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Dr Anne Heffernan's Outputs (2)

Ideas and Political Mobilization in Africa (2019)
Book Chapter
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

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 s... Read More about Ideas and Political Mobilization in Africa.

The University of the North, a regional and national centre of activism (2016)
Book Chapter
Heffernan, A. (2016). The University of the North, a regional and national centre of activism. In A. Heffernan, & N. Nieftagodien (Eds.), Students must rise : youth struggle in South Africa before and beyond Soweto '76 (45-54). Wits University Press. https://doi.org/10.18772/22016069193.13

The Extension of University Education Act of 1959 created a system of universities and colleges across South Africa that were segregated not just by race, but by ethnic group. One of these, the University College of the North, was responsible for edu... Read More about The University of the North, a regional and national centre of activism.