Arts, apartheid struggles and cultural movements
- Authors: Tomaselli, K. G.
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: Apartheid , Resistance , Arts
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/407089 , uj:34252 , Citation: Tomaselli, K.G. 2019: Arts, apartheid struggles and cultural movements.
- Description: Abstract: This study i) briefly sketches some anti-apartheid arts initiatives of the 1980s; ii) examines the anti-apartheid academic common sense that assumed that ‘real struggle’ could occur only within the labour movement; while iii) both are discussed in relation to early Afrikaner conservative cultural theory. The role of social theory within these sites of resistance is discussed. The article offers a lived methodology by including evocative observations from some social actors who participated in, and contributed to anti-apartheid art, drama and writing. The objective is to draw out debates on struggle rather than to offer a discussion of arts initiatives themselves. These are examined in terms of Albie Sachs’ pleas for discussion beyond the weaponisation of art, one that restores the humanity robbed by apartheid.
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- Authors: Tomaselli, K. G.
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: Apartheid , Resistance , Arts
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/407089 , uj:34252 , Citation: Tomaselli, K.G. 2019: Arts, apartheid struggles and cultural movements.
- Description: Abstract: This study i) briefly sketches some anti-apartheid arts initiatives of the 1980s; ii) examines the anti-apartheid academic common sense that assumed that ‘real struggle’ could occur only within the labour movement; while iii) both are discussed in relation to early Afrikaner conservative cultural theory. The role of social theory within these sites of resistance is discussed. The article offers a lived methodology by including evocative observations from some social actors who participated in, and contributed to anti-apartheid art, drama and writing. The objective is to draw out debates on struggle rather than to offer a discussion of arts initiatives themselves. These are examined in terms of Albie Sachs’ pleas for discussion beyond the weaponisation of art, one that restores the humanity robbed by apartheid.
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Transformation, peer review and the mind-body problem
- Authors: Tomaselli, K. G.
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: Cartesian , Indigenous knowledge systems , Peer review
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/407122 , uj:34256 , Citation: Tomaselli, K.G. 2019: Transformation, peer review and the mind-body problem
- Description: Abstract: Peer review is discussed from the perspective of different ways of making sense, most specifically, VVO Quine’s statement on the indeterminacy of radical translation. Ontological differences are examined with specific examples illustrating actual contestations. The veracity of claims of racism and exclusion by allegedly hegemonic Western-dominated editorial boards of scientific journals is interrogated. Positivism is contrasted with relational thinking and just where ‘the body’ fits into scientific practice is discussed. Paradigm and paradigm shift as constituting the rules of engagement is proposed. The method is an autoethnographic one that draws on the author’s own experience as a journals’ editor analysing peer review issues via the prism of Western philosophy on the one hand, and the Subject-Object integration of indigenous knowledge systems postulates on the other. Conspiracy theories are questioned and the proposal is that both determinacies (Cartesian and indigenous knowledge systems) need to generate new insights via dialectical engagements.
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- Authors: Tomaselli, K. G.
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: Cartesian , Indigenous knowledge systems , Peer review
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/407122 , uj:34256 , Citation: Tomaselli, K.G. 2019: Transformation, peer review and the mind-body problem
- Description: Abstract: Peer review is discussed from the perspective of different ways of making sense, most specifically, VVO Quine’s statement on the indeterminacy of radical translation. Ontological differences are examined with specific examples illustrating actual contestations. The veracity of claims of racism and exclusion by allegedly hegemonic Western-dominated editorial boards of scientific journals is interrogated. Positivism is contrasted with relational thinking and just where ‘the body’ fits into scientific practice is discussed. Paradigm and paradigm shift as constituting the rules of engagement is proposed. The method is an autoethnographic one that draws on the author’s own experience as a journals’ editor analysing peer review issues via the prism of Western philosophy on the one hand, and the Subject-Object integration of indigenous knowledge systems postulates on the other. Conspiracy theories are questioned and the proposal is that both determinacies (Cartesian and indigenous knowledge systems) need to generate new insights via dialectical engagements.
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Peripheral capital goes global: Naspers, globalization and global media
- Authors: Tomaselli, K. G.
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: Naspers , Tencent , Globalization
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/407114 , uj:34255 , Citation: Tomaselli, K.G. 2019: Peripheral capital goes global: Naspers, globalization and global media.
- Description: Abstract: Naspers, a South African media conglomerate worth USD$64 billion in 2016, operates across a range of media and information platforms in 120 countries, including many ‘emerging markets’. Naspers is an exemplar of media markets’ contra-flow, conceptualised as the movement of information, media content, consumer goods and capital from the ‘developing world’ into more developed markets. This study i) examines how Naspers has diversified its core media holdings (print and satellite) into digital information service providers and e-commerce; ii) how this was achieved both globally and domestically; and iii) how this diversification allowed Naspers to maintain its pre-eminent position in the South African media market...
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- Authors: Tomaselli, K. G.
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: Naspers , Tencent , Globalization
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/407114 , uj:34255 , Citation: Tomaselli, K.G. 2019: Peripheral capital goes global: Naspers, globalization and global media.
- Description: Abstract: Naspers, a South African media conglomerate worth USD$64 billion in 2016, operates across a range of media and information platforms in 120 countries, including many ‘emerging markets’. Naspers is an exemplar of media markets’ contra-flow, conceptualised as the movement of information, media content, consumer goods and capital from the ‘developing world’ into more developed markets. This study i) examines how Naspers has diversified its core media holdings (print and satellite) into digital information service providers and e-commerce; ii) how this was achieved both globally and domestically; and iii) how this diversification allowed Naspers to maintain its pre-eminent position in the South African media market...
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