti-apartheid liberation movement. Nevertheless, these are vital pathways to internationalism, as a set of contemporary research practices, movement and organisation strategies, and political identities. Our goal has been to make sacred ways of being salient in the historical research on the anti-apartheid liberation movement
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Consciousness · Epistemology · Historiography · Liberation movement · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Storytelling · African cultural and philosophical studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · South African History and Culture
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |