THE DIASPORA AT HOME: INDIAN VIEWS AND THE MAKING OF ZULEIKHA MAYAT'S PUBLIC VOICE

Africa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thembisa Waetjen ◽  
Goolam Vahed
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Medical Doctor ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Family Enterprises ◽  
The Family ◽  
Diasporic Community ◽  
Narrative Account

ABSTRACTThis article examines how the Gujarati-speaking Muslim trading class in South(ern) Africa was linked as a reading public through a newspaper, Indian Views, which had been founded in early twentieth-century Durban in opposition to Mahatma Gandhi's Indian Opinion. Under the editorship of Moosa Meer (1929–63) it was a conduit for sustaining existing social networks as well as offering common narratives that galvanized an idea of community embracing its geographically disparate readership. Between 1956 and 1963, Zuleikha Mayat, a self-described housewife born in Potchefstroom but married to a medical doctor in Durban whom she ‘met’ through the newspaper, wrote a weekly column that represented one of the first instances of a South African Muslim woman offering her ideas in print. She spoke across gender divides and articulated a moral social vision that accounted for both local and diasporic concerns. This article provides a narrative account of how Mayat came to write for Indian Views, a story that underscores the personal linkages within this diasporic community and, more broadly, how literacy and the family enterprises that constituted local print capitalism provided a material means of sustaining existing networks of village and family. It also reveals the role of newspaper as an interface between public and private spaces in helping to create a community of linguistically related readers who imagined themselves as part of a larger print culture.

The Role of Selected Team Design Elements in Successful Sibling Teams

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley Maeva Farrington ◽  
Elmarie Venter ◽  
Christo Boshoff
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Role Clarity ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Effective Teams ◽  
Team Success ◽  
The Family ◽  
Successful Team ◽  
Team Design

For any team to function effectively, several basic elements need to be present. The extent to which these elements are present increases the chances of a successful team outcome. Since a family business can be viewed as a type of team, the literature on how to design effective teams is also relevant to business families. The primary objectives of this study are to identify the team design elements commonly referred to in the family business literature and to empirically test their influence on the effectiveness of South African sibling teams in family businesses. The empirical findings of this preliminary study show that physical resources, skills diversity, and strategic leadership are important determinants of sibling team success whereas role clarity and competence are not.

Reverberations of the Armenian Genocide

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Azarian-Ceccato
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Armenian Genocide ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Central California ◽  
The Past ◽  
Diasporic Community ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Point Of Departure

Narrative research has not traditionally examined the intergenerational transmission and reverberation of narratives within ethnic communities, and yet it is through the chain of generations that voices of the past reverberate and testimonies endure which fuel and form present day notions of the past. This article is a call for and an example of the importance ethnographic investigation into communities of memories, for it is through community storytelling that records are set straight as a memorial for victims and survivors. This line of inquiry is pertinent to various communities throughout the world, as we come to see the role of language, and in particular, narrative in the formation of ideas and conflicts, as scholars such as Slyomovics, (1998) have pointed out. This research takes as its point of departure narrative renditions of the Armenian genocide recounted in both public and private venues by the great-grandchildren of genocide survivors in an ethnic enclave in Central California. In this diasporic community we see how communities of memory are formed in a space of mediation which links the new generation with the old, the present with its past as well as with its imagined communities (Anderson, 1983). Through examination of the linguistic reverberations of this historical and familial narrative, I ask what becomes of authorship when collected stories are salient enough to be included in one’s own personal history, and how these narrativizations contribute to one’s sense of self? These questions are answered both by linguistic analysis of pronouns and deixis, as well as through analysis of prevalent themes. The results of this research lend into the historical progression of memory through time by those who did not experience the trauma, but rather were witnesses by listening to the trauma of others.

