41 research outputs found
sj-docx-1-ics-10.1177_13678779221090986 - Supplemental material for Brothers from another mother: Seeing the uncanny in US popular media depictions of South Africa
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-ics-10.1177_13678779221090986 for Brothers from another mother: Seeing the uncanny in US popular media depictions of South Africa by Rachel Lara van der Merwe in International Journal of Cultural Studies</p
Marietjie van der Merwe : ceramics 1960-1988.
No full textThesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.This dissertation will contextualize and analyse selected works of the South African ceramist Marietjie van der Merwe (bl935 dl992; known professionally as Marietjie, aka Mariki, Marikie) between 1960-1988. The text consists of three chapters. The first chapter will outline the life of Marietjie van der Merwe, discuss her political and religious affiliations and ends with a chronological outline of her ceramics. This introductory chapter will help the reader to gain an insight into her character and personality which influenced the work she produced. The second chapter comprises two main sections. The first deals with the ceramists who influenced Marietjie's work. In her early art training years Laura Andreson, her teacher, played a key role in inspiring and influencing Marietjie's work. The Natzlers influenced Marietjie indirectly through Laura Andreson who in turn had been taught by them. Rudolf Staffel manipulated aspects in porcelain inspired Marietjie's later works of the 1980s. The second half of this chapter deals with the influence that Marietjie had on institutions and her students. The works of Katherine Glenday, a student and later colleague, are discussed and comparisons made. Marietjie van der Merwe's contributed significantly to the modernist foundations of South African studio ceramics, was mentor and studio advisor to the ceramists of Rorke's Drift Art and Craft Centre and was a lecturer at the former Department of Fine Art and History of Art, University of Natal. Links with Nordic countries and Malin Lundbohm (now Sellmann) are drawn. Throughout this chapter the artist's work is compared and discussed with that of Marietjie's. This dissertation concludes with a documentary study of six selected pieces. Original photographs facilitate visually what is been discussed in the text. These samples are found in Iziko South African National Gallery, Tatham Art Gallery and from the private collection of Lara Du Plessis
Snap judgments : new positions in contemporary African photography /
No full textContains work by Doa Aly, Lara Baladi, Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé, Yto Barrada, Luis Basto, Zohra Bensemra, Zarina Bhimji, Mohamed Camara, Ali Chraïbi, Omar D., Depth of Field, Allan deSouza, Andrew Dosunmu, Hala Elkoussy, Theo Eshetu, Mamadou Gomis, Kay Hassan, Romuald Hazoumé, Fatou Kandé Senghor, Moshekwa Langa, Maha Maamoun, Boubacar Touré Mandémory, Zwelethu Mthethwa, James Muriuki, Lamia Naji, Otobong Nkanga, Jo Ratcliffe, Tracey Rose, Randa Shaath, Mikhael Subotzky, Sada Tangara, Guy Tillim, Michael Tsegaye, Hentie van der Merwe, and Nontsikelelo "Lolo" Veleko.Published in conjunction with the exhibition organized by the International Center of Photography, New York, Mar. 10 - May 28, 2006.Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-383).Director's foreword / Willis E. Hartshorn -- Curator's acknowledgments / Okwui Enwezor -- The uses of Afro-pessimism / Okwui Enwezor -- Contemporaty African art and globalization / Okwui Enwezor -- The analytical impulse in contemporary African photography / Okwui Enwezor -- Plates -- After in/sight : ten years of exhibiting African photography / Vanessa Rocco -- Artist biographies -- Checklist of the exhibition -- Bibliography.Contains work by Doa Aly, Lara Baladi, Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé, Yto Barrada, Luis Basto, Zohra Bensemra, Zarina Bhimji, Mohamed Camara, Ali Chraïbi, Omar D., Depth of Field, Allan deSouza, Andrew Dosunmu, Hala Elkoussy, Theo Eshetu, Mamadou