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Adar, K.G. (2001) Ethno-religious nationalism in Sudan: the enduring constraint on the policy of national identity. In Shifting African indentities. (Identity?: theory, politics, history ; v. 2). Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council. 81-114.
Alberts, T., Bentley, K., Bezuidenhout, A., Cherry, J., Dexter, P., Edcross, G., Habib, A., Lutchman, J., Mafunisa, J., Maphunye, K., Modisha, G., Morrow, S., Naidoo, V., Reitzes, M., Sanchez, D. & Southall, R. (2005) Overcoming the legacy of discrimination in South Africa: final report. (Report of the Democracy and Governance Programme of the HSRC in partnership with SWOP (Wits) and SCI (HSRC) to the Presidency, South Africa, February).
Bass, O. (2007) (D)urban culture: performing the African city. (Paper presented at the 7th Biennial Conference of the Society of South African Geographers, Port Elizabeth, 8-10 July).
Bekker, S., Dodds, M. & Khosa, M.M. (eds). (2001) Shifting African identities. (Identity?: theory, politics, history ; v. 2). Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council.
This collaborative publication is the second of three volumes emanating from the partnership between the French Institute (IFAS), the Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD) and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). This book offers the reader a global comparative analysis and significantly extends the thematic range of the previous two texts to include cultural landscape, power and conflict...
Bekker, S. & Prinsloo, R.C. (eds). (1999) Identity? Theory, politics, history. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council.
This collaborative publication is the first of two companion volumes emanating from the partnership between the French Institute (IFAS), the Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD) and the HSRC. The focus of Volume 1, based on the 1997 conference of the same name held in Pretoria, is almost exclusively on South Africa shortly after that countries transition to democracy.
Bennett, J., Reddy, V. & Bardill, L. (2006) International research project on pedagogies of gender & sexuality in higher education: South Africa. (Paper presented at the 2nd International Meeting: Researching the Incorporation of Sexualities in the Academic Curricula of Universalities in Asia, Africa & Latin America Project, November).
Bhana, D., Morrell, R., Hearn, J. & Moletsane, R. (2007) Power and identity: an introduction to sexualities in southern Africa. Sexualities. 10(2):131-138.
This introduction to the Special issue of Sexualities (Sexualities in Southern Africa) engages with the challenge of re-thinking sexualities in Africa? (Arnfred, 2004: 7), which emerged out of two conferences ? `Writing African Women ? Poetics and Politics of African Gender Research?; and `From Boys to Men: Masculinities and Risk Conference? ? both held at the University of Western Cape, Cape T...
Bornman, E. (2000) Globalization issues of identity and the implications for governance and democratization in the post-apartheid South Africa.
Determines the global, national and local factors that influence the identity formation of South Africans. Discusses the implications for psychological and social well-being as well as for governance, the consolidation of democracy, national security and development.
Chipkin, I. (2008) Set-up for failure: racial redress in the Department of Public Service and Administration. In: Habib, A. & Bentley, K. (eds). Racial redress & citizenship in South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 129-152.
The way in which the public service is often analysed or discusses obscures the problem that this chapter wants to identify. Although it is common to discuss the performance of the public service and state agencies, in general, in terms of a skills deficit compounded by affirmative action, this chapter highlights a different dimension of the problem. It views the pursuit of equity as happenin...
Chipkin, I. (2007) Do South Africans exist?: nationalism, democracy and the identity of 'the people'. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press.
Chisholm, L., Haupt, I., Hoadley, U., Lewin, T., Mawoyo, M., Moletsane, R. & Moorosi, P. (2009) Gender, identity and institutional culture: women students' constructions of success at three South African universities. Pretoria: Department of Education.
The Carnegie-South Africa Undergraduate Women's Scholarship Programme was set up in 2002 as a national scholarship programme targeted at young women wishing to study primarily in the fields of science and engineering at the undergraduate level. The study provides case studies of the diverse experiences of a selection of these young women at 3 universities: University of Cape Town, Kwa-Zulu-Nata...
Chisholm, L. (2009) Overview of the research project. In: Chisholm, L., Haupt, I., Hoadley, U., Lewin, T., Mawoyo, M., Moletsane, R. & Moorosi, P. Gender, identity and institutional culture: women students' constructions of success at three South African universities. Pretoria: Department of Education. 17-28.
Cloete, A. (2011) The invention of "moffie" life in Cape Town South Africa. (Paper presented at the Conference: Traditions II: Everyday Lives of African Men: Programme on Traditions and Transformation: Changing Traditions, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 28-30 November).
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Cloete, A., Rispel, L., Metcalf, C. & Reddy, V. (2010) Being straight and being gay: identity or multiple desire: the case of South Africa. Sexuality in Africa. 6(1):9-10.
Constitution prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. In December 2006, South Africa became the fifth country in the world and the first in Africa to legalise same-sex marriage (Calitz, 2009). In the light of this legal equality, gay men and women have become more visible in South Africa and have made their voices heard in the public sphere (Graziano, 2004 a, b). Terms li...
