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This article examines the genesis and development of transnational anti-apartheid activism between the 1960s and the 1980s. Underpinning anti-apartheid was the fundamental principle of "solidarity", an emotional and ideological connection between the self and a distant oppressed other. It was this concept that served to mediate the transnational dimension of anti-apartheid as a form of humanitarianism. Calls for sanctions against South Africa represented the movement's most explicit engagement with political systems and structures, and thus the shifting power of humanitarian values in political discourse. Participation in boycotts represented a kind of activism from the ground up, in which individual economic decisions — the refusal to "buy apartheid" — became humanitarian acts. The notion of solidarity marked, moreover, a significant break with the paternalism of "imperial" humanitarian efforts, while calls for sanctions and disinvestment promoted a global norm of racial equality and a wider sense of humanitarian justice in international relations and global business ethics. Anti-apartheid connected a humanitarian ethos to individual and community action, and the consumer boycott became a primary form in which consciousness-raising and identity-forming functions of "new" social movements were enacted.

Cover; Here or There; Series Page; >Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Part 1. Overview of Interpreting via Video Link; Introduction; Interpreting via Video Link: Mapping of the Field; Part 2. Insights into Interpreting via Video Link; The Irrational Component in the Rational System: Interpreters Talk about Their Motivation to Work in Video Relay Services; Don't Leave Me Hanging on the Telephone: Telework, Professional Isolation, and the Work of Video Remote British Sign Language/ English Interpreters; "The Work and Skills": A Profile of First-Generation Video Remote Interpreters

This article combines an overview of the historiography of antiapartheid movements with a case study of radical scholarship on South Africa in the 1960s. It highlights the ways that antiapartheid activism effectively framed public understanding of the idea of apartheid and its application in South Africa. Using the British African solidarity movement as an example, it addresses the mutually constitutive relationship between the antiapartheid movement and radical analyses of South African politics and society. From the emergence of international responses to apartheid that began in the 1950s, activist research was at the leading edge of organized opposition to South African government policies and a transnational influence on radical politics in Britain.