THINKING ABOUT THE UNTHINKABLE: UNDERSTANDING APARTHEID VIOLENCE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PROTAGONISTS

Authors

  • Ingrid Palmary University of the Witwatersrand

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17159//2309-8708/2006/n33a6

Abstract

Foster, D, Haupt, P, and De Beer, M (2005) The theatre of violence: Narratives of protagonists in the South African conflict. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

The theatre of violence offers a novel and insightful intervention into how we understand violence in the post apartheid era. It is novel because it deals with the largely neglected perspectives of perpetrators of violence, and insightful because it manages to balance the politics of such an attempt with a need for critical theoretical analysis. In researching (from a loosely narrative and discursive approach) protagonists in the apartheid violence, this book breaks new ground in carefully analysed ways that refuses simple answers.

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Author Biography

Ingrid Palmary, University of the Witwatersrand

Coordinator: Gender, violence and displacement initiative
Forced Migration Studies Programme
University of the Witwatersrand
P O Wits 2050

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Published

2025-02-28

How to Cite

Palmary, I. (2025). THINKING ABOUT THE UNTHINKABLE: UNDERSTANDING APARTHEID VIOLENCE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PROTAGONISTS. PINS-Psychology in Society, 33(1), 54–56. https://doi.org/10.17159//2309-8708/2006/n33a6

Issue

Vol. 33 No. 1 (2006)

Section

Book Reviews

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