Women of Marikana in the Media: Decolonial Analysis of Gendered Representations

Dikeledi A. Mokoena

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-42827-3_3

Women of Marikana in the Media: Decolonial Analysis of Gendered Representations

Dikeledi A. Mokoena

University of Pretoria

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Abstract

In 2012, the local media in South Africa including international journalists flooded the public with images and audio-visual footage of a protracted strike in the platinum mining sector in the North West Province of South Africa. The media coverage of the Marikana phenomenon was largely patriarchal and was characterized by coloniality of power and being. This chapter offers a decolonial gendered analysis of media framing of Marikana focusing on the 1st of January 2012 until the 31st of December 2012. The most significant aspects of the dates are that they represent the year of the massacre and the commencement of the commission which was initially thought to only take four months but ended in 2014, two years later. In the study, newspaper articles were selected through purposive sampling and the methodological approach was a mixed method.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Contributions to Political Science
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	27-42
Number of pages	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42827-3_3
Publication status	Published - 2020
Externally published	Yes

Publication series

Name	Contributions to Political Science
ISSN (Print)	2198-7289
ISSN (Electronic)	2198-7297

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 5 Gender Equality

Keywords

Coloniality
Gendered representation
Marikana commission
Media

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Sociology and Political Science
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Public Administration
Political Science and International Relations

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10.1007/978-3-030-42827-3_3

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