International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies最新文献

{"title":"University Leaders as Inhibitors or Influencers of Systemic Change for Marginalised Youth","authors":"Sianne Alves","doi":"10.13169/intecritdivestud.5.1.0060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/intecritdivestud.5.1.0060","url":null,"abstract":"Despite multiple frameworks that purport to enable transformation, hierarchies of localised power in the governance and management of the higher education system continue to influence the scope and depth of inclusion, diversity and transformation programmes. Research conducted during 2014–2016 focused on the receptivity of an inclusion programme implemented in South African universities that was developed to create inclusive services and culture for an at-risk population. Drawing on applied research, the article considers how inclusivity practitioners created conditions for inclusion within their university. The obligation of the university in the creation of an inclusive environment is debated and the role of university leaders in contributing towards an inclusive culture is explored. The findings of this research demonstrate that university leaders have a direct impact on enabling or impeding inclusion programmes in the university. The findings contribute towards inclusivity praxis that aims to reduce oppression in universities by university leaders and the research demonstrates positive outcomes in spite of resistance by university leadership.","PeriodicalId":224459,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies","volume":"39 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113956590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Baine Maara-Indu Mama-Siddi Dhamal","authors":"Sayan Dey","doi":"10.13169/intecritdivestud.5.2.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/intecritdivestud.5.2.0017","url":null,"abstract":"The Siddis were brought to India from the southern and eastern parts of Africa by the Arab and Portuguese colonisers. At present, the Siddis in India can be found in parts of Gujarat (a state located in western India), Hyderabad (a state located in southeastern India) and Karnataka (a state located in southwestern India). They are habitually subjected to colonially reconfigured violence of epistemic and cognitive injustices by the mainstream colonial/modern governing institutions in India through dehumanising their cultural practices, racially invalidating their food habits, preventing them from receiving education, practising racial suppression at workplaces, etc. To counter such violence of the colonial/modern governing institutions, the Siddis interweave narratives of epistemic justice and cognitive freedom through performing their Indigenous traditional socio-cultural practices of hunting, cooking, eating, singing and dancing. The interesting aspect of these socio-cultural practices is that they are socially, culturally, thematically and contextually interlinked to each other. The title of this article is a synecdochic representation of the interwovenness of Siddi histories and cultures. With respect to these arguments, the research article will argue how these socio-cultural practices function as Indigenous performances of epistemic justice and cognitive freedom for the Siddis of Karnataka.","PeriodicalId":224459,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131272843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Targets of Hate, Shame or Exploitation?: The (Violent) Conundrum of Sex Work in Democratic South Africa","authors":"Wasserman, Lakhani","doi":"10.13169/intecritdivestud.3.1.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/intecritdivestud.3.1.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Whorephobia is the fear or hatred of sex workers. Whorephobia manifests in various ways in official legislation, popular consciousness, the medical literature, law enforcement and public responses to sex work. All aspects of sex work are fully criminalised following its origins in archaic colonial law. International and local literature has documented how the criminal law on adult, consensual sex work renders sex workers vulnerable to murder, rape, exploitation and other forms of violence, while increasing their risk of HIV and other forms of ill health. This vulnerability impacts directly on public health, while making society less safe. Deeply worryingly, recent recommendations from the South African Law Reform Commission (2017) urged the Department of Justice to maintain this status quo. This article explores whorephobia in the South African context through two case studies of violence in Cape Town in 2013: the high-profile criminal case of the artist Zwelethu Mthethwa who kicked sex worker Nokuphila Kumalo to death, and Tim assault of domestic worker Cynthia Joni. The analysis provides a critique of the power structures created by the criminal law and draws on the theoretical framework of stigma-mitigating strategies within sex work developed by Weitzer. We conclude by arguing that the criminal law supports the radical dehumanisation of sex workers which contributes to manifestations of extreme hatred in the form of hate crimes and torture.","PeriodicalId":224459,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132647297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“What the Body Can Do”: Creating Space for Critical Hope through Affective Encounters with a Different Kind of Otherness","authors":"Flockemann","doi":"10.13169/intecritdivestud.2.1.