Go to AfricaBib home

Go to AfricaBib home Education in Africa Go to database home

bibliographic database
Line
Previous page New search

The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here

Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:Re-Imagining South African Cultural Studies
Authors:Nuttall, SarahISNI
Michael, Cheryl AnnISNI
Year:1999
Periodical:African Sociological Review
Volume:3
Issue:2
Pages:54-68
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:African studies
culture
ethnicity
Bibliography/Research
Education and Oral Traditions
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/24487403
Abstract:While Cultural Studies has opened up new areas of study in the South African academy - a focus on marginalized cultural identities and on everyday life - it has done so within certain theoretical constraints. At least three major assumptions have dominated: the overdetermination of the political, the inflation of resistance, and the inflections given to race as a determinant of identity. Contemporary Cultural Studies in South Africa can open itself to new directions by unfixing identity, reclaiming the subcultural, reading pleasure, rewriting citizenship, and rethinking globalization. What is needed is to exit a set of narrow readings of South African culture and to think about intimacies and connectivities, everyday life and conceptualization of the human in ways that suggest a more open theorizing. Bibliogr., notes, ref.
Views
Cover