Rick Turner: 'through the eye of the needle'

SOURCE: The fabric of dissent: public intellectuals in South Africa
OUTPUT TYPE: Chapter in Monograph
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2020
TITLE AUTHOR(S): G.Houston
SOURCE EDITOR(S): V.Reddy, N.Bohler-Muller, G.Houston, M.Schoeman, H.Thuynsma
KEYWORDS: INTELLIGENTSIA, POLITICS, RACIAL SEGREGATION, TURNER, RICK
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11816
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/15850
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15850

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Abstract

Political philosopher, academic and anti-apartheid activist Richard 'Rick' Albert Turner has had an influence on politics, protests and trade unions that has lasted long after his untimely assassination. He studied in Paris during the 1960s, when the French were showing the world what student protest could achieve, and he brought that knowledge back to South Africa when he returned in 1966. Turner balanced a rigorously academic understanding of the nature of class and participatory democracy with a hands-on approach to community initiatives.

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