Respectable Mothers Tough Men And Good Daughters

Author : Salo, Elaine R.
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956550265

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Respectable Mothers, Tough Men and Good Daughters by Salo, Elaine R. Pdf

The book examines how men and women in Manenberg township, on Cape Town’s inner periphery, manoeuvre to re-define themselves as gendered persons deserving of dignity, through the quotidian practices of ordentlikheid or respectability. Salo shows how reclamation of dignity is an intergenerational and gendered process that is messy and uneven, involves the expression of often-brutal physical and social exclusion of individuals through embodied and social violence. Theoretically, the narrative makes visible the careful, painstaking processes of place making and claiming dignity by men and women in a place represented as a wasteland in the dominant discourse of grand apartheid and in the contemporary neo-liberal turn in Cape Town.

Author : Sylvia Bruinders
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781920033224

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Parading Respectability by Sylvia Bruinders Pdf

Parading respectability: The cultural and moral aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa is an intimate and incisive portrait of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape of South Africa. Drawing on her own on background as well as her extended research study period during which she became a band member and was closely involved in its day-to-day affairs, the author, Dr Sylvia Bruinders, documents this centuries-old expressive practice of ushering in the joy of Christmas through music by way of a social history of the coloured communities. In doing so, she traces the slave origins of the Christmas Bands Movement, as well as how the oppressive and segregationist injustices of both colonialism and apartheid, together with the civil liberties afforded in the South African Constitution (1996) after the country became a democracy in 1994 have shaped the movement.

Author : Henry Trotter
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781946395283

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Cape Town: A Place Between by Henry Trotter Pdf

Cape Town is a place between two oceans, between first and third worlds, between east and west. The majority of its citizens: a people between black and white, native and settler, African and European. How can we understand a city that is most assuredly in Africa, though not””seemingly””of it? By exploring this city’s tween-ness, we can begin to understand the soul of this town””haunted by its past, unsure of its future. A short book just over 100 pages, it allows readers to quickly identify the unique pulse of the city, its throbbing historical, social, cultural and political beat that underlies the transactions between all Capetonians. This is not a substitute for a traditional guidebook, but a perfect companion to one, filling in the intimate details that other books leave out.

Author : Nadia Sanger,Benita Moolman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003814764

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Racism, Violence, Betrayals and New Imaginaries by Nadia Sanger,Benita Moolman Pdf

This anthology consists of academic essays, creative non-fiction, poetry and short stories on race and racism by black women from South Africa and Brazil. Through these different genres, the book engages with the complexities of race in social, political, economic, institutional and personal spaces. Concerned with social justice, human rights and freedom, these writings spotlight the amalgamation of racial, gender and class subjectivities and how these are marked, un-marked, re-marked and re-made on bodies. The book connects globally and locally to social and political phenomena in the modern-day world. The contributors interrogate their political and personal worlds, revealing layered, intersecting ways of being that were essentially centred by colonial histories but not defined in totality by coloniality and oppression. In speaking to the proximity of these experiences, they reflect and narrate the past, contemplate the present and imagine the future. This curated anthology asks questions centred around freedom. What does freedom mean? When do we have it, and when do we not? Most importantly, how do we get it? Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.

Author : Denis Martin
Publisher : African Minds
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781920489823

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Sounding the Cape by Denis Martin Pdf

For several centuries Cape Town has accommodated a great variety of musical genres which have usually been associated with specific population groups living in and around the city. Musical styles and genres produced in Cape Town have therefore been assigned an "identity" which is first and foremost social. This volume tries to question the relationship established between musical styles and genres, and social - in this case pseudo-racial - identities. In Sounding the Cape, Denis-Constant Martin recomposes and examines through the theoretical prism of creolisation the history of music in Cape Town, deploying analytical tools borrowed from the most recent studies of identity configurations. He demonstrates that musical creation in the Mother City, and in South Africa, has always been nurtured by contacts, exchanges and innovations whatever the efforts made by racist powers to separate and divide people according to their origin. Musicians interviewed at the dawn of the 21st century confirm that mixture and blending characterise all Cape Town's musics. They also emphasise the importance of a rhythmic pattern particular to Cape Town, the ghoema beat, whose origins are obviously mixed. The study of music demonstrates that the history of Cape Town, and of South Africa as a whole, undeniably fostered creole societies. Yet, twenty years after the collapse of apartheid, these societies are still divided along lines that combine economic factors and "racial" categorisations. Martin concludes that, were music given a greater importance in educational and cultural policies, it could contribute to fighting these divisions and promote the notion of a nation that, in spite of the violence of racism and apartheid, has managed to invent a unique common culture.

