Liezel’s story – #NotInMyName: Playback Theatre in Post-apartheid South Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 239-259
Author(s):  
Kathy Barolsky ◽  
Cheraé Halley
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Playback Theatre ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Multiple Levels

This chapter explores a stop moment in light of a story told during a Playback Theatre performance (PT) in South Africa. The inquiry guiding this chapter asks: How may diffractive encounters through a stop moment in PT illuminate possibilities for dissensus? The stop moment is examined to reveal how the distribution of the sensible has impact on women’s lives in post-apartheid South Africa, through the eyes of two Drama for Life Playback Theatre members: Kathy as conductor and Cheraé who was one of the actors. It argues that for PT performers to redistribute the distribution of the sensible and to stage dissensus requires a recognition and understanding of power on multiple levels.

scholarly journals Who are "the people" in the German Constitution? A critique of , and contribution to , the debate about the right of foreigners to vote in multilevel democracies

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Bäumler
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Voting Rights ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Federal States ◽  
The People ◽  
German Constitution ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Right To Vote ◽  
The Right

ABSTRACT Democracy means power to the people, but it is not always clear who belongs to "the people". The question has become pertinent in the age of migration where large groups of foreigners permanently reside outside their countries of nationality. The economic, cultural, and political integration of these foreigners is one of the pressing problems faced by democratic States in both the developed and developing worlds. One question is : whether resident non-citizens should be granted the right to vote. The answer to this question depends on who belongs to "the people". In federal and quasi-federal States with multiple levels of government the further question arises : whether "the people" is a homogenous concept that applies uniformly across all levels of government. This article contributes to the debate about the right of foreigners to vote in democratic States with multiple levels of government, such as, South Africa and Kenya. It does so by discussing the German response to the problems mentioned above. The dominant view of the German Federal Constitutional Court since the 1990s has been that "the people" only includes "German citizens" , and that attempts by lower levels of government to extend the right to vote to foreigners from Africa and elsewhere are unconstitutional. In this article I explore and critique this conventional view. I then present a positive case for the extension of voting rights to resident non-citizens under the German Constitution. Many of the arguments would apply with equal force to the debate about the right to vote of foreigners in African multi-level democracies, such as, South Africa and Kenya. Keywords: Denizenship, Citizenship, Voting rights, Nationality law, Multi-level government, The people, Foreigners, Residents, Affected persons principle, Democracy.

‘We have nothing to celebrate!’: Fighting gender-based violence in Cape Town, South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 243-259
Author(s):  
Paula Vermuë
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
African National Congress ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Political Narrative ◽  
National Congress ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Gender Based

Abstract This article illustrates the de-politicisation and re-politicisation of the fight against gender-based violence and femicide in Cape Town, South Africa. Firstly, this article shows how gender-based violence and femicide has been de-politicised through a conservative political narrative of the African National Congress (ANC) and through restricting funding relationships between Northern donor organisations and womxn’s NGOs in Cape Town. Secondly, I argue that, with the emerge of a new autonomous feminist movement in 2018, the Total Shutdown (TTS), the re-politicisation of gender-based violence happened on multiple levels. Not only did the activist movement manage to put gender-based violence back on the political agenda, it also helped NGO benefactors to reconnect with their feminist goals to end femicide in South Africa. This research is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Cape Town from September 2018 until January 2019 and includes the stories of Capetonian NGO benefactors and TTS activists.

From Esther to Kwezi

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Juliana Claassens ◽  
Amanda Gouws
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Collaborative Engagement ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
The One

This article seeks to reflect on the issue of sexual violence in the context of the twenty year anniversary of democracy in South Africa bringing together views from the authors’ respective disciplines of Gender and the Bible on the one hand and Political Science on the other. We will employ the Old Testament Book of Esther, which offers a remarkable glimpse into the way a patriarchal society is responsible for multiple levels of victimization, in order to take a closer look at our own country’s serious problem of sexual violence. With this collaborative engagement the authors contribute to the conversation on understanding and resisting the scourge of sexual violence in South Africa that has rendered a large proportion of its citizens voiceless.

scholarly journals Work-nonwork interference: Can ministers currently cope with increasing job demands against limited resources within South Africa?