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/intecritdivestud.2.1.0010","url":null,"abstract":"primary research interest is the aesthetics of transformation. Her publications include comparative studies of diasporic writings from South Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean with an emphasis on migrant experiences. She has also published extensively on contemporary South African theatre trends with a recent emphasis on the transformative potentiality of affective performance aesthetics. ABSTRACT My aim here is to use the notion of critical hope as a lens for exploring how a dramaturgy of Affect can create spaces for challenging the on-going marginalization resulting from the intersection of disability, race and access in the context of South Africa’s much-lauded “inclusive” constitution. Given that the body, especially the black and disabled body, has been seen as a site marked by physical and structural violence, a focus on what the body can do, rather than how it is seen, has particular relevance for exploring the work of Unmute, the first integrated dance company in South Africa to incorporate differently abled dancers. This discussion will take into account the effects generated by the affective performance techniques employed, as well as the discomfort experienced by spectators when familiar perceptions are disrupted. It will be argued that these disruptions have a liberatory dimension in that they can trigger cognitive shifts which are productive for conceptualizing critical hope.","PeriodicalId":224459,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117079147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Teachers' Discourse on English Language Teaching: Faces of Resistance and Neo-colonialism","authors":"Araujo","doi":"10.13169/intecritdivestud.2.1.0071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/intecritdivestud.2.1.0071","url":null,"abstract":"This work analyzes discursive representations within Tocantinian teachers’ enunciations regarding themselves and the exercise of their teaching role, as well as English teaching-learning and its insertion in school. Considering our incursion through French Discourse Analysis we employ conceptions of forgetting, subjecting, ideological and discursive formations, according to Michel Pêcheux. In addition, we use analytical-methodological procedures by Eni Orlandi. Our investigation indicates that prestige and social status, often assigned to English language (EL), offer significant space to the ideas of struggle and suffering, whereas the sense of accomplishment, self-fulfillment and financial gains tend to be silenced. Teachers find the reasons for EL teaching through a presumed intellectual superiority, a linguistic utilitarianism and the economic system, while averting this same teaching from a propaedeutic function. Furthermore, a “unifying” discourse, which is a component of Brazilian imaginary, projects teachers as constant sufferers and strugglers. There is also a strong tendency, by teachers, towards reproducing learners’ discourse about EL as a beautiful and difficult language. This image contrasts with an undervalued and underestimated position that teachers believe is assigned to EL in the school curriculum.","PeriodicalId":224459,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117042783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring the Use of South African Ethnic and Racial Slurs on Social Media","authors":"Sonia Mbowa","doi":"10.13169/intecritdivestud.3.1.0053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/intecritdivestud.3.1.0053","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, I use discourse analysis as a framework to examine Facebook posts and understand how South African ethnic and racial slurs are used and responded to on social media platforms. I illustrate how language in general and slurs in particular work as tools for the negotiation, (re)production, (re)circulation and maintenance of particular ethnic and racial identities and representations. My findings focus on two interrelated aspects of the data: the first concerns the discursive features of the initial posts and the second relates to subsequent responses to the posts. The close examination of initial posts reveals the ways in which the original posters (OPs) position themselves and those they refer to using these slurs. Social media interlocutors recognise the words “kaffir”, “coolie”, “Hottentot” and “makwerekwere” as strongly tied to power and racial/ethnic identity and deliberately use them to provoke controversial debates and to construct “us vs. them” scenarios. The significance of the study is twofold: firstly, it contributes to literature that highlights the role of social media platforms as vehicles for racial and ethnic hate speech. Secondly, it underlines the complexities of race and ethnic relations in the country by highlighting the need for robust discussions around the way South Africans view themselves in comparison to out-group members, including other Africans.","PeriodicalId":224459,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114252114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review of Pumla Dineo Gqola’s Female Fear Factory","authors":"Jamie Martin","doi":"10.13169/intecritdivestud.4.2.0077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/intecritdivestud.4.2.0077","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reviews the book Female Fear Factory (2021) by Pumla Dineo Gqola. An overview and evaluation of the book are