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Author:

Ndlovu, Musawenkosi W., author.

Title:

#FeesMustFall and youth mobilisation in South Africa : reform or revolution? / Musawenkosi W. Ndlovu.

Publisher:

RoutledgeNY,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

ix, 154 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

College students--Political activity--South Africa.
Student movements--South Africa.
Student protesters--South Africa.
Tuition--Political aspects--South Africa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction and rationale -- Construction of South African youth before #FeesMustFall -- Were the 2015 student protests a revolution? -- What the 2015 protests actually were and how they were possible? -- Ikhohlisana ihlomile : #FMF students' engagement with power and their ideological differences -- Can South Africa's declining economy inspire a student-led new revolution? -- Youth's declining news consumption levels and ideologically-divided media : the (im) possibility of the new revolution -- Youth's polysemic interpretation of the ANC regime text and (im) possibility a new revolution -- Youth's declining participation levels in the public sphere and (im) possibility a new revolution -- Conclusion: #FMF protests will not lead to a revolution per se (at least yet), but to wide ranging reforms.

Series:

Routledge Contemporary South Africa ; 1

ISBN:

1138740438
9781138740433

OCLC:

(OCoLC)967134059

LCCN:

2016058261

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)