Babel Unbound: Rage, Reason, and Re-Thinking Public Life

294 Pages·2020·5.164 MB·English

by  Leslie Cowling and Carolyn Hamilton (Eds)

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BABEL UNBOUND
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BABEL UNBOUND
RAGE, REASON AND RETHINKING PUBLIC LIFE
EDITED BY
LESLEY COWLING AND CAROLYN HAMILTON
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Published in South Africa by:
Wits University Press
1 Jan Smuts Avenue
Johannesburg 2001
www.witspress.co.za
Compilation © Editors 2020
Chapters © Individual contributors 2020
Published edition © Wits University Press 2020
First published 2020
http://dx.doi.org.10.18772/22020055898
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION Lesley Cowling and Carolyn Hamilton 1
CHAPTER 1 Rethinking Public Engagement — Carolyn Hamilton
and Lesley Cowling 21
CHAPTER 2 Tracing Public Engagements in Visual Forms
— Carolyn Hamilton, Litheko Modisane and Rory Bester 40
CHAPTER 3 Media Orchestration in the Production of Public Debate
— Lesley Cowling and Pascal Newbourne Mwale 64
CHAPTER 4 Fluid Publics: The public-making power of hashtags in digital
public spaces — Indra de Lanerolle 88
CHAPTER 5 ‘Now We See Him, Now We Don’t’: The media and the
‘Black Pimpernel’ — Litheko Modisane 105
CHAPTER 6 Archive and Public Life — Carolyn Hamilton 125
CHAPTER 7 Iconic Archive: Timbuktu and its manuscripts in public
discourse — Susana Molins Lliteras 144
CHAPTER 8 The Politics of Representation in Marikana:
A tale of competing ideologies — Camalita Naicker 183
CHAPTER 9 Art-Rage and the Politics of Reconciliation — Nomusa Makhubu 215
CHAPTER 10 Anger, Pain, and the Body in the Public Sphere — Anthea Garman 239
CONTRIBUTORS 261
INDEX 265
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Babel Unbound has its roots in the Constitution of Public Intellectual Life Research
Project, which ran from 2004 to 2008 at the University of the Witwatersrand,
and the Media and Public Debate project, a student research focus in the Wits Jour-
nalism programme. The book drew on the ideas and research developed in the col-
laborative work of the core group of Public Intellectual Life, which consisted of Rory
Bester, Lesley Cowling, Anthea Garman, Carolyn Hamilton, Litheko Modisane,
Pascal Mwale, Alan Finlay and, in its first phase, Yvette Greslé and Windsor Leroke.
The four-year project was supported by Atlantic Philanthropies and the generous
engagement of many Wits colleagues – most especially, Isabel Hofmeyr, Shireen
Hassim and Leon de Kock. The Wits Journalism student researchers of the Media
and Public Debate project, supervised by Lesley Cowling and Carolyn Hamilton,
also shaped our thinking by contributing to scholarship on the topic. They included
Nikiwe Bikitsha, Nazeem Dramat, Rebecca Kahn, Refiloe Lepere, Itumeleng
Mahabane, Philile Masango, Taryn McKay, Vuyo Mthembu, Sibusiso Nkomo,
Favour Nunoo, Shirona Patel, Nomzamo Petje, Magali Reinert, Henk Rossouw,
Rehana Rossouw and Kenichi Serino.
We benefited also from productive discussions in the Archive and Public Culture
Research Development Workshop at the University of Cape Town and from the
comments of our anonymous reviewers.
The book project received financial support from the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, the National Research Foundation and the research offices of the uni-
versities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand.
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