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#FeesMustFall and Youth Mobilisation in South Africa: Reform or Revolution? book cover

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#FeesMustFall and Youth Mobilisation in South Africa Reform or Revolution?

By Musawenkosi Ndlovu Copyright 2017
164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

164 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book examines the historical FeesMustFall (FMF) university student protests that took place in South Africa and shows how the enduring historical construction, representation and conceptualisation of South African youth (as typically radical and political) contributed to the (mis)interpretation of FMF protests, and led to a discourse on an African National Congress-toppling revolution.... Read more


    1. Construction of South African youth before #FeesMustFall



    2. Were the 2015 student protests a revolution?



    3. What the 2015 protests actually were and how they were possible?



    4. Ikhohlisan’ihlomile:# FMF students’ engagement with power and their ideological differences



    5. Can South Africa’s declining economy inspire a student-led new revolution?



    6. Youth’s declining news consumption levels and ideologically-divided media: the (im) possibility of the new revolution



    7. Youth’s polysemic interpretation of the ANC regime text and (im) possibility a new revolution



    8. Youth’s declining participation levels in the public sphere and (im) possibility a new revolution



    9. Conclusion: #FMF protests will not lead to a revolution per se (at least yet), but to wide ranging reforms

Biography

 Musawenkosi W. Ndlovu is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

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