Marikana autopsy of a cold-blooded massacre
A few weeks after the south african police killed 34 people involved in the mineworkers’ strike at Marikana, on 16 August 2012, the author and his colleagues have conducted interviews with surviving mineworkers and trade-unionists involved in the conflict in order to understand what happened. Using...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Journal des anthropologues
2015
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | A few weeks after the south african police killed 34 people involved in the mineworkers’ strike at Marikana, on 16 August 2012, the author and his colleagues have conducted interviews with surviving mineworkers and trade-unionists involved in the conflict in order to understand what happened. Using the collected evidence, the article recounts the precise development of the strike and demonstrates that, considering the balance of forces and the massive scale of the intervention, it was a deliberate act: a cold-blooded massacre. This reconstruction is an extract of a larger book entitled: A view form the mountain : a case to answer. |
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