Sean H Jacobs
Sean Jacobs is associate professor of international affairs at The New School. He is founder and editor of Africa is a Country, a site of criticism, analysis and new writing. Sean is a Ford Foundation #AfricaNoFilter Fellow (till May 2019). His book Media in Postapartheid South Africa: Postcolonial Politics in the Age of Globalization will be out on May Day in 2019.
Address: New York, New York, United States
Address: New York, New York, United States
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Review of three books--'Beyond the Miracle' by Allister Sparks, 'Unfinished Business' by Terry Bell and Dumisa Ntsebeza and ' People Who Have Stolen From Me' by David Cohen--on the occasion of 10 years of South African democracy.
Although most black South Africans revere Mandela and his party for defeating apartheid, many are realizing that fighting inequality and achieving full citizenship will mean taking on the ANC.
No. 83, Spring 2013, pp. 137–142
This note reflects on the August 2012 miners' strike at Marikana, South Africa in light of a century long history of violence associated with worker actions in that country and elsewhere in the Global South. It suggests that the breakaway union's allegedly 'illegal' strike fits within a long tradition of radical worker activism in South Africa, which is best understood in light of anticolonial efforts to short-circuit the chronologies of imperial power. The Marikana strike, like anticolonial rebellions during the early twentieth century and, critically, white worker struggles following First World War, was an effort to speed up the process by which the value of workers' lives and labor might be made equivalent to those in power.
Review of three books--'Beyond the Miracle' by Allister Sparks, 'Unfinished Business' by Terry Bell and Dumisa Ntsebeza and ' People Who Have Stolen From Me' by David Cohen--on the occasion of 10 years of South African democracy.
Although most black South Africans revere Mandela and his party for defeating apartheid, many are realizing that fighting inequality and achieving full citizenship will mean taking on the ANC.
No. 83, Spring 2013, pp. 137–142
This note reflects on the August 2012 miners' strike at Marikana, South Africa in light of a century long history of violence associated with worker actions in that country and elsewhere in the Global South. It suggests that the breakaway union's allegedly 'illegal' strike fits within a long tradition of radical worker activism in South Africa, which is best understood in light of anticolonial efforts to short-circuit the chronologies of imperial power. The Marikana strike, like anticolonial rebellions during the early twentieth century and, critically, white worker struggles following First World War, was an effort to speed up the process by which the value of workers' lives and labor might be made equivalent to those in power.
The brilliant writers and debaters assembled here come at the issue from different angles, all from the central belief that art is never not political. In the end, they are less interested in arguing for or against tactics than they are in advocating an art of political thinking.