The Power of naming: 'Senseless violence' and violent law in post-apartheid South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorThomas, Kylie
dc.contributor.funderInternational Development Research Centreen
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-28T11:56:02Z
dc.date.available2023-02-28T11:56:02Z
dc.date.issued2012-12
dc.date.updated2023-02-27T11:33:45Z
dc.description.abstractThis report focuses on vigilantism, on the practice of 'necklacing' as a form of punishment, and on police violence in South Africa post-apartheid. The report engages with a series of questions about how popular forms of justice are imagined and enacted and about what the persistence of forms of violent punishment that originated during apartheid signifies in South Africa today. The report explores some of the complex reasons why people understand violence to be a means for achieving justice. It considers issues related to collective violence, violence connected to service delivery protests, and violence widely understood by perpetrators, onlookers, and researchers to be punitive in intent. It contests the idea that such forms of violence are 'senseless', arguing that to do so is to evade the question of how violence is bound to the political order, both past and present.en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationThomas, K. (2012) The Power of naming: 'Senseless violence' and violent law in post-apartheid South Africa. Available at: https://www.csvr.org.za/the-power-of-naming-senseless-violence-and-violent-law-in-post-apartheid-south-africa/ (Accessed: 27 February 2023)en
dc.identifier.endpage32en
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/14252
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCentre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation / Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Capeen
dc.relation.ispartofViolence and Transition project
dc.relation.urihttps://www.csvr.org.za/the-power-of-naming-senseless-violence-and-violent-law-in-post-apartheid-south-africa/
dc.rights© 2012, Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation and Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Capeen
dc.subjectViolenceen
dc.subjectApartheiden
dc.subjectVigilantismen
dc.subjectPolice violenceen
dc.subjectMassacreen
dc.subjectMurderen
dc.subjectJusticeen
dc.subjectSouth Africaen
dc.titleThe Power of naming: 'Senseless violence' and violent law in post-apartheid South Africaen
dc.typeReporten
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