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“Your father knows that you need all of this” : divine fatherhood as socio‐ethical impetus in q’s formative stratum

- Howes, Llewellyn

  • Authors: Howes, Llewellyn
  • Date: 2016
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/225454 , uj:22770 , Citation: Howes, L. 2016. “Your father knows that you need all of this” : divine fatherhood as socio‐ethical impetus in q’s formative stratum.
  • Description: Abstract: The observation that the Q people understood themselves as a new symbolic family, with God as Father, is certainly not new in Q studies. Likewise, it is not uncommon for an interpreter to mention during her analysis of an individual Q text that the instruction in question is motivated by imitatio Dei rhetoric. However, the pervasiveness of this link between Q’s theology of divine fatherhood and its socio‐ethical programme has not received enough attention in Q scholarship. In an attempt to redress this deficiency, the current article argues that the idea of divine fatherhood is the primary paradigm that informs, determines and motivates the alternative socio‐ethical programme of Q’s formative stratum. More than being just an interesting observation in relation to some Q texts, divine fatherhood and imitatio Dei rhetoric are central to the radical socio‐ethical programme of Q’s formative stratum. After an overview of Q’s selfperception as God’s symbolic family, the article will turn to the analysis of specific texts in Q’s formative stratum, first considering the theme of divine fatherhood, and then considering its socio‐ethical relevance.
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“Wondrous texture” : Henry James's brocades

- Scherzinger, Karen

  • Authors: Scherzinger, Karen
  • Date: 2015-06-24
  • Subjects: Brocade - History - 19th century , James, Henry, 1843-1916
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: uj:5568 , ISSN 17535382 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14191
  • Description: This essay begins with a brief history of the cultural status of brocade in the nineteenth century and then offers a critical account of the ways in which brocade features in Henry James’s work. James’s association of brocade with the aristocracy and the metropole, and his treatment of it as both an embodied object and a metaphor, reveals the textile to be a significant index of a number of his abiding concerns. The essay concludes with a consideration of how brocade both supports and contradicts poststructuralist positions about the referentiality of things in James’s writing, as well as of how brocade provides a fitting analogy for his later style.
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“When we are laughing like this now, we are also being recorded by them”: Eliamani’s Homestead and the Complicity of Ethnographic Film

- Barnabas, Shanade Bianca, Wijngaarden, Vanessa

  • Authors: Barnabas, Shanade Bianca , Wijngaarden, Vanessa
  • Date: 2019
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/404801 , uj:33965 , Citation: Barnabas, S.B. & Wijngaarden, V. 2019. “When we are laughing like this now, we are also being recorded by them”: Eliamani’s Homestead and the Complicity of Ethnographic Film.
  • Description: Abstract: Eliamani's Homestead is an unfiltered presentation of unequal power relations, othering, suspicions, misunderstandings, and the untranslated in an exchange between Indigenous hosts and their guests in a cultural tourism setting. A family of Dutch tourists visits a Maasai homestead in Tanzania, where Eliamani and her child have no food. The tourists take copious pictures of the women and children and haggle over the price of a bracelet—a common scene in cultural tourism encounters the world over. The discomforting exchange is all the more palpable when Eliamani breaks the fourth wall and reminds the filmmaker and viewer of their complicity. This film dialogue is part review, part conversation with the filmmaker who describes the process of making, editing, and screening the film, including audience and participants’ reactions. It situates Eliamani's Homestead within the ambit of ethnographic film, both illustrating visual ethnography’s complicity in cultural tourism and revealing its potential to offer its own critique when it maintains a multivocal approach that strives for dialogue with “the other” on both sides of the camera.
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“What would they do if you greeted?” The potentiality of greetings in the new South Africa

- Morgan, Karie L.

“We Need to Understand the Whole Story”: A Discursive Analysis of the Responses of Informal Support Networks to Help Seeking by Women Experiencing Abuse from Men in a Small South African Town

- Mwatsiya, Innocent, Rasool, Shahana

“We grew as we grew” : visual methods, social change and collective learning over time

