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The Weathered Corrugations of His Face: A Performative Reflection on Nelson Mandela, Self, and the Call for Racial (Un)Becoming

März 10, 2015, 2:59 p.m., Paul Badenhorst, Allgemein.

On the occasion of the first anniversary of the death of Nelson Rolihlahla MANDELA, this self-exploratory narrative study utilizes a Butlerian performative theoretical framework to both uncover discursively regulated social practices as generative of raced identity ensconced in belonging, and the undoing of such identity through the redeployment of social practices predicated instead on a Weltanschauung of becoming. While the accountable subject of autoethnographic work is concomitantly problematized, fluid subjectivity is itself demonstrated as crucial to historical accountability. A resultant appeal for white South Africans to actively begin the work of defamiliarizing themselves with the sanitized dominant popular culture representation of the peace icon, this research ultimately calls for new existential reflection upon the face of Nelson MANDELA so as to begin uncovering its deeper historical significance, contemporary relevance, and the future ethical imperative it demands of those who come from a liminal position of, as J.M. COETZEE once wrote, "no longer European, not yet African" (1988, p.11). In short, it is argued that white South Africans need to move from a condition of belonging predicated on raced identity to one of transracial—and even interracial—African becoming.

URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs150223

Quelle: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2230

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Long-Term Experiences of Men with Spinal Cord Injuries in Japan: A Qualitative Study

März 10, 2015, 2:50 p.m., Masakuni Tagaki, Allgemein.

The goal of the current study was to examine how Japanese men with long-term spinal cord injuries constructed their post-injury life. To do this, I conducted semi-structured interviews with ten participants who had sustained spinal cord injuries. The interview data was transcribed and analyzed qualitatively using the KJ method, which is widely employed in Japan and has been developed by and named after the founder of the method, the anthropologist Jiro KAWAKITA (1967). The participants led lives similar to able-bodied individuals and tried to find specific positive aspects of their lives that they owed to their disabilities. They also developed collective identities as people with acquired disabilities through their relationships with others having disabilities. To alleviate their sense of loss, the participants also emphasized the unchanged aspects of their pre-injury lives. They understood that their lives were greatly influenced by a socially supportive environment that was regarded as being contingent. They recognized their inability to control the environment and valued the contingencies.

URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs150210

Quelle: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2148

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Laure Bereni – notice

März 10, 2015, 2:00 a.m., trivium, Allgemein.

Laure Bereni ist Forscherin am Centre Maurice Halbwachs (Paris). Sie ist Spezialistin für Geschlechtersoziologie, feministische Bewegungen und Gleichheitspolitiken in den Organisationen.

Laure Bereni est chercheuse au CNRS, membre du Centre Maurice Halbwachs (Paris). Elle est spécialiste de sociologie du genre, des mouvements féministes et des politiques d’égalité dans les organisations.

Quelle: http://trivium.revues.org/5078

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