Thesis (MA (Political Science. International Studies))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010. / Bibliography / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research has used a critical discourse analysis approach encompassing
postcolonial theory and theory of media effects in order to investigate the influence of
political discourse in the media upon youth’s violence in Cameroon. As a result it has
been found that the use of private violence by young people in urban cities has
become ordinary. Such an attitude reflects among other some aspects of youth’s
lifestyle designed to cope with the hardship of their social status and to resist the
elite’s dominance. While no counter-narrative has been found in the independent
publications about the portrayal of youth’s violence as criminal by the state-owned
press, the young people nevertheless have produced through a street culture a
narrative deconstructing the political discourse in the media and highlighting their
grievances in a more or less violent tone. Thus the use of private violence during the
riot in February 2008, is far from an isolated (re)action of angry young people , it
obeys the very practicality of their existence and the political turmoil it might cause
is incidental to the way of life in which it is embedded. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die navorsing het ‘n kritiese diskoers analise-benadering gebruik wat ‘n postkoloniale
teorie en ‘n teorie van media-effekte insluit om sodoende die invloed van
politieke diskoers in die media op jeuggeweld in Kameroen, te ondersoek. Daar is
gevolglik gevind dat die gebruik van private geweld deur jongmense in stedelike
gebiede normaal geword het. So ‘n houding reflekteer onder andere sommige aspekte
van die jeug se leefstyl wat ontwerp is om die ontbering van hul sosiale status te
hanteer en ook die elite se dominasie te weerstaan. Ofskoon geen teen-narratief sover
gevind is in die onafhanklike publikasies oor die uitbeelding van jeuggeweld as
krimineel en die publikasies van die staatsbeheerde pers wat die jeug uitbeeld met min
agentskap nie, het jongmense wel ‘n teen-narratief geskep deur ‘n straat-kultuur.
Hierdie teen-narratief dekonstruktueer die politieke diskoers in die media en
onderstreep hul griewe in ‘n geweldadige toon. Dus die gebruik van private geweld
gedurende die onluste in Februarie 2008, wat nie as ‘n geïsoleerde (re)aksie van
woedende jongmense gesien kan word nie, is getrou aan die wese van hulle bestaan
en die politieke onrus wat dit moontlik mag veroorsaak, is bykomstig tot die leefstyl
waarin dit vasgelê is.”
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/5456 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Ntamack, Serge |
| Contributors | Taylor, Ian, University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Political Science. |
| Publisher | Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 139 p. : ill. |
| Rights | University of Stellenbosch |
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