Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2022.2051598
N. Xulu-Gama, Aisha Lorgat
ABSTRACT Worker hostels and student residences are an important point of entry for many poor rural–urban migrants into the city of Durban. This paper brings together and reports on the findings of research conducted in two separate studies, one with hostels (KwaMashu and Thokoza) and the other at the student residences of Durban University of Technology. Hostels and institutions of higher education in KwaZulu-Natal are used as vantage points through which we understand some of the key connections, interconnections, disconnections and reconnections that are taking place in contemporary housing in South African cities. The concept of a bed-space is key for both migrants and students and informs the analysis undertaken in this paper. We also highlight the importance of the lived experiences of migrants (both students and workers) and all the connotations embedded therein.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2022.2068158
Erna Louisa Prinsloo, Jacques P. de Wet
ABSTRACT Interactive research with large non-profit organisations holds the promise of deepening scholarship, benefitting the research enterprise, and improving service delivery to vulnerable groups. Research implementation can be finessed from start to completion by not being tone-deaf to the reputational sensitivities of well-established non-profit organisations and by being reflective about how the researcher contributes to the research process. Reflexivity and sensitivity contribute to mutual trust, keep the research process flowing, and energise the building of constructive research relationships. In this article, we reflect on the lessons learned by working with two cancer organisations, one of their flagship programmes, and a cross-section of their members. We discuss the conundrums of doing this type of research, highlight the continuous process of managing access as the study progresses, and offer practical ways of overcoming some of the challenges encountered.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2022.2067592
Gcobani Qambela
ABSTRACT Contemporary and historically focused social science studies of amaXhosa (Xhosa) men have focused predominantly on Xhosa men attaining manhood through ritualised initiation (ulwaluko) and heterosexual homemaking (ukwakha umzi). These studies have left critical knowledge gaps of the pre-initiation lives of Xhosa men throughout the lifecycle, along with processes of socialisation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork spanning over a year (2013–2014) conducted in rural and peri-urban Peddie in the Eastern Cape, my ethnography shows the necessity of examining the formation of Xhosa masculinities prior to ulwaluko. My research illustrates the importance of boyhood kwaXhosa. I argue that Xhosa masculinities are viable long before initiation and that it is not in manhood that “life” starts for men as one of my research interlocutors, Mthuthu, alluded. My ethnography necessarily challenges recent theorisations and conceptualisations of Xhosa masculinities as well as older canonical writings as far as they place primacy on the initiated Xhosa male phallus in the attainment of masculinity. I argue for scholarly consideration of the nuances and complexities of being a boy. Although there is a developing corpus of work from Black Boyhood studies, I note the limitations of this field especially for its rootedness in the North American Black boyhood experiences that do not have the cultural context of ulwaluko. Ultimately, I argue for an Anthropology of Boyhoods. Through concentrated effort on boyhood, in the study of masculinities, ultimately we can attain more contextual, varied and multifaceted experiences of how men experience masculinity across the life course.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2022.2032316
Christopher G. Thomas
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2021.2019610
S. Nomsenge
ABSTRACT Non-governmental socioeconomic intervention exists within a framework and history of racialised proximity to power and privilege. The arrangements of race and power in and beyond the sector along with the inequitable distribution of material and nonmaterial resources have therefore been used to affirm the sector’s affinity to colonial relations of exploitation and racism. This paper recounts the genealogy of this affinity and outlines the ways in which current arrangements of poverty, power and non-state mediation interpolate with the historical arrangements of race and power through non-state interventions. Data collected with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working in Makhanda in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province inform the proposition that race and power remain central features of socioeconomic intervention in part, through organisational structures, traditions of engagement with communities, dominant explications of poverty and depictions of “the poor”. The paper concludes that the world and work of NGOs—despite dominant assertions of its independence and neutrality—is inextricably bound to its historical and sociopolitical context and is thus a site wherein race and power are not only present but at play.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2021.1982762
M. Bekker
