...Deborah Mindry The transition to democracy in South Africa promised a new equitable social order that would be responsive to the needs of “the people.” These hopes were very quickly eclipsed by a transition to neoliberalism and by the HIV/AIDS crisis. An examination of the HIV crisis provides...

...Leola A. Johnson Duke University Press 2005 “This Is What It Means to SAG in South Africa” In the summer of 2000, in the middle of a strike by the Screen Actors Leola A. Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Art...

... of South African cultural formations outward from South Africa offers historiographic traction over other Cold War settings. Throughout the international antiapartheid struggle, South African expressive culture was channeled through local paradigms of reception in the world beyond, in taut negotiation...

... truth, that is, as a “natural fact,” it necessarily represents the phenomena it describes as an inevitable consequence of the political and legal assumptions that it unreflectively incorporates. By considering the controversies about HIV/AIDS in South Africa as conflicts of values , we might illuminate...

...Heribert Adam Heribert Adam 2003 Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim, and Baha Abu-Laban, eds. Settler regimes in Africa and the Arab world . Wilmette, Il: Medina University Press, 1974 . Adam, Heribert. 2002 . Peace-making in Divided Societies: The Israel - South African Analogy . Pretoria:Human...

... of the aesthetico-political dimension in South Africa is the figure of the tsotsi. At once an icon and a cipher, a neologism and the sign of linguistic slippage, the tsotsi is a carnal image of desire unleashed from the boundar- ies of ideologically contained...

... administration building, as a part of a protest calling for divestment from South Africa. Divestment protests, and even sit-ins, calling for divestment from South Africa had started in the late 1960s, and the issue roiled several generations of Princeton students. The last major mobilization took place...

..., DeKlerk murder issues de jour. 12 December. www.sierratimes.com/archive/files/dec/12/lobaido.htm . Marks, Shula. 2002 . An epidemic waiting to happen? The spread of HIV/AIDS in South Africa in social and historical perspective. African Studies 61.1 (July), 13 -16. McGreal, Chris. 2001. AIDS myth...

... African and Indian diasporas shipwreck South Africa But the sea evidently contains material other than what has already been used. Where can it come from, in order to give courage to the ones who are beginning anew? Perhaps from earlier shipwrecks? —Hans Blumenberg, Shipwreck with Spectator...

..., with an emphasis on women’s writing. He has twice been a fellow of the French Institute of South Africa and was a French government scholar. His essays on African literatures have appeared in journals and as book chapters. Kamran Asdar Ali is an assistant professor of anthropology and Middle East studies...

... Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 South Africa state violence eviction live stream On July 1, 2020, a twenty-eight-year-old unemployed taxi driver named Bulelani Qolani was dragged naked from a corrugated metal shack by members of the South African anti-land invasion unit (ALIU...

... East: The Camera and Its Histories in East and Southeast Asia (Duke University Press) and Can the Subaltern Speak? Reflections on the History of an Idea (Columbia University Press). She has written widely on questions of representation, media, and moder- nity, particularly in South Africa...

... that the introduction of the policy of apartheid in South Africa in 1948 took place in the same period of colonial crisis. The establishing of apartheid was an attempt, in a sense, to use the principle of territorial partition to resolve a colonial...

..., Adam has published extensively on comparative ethnic conflicts, particularly sociopolitical devel- opments in South Africa. He was awarded the 1998 Konrad Adenauer Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His most recent publication is Peace...

... the increasing globalization of transitional justice, a context that seeks intensifying degrees of communicability as it turns local legacies of vio- lence into ones with international implications. Three Anglophone truth commission thrillers from South Africa, Canada, and Ireland, each...

... Contributors Kamran Asdar Ali is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Planning the Family in Egypt: New Bodies, New Selves (2002). He is the coeditor of Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa (forthcoming) with Martina...

... minister of Cape Colony, Cecil John Rhodes, was a very ambitious British capitalist. After establishing the British South Africa (BSA) Company and incorporating it under royal charter in 1889, Rhodes set out to colonize...

... THE GENRES OF POSTCOLONIALISM This issue gathers recent work in postcolonial criticism and theory. The Brent Hayes perspectives represented and contexts considered (South Africa, Canada, Edwards the United States, India, Pakistan) are the result of an especial—and still all-too-uncommon—effort...

... practices, and Muslim adepts then use those forms, what does this mean for the categories involved? Ahmed Deedat Ahmed Deedat moved to South Africa from India as a child in 1927. He left school early in order to work in business and was never formally trained as an Islamic scholar...

..., given the marginalization of women in studies of creole culture.18 However, as Anne McClintock notes in a discussion of interracial oral historiography in South Africa, oral history often reproduces the hierarchy of mental and manual labor that characterizes the societies from which they emerge...