Research Catalog

Title

Youth activism and solidarity : the non-stop picket against apartheid / Gavin Brown and Helen Yaffe.

Author

Brown, Gavin (Lecturer in Human Geography)

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

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Additional Authors

Yaffe, Helen

Description

xiii, 244 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

From April 1986 until just after Nelson Mandela's release from prison in February 1990, supporters of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group maintained a continuous protest, day and night, outside the South African Embassy in central London. This book examines how and why a group of children, teenagers and young adults made themselves 'non-stop against apartheid', creating one of the most visible expressions of anti-apartheid solidarity in Britain.Drawing on interviews with over ninety former participants in the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy and extensive archival research using previously unstudied documents, this book offers new insights to the study of social movements and young people's lives. It theorises solidarity and the processes of adolescent development as social practices to provide a theoretically-informed, argument-led analysis of how young activists build and practice solidarity.Youth Activism and Solidarity: The Non-Stop Picket Against Apartheid will be of interest to geographers, historians and a wide range of other social scientists concerned with the historical geography of the international anti-apartheid movement, social movement studies, contemporary British history, and young people's activism and geopolitical agency.

Series Statement

Routledge spaces of childhood and youth series

Uniform Title

Routledge spaces of childhood and youth series

Subject

• City of London Anti-Apartheid Group > History
• 1900-1999
• Anti-apartheid movements > England > London > History > 20th century
• Anti-apartheid activists > England > London > History > 20th century
• Youth movements > England > London > History > 20th century
• Youth > Political activity > History > England > London > 20th century
• Apartheid > South Africa > History > 20th century
• Anti-apartheid movements
• Youth > Political activity
• London (England) > Social conditions > 20th century
• England > London

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

South Africa and Britain in the 1980s -- A non-stop protest in a non-stop world -- Becoming non-stop -- Being non-stop against apartheid -- Defending the right to protest -- Being unruly -- Growing up through protest -- Until Mandela is free -- Lessons and reflections.

Call Number

Sc E 17-1624

ISBN

• 9781138828865
• 1138828866

LCCN

2017031670

OCLC

1012225912

Author

Brown, Gavin (Lecturer in Human Geography), author.

Title

Youth activism and solidarity : the non-stop picket against apartheid / Gavin Brown and Helen Yaffe.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge spaces of childhood and youth series

Routledge spaces of childhood and youth series

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Yaffe, Helen, author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 17-1624