The Novel and the Sexuality of Vagrancy

2021 ◽  
pp. 72-115
Author(s):  
Sal Nicolazzo
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Marriage Plot ◽  
Labor Discipline ◽  
The Family ◽  
Literary Histories ◽  
Domestic Lives

This chapter examines the role of vagrancy law in regulating the affective, sexual, reproductive, and domestic lives of the English poor. It traces vagrancy's appearance at the margins of both the novel and the marriage plot across a series of texts, including Jane Barker's Patchwork Screen for the Ladies (1723), Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall (1762), and, most centrally, Henry Fielding's The Female Husband (1746). Fielding, as novelist, magistrate, and major eighteenth-century theorist of police, is at the center of the chapter, which reads his figuration of vagrancy as a kind of sexuality that disrupts labor-discipline, marriage, and legitimate inheritance. At the same time, Fielding's text and the archival records of policing that surround it reveal how one might take vagrancy as a category of analysis for transgender history, since the construction of the sexed body as metonym for juridical identity developed through a nexus of policing, surveillance, and transatlantic print culture for which vagrancy was a foundational legal category. Finally, through readings of Scott's Millenium Hall and Mary Saxby's posthumously published Memoirs of a Female Vagrant (1806), the chapter shows that literary histories of sexuality look profoundly different if one centers the parish rather than the family as the field of analysis.

“Russia! What Do You Want of Me?”: The Russian Reading Public in DeadSouls

Slavic Review ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Lounsbery
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Periodical Literature ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Nikolai Gogol ◽  
Total Control ◽  
Dead Souls

This article analyzes the role of Russia's changing readership and incipient print culture in Dead Souls. Though Nikolai Gogol' was received in salon society, his primary allegiance was to print and the broad (and thus unsophisticated) readership that was beginning to buy and read printed texts. Like other of Gogol“s works (“On the Development of Periodical Literature in 1834 and 1835,” “The Portrait”), Dead Souls reflects the author's awareness of the severe limitations of this audience, especially their desire for conventional plot devices and their eagerness for characters with whom to identify. Although Dead Souls invites readers' participation, it also reflects Gogol“s growing skepticism about inexperienced readers' attempts to create meaning, his disdain for their judgment, and his desire to assert total control over the meaning of his art. Lounsbery considers Dead Souls' reception and situates Gogol“s work in the context of the appearance of Library for Reading in 1834 and other writers' approaches to the problem of Russia's reading public (notably Faddei Bulgarin and Osip Senkovskii).

Advancing the Exploration of Engaged Creative-Placemaking Amongst Universities and Communities for Social Cohesion in South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-445
Author(s):  
Innocent Tinashe Mutero ◽  
Ivan Gunass Govender
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Local Economies ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Creative Placemaking ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Just Society ◽  
University Spaces ◽  
Historical Issues

This article frames a discussion on how South African universities and communities can co-create university spaces that facilitate repairing the country’s dented social, economic and political infrastructure through engaged creative-placemaking. The first section further explores the concept followed by a discussion of historical issues which have a material bearing on how universities can and should frame community engagement in South Africa. It pays close attention to how post-apartheid nation building is hindered by the remnants from the past and is dislocated to both the present and the future. The article also brings into question the type and role of leadership, in both universities and communities. The final section of the article presents a framework for engaged creative-placemaking delineating the antecedents that are needed by the key stakeholders, namely, public and private enterprises, university and the community to successfully work together in achieving a just society through creative-placemaking. Improving place liveability through engaged creative-placemaking has the potential to stimulate local economies and leads to cultural diversity, civic engagement and increased innovation.

scholarly journals Experiences of parents during the hospitalisation of their child in a private paediatric unit

Curationis ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Verwey
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Parental Participation ◽  
South African Government ◽  
The South ◽  
African Government ◽  
Paediatric Unit ◽  
The Family ◽  
Per Se

A change in the health of a child is regarded as a major stressor for parents which further increases when the child is admitted to a hospital (Kaplan & Sadock, 1998:799). The role of the family in a child’s illness is slowly being recognised (Kibel & Wagstaff, 2001:544), but the South African government per se has not yet issued any formal reports on parental participation in the hospitalisation process.