Author : Tommaso M. Milani
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265166

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Language and Citizenship by Tommaso M. Milani Pdf

This volume offers fresh, cutting-edge perspectives on issues of language and citizenship by casting a critical light on a broad spectrum of geo-political contexts – Flanders, Luxembourg, Singapore, South Africa, the UK - and discourse data – policy documents, newspaper articles, ethnographic notes and interviews, skits, bodies in protests. The main aims of the book are to investigate institutional discourses about the relationship between nationality and citizenship, and relate such discourses to more ethnographically grounded interactions; tease out the multiple and often conflicting meanings of citizenship; and explore the different linguistic/semiotic guises that citizenship might take on in different contexts. The book argues that the linguistic/discursive study of citizenship should not only include critical investigations of political proposals about language testing, but should also encompass the diverse, more or less mundane, ways in which various social actors enact citizenship with the help of an array of multivocal, material, and affective semiotic resources. Originally published as a special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 14:3 (2015).

Author : Edna G. Bay,Donald Lewis Donham
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0813925770

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States of Violence by Edna G. Bay,Donald Lewis Donham Pdf

"By focusing on the participation and consequences for ordinary people, this collection offers a fresh perspective on the eruption of violence in sub-Saharan Africa. None of the contributions takes the easy way out--either by claiming any special propensity of Africans to violence, or by calling attention to titillating aspects of the violence itself. Rather, they offer 'thick descriptions' of particular violent episodes to develop their contexts and the larger causes that made them happen. The case studies, drawn from field research in Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, search for the meaning of specific instances of collective violence to the individuals caught up in them."--Nelson Kasfir, Dartmouth College "This coherently assembled set of contributions illuminates crucial aspects of the disorder and insecurity afflicting much of contemporary Africa. The potent social force of a marginalized youth generation is explored in its different manifestations in a variety of settings by an excellent roster of scholars."--Crawford Young, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison "Unmatched in its ethnographic depth and attention to critical dimensions of African conflicts.... This volume cuts across the continent and across several intertwining themes to provide highly contextual analyses within a well-definedframework." --Catherine Besteman, Colby College, editor of Violence: A Reader

Author : Armelle Gaulier,Denis-Constant Martin
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781928331513

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Cape Town Harmonies by Armelle Gaulier,Denis-Constant Martin Pdf

"Cape Towns public cultures can only be fully appreciated through recognition of its deep and diverse soundscape. We have to listen to what has made and makes a city. The ear is an integral part of the research tools one needs to get a sense of any city. We have to listen to the sounds that made and make the expansive mother city. Various of its constituent parts sound different from each other [T]here is the sound of the singing men and their choirs (teams they are called) in preparation for the longstanding annual Malay choral competitions. The lyrics from the various repertoires they perform are hardly ever written down. [] There are texts of the hallowed Dutch songs but these do not circulate easily and widely. Researchers dream of finding lyrics from decades ago, not to mention a few generations ago back to the early 19th century. This work by Denis Constant Martin and Armelle Gaulier provides us with a very useful selection of these songs. More than that, it is a critical sociological reflection of the place of these songs and their performers in the context that have given rise to them and sustains their relevance. It is a necessary work and is a very important scholarly intervention about a rather neglected aspect of the history and present production of music in the city."

Author : Leo Panitch,Colin Leys
Publisher : Merlin; Monthly Review Press; Fernwood
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0850366089

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Violence Today by Leo Panitch,Colin Leys Pdf

Is this a new age of barbarism? The scale and pervasiveness of violence today calls urgently for serious analysis of: the 'war on terror' and counter-insurgencies; terror and counter-terror; suicide bombings and torture; civil wars and anarchy; urban gang warfare; and the persistence of chronic violence against women.

Author : Hastings Donnan,Fiona Magowan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780857456373

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Transgressive Sex by Hastings Donnan,Fiona Magowan Pdf

Sex is often regarded as a dangerous business that must be rigorously controlled, regulated, and subjected to rules. Sexual acts that defy acceptable practices may be seen as variously defiling, immoral, and even unnatural. They may challenge and subvert both cultural preconceptions and the social order in a politics of sexual transgression that threatens to transform permissible boundaries and restructure bodily engagements. This collection of essays explores acts of sexual transgression that have the power to reconfigure perceptions of bodily intimacy and the social norms of interaction. Considering issues such as domestic violence, child prostitution, health and sex, teenage sex, and sex with animals across a range of settings from contemporary Oceania, the Pacific, South Africa, and southeast Asia to Euro-America, this book should interest all those who question the "naturalness" of sex, including public health workers, clinical practitioners and students of sex, sexuality, and gender in the humanities and social sciences.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121649078

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steffen Jensen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226398358

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Gangs, Politics & Dignity in Cape Town by Steffen Jensen Pdf

A study of the experiences of gang members from working class neighbourhoods on the Cape Flats in South Africa, dealing with criminality and the search for dignity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Psychology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133277165

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Psychology in Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : African Studies Association
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Africa
ISBN : IND:30000107422895

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ASA News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Helen H. Gardener
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752384055

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Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter? by Helen H. Gardener Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter? by Helen H. Gardener