Predicaments Of Culture In South Africa
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Predicaments Of Culture In South Africa
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Author : Ashraf Jamal
language : en
Publisher: Imagined South Africa
Release Date : 2005
Predicaments Of Culture In South Africa written by Ashraf Jamal and has been published by Imagined South Africa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Symptomatic of an emergent shift away from prescriptive and deterministic accounts of change in South Africa, Predicaments of culture in South Africa posits an open-ended and speculative approach to the question and agency of culture. The key question, posed by Justice Albie Sachs of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, 'what does it mean to be a South African?' is shifted from its familiar ontological and epistemological habitat, 'what is identity?', the better to embrace its ethical and political rider, 'what are identities for?', and its more pragmatic possibility, 'what can identities do?' These qualifications - Bhabha's - form the building blocks that skew and enrich existing presumptions about South Africa's history, its present moment and its future. Jamal challenges and qualifies the conflicting and contiguous drives of fatalism, positivism and relativism, which are the dominant claimants upon the South African cultural imaginary. It is this critical non-positionality that forms the distinctive trait of an inquiry which, in eschewing allegiance and closure, opens up the debate about what it means to be South African and the role of culture therein. 'In hindsight, and with the hither side of the future before us', Jamal's driving assumption is that 'world society is advancing towards yet another age of ignorance; an age beyond suspicion and irony, in which thought, whether self-critical or not, is no longer the agent of reason'. Jamal calls for an urgent reappraisal of the absence of love - of lovelessness - which he sees as the infected root of South Africa's inability to create a positively affirmative cultural imaginary.
Culture In The New South Africa
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Author : Abebe Zegeye
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Culture In The New South Africa written by Abebe Zegeye and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
A distinguished panel of contributors explore social, political and economic problems, especially the requirements of global capitalism, their impact on the development of a new sense of nationhood, and on the diverse people of South Africa.
Senses Of Culture
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Author : Sarah Nuttall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Senses Of Culture written by Sarah Nuttall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Political Science categories.
Everyday life in South Africa has been dominated by the politics of racial identities, while such identities form and re-form around a range of cultural activities and practices. This book traces the important dimensions of cultural activity in late twentieth-century South Africa, offering a multidisciplinary assessment between culture and politics. It also explores the ways in which the place of culture is being rethought since South Africa's transition to democracy.
The Predicament Of Culture
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Author : James Clifford
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1988-05-18
The Predicament Of Culture written by James Clifford and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-05-18 with Social Science categories.
The Predicament of Culture is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, James Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be contingent fictions, now actively contested in post-colonial contexts. His critique raises questions of global significance: Who has the authority to speak for any group’s identity and authenticity? What are the essential elements and boundaries of a culture? How do self and “the other” clash in the encounters of ethnography, travel, and modern interethnic relations? In chapters devoted to the history of anthropology, Clifford discusses the work of Malinowski, Mead, Griaule, Lévi-Strauss, Turner, Geertz, and other influential scholars. He also explores the affinity of ethnography with avant-garde art and writing, recovering a subversive, self-reflexive cultural criticism. The surrealists’ encounters with Paris or New York, the work of Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris in the Collège de Sociologie, and the hybrid constructions of recent tribal artists offer provocative ethnographic examples that challenge familiar notions of difference and identity. In an emerging global modernity, the exotic is unexpectedly nearby, the familiar strangely distanced.
Culture Education And Development In South Africa
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Author : Ali A. Abdi
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2001-10-30
Culture Education And Development In South Africa written by Ali A. Abdi and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-10-30 with Social Science categories.
With the fall of apartheid in South Africa, expectations were high for the enfranchisement of the acutely underdeveloped majority in South Africa. But problems abound, and this educational study looks critically at the educational situation and puts forth a number of proposals that could produce better results in contemporary South Africa. Abdi urges that beyond the celebratory platforms of the political triumph over apartheid, there must be effective and culturally inclusive programs of education for the development of the highly disenfranchsed majority in South Africa. Deliberate programs of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa resulted in inferior education, cultural marginalization, political oppression, economic exploitation and resulting underdevelopment in the lives of the disenfranchised majority. In addition to historical and contemporary analysis, this study looks at the possibilities of formulating and implementing new programs of education and development that could effectively deal with such current problems as chronic unemployment, skyrocketing crime rates, stagnating learning systems, and the continuing formations of a huge underclass that may be losing its stake in the promised post-apartheid project.
Culture Power And Difference
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Author : Ann Levett
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books
Release Date : 1997
Culture Power And Difference written by Ann Levett and has been published by Zed Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
With the eyes of the world watching South Africa, this book provides a unique window on the transition to democracy through an analysis of the practice of power in language.
Body Of Power Spirit Of Resistance
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Author : Jean Comaroff
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-11-15
Body Of Power Spirit Of Resistance written by Jean Comaroff and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-15 with Social Science categories.
In this sophisticated study of power and resistance, Jean Comaroff analyzes the changing predicament of the Barolong boo Ratshidi, a people on the margins of the South African state. Like others on the fringes of the modern world system, the Tshidi struggle to construct a viable order of signs and practices through which they act upon the forces that engulf them. Their dissenting Churches of Zion have provided an effective medium for reconstructing a sense of history and identity, one that protests the terms of colonial and post-colonial society and culture.
Imagining Home
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Author : Sidney J. Lemelle
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 1994-12-17
Imagining Home written by Sidney J. Lemelle and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-12-17 with History categories.
This collection of original essays brilliantly interrogates the often ambivalent place of Africa in the imaginations, cultures and politics of its “New World” descendants. Combining literary analysis, history, biography, cultural studies, critical theory and politics, Imagining Home offers a fresh and creative approach to the history of Pan-Africanism and diasporic movements. A critical part of the book’s overall project is an examination of the legal, educational and political institutions and structures of domination over Africa and the African diaspora. Class and gender are placed at center stage alongside race in the exploration of how the discourses and practices of Pan-Africanism have been shaped. Other issues raised include the myriad ways in which grassroots religious and cultural movements informed Pan-Africanist political organizations; the role of African, African-American and Caribbean intellectuals in the formation of Pan-African thought—including W.E.B. DuBois, C.L.R. James and Adelaide Casely Hayford; the historical, ideological and institutional connections between African-Americans and South Africans; and the problems and prospects of Pan-Africanism as an emancipatory strategy for black people throughout the Atlantic.
African Society Culture And Politics
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Author : Christopher C. Mojekwu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
African Society Culture And Politics written by Christopher C. Mojekwu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with History categories.
Sameness And Difference
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Author : James R. Cochrane
language : en
Publisher: Crvp
Release Date : 2000
Sameness And Difference written by James R. Cochrane and has been published by Crvp this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Political Science categories.