Child Sex Offender Mind-Set and Grooming Strategies: A Discourse Analysis of Sex Offender Narratives from South Africa

AbstractExamining two sets of archived materials that include a corpus of narratives that reflect on the period of apartheid in South Africa and posters used by anti-apartheid activists, the paper teases out the operations of racism and the manifestations of rage on the Black body. Critical discourse analysis and affect as theory and method are applied to trace the work of racism and its affective consequences and resistances. Here affect is deployed to read the terrain of the corporeal and the discursive. Black rage is seen as a response to White supremacy and it has the following outcomes: it can have destructive consequences, can enable psychological release of pent up anger, and can simultaneously be an expression of self-love.

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Researching Aid Workers’ Constructions of HIV/AIDS in South Africa Using Interview-Based Discourse Analysis

10.4135/9781526427427 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Vania Ranjbar ◽

Chris McVittie

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Aid Workers ◽

Hiv Aids

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Politicisation of Administration and Implications for Knowledge Generation in South Africa : A case of a Black University

African Journal of Development Studies (formerly AFFRIKA Journal of Politics, Economics and Society) ◽

10.31920/2634-3649/2021/v11n1a14 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 287-299

Author(s):

Kgothatso B. Shai

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Scientific Knowledge ◽

Role Models ◽

Knowledge Generation ◽

Academic Administration ◽

Academic Role ◽

Rich Picture ◽

The Subject ◽

Central Factors

The subject of the politics of knowledge is not uniformly understood by both scholars and practitioners. Much work in this regard is based on Northern angled perspectives, which are deficient in abilities to capture the essence of African reality. On the basis of qualitative materials and interdisciplinary discourse analysis, this article’s focus is on the politicisation of university administration in South Africa. Taking cue from my previous works on this subject, I have identified and discussed additional three central factors which impair scientific knowledge generation and development in South Africa and Africa as a whole. Among others, these factors include bureaucratisation of academic administration, academic jealousy and gangsterism and shortage of academic role models. Theoretically and in order to foster epistemic justice, this study has drawn from Afrocentricity as an alternative contextual lens to paint a qualitatively rich picture of the phenomena under study.

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