Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2023.2261512
Shingirai Nyakabawu
This study argues that arrival infrastructures play a crucial role in shaping the mobility and integration of Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa. By examining the experiences of migrants with access to these infrastructures and those without, the research explores the influence of the infrastructures on the challenges of destitution and homelessness that migrants face in their new environment. Through a comparative analysis of interviews, the study reveals how arrival infrastructures contribute to migrants’ familiarity with the City of Cape Town, provide housing and employment opportunities and facilitate the overall integration processes. These findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the importance of arrival infrastructures and underscore their profound impact on the settlement experiences of Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2023.2256367
James Granelli
In an age of climate and ecological breakdown, questions of how we relate to the natural world and the more-than-human beings around us are more important than ever. This ethnography seeks to bring these questions to the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town, South Africa, a place known for its conservation and tourism value, by taking an experimental multispecies approach. Multispecies ethnography is particularly useful for these types of explorations as it allows the stories of the more-than-human to emerge from the periphery and be put in conversation with the human. This ethnography found that despite Kirstenbosch’s socioecological benefits, the intimacy fostered between humans and more-than-humans in the gardens is distinctly human-centric and centres on a colonial construction of nature and natural beauty. Practices of photography and viewing and the commercialisation of the gardens reinforce such a relationship, producing a space where human needs and desires are prioritised and the boundary between humans and more-than-humans reified. This multispecies approach to human–environment interactions highlights the potential failures of western conservation practices and contributes to the growing exploration of complex human–nature relationships in ways that are deeper and kinder and that recognise nature’s agency and animacy in the Anthropocene.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2023.2226706
Theodore Powers, J. Pieterse
{"title":"Vacillating vaccines: responses to Covid-19 in the United States and South Africa","authors":"Theodore Powers, J. Pieterse","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2023.2226706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2023.2226706","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":"186 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74421144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2023.2224847
Fraser G. McNeill
{"title":"Covid-19 infection as ritual process in Venda, South Africa","authors":"Fraser G. McNeill","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2023.2224847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2023.2224847","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86919031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2023.2279074
D. Jethro, Mahoati Arthur Lehloenya
Architectural analyses of heritage and the city largely focus on the visual and physical properties of buildings and sites. Traces of intangible, sensuous heritage such as sounds, smells and community-lived experience are often left out. This article critiques this tradition by tuning into the sound of the adhan as broadcast from mosques in Bo-Kaap, a neighbourhood of Cape Town, South Africa, as a heritage indicator. The sound echoes a history of Islam as a suppressed minority faith in the colonial past and the Muslim struggle for belonging. Yet this notion has become contested with noise complaints made about the adhan in contemporary Cape Town. This has led to heated arguments about gentrification, heritage and religious freedom. We unpack what is at stake in this debate and, using a range of data, evaluate public perception of the heritage significance of the adhan and its social resonance as heritage in Cape Town. We develop an expanded concept of the haptic, as being affected, to interpret community acoustic disputes. We argue that a multisensory approach, emphasising sound, touch and feeling, enables a nuanced reading of the negotiation of religion, heritage, identity and belonging in Cape Town.
{"title":"Call to prayer: the sound of the adhan, heritage and shifting urban identity in Cape Town","authors":"D. Jethro, Mahoati Arthur Lehloenya","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2023.2279074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2023.2279074","url":null,"abstract":"Architectural analyses of heritage and the city largely focus on the visual and physical properties of buildings and sites. Traces of intangible, sensuous heritage such as sounds, smells and community-lived experience are often left out. This article critiques this tradition by tuning into the sound of the adhan as broadcast from mosques in Bo-Kaap, a neighbourhood of Cape Town, South Africa, as a heritage indicator. The sound echoes a history of Islam as a suppressed minority faith in the colonial past and the Muslim struggle for belonging. Yet this notion has become contested with noise complaints made about the adhan in contemporary Cape Town. This has led to heated arguments about gentrification, heritage and religious freedom. We unpack what is at stake in this debate and, using a range of data, evaluate public perception of the heritage significance of the adhan and its social resonance as heritage in Cape Town. We develop an expanded concept of the haptic, as being affected, to interpret community acoustic disputes. We argue that a multisensory approach, emphasising sound, touch and feeling, enables a nuanced reading of the negotiation of religion, heritage, identity and belonging in Cape Town.","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":"10 1","pages":"213 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2023.2253284
Kristiaan van der Bijl
{"title":"Sensory studies manifesto: tracking the sensorial revolution in the arts and human sciences","authors":"Kristiaan van der Bijl","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2023.2253284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2023.2253284","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":"48 1","pages":"250 - 252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2023.2279721
Alice Aterianus-Owanga
Drawing on ethnographic research within the salsa, bachata and kizomba (SBK) scene of Cape Town, this article examines the values and narratives of personal development that Cape Town’s adepts of Afro-Latin dance elaborate around the emic notion of “connection.” I describe how this multisensory experience is informed by an ethic of personal development and self-transformation, which at the same time reflects the influence of global neoliberal entrepreneurial paradigms — together with the hopes, values and hampered dreams of Cape Town’s post-apartheid middle classes. Narratives and descriptions of the hapticscape and multisensory knowledge built through the search for connection highlight how these encounters give shape to intimate spaces where salsa amateurs can imagine, materialise and embody the multiple injunctions they navigate and can reconfigure the boundaries of intimacy, identity and otherness in the post-apartheid city.
{"title":"Tactile technologies of the self: connection, hapticscape and self-development narratives in Cape Town’s Afro-Latin dance scene","authors":"Alice Aterianus-Owanga","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2023.2279721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2023.2279721","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on ethnographic research within the salsa, bachata and kizomba (SBK) scene of Cape Town, this article examines the values and narratives of personal development that Cape Town’s adepts of Afro-Latin dance elaborate around the emic notion of “connection.” I describe how this multisensory experience is informed by an ethic of personal development and self-transformation, which at the same time reflects the influence of global neoliberal entrepreneurial paradigms — together with the hopes, values and hampered dreams of Cape Town’s post-apartheid middle classes. Narratives and descriptions of the hapticscape and multisensory knowledge built through the search for connection highlight how these encounters give shape to intimate spaces where salsa amateurs can imagine, materialise and embody the multiple injunctions they navigate and can reconfigure the boundaries of intimacy, identity and otherness in the post-apartheid city.","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":"31 1","pages":"229 - 244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2023.2261026
Shanee Giani
{"title":"Privileges of birth: constellations of care, myth and race in South Africa","authors":"Shanee Giani","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2023.2261026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2023.2261026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":"9 1","pages":"247 - 250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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