The Courtroom as a Space of Resistance

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

1 The Courtroom as a Space of Resistance: Reflections on the Legacy of the Rivonia Trial - Awol Allo

2 In the Name of Mandela - Derek Hook

3 When Time Gives: Reflections on Two Rivonia Renegades - Johan van der Walt

4 Nelson Mandela and Civic Myths: A Law and Literature Approach to Rivonia - Peter Leman

5 Justice in Transition: South Africa Political Trials, 1956–1964 - Catherine M. Cole

6 The Rivonia Trial: Domination, Resistance and Transformation - Catherine Albertyn

7 ‘The Road to Freedom Passes Through Gaol’: The Treason Trial and Rivonia Trial as Political Trials - Mia Swart

8 ‘I am the first accused’: Seven Reflections (and a Postscript) on Derrida’s Mandela - Jaco Barnard-Naudé

9 ‘Black man in the white man’s court’: Performative Genealogies in the Courtroom - Awol Allo

10 Reading Choreographies of Black Resistance: Courtroom Performance as/and Critique - Joel M. Modiri

11 What is Revealed by the Absence of a Reply? Courtesy, Pedagogy and the Spectre of Unanswered

Letters in Mandela’s Trial - Alison Phipps

12 Lawscapes: The Rivonia Trial and Pretoria - Isolde de Villiers

13 Literary Autonomy on Trial: The 1974 Cape Trial of André Brink’s Kennis van die Aand - Ted Laros

14 "The Unkindest Cut of All": Coloniality, Performance and Gender in the Courtroom and Beyond - Chloé S. Georas

15 Spectacular Justice: Aesthetics and Power in the Gandhi Murder Trial - Kanika Sharma