The Rules of Prose in Sixteenth-Century China: Tang Shunzhi (1507-1560) as an Anthologist

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-182
Author(s):  
Timothy Robert Clifford
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Ancient Literature ◽  
Endless Variety

AbstractThis paper examines the role of the anthologist in late imperial Chinese print culture. Specifically, it focuses on the sixteenth-century anthologist Tang Shunzhi. Tang’s first place finish in the 1529 metropolitan examinations came at a pivotal moment. As commercial anthology printers responded to an expanding reading public by applying readers’ aids such as punctuation and commentary to increasingly diverse textual corpora, Tang’s distinctive method of annotation was used to ‘reveal’ the rules of Ming examination prose operating universally across a seemingly endless variety of texts. At the same time, Tang’s own belief in universal rules of prose was the product of an educational movement to supplement the narrow and monotonous examination curriculum by providing students with anthologies of ancient literature. These two Tangs—one revealing uniformity within diversity, the other revealing diversity within uniformity—highlight contradictory trends toward both stereotypy and diversification within sixteenth-century print culture more broadly.

scholarly journals Managerial guidelines to support parents during the hospitalisation of their children in a private paediatric unit

Curationis ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Verwey ◽  
K. Jooste
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Parental Participation ◽  
African Government ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Paediatric Unit ◽  
The Family ◽  
Open Coding ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Design And Methods

The purpose of this article is to describe managerial guidelines to support parents with the hospitalisation of their child in a private paediatric unit. The hospitalisation of a child is regarded as a major stressor for both parents and child. The role of the family in participating in a child's illness is slowly being recognised (Kibel & Wagstajf, 2001:544), but the South African government per se has not yet issued any formal reports on parental participation in the hospitalisation process. The study explored and describedthe nursing care experiences of parents regarding the hospitalisation of their child in a paediatric unit;managerial guidelines to support parents with their lived experiences of their child’s hospitalisation in a paediatric unit. To achieve the purpose and the objectives of the research, an interpretive-phenomenological qualitative approach was used in the research design and methods. Research was conducted through unstructured individual interviews, narrative diaries and field notes and data were analysed through open-coding (Tesch,1990). Parents were asked to respond to the question “How did you experience your child’s hospitalisation in the paediatric ward”, followed by probing when the responses of the parents were ambiguous.

scholarly journals Corporate Governance Under ISO26000 in the Family Enterprise -With Reference to Condor Electronics-

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-61
Author(s):  
Zohra BENSEFIANE ◽  
Aicha KADRI
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Analytic Method ◽  
Electronic Industry ◽  
Business Units ◽  
Family Enterprise ◽  
Family Enterprises ◽  
The Family

This research paper aims to show the contribution of the international standardization standards for the settlement of social responsibility ISO26000 in CONDOR Company which is belonging to the family complex “Ben Hammadi”; and which is the leader in electronic industry. In addition, this study used analytic method to show the renewed role of social responsibility for family enterprises as a contribution to sustainable development. As well as, it focused on the diagnosis of the project of implementation of social responsibility under the project “MENA” through specifications of ISO26000 as a tool for practicing governance. The results showed that through implementation of international standards of social responsibility ISO26000; a family enterprise can practice governance and increase the rationality of its decisions; since the first fundamental question for ISO26000 was concerned with the mechanisms of localization of governance in different business units of a private-family enterprise.

scholarly journals Valjevo’s medical doctor Jovan Siber and pharmacist Klaudije Prikelmajer: A historical illustration of the role of immigrants from Slavonia to the development of health care in Serbia

2017 ◽  
Vol 145 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 421-427
Author(s):  
Vladimir Krivosejev
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Doctor ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Stages Of Development ◽  
Habsburg Monarchy ◽  
Short Period ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Memories ◽  
New Institutions

In a short period of the late 1860s, three significant new institutions were founded in Valjevo: the hospital (1867), the grammar school (1869) and the pharmacy (1870). In the early stages of development of all three institutions, a big role was played by immigrants from Slavonia: medical doctor Jovan Sieber, pharmacist Klaudije Prikelmajer, and professor Djuro Kozarac. This paper aims to clarify the connections between these individuals that caused their relocation from the territories of the Habsburg Monarchy to Serbia and Valjevo, as well as to resolve the confusion caused by imprecise family memories and written chronicles that have been collected. Moreover, this paper additionally focuses on the origins of the Sieber family, which included Jovan Sieber, and the later arrival of other members of the family to Valjevo. Another member of the family was Jovan?s nephew Dr. Stevan Sieber, father of Dr. Djordje Sieber, who went on to become a general in the Medical Corps of the Royal Yugoslav Army.

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