- Walsh, Shannon

  • Authors: Walsh, Shannon
  • Date: 2012
  • Subjects: HIV prevention , Longitudinal research , Memory , Educational research , Social change
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: uj:6003 , ISSN 0256-0100 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/8823
  • Description: Educational research using visual methods has the power to transform the society in which we live and the communities in which we work. We must not naïvely imagine that having the desire to make change in people’s lives will mean that it will happen, as sometimes there may be surprising, unintended negative repercussions as well. Other constraints, such as structural violence and institutional racism, can also intersect with the possibility of making tangible change through educational research using visual methods. Qualitative assessment with a longitudinal approach is one approach that can reveal both the impact, and the limitations, of educational research on social change. I discuss these issues through grounded examples from an HIV educational project that used visual methodologies with a group of youths in Cape Town, South Africa over a number of years. Almost ten years later we interviewed three of the former participants about what impact the work has had on their lives. Each has travelled a different journey and been faced with different constraints that have implications for the effectiveness of such work. Where are they now, and as adults, what do they have to say about the visual methodologies, memory, and social change?
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“The scales were peeled from my eyes” -- South African academics coming to consciousness to become agents of change

- Idahosa, Grace, Vincent, Louise

  • Authors: Idahosa, Grace , Vincent, Louise
  • Date: 2018
  • Subjects: Agency , Structures , Transformation
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/285527 , uj:30880 , Citation: Idahosa, G. & Vincent, L. 2018. “The scales were peeled from my eyes” -- South African academics coming to consciousness to become agents of change.
  • Description: Abstract: For postcolonial societies, addressing the impact of the previous oppressive system in a bid to attain equity and social justice necessitates transformation in various spheres and sectors of society. As cradles of learning, research, and knowledge development, higher education institutions are one such sphere with a particular duty to contribute to, and embody, social transformation. However, almost 25 years after the country’s first democratic elections, the institutional cultures and structures of many South African universities still bear the imprimatur of past inequities. Existing research suggests that the success of transformation policies is influenced by the extent to which individual staff members exercise agency to effect transformatory practices. But what determines whether an individual becomes an agent of change? This paper draws on the experiences of ten academic staff members who have taken actions that can be said to have contributed to shifting in important ways relations and/or practices at one university in South Africa. It adopts a hermeneutic phenomenological lens to understand the lived experiences of participants of having agency and undertaking transformative actions. In taking this approach we seek an understanding of experience grounded within specific contexts. Analysis of the in-depth interviews with the participants suggested that the underlying catalyst which drives an individual to involve her/himself in actions toeffect change is ‘a coming to consciousness’. The paper explores the “coming to consciousness” narratives of the participants and argues that being ‘conscious’ is a necessary condition for being able to identify the discourses, practices and ways of being that perpetuate injustice. Recognising such discourses, norms and ways of being, enables the agent to then find ways of rejecting and changing such oppressive structures and cultures.
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“Terrible passions” : Vincent van Gogh’s Night café and A streetcar named Desire

- Grogan, Bridget M.

“Settlers and comrades”. The Variety of capitalism in South Africa, 1910-2016.

- Grietjie, Verhoef

  • Authors: Grietjie, Verhoef
  • Date: 2021
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/488542 , uj:44510 , Citation: Grietjie, Verhoef., 2021. “Settlers and comrades”. The Variety of capitalism in South Africa, 1910-2016.
  • Description: Abstract: Abstract The complexities of business in Africa is illustrated through the case study of economic and business development of the different countries. By the time decolonisation brushed across Africa from the late 1950s, South Africa enjoyed political independence under white rule, controlling a viable economy based on mineral and industrial capitalism. This paper shows the change in a powerful state-capitalist nexus from mining to the industry to ethnic or race-based ‘empowerment’. Contesting nationalisms between Afrikaners and loyal British imperial sympathisers, constituted the rationale for inward-looking economic policies for national economic development. The formation of unstable coalitions for market co-ordination managed market distortion to facilitate the development of the leading modern industrial economy in Africa, while the rest of independent Africa experimented with central planning, socialism and state-capitalism. This paper illustrates the peculiarity of capitalist development in Africa, specifically South Africa, considering the particular institutional contexts and broad business environment in which business acts strategically. South African business proactively engaged in a dynamic state/business relationship from national capitalism under minority rule, to an unstable balance of majority black capitalism, socialist worker welfare capitalism and tribal communalism. The manifestation of an unstable but unique state-business nexus involving market and non-market elements, adds innovation to the VoC framework
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“Oom Bey and Tannie Ilse”

- Ndabeni, Thembile

“Motherhood is hard” : exploring the complexities of unplanned motherhood among HIV-positive adolescents in South Africa

