{"title":"Politics and Community-based Research: perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg ed. by Claire Bénit-Gbaffou et al (review)","authors":"P. Jenkins","doi":"10.1353/TRN.2021.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/TRN.2021.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45045,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84456820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Limpopo’s Legacy: student politics and democracy in South Africa by Anne K Hefferman (review)","authors":"Zolani Noonan-Ngwane","doi":"10.1353/TRN.2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/TRN.2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45045,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88182065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Historian’s Passage to Africa by Bill Freund (review)","authors":"H. Bernstein","doi":"10.1353/TRN.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/TRN.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45045,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72626515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A House Divided: the feud that took Cape Town to the brink by Crispian Olver (review)","authors":"J. Seekings","doi":"10.1353/TRN.2021.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/TRN.2021.0000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45045,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87961156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"As a Student: Africa and England","authors":"B. Freund","doi":"10.1353/TRN.2021.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/TRN.2021.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45045,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77450908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Platform: In Theory","authors":"G. Maré, P. Vale","doi":"10.1353/TRN.2021.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/TRN.2021.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45045,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79993821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:WEB Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk (1903), has resurfaced in South African academic circles as part of the intellectual credo attempting to explain the plight of black people 27 years after the country was declared a democratic state. Du Bois’ concept of double consciousness is often invoked to situate present realities of black people in post-apartheid South Africa as racist legacies of apartheid collide with the paradoxes of the current context. This article stretches double consciousness by arguing that being black in post-apartheid South Africa produces multiple consciousness. Multiple consciousness describes existing in the thrall of multiple folds which interact to disrupt the collective history of oppression. Various dimensions shape blackness. In this article, language, culture and ethnicity emerge as particularly strong shaping forces.
杜波依斯的《黑人的灵魂》(The Souls of Black Folk, 1903)作为试图解释南非宣布成为民主国家27年后黑人困境的知识分子信条的一部分，重新出现在南非学术界。杜波依斯的双重意识概念经常被用来描述后种族隔离时代南非黑人的现状，因为种族隔离的种族主义遗产与当前环境的悖论发生了冲突。本文通过论证后种族隔离时代的南非黑人产生了多重意识，拓展了双重意识。多重意识描述了存在于多重褶皱的束缚中，这些褶皱相互作用以破坏压迫的集体历史。各种尺寸形状的黑色。在这篇文章中，语言、文化和种族成为特别强大的塑造力量。
{"title":"The multiple consciousness of blackness: race and class in South Africa","authors":"Mosa M. Phadi","doi":"10.1353/TRN.2021.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/TRN.2021.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:WEB Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk (1903), has resurfaced in South African academic circles as part of the intellectual credo attempting to explain the plight of black people 27 years after the country was declared a democratic state. Du Bois’ concept of double consciousness is often invoked to situate present realities of black people in post-apartheid South Africa as racist legacies of apartheid collide with the paradoxes of the current context. This article stretches double consciousness by arguing that being black in post-apartheid South Africa produces multiple consciousness. Multiple consciousness describes existing in the thrall of multiple folds which interact to disrupt the collective history of oppression. Various dimensions shape blackness. In this article, language, culture and ethnicity emerge as particularly strong shaping forces.","PeriodicalId":45045,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88973290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This paper argues that South Africa suffered a major democratic reversal after the election of Jacob Zuma as president of the country in 2009, especially from 2012 when the project of Radical Economic Transformation was pursued with vigour in State Owned Companies (SOEs).This reversal was invisible theoretically. Contemporary definitions of democracy, especially as they inform the literature on political transitions, reduce the phenomenon to the rules of political participation. Yet over the last ten years South Africa saw, not so much a rolling back of political rights as concerted attacks on the autonomy of state administrations. Without the conceptual tools to understand these attacks on the bureaucracy as attacks on democracy, the period from 2007 to 2017 has largely been construed in terms of corruption, criminality and patronage. This paper adds a new typology to democratic theory, reconciling a concept from public administration to democratic theory. It argues that we must think of bureaucratic autonomy as a democratic virtue.
{"title":"From democracy as a political system to democracy as government: a contribution to democratic theory from public administration","authors":"I. Chipkin","doi":"10.1353/TRN.2021.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/TRN.2021.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper argues that South Africa suffered a major democratic reversal after the election of Jacob Zuma as president of the country in 2009, especially from 2012 when the project of Radical Economic Transformation was pursued with vigour in State Owned Companies (SOEs).This reversal was invisible theoretically. Contemporary definitions of democracy, especially as they inform the literature on political transitions, reduce the phenomenon to the rules of political participation. Yet over the last ten years South Africa saw, not so much a rolling back of political rights as concerted attacks on the autonomy of state administrations. Without the conceptual tools to understand these attacks on the bureaucracy as attacks on democracy, the period from 2007 to 2017 has largely been construed in terms of corruption, criminality and patronage. This paper adds a new typology to democratic theory, reconciling a concept from public administration to democratic theory. It argues that we must think of bureaucratic autonomy as a democratic virtue.","PeriodicalId":45045,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79465471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ungovernable: reclaiming autonomy, letting go of authority","authors":"Molemo Moiloa","doi":"10.1353/trn.2020.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/trn.2020.0034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45045,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75558591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As part of the nationwide lockdown imposed by the South African government in March 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, places of worship were ordered to close their doors. This article looks at the response of the Muslim community to these measures which evoked sharp debates over the closure of mosques, social distancing during prayer, and the wearing of face masks, differences that affected personal relationships and exacerbated theological tensions among Muslims. In examining these divisions, this article also raises the thorny issue of the authority of religion versus science and the prerogative of the state to impose its will, as well as what it means to live as a Muslim minority in a secular state. The whole thing is one big hoax for a greater plan. We call it in Islam the Dajjali fitnah (anti-Christ), which has started on a grand scale across the whole world. Dajjal means ‘the biggest deceiver’, so all his agents are working. What is really happening is the New World Order …. The masses are asses they say in Arabic. They fall for anything. (Recording received by author on May 16, 2020).
{"title":"The contagious power of words: Muslim South Africans during the pandemic","authors":"G. Vahed","doi":"10.1353/trn.2020.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/trn.2020.0031","url":null,"abstract":"As part of the nationwide lockdown imposed by the South African government in March 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, places of worship were ordered to close their doors. This article looks at the response of the Muslim community to these measures which evoked sharp debates over the closure of mosques, social distancing during prayer, and the wearing of face masks, differences that affected personal relationships and exacerbated theological tensions among Muslims. In examining these divisions, this article also raises the thorny issue of the authority of religion versus science and the prerogative of the state to impose its will, as well as what it means to live as a Muslim minority in a secular state. The whole thing is one big hoax for a greater plan. We call it in Islam the Dajjali fitnah (anti-Christ), which has started on a grand scale across the whole world. Dajjal means ‘the biggest deceiver’, so all his agents are working. What is really happening is the New World Order …. The masses are asses they say in Arabic. They fall for anything. (Recording received by author on May 16, 2020).","PeriodicalId":45045,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76289798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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