Dr Anne Heffernan anne.k.heffernan@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Ideas play a key role in political mobilization around the world, and often ideas travel cross-nationally. It is important to recognize the diverse influences and iterative processes that produce political ideologies and influence mobilization. The sociological literature on diffusion offers scholars a framework for thinking about and recognizing the channels through which ideas move. When tracing such channels, scholars must also be cognizant of the ways that movement of this sort affects ideas and ideologies themselves; international concepts will always be read through domestic lenses, and local realities prompt reinterpretation of global ideas. The Black Consciousness Movement offers a case study to analyze some key channels through which global ideas moved and impacted a university student movement in 1970s South Africa. Influenced by anti-colonialism and antiracism discourses originating in Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States, Black Consciousness thinkers took these ideas and refashioned them into their own ideology. They used relational networks as well as channels like art, theatre, fashion, and development projects to mobilize a constituency and to propagate their own ideas, which have endured beyond the end of the formal Black Consciousness Movement
Heffernan, A. (2019). Ideas and Political Mobilization in Africa. In Oxford research encyclopedia of politics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1353
Online Publication Date | Jul 30, 2019 |
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Publication Date | Jul 30, 2019 |
Deposit Date | Aug 28, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 30, 2021 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Book Title | Oxford research encyclopedia of politics. |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1353 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1631273 |
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Heffernan, Anne (2019). Ideas and Political Mobilization in Africa. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press, reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press, https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1353
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