Writing from inside the fire: reflections on the fire-centered politics of the 2015/16 South African student movements
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2017
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Fire lives briefly, breathes sharply
and spreads with urgency across the surface of the earth. Writing from Inside the Fire offers a
series of reflection on the fire-centered politics that have been ignited within the RhodeMustFall and FeesMustFall movements. in this paper I trace the political roots of fire and explore the ways in which it employed as a tool of resistance and empowerment during the anti-apartheid struggle.: [Abbreviated Abstract. Open document to view full version]
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A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Art by research in the Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, April 2017
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Breakey, Jessica Mary (2017) Writing from inside the fire : reflections on the fire-centered politics of the 2015/16 South African student movements, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24471>