The Courtroom as a Space of Resistance: Reflections on the Legacy of the Rivonia Trial

This volume returns to the Rivonia courtroom to engage with Mandela's masterful performance, when he stood before Justice de Wet in Pretoria's Palace of Justice and delivered one of the most spectacular and liberating statements ever made from a dock. Cutting across a wide-range of critical theories and discourses, contributors reflect on the personal, spatial, temporal, performative and literary dimensions of that constitutive event. By redefining the spaces, institutions and discourses of law, contributors present a fresh perspective that re-sets the margins of what can be thought and said in the courtroom.

Author: Awol Allo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05/24/2017
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781138295964

About the Author
Awol Allo is Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.