ABSTRACT A long-important tool for quantitative analysis of protests, the potential power of Protest Event Analysis (PEA) has only increased with the rise of Machine Learning technologies and the ubiquity of big data. PEA coders also present an advantage over contemporary Natural Language Programming innovations by being customisable to incorporate locally appropriate terms and vernaculars, expressed as personalised ontologies. As such, there is a need to develop a standard process for deploying machine learning tools that can draw on the local. This paper introduces such a tool, innovating the numeration of abstract indicators. “Machine Learning Protest Event Analysis Keyword Enumerated Recoding” is a protocol that enables PEA coders to read and classify large “event databases”, incorporating local terms and abstract indicators into the analysis. Applying this protocol to 150,000 records in a police-recorded database of crowd events in South Africa, protest events could be individually rated by levels of “tumult”—a feat hitherto inhibited by conventional PEA methods. Innovations in estimating crowd sizes, as well as an updated view of post-apartheid protest, showing that protests tend to be more common but less prone to violence than previous theories concluded, speaks to the potential for this protocol to unearth novel insights on even bigger data sets.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2022.2038452
N. Xulu-Gama
Polygyny and Gender is a book that interrogates the potential impact and in fl uences that growing up in polygynous family relations have on the lives of participants who are now adults. The key question that the book seeks to answer is: how does a polygynous family upbringing shape perceptions of gender identity and gender relations? The research further intends to fi nd out the broader family dynamics regarding the relationships with the key players in a polygynous family, which are the husbands, wives and children. This book has been adapted from a PhD research dissertation that was done with the University of KwaZulu Natal. an and timely to after a of
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2021.2024087
Asanda-Jonas Benya, Sithandiwe Yeni
ABSTRACT This article is a reflection on five feminist schools, popular education platforms, convened between 2017 and 2019 with two women’s groups organising in the platinum mines in Marikana, North West and commercial farms in uMgungundlovu in Kwa Zulu-Natal in South Africa. The first part of the article looks at the background to the feminist schools and reflects on the composition of the groups, the self-selection of participants who attended the feminist schools, the co-development of a flexible curriculum and the non-hierachical dialogical learning methodology employed. The second part hones in on the use of local languages and how they enriched our conversations and encouraged full participation. Here we also highlight some of the translation challenges we experienced when dialoguing and drawing from concepts central in feminist theory, analysis and critique, e.g. patriarchy, power, gender. To resolve the challenges, direct translations did not work; we thus used multiple local concepts, and layered these with local expressions that the women felt were close proximates. We argue in this paper that to strengthen activist movements there is a need to think through our “pedagogy of mobilisation” and to co-develop local feminist registers and grammars and “conceptual vocabularies”. We thus make a case for the development and refinement of indigenous feminist theories/concepts that are locally grounded but outward-looking, drawing from and in conversation with local languages, realities and activists. We hope this paper adds to debates on feminist popular education and pedagogical questions in feminist activism.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2021.2015716
N. Mohlabane, M. Tshoaedi
ABSTRACT Feminists across a variety of contexts have written extensively about womanhood. Recently the question of difference—to account for the cultural, ethnic and racial diversity among women themselves—has become a highly contested issue in feminist theories. Tensions have ensued where “western feminisms” have been criticised for bias that is embedded in the objectification of “different” women regarded as “other” as “traditional” and therefore inferior. Several African feminists have also questioned “western” concepts such as gender and their relevance to the African context. Womanhood—a set of socially defined attributes appropriate for women—holds different meanings depending on the context in which it is defined. Drawing on decolonial African feminist approaches, this qualitative study aimed to understand the meaning of “womanhood” from the perspectives of never-married women (methepa) in Lesotho, where womanhood is defined in terms of marriage. In-depth interviews were conducted with 20 methepa from various contexts in Lesotho. As opposed to the “traditional” definition that accounts for a single attribute—woman as “wife”—methepa defined “womanhood” in different ways. By foregrounding respectability, sexual empowerment, mothering and personhood, these women deconstructed binarised gendered categories. This paper builds on the indigenous and also draws from the indigenous for knowledge production. In so doing, it deconstructs metanarratives and reconfigures knowledges around women’s sexualities, agency and “womanhoods” in Lesotho, as a contribution to pluriversal knowledge production.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-22DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2021.2010240
Emmanuel Rowlands
ABSTRACT Despite popular assumptions of male power, there are circumstances where the power of men is not decisive or even evident. One such instance is in intimate relationships with women. While a huge literature testifies to the violence of men in these relationships, a less-developed strand of study shows that men can be on the receiving end of violence. There is, therefore, a paradox—of male power (described in the literature and captured in concepts such as Connell’s hegemonic masculinity) that is universal and results in the subordination of women; and of male powerlessness. The latter condition is seldom the focus of research work. This article investigates men who are the recipients of violence while in intimate relationships with women and explores the implications of this violence for conceptualisations of masculinity.
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