- Josephine, Adeagbo Morolake

  • Authors: Josephine, Adeagbo Morolake
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: motherhood , Adolescence , HIV/AIDS
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/397909 , uj:33098 , Citation: Josephine, A. M. (2019). “Motherhood Is Hard”: Exploring the Complexities of Unplanned Motherhood Among HIV-Positive Adolescents in South Africa. SAGE Open. https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244019848802
  • Description: Abstract: For any woman, pregnancy and giving birth are major life-changing experiences. This period is argued to indicate a shift from girlhood into womanhood. However, this experience takes on new meaning when the woman is very young—an adolescent, who is still in school—and learns that she is HIV-positive. For such adolescent, becoming a mother, just like living with HIV/ AIDS, involves moving from a known, current reality to an unknown, new reality. To understand how HIV-positive adolescent mothers grapple with the demands and responsibilities of unplanned motherhood while living with HIV, this study explores the complexities of their experiences in South Africa. Drawing on qualitative methods, this study examines their meaning to motherhood while meeting their personal health needs. Through in-depth interviews conducted among 10 HIV-positive adolescent mothers living in Johannesburg, this article presents an empirical study of their narratives and how they negotiate these complexities in their unplanned new realities. Emerging themes from the interview transcripts were identified, coded, and analyzed thematically following an interpretivist approach. From the interviews conducted, it is evident that HIV-positive adolescent mothers perceive unplanned motherhood as difficult and this negatively affects their future childbearing decisions. Given the importance of motherhood and adolescents globally, this article advocates for feminist policies that would facilitate larger transformative narratives. It also recommends the implementation of relevant policy that would alleviate the difficulties of HIV-positive adolescent mothers generally.
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“Make an effort to get loose” : reconsidering the redaction of Q 12:58-59

- Howes, Llewellyn

“Journalism ideology” and its influence on the producers of RSG Radio Current Affairs

- Jansen van Vuuren, Anna-Marie

  • Authors: Jansen van Vuuren, Anna-Marie
  • Date: 2018
  • Subjects: Afrikaans , Broadcasting , Current Affairs
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://ujcontent.uj.ac.za8080/10210/373521 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/273674 , uj:29158 , Citation: Jansen van Vuuren, A.M. 2018. “Journalism ideology” and its influence on the producers of RSG Radio Current Affairs.
  • Description: Abstract: In the same way that a person can have a political or a personal ideology, professional identities and how a craft or occupation is practiced may be influenced by what can be labelled as a “professional ideology”. Through interviews with producers of the Afrikaans radio programmes Monitor, Spektrum, and Naweek-Aktueel, this research shows that there is indeed such a thing as a “journalism ideology”. The interviews focused on how “internal influences” such as a journalist’s background and training, newsroom routines and “external influences” such as the audience influenced the decisions they made in choosing news stories and producing content. This “journalism ideology” influences the producers and in turn the news content of these current affairs programmes that are listened to daily by almost two million listeners. The conclusion drawn from the study is that, although the participants’ “journalism ideology” largely determines the news stories for their programmes, structural forces, newsroom routines and organisational constraints often dictate their actions. Finally, although all the participants saw themselves as “watchdogs of democracy” internal pressures within the SABC could endanger that role.
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“I’m not Afropolitan — I’m of the continent” : a conversation with Yewande Omotoso

- Fasselt, Rebecca

  • Authors: Fasselt, Rebecca
  • Date: 2014
  • Subjects: Afropolitanism , Diaspora , Omotoso, Yewanda. Bom Boy
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: uj:5593 , ISSN 00219894 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14294
  • Description: Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become a new home for many immigrants and refugees from all over the African continent. Engaging with this “new season of migration to the South”, South African writers are increasingly including migrants from elsewhere on the continent into their casts of protagonists. Moreover, in autobiographies and works of fiction, African migrants themselves have begun to reflect on their experiences of living in South Africa. In this interview, Yewande Omotoso discusses her emigration from Nigeria to South Africa in the early 1990s. She argues that her family’s choice to remain on the African continent, rather than emigrating to the UK or the US, as so many contemporary Nigerian writers did, has given her a distinct diasporic experience. As the interview unfolds, she emphasizes that the notion of Afropolitanism does not capture this experience. She also discusses recent developments in contemporary South African publishing and literature, stressing that the country’s literary scene, despite its shortcomings, is vibrant, young, and full of creative energy. Omotoso’s comments on her debut novel Bom Boy reveal that she is a writer deeply concerned with questions of migration, displacement, and loneliness.
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“Imported intact from Britain and reflecting elements of Empire” : Joubert Park, Johannesburg as a leisure space, c. 1890s-1930s

- Grundlingh, L.W.F.

