{"product_id":"dying-for-freedom-political-martyrdom-in-south-africa-hardback-9781509561070","title":"Dying for Freedom; Political Martyrdom in South Africa (Hardback) 9781509561070","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDying for Freedom\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePolitical Martyrdom in South Africa\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJacob Dlamini (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509561070, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 July 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e157 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.1 x 14.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.318 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this clear-eyed book Jacob Dlamini explores the roots of anti-apartheid passion, showing how activists made their commitment into a matter of life and death. At once sweeping and intimate, this profound work of history allows us to look again at martyrdom: as a political purpose that shaped people's vocations, as an orientation around which a movement cohered, as a tragedy that deprived families and communities of much-loved people. This little book is full of profound insight, and I hope that it will lend to its readers a new understanding of how much the struggle against apartheid cost.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDerek Peterson, University of Michigan\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDying for Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful and punchy work that will generate debate in the undergraduate classroom and graduate symposium. In the highly accessible prose that we have come to expect from the leading writer of his generation, the walking dead are awakened. No longer bodies in suspended states, the dead are legible, historical, and deeply powerful.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfrican Studies\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eReview\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"An innovative and thought-provoking study that places important conversations about death on the intellectual table.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe American Historical\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eReview\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An incisive review of necropolitics in the history of South Africa's political life.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Thinker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Historian Dlamini has added yet another thought-provoking volume to his consistently iconoclastic works.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiana Wylie, \u003ci\u003eH-Africa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhat happens when death becomes the ultimate marker of one’s commitment to one’s freedom? What happens when the opposite of freedom is not unfreedom but death, not slavery but mortality? How are we to think of the right to life when a political demand for dignity and honor might be more important than life itself?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDying for Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e explores these questions by drawing on archival evidence from South Africa to show how death and conflicting notions of sacrifice dominated the struggle for political equality in that country. This political investment in death as a marker of commitment to the anti-apartheid struggle encouraged a masculinist style of politics in which the fight for freedom was seen and understood by many activists as a struggle literally for manhood. This investment generated a notion of political sacrifice so absolute that anything less than death was rendered suspect. More importantly, it resulted in a hierarchy of death whereby some deaths were more important than others, and where some deaths could be mourned and others not.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis highly original account of the necropolitics of the liberation struggle will be of interest to students and scholars throughout the humanities and social sciences and to anyone interested in South Africa.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Defying Death\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Dead and Proud\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Refusing to Die\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: The Unmournable Death\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: A Dignified Corpse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20%5BHB%5D%22\"\u003eHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441814073624,"sku":"9781509561070","price":42.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509561070.jpg?v=1785026879","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/dying-for-freedom-political-martyrdom-in-south-africa-hardback-9781509561070","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}