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anso Van der Westhuizen ◽  
Eileen Koekemoer
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Job Resources ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
And Coping

Ministers of religion have a unique occupation with designated job demands and incongruous resources at their disposal. Literature indicates that stressors within the work environment are significant predictors of work-nonwork interference. Ministers play a key role within society and provide support for individuals on multiple levels. However, limited studies are found in South Africa focussing on ministers’ job characteristics related to work-nonwork interference, and how ministers cope. The main objective of this study was to investigate job demands and job resources as significant predictors of work-nonwork interference amongst ministers of religion, and to identify which coping strategies are most significant for ministers in dealing with work-nonwork interference. A cross-sectional survey design was used amongst ministers working in the three sister churches (N = 199). Various instruments were administered to measure job characteristics, work-nonwork interference and coping strategies empirically. Statistical analyses included descriptive statistics, product-moment correlations and multiple regression analyses. Results indicated that for ministers different job demands (i.e. cognitive demands and pace and amount of work) and job resources (i.e. financial support and job significance) significantly predicted work-parent, work-home and work-religion/spirituality interference. Results indicated turning to religion as the only significant coping strategy used by ministers to deal with work-parent interference and work-religion interference. Ministers of religion are continually exposed to increasing job demands and a lack of job resources, and therefore experience work-nonwork interference. Nevertheless, the ministers apparently cope by using the strategy best related to their profession, turning to religion/spirituality. Turning to religion/spirituality seems to be the most effective in dealing with work-nonwork interference.

scholarly journals Multiple Levels of Influence in Predicting Sexual Activity and Condom Use Among Adolescents in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 404-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janan Dietrich ◽  
Kathleen Sikkema ◽  
Kennedy N. Otwombe ◽  
Amy Sanchez ◽  
Busisiwe Nkala ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Condom Use ◽  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Multiple Levels

Haunted by Meaning

2017 ◽  
pp. 660-680
Author(s):  
Sherry B. Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Awareness ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Community Dance ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Critical Understanding ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
A Site

This chapter explores the concept of aesthetic activism as a vehicle for wellbeing that emphasizes the importance of social justice and compassionate community. Drawing on critical and feminist pedagogies, the author links pedagogy and aesthetic activism to social integration and cohesion and of shared consciousness. The choreographic process described centres on the body as a site for self and social awareness and a critical understanding of the context of women’s lives. The aesthetic here is understood as that domain in which dominant meanings are disclosed and possibilities for social change can be imagined and realized. The author describes a community dance process in Cape Town, South Africa, in which notions of embodied knowledge and critical understanding unite to create a dance performance. This pedagogy suggests that meaning and purpose within a changing global context can be grounded in an ethic of social justice, human rights, and inclusive community.

The Transnational Location of Two Leading Evangelical Churches in the Global South

Pneuma ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 390-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Offutt
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Global South ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Personal Networks ◽  
Evangelical Churches ◽  
Pentecostal Churches ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Patterns Of Interaction

AbstractReligion remains critically important in the Global South even as globalization intensifies. As international political and economic structures evolve, transnational religions shift societal locations within countries. These shifts cause changes within religions themselves, altering patterns of interaction that may in turn have political and economic consequences. By examining Iglesia Josue in El Salvador and Rhema Bible Church in South Africa, this article shows that the current leading Pentecostal churches and actors in developing countries are often located in upper-middle-class neighborhoods. Strong institutional and personal networks that stretch across borders transnationally embed such churches at multiple levels. The transnational orientation of leading churches has important implications for the rest of the in-country Pentecostal community.

Decolonizing Research in Postapartheid South Africa

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bekisizwe S. Ndimande
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
School Choice ◽  
School Desegregation ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Decolonizing Research

This article emanates from an in-depth qualitative study that examined ideological beliefs among Indigenous parents regarding school desegregation and school “choice” policies in South Africa. The author discusses the politics of qualitative research design and methodology along two primary dimensions: decolonizing research and the importance of Indigenous languages in research. First, the author argues that the language used in qualitative interviews should be situated within the larger sociocultural context of the inquiry in order to affirm and reinforce cultural identities of research participants, not just of the researcher. Second, the author contends that decolonizing approaches in research interrupt and interrogate colonial tendencies at multiple levels, thereby challenging traditional ways of conducting qualitative research. Following on Smith, and Mutua and Swadener, and Denzin, Lincoln, and Smith, and others, the author argues that decolonizing approaches and culturally affirming linguistic choices in research have the potential to return marginalized epistemologies to the center.

scholarly journals Rethinking poverty, power and privilege: A feminist post-structuralist research exploration

2012 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thérèse Hulme
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Feminist Methodology ◽  
Pastoral Power ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Experiences Of Women

In this article, I described how the use of feminist methodology and post-structuralist analyses of the experiences of women in a poor ‘Coloured’ community in my research led to new understandings of the experiences of poverty and privilege. I discovered the relevance of Foucault’s historical analysis of the operation of ‘pastoral power’ through the narratives of women from the Scottsville community. Historical and current accounts of so-called ‘Coloured’ women’s subjugation and categorisation are reminders of how it came about that ‘being Coloured’ became associated in South Africa with shame and with ‘knowing one’s place’. Feminist post-structuralist analyses made visible the conditions that created practices of injustice in poor women’s lives whilst, at the same time, creating conditions of privilege for me. Justice-making in Scottsville therefore started with a radical rethinking of the terms by which people’s marginalisation took place and, consequently also of the terms of ‘just’ cross-cultural engagements.

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