Youth Activism and Solidarity: The non-stop picket against Apartheid [Hardcover]

From April 1986 until just after Nelson Mandelas release from prison in February 1990, supporters of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group maintained a continuous protest, day and night, outside the South African Embassy in central London. This book examines how and why a group of children, teenagers and young adults made themselves non-stop against apartheid, creating one of the most visible expressions of anti-apartheid solidarity in Britain.

Drawing on interviews with over ninety former participants in the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy and extensive archival research using previously unstudied documents, this book offers new insights to the study of social movements and young peoples lives. It theorises solidarity and the processes of adolescent development as social practices to provide a theoretically-informed, argument-led analysis of how young activists build and practice solidarity.

Youth Activism and Solidarity: The Non-Stop Picket Against Apartheid will be of interest to geographers, historians and a wide range of other social scientists concerned with the historical geography of the international anti-apartheid movement, social movement studies, contemporary British history, and young peoples activism and geopolitical agency.

1. South Africa and Britain in the 1980s 2. A non-stop protest in a non-stop world 3. Becoming non-stop 4. Being non-stop against apartheid 5. Defending the right to protest 6. Being unruly 7: Growing up through protest 8. Until Mandela is free& 9. Lessons and reflections

This book tells the story of the young people who actively campaigned against apartheid in 1980s via a continuous protest outside the South African Embassy in London. It brings new insights to the interplay between social movements and young peoples lives, exploring how the practices of growing up are entlc