Gomis, Kay Hassan, Romuald Hazoumé, Fatou Kandé Senghor, Moshekwa Langa, Maha Maamoun, Boubacar Touré Mandémory, Zwelethu Mthethwa, James Muriuki, Lamia Naji, Otobong Nkanga, Jo Ratcliffe, Tracey Rose, Randa Shaath, Mikhael Subotzky, Sada Tangara, Guy Tillim, Michael Tsegaye, Hentie van der Merwe, and Nontsikelelo "Lolo" Veleko.Contains work by Doa Aly, Lara Baladi, Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé, Yto Barrada, Luis Basto, Zohra Bensemra, Zarina Bhimji, Mohamed Camara, Ali Chraïbi, Omar D., Depth of Field, Allan deSouza, Andrew Dosunmu, Hala Elkoussy, Theo Eshetu, Mamadou Gomis, Kay Hassan, Romuald Hazoumé, Fatou Kandé Senghor, Moshekwa Langa, Maha Maamoun, Boubacar Touré Mandémory, Zwelethu Mthethwa, James Muriuki, Lamia Naji, Otobong Nkanga, Jo Ratcliffe, Tracey Rose, Randa Shaath, Mikhael Subotzky, Sada Tangara, Guy Tillim, Michael Tsegaye, Hentie van der Merwe, and Nontsikelelo "Lolo" Veleko
A framework for regional estuarine management : a South African case study
No full textThesis (MSc (Geography and Environmental Studies))--University of Stellenbosch, 2007.In South Africa, as a result of limited resources and capacity, the governance and management of estuaries occur on an
ad hoc basis, with decisions about an estuary’s freshwater-flow requirements, water quality, living-resources
management, mouth management and protection status being made on a largely uncoordinated and non-strategic basis.
This study is aimed at developing an understanding of the opportunities and constraints affecting estuarine management
at a regional scale.
The objectives of this study were to:
Review relevant policy and legislation governing estuarine management in South Africa;
Discuss the current status of regional estuarine management in South Africa;
Review international literature for potentially applicable management guidelines;
Construct a management protocol for estuarine management in South Africa;
Apply this protocol in a South African setting; and
Recommend improved measures for regional estuarine management.
The main outcome of the study was the development of the proposed National Estuarine Management Protocol, which is
currently in the process of being incorporated into the National Environmental Management: Coastal Zone Bill. The
CAPE Estuaries Programme was developed to test the proposed Protocol in a regional setting.
The study concluded that there was an urgent need for a more holistic regional approach to estuarine management but
that the proposed framework and protocol would be successful only if, in addition, they were supported by an
understanding of the biophysical estuarine processes and management constraints operating at the local level.Master
We Are Not South African: Decolonizing National Identity In A Post-Apartheid State
No full textIn We are not South African, using the theoretical lenses of postcolonialism and posthumanism, I make three arguments: First, nations are not cohesive manifestations of one national imaginary, but are rather comprised of fractured and contradictory social imaginaries. Second, the fragility of the contemporary nation can be traced back to its toxic origin as a colonial construction. Thus, true liberation from ongoing coloniality in postcolonial nations necessitates a challenge to the existence of national identity and borders. Third, the nation is exploitative for both humans and non-humans alike. As the lives and well-being of humans and non-humans are inextricably interconnected, until liberation from the nation-state and coloniality is achieved for both, both parties will continue to suffer. I support these arguments using a historical analysis of the role that social imaginaries have played in South Africa; an examination of how the Internet contributes to the destabilization of the nation through interviews with South African emigrants; a critical discourse analysis of the discourses surrounding Cape Town Water Crisis and their pertinence to the nation; and by proposing one alternative social imaginary using the southern African ontology of ubuntu.