“Hiding within the glass cage” : performance management as surveillance—a case of academic spaces as resistance spaces

- Seyama, Sadi Mokhaneli

  • Authors: Seyama, Sadi Mokhaneli
  • Date: 2020
  • Subjects: Performance management , Academia , University
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/461735 , uj:41137 , Citation: Seyama, S.M. 2020. “Hiding within the glass cage” : performance management as surveillance—a case of academic spaces as resistance spaces , DOI: https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/7223 , ISSN: 1947-9417 (Online)
  • Description: Abstract: Universities have become toxic sites characterised by anxiety, depression and humiliation. Following new managerialism, leadership and management in universities have been driven by the mandate of achieving efficiency, which has led to the implementation of stringent performance management systems, increasing accountability and authoritarianism. While performance management is justified as an accountability tool that drives efficiency and effectiveness, its demand for absolute transparency has created “panopticons” and “glass cages”. These have produced a stifling atmosphere in academic spaces, often characterised by competing demands for high research outputs and quality teaching, thus placing academics in subjected positions where their agency is threatened. In view of academics silently constructing uncontrolled and uncontrollable spaces to avoid increasing surveillance, I argue that academics are resisting universities’ demand for the invading transparency of performance management. Through a critical social constructionist case study of academics and heads of departments, this article explores the paradoxical position of performing academics—those functioning within the “performative culture” while undermining neoliberal performative inscriptions. Framed by the notion of power and resistance and drawing on critical geography and workplace resistance literature, the study reveals that academics’ acts are going against the controlled daily grind of systematised practices that are often meaningless in relation to quality education. They are reimagining and reconstructing lecture halls, stairs, offices and conference spaces as “invisible” free spaces outside direct managerial control.
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“Global since Gold” the globalisation of conglomerates : explaining the experience from South Africa, 1990-2009

- Verhoef, Grietjie

  • Authors: Verhoef, Grietjie
  • Date: 2011
  • Subjects: Outward foreign direct investment , Sovereign wealth funds , International enterprises
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: uj:5840 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/7870
  • Description: The internationalisation of enterprises is one of the essential ways to strengthen the competitiveness of firms from developing countries (UNCTAD, 2005c: 3). Strong growth in outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) from developing countries has become the distinguishing feature of the twenty-first century. This OFDI flows from state-owned enterprises, sovereign wealth funds (SWF) as well as private enterprises operating as multinational companies from a home base or as free-standing companies. Multinational corporations have commenced activities since the 1960s by moving operations to resource-rich, low-cost labour and capital markets (Wilkins, 1970; 1974; 1988; Jones, 1994; 2005). The first wave of OFDI during the 1960s and 1970s was motivated by efficiency and market-seeking factors. This wave was dominated by firms from Asia and Latin America. A second wave of OFDI followed in the 1980s, led by strategic asset seeking enterprises from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea (Dunning et al., 1996; UNCTAD, 2005b: 3s). Since the 1990s China, Brazil, India, Russia (the so-called BRIC countries) Malaysia, Turkey and South Africa are among the countries expected to add significantly to OFDI growth (UNCTAD, 2005c: 4). The flow of investment funds from developed countries was expected, but the reverse trend displayed the emerging capacities in countries and firms outside the core of the international economy, which challenged the dominance of developed countries and companies from developed countries. These developments have prompted several questions: how do developing country firms succeed in entering global markets? Do these firms improve their competitiveness through OFDI? This paper investigates this phenomenon from the experience of South Africa. The emergence of EMNC (Emerging Market Multinational Corporations) prompted extensive analysis and debates about the nature of and motives for EMNCs, but has also led to more in-depth analysis of specific country characteristics and firm-specific reasons for OFDI.
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“Doing justice” (בעושי משפט) to the Dead Sea scrolls : reading 1QS 8:1-4 in literary and sectarian context

- Howes, Llewellyn

“Die ruim buitelugsitkamer van die stad” : ’n Oorsigartikel oor die denke en doelstellings van stedelike parkontwikkeling in die laat 19de en vroeg 20ste eeu in Europa en die Verenigde State van Amerika

