Atomized solidarity and new shapes of resistance: Visual activism in South Africa after apartheid

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dc.contributor.authorThomas, Kylie
dc.contributor.funderNIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Netherlands
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-27T15:10:35Z
dc.date.available2023-06-24T12:22:15Zen
dc.date.available2023-06-27T15:10:35Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-30
dc.date.updated2023-06-24T11:22:17Zen
dc.description.abstractThis chapter provides a concise history of visual activism in South Africa and focuses on how contemporary artists and activists make use of visual forms to intervene in public space, to document injustice, and to express dissent. The chapter argues that visual activism is best understood as a call to those who look to move from seeing and knowing to acting. Through analyses of works by visual activists Zanele Muholi, Haroon Gunn-Salie, and the Tokolos Stencils Collective, and through engaging with a campaign created by the social justice movement Section27, the essay shows how such work draws attention to homophobia and sexual violence; impunity for crimes against humanity; and ongoing inequality in the aftermath of apartheid. The essay also considers what occurs when visual activist works are detached from collective mobilizing and circulate within the neo-liberal art economy, producing forms of atomized solidarity.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Version
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dc.identifier.citationThomas, K. (2022) 'Atomized Solidarity and New Shapes of Resistance: Visual Activism in South Africa after Apartheid', in Shipley, L. and Moriuchi, M.-Y. (eds)., The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century, 1st edn,. New York: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003159698-21
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003159698-21
dc.identifier.endpage268
dc.identifier.isbn9781003159698
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-367-74817-3
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-367-74820-3
dc.identifier.issn978-1-003-15969-8
dc.identifier.startpage255
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/14693
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.ispartofThe Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century
dc.rights© 2023 selection and editorial matter, Lesley Shipley and Mey-Yen Moriuchi; individual chapters, the contributors. This chapter has been made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectVisual activism
dc.subjectArt
dc.subjectViolence
dc.subjectMemory
dc.subjectApartheid
dc.subjectSouth Africa
dc.subjectSolidarity
dc.titleAtomized solidarity and new shapes of resistance: Visual activism in South Africa after apartheid
dc.typeBook chapter
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