At the heart of these arguments lies the more fundamental assertion about the nature of difference. Colonial logics aspire towards a unity of order, wherein the world functions in predictable and controllable ways. Difference is perceived as a deficit, something that must be tamed and absorbed into sanctioned systems of being, and the nation serves as one of coloniality’s instruments of order, to reduce difference into more manageable unified wholes. In contrast, decolonial logics recognize and celebrate the existence of a multiplicity of difference. Decolonial thinkers envision what Glissant calls a chaos-monde—a world that cannot be systematised. A world, I argue, in which nations cannot exist. In such a world, we must accept that we human beings are not in control and that the planet and all its inhabitants do not exist for our exploitation. Simultaneously, a chaos-monde also opens up new beautiful possibilities of relational, interdependent ways of being in the world, or “staying with the trouble” to borrow Haraway’s words.</p
From Global to National:Mapping the Trajectory of the South African Video Game Industry
No full textUsing a critical media industry studies framework, this chapter explores the South African (SA) video game industry to determine its current level of development and how that relates to its capacity to engage national identity. It also examines the wide range of conversations pertaining to select SA video games on international gaming forums. It demonstrates that while South African game developers are up-and-coming on a global stage, they are currently not designing games with content that reflects or references the SA nation in any direct way. The chapter discloses that the model in operation for a functioning and financially viable video game industry in SA appears to be one that operates on a global level first before game developers venture to produce nationally specific content
We are not South African:Decolonizing National Identity in a Post-Apartheid State
No full textIn We are not South African, using the theoretical lenses of postcolonialism and posthumanism, I make three arguments: First, nations are not cohesive manifestations of one national imaginary, but are rather comprised of fractured and contradictory social imaginaries. Second, the fragility of the contemporary nation can be traced back to its toxic origin as a colonial construction. Thus, true liberation from ongoing coloniality in postcolonial nations necessitates a challenge to the existence of national identity and borders. Third, the nation is exploitative for both humans andnon-humans alike. As the lives and well-being of humans and non-humans are inextricably interconnected, until liberation from the nation-state and coloniality is achieved for both, both parties will continue to suffer. I support these arguments using a historical analysis of the role that social imaginaries have played in South Africa; an examination of how the Internet contributes to the destabilization of the nation through interviews with South African emigrants; a critical discourse analysis of the discourses surrounding Cape Town Water Crisis and their pertinence to the nation; and by proposing one alternative social imaginary using the southern African ontology of ubuntu.At the heart of these arguments lies the more fundamental assertion about the nature of difference. Colonial logics aspire towards a unity of order, wherein the world functions in predictable and controllable ways. Difference is perceived as a deficit, something that must be tamed and absorbed into sanctioned systems of being, and the nation serves as one of coloniality’s instruments of order, to reduce difference into more manageable unified wholes. In contrast, decolonial logics recognize and celebrate the existence of a multiplicity of difference. Decolonial thinkers envision what Glissant calls a chaos-monde—a world that cannot be systematised. A world, I argue, in which nations cannot exist. In such a world, we must accept that we human beings are not in control and that the planet and all its inhabitants do not exist forour exploitation. Simultaneously, a chaos-monde also opens up new beautiful possibilities of relational, interdependent ways of being in the world, or “staying with the trouble” to borrow Haraway’s words
Love Letters to India?: Adapting Colonial Fiction in The Secret Games Company’s ‘Kim’
No full textThis extended abstract describes a work-in-progress study of The Secret Games Company’s ‘Kim’ (2016) – an open-world top-down role-playing game based on Kipling’s 1901 novel of the same name – through the lens of ‘imperial play’, a concept recently introduced by Rachel Lara van der Merwe. In my analysis, I propose to pay closer attention to marginal non-player characters (NPCs), such as those adapted from Kipling’s 1880s short stories ‘Lispeth’ and ‘The Man Who Would Be King’. Whilst specifically contributing to charting the contemporary reception of Kipling’s literary works through the discussion of a case study, my still ongoing research will also address pressing issues concerning the process of adapting literary texts for an interactive medium and the representation/simulation of imperialist ideologies in video games, with a view to making a contribution to video game adaptation studies and postcolonial game studies as wel