- Grundlingh, Louis

  • Authors: Grundlingh, Louis
  • Date: 2017
  • Subjects: Romanticism , Nature , Evil of the city
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://ujcontent.uj.ac.za8080/10210/389078 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/260096 , uj:27379 , Citation: Grundlingh, L. 2017. “Die ruim buitelugsitkamer van die stad” : ’n Oorsigartikel oor die denke en doelstellings van stedelike parkontwikkeling in die laat 19de en vroeg 20ste eeu in Europa en die Verenigde State van Amerika.
  • Description: Abstract: “The great outdoor living room of the city”: A survey essay on the thoughts and aims of urban park development in the late 19th and early 20th century The city park was a constant in the ever-changing city and an effective antidote to the feverishness of city life. The current emphasis on the benefits of parks is understandable in the light of environmental issues such as, inter alia, earth warming threatening humankind’s existence on the planet. By the 1970s, there was already a substantial canon of literature on urban parks. Since then, a new generation of urban environmental historians has emerged with new interests and approaches. It is therefore prudent to revisit the thinking and aims inherent in the early establishment of the urban parks of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Britain and the United States of America. The aim of this paper is to explore both the views of middle and upper class urbanites in Britain and the USA on the mostly harsh living conditions in their cities, labelling them as “evil”; and the establishment of parks being seen as one solution to alleviate said conditions. The paper also focuses on how ideas on “nature”, “progress”, “health”, “morals”, “romanticism”, “social control” and “middle class respectability” underpinned views on public parks as pristine rural environments that should be transferred to the city. Lastly, the way landscape designers echoed the ideas and aspirations of the middle class in the design of parks is considered. Rapid industrialisation and urbanisation led to a lack of connection between urban residents and previous rural/natural areas and their benefits. The perception was that this, in turn, contributed to the decline in moral and physical health and the eroding of culture. The rural environment was idealised and seen as inherently good and superior to city living. If transferred to the city, it could create an ideal urban environment. Fredrik Law Olmsted, the doyen of American parks, fully supported these views. By the turn of the 19th century, the permanence of the city was well established and perceived dichotomy between the urban and the rural resolved by a hybrid relationship. As England was the leader in die development of parks, it had a huge influence in the Western world with many countries tapping into English ideas on parks. However, from the 1850s there was thus a lively cross-fertilisation of ideas on the urgency of park development. The City Beautiful movement would have a significant influence on these dominant ideas on parks. The “problems” to which the provision of parks was expected to offer some relief, were easy to describe: ill-health, overcrowding and squalor. The reasons for addressing these problems were various. The breathing space parks could provide was seen as one solution to improve the health of those living in over-crowded conditions. During the middle to late 19th century the British government expressed concern about the lack of exercise amongst its citizens. Initially, the park was seen as the ideal urban space for contemplative recreation and an escape from the harsh city environment. However, by the turn of the 19thcentury park advocates called for active recreation. They believed that there was a connection between poverty amongst the working classes and a lack of fitness. Fundamental to this was the hope that exercise in the park could contribute to a more productive working class. By the 1930s parks as spaces for exercise were well established in Europe and the USA..This first era of park establishment in the Western world was heavily influenced by the interests of the city elite and middle class reformers. They viewed themselves as the keepers of respectability, “civility” and “civilization” and the driving force behind reform and progress. The target of “improvement” was the working-class and the ideal place the city parks. By “civilizing” the masses, there would be fewer encroachments on middle class sensibilities...
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“Die ou ballie is net so ‘n naai soos ons” : race place and gangs in a Durban township

- Desai, Ashwin

  • Authors: Desai, Ashwin
  • Date: 2016
  • Subjects: Gangs - South Africa - Durban , Drug traffic - South Africa - Durban
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/218043 , uj:21721 , Citation: Desai, A. 2016. “Die ou ballie is net so ‘n naai soos ons” : race place and gangs in a Durban township.
  • Description: Abstract: There are many aspects of any community’s collective life that are difficult to penetrate. Gangs are one of them. This is exacerbated when one is trying to interview gang members in the midst of violent conflicts fuelled by age old feuds and the trade in illicit drugs. Police are on high alert and gang members particularly edgy. It helps if a researcher is already known in a community and has established networks. In the case of Wentworth, my primary work over the last year has been to construct family histories concentrating on the question of racial identity. In the midst of this research, there was a burst of gang violence that resulted in two murders. I spent a long time talking, debating and interviewing gang members, relying on old style ethnographic fieldwork that involves, as Mintz reflects, “the same willingness to be uncomfortable, to drink bad booze, to be bored by one’s drinking companions, and to be bitten by mosquitoes as always” (2000: 170). The more information I collected, the more I started to reflect on Walter Benjamin’s idea of the destructive character. It is typical Benjamin, full of nuance and subtlety, and I used it as a basis to understand the gang members’ sense of themselves, their mission and how they viewed their defence of “their” turf. This latter aspect emerged time and again in many forms, with Wentworth seen as both a place of danger and place of refuge. The theoretical underpinning for this article is the notion of space as a social creation rather than the “passive locus of social relations” (Lefebvre, 1991: 11, 26) and that our task is to understand “by what social process(es) is place constructed?” (Harvey, 1996: 261).
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