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9780822393412

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How can we account for the apparent increase in ethnic violence across the globe? Donald L. Donham develops a methodology for understanding violence that shows why this question needs to be recast. He examines an incident that occurred at a South African gold mine at the moment of the 1994 elections that brought apartheid to a close. Black workers ganged up on the Zulus among them, killing two and injuring many more. While nearly everyone came to characterize the conflict as "ethnic," Donham argues that heightened ethnic identity was more an outcome of the violence than its cause. Based on his careful reconstruction of events, he contends that the violence was not motivated by hatred of an ethnic other. It emerged, rather, in ironic ways, as capitalist managers gave up apartheid tactics and as black union activists took up strategies that departed from their stated values. National liberation, as it actually occurred, was gritty, contradictory, and incomplete. Given unusual access to the mine, Donham comes to this conclusion based on participant observation, review of extensive records, and interviews conducted over the course of a decade. Violence in a Time of Liberation is a kind of murder mystery that reveals not only who did it but also the ways that narratives of violence, taken up by various media, create ethnic violence after the fact.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

21 juillet 2011

EAN13

9780822393412

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

3 Mo

V I O LEN C E I N A T I M E O F LI B ER AT I O N

V I O LEN CE I N

A T I M E O F LI B ER AT I O N

Murder and Ethnicity at a South African Gold Mine, 1994

Duke University Press

Durham and London 2011

ONàl l. ONHàM with photographs by Santu Mofokeng

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Library of Congress Cataloging-

in-Publication Data appear on the

last printed page of this book.

Duke University Press gratefully

acknowledges the support of

the Division of Social Sciences,

University of California, Davis,

which provided funds toward the

production of this book.

For friends—Charles, Rudy, Terry

pREFàçE iX GROûpS àT çINEREllà IN 1994 Xi lOçàl TIMElINE IN RElàTION TO NàTIONàl lIbERàTION Xiii INTROûçTION 1

1. Picturing a Śouth African od ine11 Photo gallery by Santu Mofokeng25

2. White Śtories45

3. Ways of Dying69

4. ood riday at Cinderea88

5. reeing Workers and Érasing istory110

6. Unionization from ABove125

7. otives for urder151

8. e Aftermath “ey Were Enjoying Our Freedom”174

çONçlûSION 186

pOSTSçRIpT Doing Fieldwork at the End of Apartheid189

NOTES 197 bIblIOGRàpHY 217 INEx 231

CONTENTS

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that ï conducted îed research in times I T W A S W H O L LY B Y A C C I D E N T and aces caught in great uheava—îrst in Éthioia in the midst of a revoution that reaced an emeror with a sociaist regime, then in Śouth Africa as aartheid disintegrated and its Back eoe Became, at ast, citizens in their own and. ï am more gratefu than ï can say for the rovocation of what overtook and sometimes overwhemed me. e uncertainties of historica ruture often oen saces that other-wise woud Be cosed. is was certainy the case in Both Éthioia and Śouth Africa. ïn the atter, ï gained access to the socia ife of a god mine, with its white ocias, Back comound, and work underground. ï woud ike to thank Chares van Ônseen, then director of the ïnsti-tute for Advanced Śocia esearch at the University of the Witwater-srand, with which ï was aiated whie doing research. ït was at the institute that ï îrst met Śantu ofokeng, whose hotograhs do so much to enhance this Book. ad it not Been for the assistance of Éddie WeBster at the Śocioogy o Work Unit at Wits, this study might never have Been accomished. Śakhea uhungu rovided additiona he and advice. inay, most of a, ï want to thank the ationa Union of ineworkers (NûM) and management at the mine ï am caing Cin-derea, eseciay “Chares du oit,” for ermission to carry out this study. ï shared the enutimate draft of this Book with Both—a consu-tation that shoud not Be taken to indicate that either arty endorses what ï resent. ïn any case, this rocess saved me from serious errors, and ï am gratefu to Both the NûM and management at Cinderea for their wiingness to engage with an indeendent researcher. is research was suorted By grants from the Śocia Ścience e-search Counci, the Wenner-ren oundation, and the uBright-ays Program. ï Began writing whie ï was a feow at the Woodrow Wison ïnternationa Center for Śchoars, in Washington. What foows is a story, a comeX story that wi take the reader into

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