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But Even Bodies Never Speak Pure Languages
In: Matatu, Band 38, Heft 1, S. 103-126
ISSN: 1875-7421
The value of the arts and creativity
In: Cultural trends, Band 18, Heft 3, S. 257-261
ISSN: 1469-3690
Crime Gild Power in South Africa, by Dennis Davis and Mana Slabbert (cds.) Cape Town: David Philip, 1985. (138 pp.)
In: Social dynamics: SD ; a journal of the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 85-87
ISSN: 1940-7874
Investing in discourses of poverty and development: How white wealthy South Africans mobilise meaning to maintain privilege
In: South African review of sociology: journal of the South African Sociological Association, Band 38, Heft 1, S. 45-69
ISSN: 2072-1978
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In: South African review of sociology: journal of the South African Sociological Association, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 80-85
ISSN: 2072-1978
Technologies of social control: crowd management in liberal democracy
In: Economy and society, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 56-74
ISSN: 1469-5766
The Structure of Sociopolitical Attitudes in South Africa
In: The Journal of social psychology, Band 135, Heft 3, S. 387-402
ISSN: 1940-1183
Images of culture and mental illness : South African psychiatric approaches
In: Social dynamics: SD ; a journal of the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 17-25
ISSN: 1940-7874
Back to the Future in South African Security: From Intentions to Effective Mechanisms: Part II - Restorative Justice, Crime, and (In)security in Africa
In: Acta Juridica, 16:156-170, 2007
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Technologies of gender and childbirth choices: Home birth, elective caesarean and white femininities in South Africa
In: Feminism & psychology: an international journal, Band 23, Heft 3, S. 317-338
ISSN: 1461-7161
Since the 1970s, feminist research has provided a powerful critique of biomedical models of childbirth. While this critique has been extremely important, it has to some extent led to the neglect of other forms of power. For example, there has been little research which has explored childbirth as a way of 'doing gender' in which normative or resistant forms of gender and femininity are (re)performed. Drawing on the Foucauldian notion of 'technologies of power', we argue that gender is a form of disciplinary power which shapes the choices that women make in relation to childbirth. Drawing on pre-birth interviews with 21 white, middle-class pregnant South African women who were planning on either a home birth (n = 12) or an elective caesarean section (n = 9), we show how three central technologies of white femininity shaped and regulated women's childbirth choices. These included: a patriarchal optics of childbirth, the 'natural childbirth' ideal and the 'good mother' imperative. The article concludes that women's childbirth choices are heavily shaped by gendered technologies of power and that the decision to have a home birth or an elective caesarean section intersects with scripts of 'doing white femininity' in South Africa.
The theatre of violence: narratives of protagonists in the South African conflict
This profound and deeply compassionate study aims to reach into the complexities of political violence in South Africa between 1960 and 1994, and to expand our understanding of the patterns of conflict that almost drew South Africans into a vortex of total disintegration during the apartheid era. This book is used in the teaching of critical and social psychology at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. While many accounts have focused on the victims of state repression, this unique volume documents the often contradictory and confusing stories of those who acknowledge having committed some dreadful deeds. Individuals on various sides of the apartheid divide, from state security structures to the ANC, PAC and grassroots, activists, tell their own stories. The central focus is to give an account of the actions of the perpetrators, here depicted as competing protagonists in an arena of violence. It examines the violence forensically, through its public and popular representations, academically and, finally, through the narrative approach, drawing on a rich analysis of stories from different sides. The authors also offer the first critical examination of the TRC's amnesty process, show how media representations of perpetrators inform public perceptions, and scrutinise international scholarly writings on the issue of political violence. Suggestive and intriguing, The Theatre of Violence opens a fresh examination of the erstwhile taken-for-granted understandings and attempts to address a range of questions that are often not considered, and perhaps cannot be considered, in a dispassionate way. It is in many ways an optimistic study, holding out the possibility of a society that can understand and take steps to minimise the perpetration of gross violations of human rights.
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