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Disentangling entangled amaXhosa manhood in psychosis: A cross-cultural psychiatric case study, Cape Town, South Africa
No full textRecognizing how the amaXhosa people of South Africa value well-functioning circumcision rituals, our paper interrogates one Xhosa man’s coming-of-age entanglement in psychosis. In 2001, Xolile was admitted to the psychiatric ward of Valkenberg Hospital, Cape Town, suffering with a brief psychotic disorder. Its onset came days after leaving seclusion; triggers included his father’s absence and failing his university exams. We describe how cross-cultural therapy, in particular, Dr Soga’s voice, as a psychiatrist and amaXhosa diviner, embedded his emerging consciousness, and aided him to disentangle from psychosis. Xolile did not return to university; instead, he embraced his Xhosa manhood to work in this city. His challenges mirror those across this cultural landscape. Our interpretive study sits at this unique interface, biomedical versus cultural domains, to advance a theoretical perspective about a linked phenomenon that affects not only amaXhosa engendering, but comparatively how we secure safe rites of passage for youth into adulthood
Right-wing radicalization and fusionism in contemporary Argentina
No full textThis article contributes to our understanding of the emergence and dazzling growth of a radicalized right-wing party in Argentina. To this end, we recover the concept of fusionism that emerged in the debates of US conservatism in the 1960s. The concept of fusionism is not only useful at a descriptive level, but also helps to perceive and comprehend a political dynamic that implies, at the same time, a complex merge of traditions (ideas, discourses, practices, tones, attitudes, sensibilities) and a process of radicalization of the political camp. In order to explain this dynamic, we propose a brief review of the two families of the right-wing camp in Argentina throughout the twentieth century. Then, we show how the grassroots of these two families became closer in recent decades and the way in which an electoral representation of this political subject was built
Ethics and regulatory compliance in the human sciences: Anthropologists’ critique through the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
No full textScholars in the human sciences, particularly anthropology, have long perceived tensions between ethical concerns and the demands of regulatory compliance emanating from institutional research ethics committees. This article focuses on anthropologists’ writings about such tensions, up to and including discussions of the 2016 European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It does not assess whether their “complaints” are well-founded, or examine if they match actual practical consequences. Rather, it documents how criticism of ethical regulation has become integral to anthropology’s characteristic reflexivity. While in the 1960s “ethics” referred primarily to social or political responsibility, six decades later it largely concerns issues of regulatory compliance. Illustrative of such development is Didier Fassin’s wondering whether ethical regulation might not lead to the “end of ethnography,” and, later on, other authors asking if anthropology can “remain legal” in the framework of the GDPR
