Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2022.2084631
James Musonda
The family model promoted amongst Zambian mineworkers since the colonial period was based on a male breadwinner and a female housewife. This article examines the family dynamics in a context in contemporary Zambia of growing employment precariousness, declining incomes for men and increased labour market participation for women. It shows that, though wives still publicly present their husbands as breadwinners and family heads, their role in family decision-making has increased whilst their performance of household chores has decreased, and spousal relations have improved. In a context in which men’s jobs are uncertain and incomes inadequate, men have had to sacrifice their gender stereotypes to be more supportive of and cooperate with women, for their own economic security. It draws on interviews with 50 couples, a simple survey and participant observation conducted in the towns of Mufulira and Kitwe on the Zambian Copperbelt.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2022.2058970
Tichaona Mazarire
{"title":"Developmentalism, dependency, and the state: industrial development and economic change in Namibia since 1900","authors":"Tichaona Mazarire","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2022.2058970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2022.2058970","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":"94 1","pages":"53 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83905684","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 : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2021.1978851
R. H. Mushonga, V. Dzingirai
The article explores the many ways in which Zimbabwean women married to Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in Harare reconfigure transactional sexual relationships to further their own ends. Drawing on postcolonial feminism and based on a qualitative ethnographic inquiry, the article highlights women’s agency motivated by pursuit of an idealised lifestyle, and patronage as the guiding principle in these transactional sexual relationships. This encompasses exchanges of sexual, monetary and emotional favours. Beyond this, women are also subordinated to moral principles of accumulation and distribution to their kinship networks, serving long-term objectives of social reproduction. These transactional relationships are guided by complex interlinkages of mutual exchange and bonds where sex, love, money and obligations are inextricably linked to each other. The article destabilises and disrupts mainstream views of women as weak and powerless, views that work to subordinate women based on their position in society. It posits that scholars must take into consideration the obvious and subtle factors that coalesce to create positive outcomes for women in transactional sexual relationships across the migration spectrum. Defining and understanding these positive outcomes greatly enhances the theoretical grounding of migration and the individual experiences of women.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2021.2013122
Kana Miyamoto
This study considers the revitalisation of traditional authorities, a phenomenon found throughout modern Africa. It analyses and compares court cases involving land disputes amongst herders living in north-western Namibia. Since the 1990s, African nations have pursued land reform to stabilise and clarify the rights of land users in customary lands. Prior research indicates that traditional authorities, created during colonialism, have been able to maintain their influence since they were granted land-related authority under national legal systems. The cases presented in this article illustrate how the “rights and powers” of traditional authorities over land have not only been legally recognised by a national government, here that of Namibia, but have undergone development through the novel concepts of community-based natural resource management.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2022.2055591
Andrew Hartnack
{"title":"Public secrets and private sufferings in the South African AIDS epidemic","authors":"Andrew Hartnack","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2022.2055591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2022.2055591","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":"39 6 1","pages":"48 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75704526","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 : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2022.2133276
Teresa K. Connor, Sethunya Tshepho Mosime, L. Junck, H. Parker
{"title":"The biopolitical subject: alternative postcolonial entanglements in a global landscape","authors":"Teresa K. Connor, Sethunya Tshepho Mosime, L. Junck, H. Parker","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2022.2133276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2022.2133276","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":"31 1","pages":"iv - vii"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76800123","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 : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2022.2059534
Ellison Tjirera
{"title":"Cities of entanglements: social life in Johannesburg and Maputo through ethnographic comparison","authors":"Ellison Tjirera","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2022.2059534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2022.2059534","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":"68 1","pages":"56 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89199975","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 : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2022.2055590
Allison Furniss
{"title":"There used to be order: life on the Copperbelt after the privatisation of the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines","authors":"Allison Furniss","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2022.2055590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2022.2055590","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":"134 1","pages":"50 - 52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74704737","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 : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2022.2044361
Gcobani Qambela
{"title":"Ironies of solidarity: insurance and financialization of kinship in South Africa","authors":"Gcobani Qambela","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2022.2044361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2022.2044361","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":"23 1","pages":"59 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76947338","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 : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2022.2044360
Kudakwashe Vanyoro
It has become “common sense” to assert that access to public health care services for foreign migrants is de facto exclusionary. Conceptual tools for assessing these experiences are relatively absent and limited to “medical xenophobia.” This article deploys suspicion as a heuristic to explore the practices that health care providers in South Africa’s public health care system adopt in reading black bodies against the grain to expose their repressed or hidden meanings. It argues that the discursive construction of “outsiders” by some health care providers is based not simply on nationality, citizenship or legal status but on a vigilant preparedness for attack rooted in professional mandates to watch for possible “predators.” Such health care providers do not simply orchestrate a direct attack on migrant bodies; they also respond to the biomedical signification of individual black bodies based on a process of “creaming” that takes place at the front line of provider–patient interactions that are embedded within a wider bureaucracy of migration and health governance. In the context of a high HIV/AIDS burden, which necessitates the prioritisation of adherence and retention over anything else, anthropologists are also likely to see foreign migrants accessing services based on biomedical discourses and considerations.
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