provided, emphasising the important deepening of the central concept and its relevance to anti-rape and feminist work, activism and scholarship across the world.","PeriodicalId":224459,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126994862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring the Dynamic Unconscious: Intersubjectivity and the Raced-Self in Vertically Infected HIV-Positive Adolescents","authors":"Ruby Patel, Tanya Graham","doi":"10.13169/intecritdivestud.2.2.0055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/intecritdivestud.2.2.0055","url":null,"abstract":"psychological clinical practice and the professional training and supervision of clinical assessment. Her research interest lies in social asymmetries, activism and advocacy, applied psychoanalytic theorising of socio-political issues, developmental challenges in children and young adults who are HIV-positive. She is currently completing her PhD in the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy programme. Tanya Graham counselling psychologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, School of Human and Community at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is primarily involved in the professional training of psychologists in community and therapeutic practice, and also lec-tures in professional ethics, human rights and research methods. Her research interests lie in the fields of community psychology, critical psychology and public health theory, as well as the psychosocial support and advocacy needs of marginalised communities. She has published in the areas of community psychology theory, practice, training and knowledge production; as well as the psychosocial and developmental issues affecting children and youth in post-apartheid South Africa. She is currently supervising several doctoral students in the PhD in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy programme. ABSTRACT This paper explores intrapsychic life as a site of socio-political insertion from birth. The first part of this paper engages with the psychoanalytic theory of Melanie Klein on the notion of the dynamic unconscious and the Oedipal situation as key processes in the development of the self. The paper goes on to discuss the critical contemporary position taken up by scholars who have highlighted the racialisation of the Oedipus complex and its use in justifying racial hierarchies. Furthermore, the paper engages with the unconscious as an intersubjective organising principle. Franz Fanon’s psychoanalytic framework, that deals with colonial subjectivity, is reviewed here in order to explore how the raced-self becomes imposed and internalised. The second part of the paper locates this theoretical argument within the context of HIV. Intrapsychic development, which comes to be located in our unconscious mind from birth, cannot be understood outside of specific socio-political considerations. The unique developmental challenges of HIV for those who are vertically infected cannot be taken for granted, and there must be more deliberation on the ways in which intersubjective, politically aware versions of psychoanalysis can be used to inform clinical knowledge and practice in working with vertically infected HIV-positive adolescents in South Africa. The youth had thus been strongly socialised into accepting white, middle class norms as desirable, and were not actively supported in coming to terms with their multiple identities. Notably, these mechanisms were invisible to the managers. P1 posited: “We don’t see the kids as with HIV . . . We do see them as Black and White . . . Ironically when you","PeriodicalId":224459,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130495127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sorghum, its Proteins and Thai Lime","authors":"K. Nantanga, R. Nghitevelekwa, W. Embashu, M. Shikongo-Nambabi","doi":"10.13169/intecritdivestud.5.2.0061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/intecritdivestud.5.2.0061","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":224459,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123543075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"(Re)considering the Rainbow","authors":"Nyx McLean","doi":"10.13169/INTECRITDIVESTUD.2.1.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/INTECRITDIVESTUD.2.1.0024","url":null,"abstract":"This article seeks to interrogate the Rainbow Nation Project and its ties to the LGBTIAQ movement in post-1994 South Africa. In particular, the paper looks at Joburg Pride between 1990 and 2013, and explores the fragmentation of Pride, and how this was tied up with the Rainbow Nation project. Joburg Pride is South Africa’s longest running Pride event, and is unique in that it was the first LGBTIAQ Pride march in South Africa at a time when there were no legal protections for lesbian and gay South Africans The paper proposes that the LGBTIAQ community in South Africa were strategically granted rights in order to further the Rainbow Nation project, and through this came to participate in the erasure of the pain and violence experienced by South Africans under apartheid rule. This research was conducted through a critical discourse analysis of Exit articles, Exit is South Africa’s longest running gay newspaper. In addition, interviews were conducted with people involved in the organizing of Joburg Pride and Johannesburg People’s Pride.","PeriodicalId":224459,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125182704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}