Semiotics of spatial citizenship: Place, race and identity in post-apartheid South Africa
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Date
2022
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
This thesis uses the work of Frantz Fanon as a perspective to anchor an analysis of semiotic
material deployed by students during the #Shackville protests at the University of Cape Town
in 2016. Through the notion of Linguistic Citizenship (Stroud 2001) as a decolonial lens, and
as a means to account for a myriad of communication tools � linguistic, semiotic materials and
the body - as language in the broad sense, the thesis weaves together Fanon and Linguistic
Citizenship to grapple with the chronotopic links that time, space and bodies have with the past
and the present in South Africa.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD
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Semiotic landscapes, Linguistic citizenship, Violence, Post-apartheid, South Africa