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02996aam a2200385 i 4500 001 A4574B5AFFE911EBB6EAFDEE22ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210818010020 008 201215t20202020sa a b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1776145933 020 $a 9781776145935 020 $a 1776145895 020 $a 9781776145898 035 $a (OCoLC)1226770461 040 $a EEM $b eng $e rda $c EEM $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d NUI $d SILO 043 $a f------ 050 4 $a JQ1879.A15 $b B33 2020 245 00 $a Babel unbound : $b rage, reason and rethinking public life / $c edited by Lesley Cowling and Carolyn Hamilton. 264 1 $a Johannesburg : $b Wits University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a 283 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "The notion that societies mediate issues through certain kinds of engagement is at the heart of the democratic project and often centres on an imagined public sphere where this takes place. But this imagined foundation of how we live collectively appears to have suffered a dramatic collapse across the world in the digital age, with many democracies apparently unable to solve problems through talk - or even to agree on who speaks, in what ways and where. In this timely and erudite collection, writers from southern Africa combine theoretical analysis with the examination of historical cases and contemporary events to demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied. Drawing primarily on insights and materials from Africa for their capacity to speak to global developments, the authors in this volume propose new concepts and methodologies to analyse how public engagements work in society. The contributions examine charged examples from the Global South, such as the centuries old Timbuktu archive, Nelson Mandela's powerful absent presence in 1960s public life, and the contemporary debates around the 2015/2016 student activism of #rhodesmustfall and #feesmustfall. These cases show how issues of public discussion circulate in unpredictable ways. Babel Unbound will be of interest to anyone looking to find alternative ways of thinking about publicness in contemporary society in order to make better sense of the cacophony of conversations in circulation."--Page 4 of cover 650 0 $a Political participation $z Africa. 650 0 $a Mass media $x Political aspects $z Africa. 651 0 $a Africa $x Politics and government $y 21st century. 650 7 $a Mass media $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01011278 650 7 $a Political participation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069386 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 651 7 $a Africa. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01239509 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 700 1 $a Cowling, Lesley, $e author. $e author. 700 1 $a Hamilton, Carolyn, $e author. $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317030531.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A4574B5AFFE911EBB6EAFDEE22ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search