Cloete, A., Rispel, L., Reddy, V. & Metcalf, C. (2010) Constructs of identity and HIV risk behaviours among men who have sex with men (MSM) in two South African cities. (Paper presented at the Third Annual International Colloquium: Gender, Sexuality, History and Culture in Africa, University of Lagos, Nigeria, 19-20 June).
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Gqola, P.D. (2005) Memory, diaspora and spiced bodies in motion: Berni Searle's art. African identities. 3(2):123-138.
Grossberg, A., Struwig, J. & Pillay, U. (2006) Multicultural national identity and pride. In: Pillay, U., Roberts, B. & Rule, S. (eds). South African social attitudes: changing times, diverse voices. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 54-76.
Hadland, A., Louw, E., Sesanti, S. & Wasserman, H. (2008) Introduction. In: Hadland, A., Louw, E., Sesanti, S. & Wasserman, H. (eds). Power, politics and identity in South African media: selected seminar papers. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 1-13.
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Hadland, A., Louw, E., Sesanti, S. & Wasserman, H. (eds). (2008) Power, politics and identity in South African media: selected seminar papers. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
South Africa offers a rich context for the study of the interrelationship between the media and identity. The essays collected here explore the many diverse elements of this interconnection, and give fresh focus to topics that scholarship has tended to overlook, such as the pervasive impact of tabloid newspapers. Interrogating contemporary theory, the authors shed new light on how identities ar...
Hadland, A. 'I am an African' - but you are not. Cape Times. 9. (16 October 2007)
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Hagg, G. (2008) Identity and violent conflict in Africa. HSRC Review. 6(1):14-15.
The unexpected postelection violence in Kenya has again highlighted the need for a clearer understanding of the relationship between identity and violent conflict in Africa. In a study of nine African countries the interdependence of identity, political power struggles and rivalry for access to resources was found to be an important factor in such conflicts. GERARD HAGG reports on the findings ...
Hagg, G. & Kagwanja, P. (2007) Identity and peace: reconfiguring conflict resolution in Africa. African Journal on Conflict Resolution. 7(2):9-35.
The emergence of intra-state wars based on identity requires a reconfiguring of existing conflict resolution mechanisms. The article recognises the limitations of liberal peace models originally configured to deal with inter-state conflicts, but increasingly applied to inter-ethnic conflicts with limited success and often disastrous effects. The article argues for the reconceptualisation of ide...
Hagg, G. (2006) Identity and cultural diversity in conflict resolution and democratization for the African Renaissance. (Paper presented at the Workshop on Cultural diversity in Conflict and Peace Making in Africa and Identity and Democratization in Africa, 9-10 November, Johannesburg).
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Hagg, G., Grossberg, A., Seleoane, M. & Wentzel, M. (2001) 'All talents count': pilot inventory of South African cultural policies and measures supporting cultural diversity. (Commissioned by the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, South Africa and ERICarts).
Hart, T. (2011) Mixing and matching: identities and development. (Paper presented at the University of Stellenbosch, "Futures of Culture" Anthropology Conference, 5 September).
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Haupt, I. & Chisholm, L. (2009) Negotiating social and gender identity: the worldwiew of women students at the University of Pretoria. In: Chisholm, L., Haupt, I., Hoadley, U., Lewin, T., Mawoyo, M., Moletsane, R. & Moorosi, P. Gender, identity and institutional culture: women students' constructions of success at three South African universities. Pretoria: Department of Education. 47-59.
Kagwanja, P.M. (2006) 'Power to Uhuru': youth identity and generational politics in Kenya's 2002 elections. African affairs. 105(418):51-75.
Faced with the challenge of a new, multi-ethnic political coalition, President Daniel arap Moi shifted the axis of the 2002 electoral contest from ethnicity to the politics of generational conflict. The strategy backfired, ripping his party wide open and resulting in its humiliating defeat in the December 2002 general elections. Nevertheless, the discourse of a generational change of guard as a...
Kathard, H., Pillay, M., Samuel, M. & Reddy, V. (2004) Genesis of self-identity as disother: life histories of people who stutter. The South African Journal of Communication Disorders. 51:4-14.
Magni, S. & Reddy, V. (2007) Performative queer identities: masculinities and public bathroom usage. Sexualities. 10(2):229-242.
This article critically examines the interface of gender, sex and identity within the context of bathroom facilities in a South African gay club. The public features and behaviors are contrasted with the bathrooms' private and abstract zones in terms of sexualized spaces and activities. The club's bathrooms function as spatial and physical discourses in which gender stability - with reference...
Masehela, K. Escaping Europe's clutches. This Day. 11. (30 September 2004)
Mkhize, N., Bennett, J., Reddy, V. & Moletsane, R. (2010) The country we want to live in: hate crimes and homophobia in the lives of black lesbian South Africans. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
The country we want to live in: Hate crimes and homophobia in the lives of black lesbian South Africans offers a refreshing perspective on violence perpetrated against black lesbians. Based on a Roundtable seminar, held during the 2006 16 Days of Activism for no Violence against Women and Children, the text engages the heteronormative focus of the campaign, profiles aspects of the dynamic conve...
Modisha, G. (2008) Affirmative action and cosmopolitan citizenship in South Africa. In: Habib, A. & Bentley, K. (eds). Racial redress & citizenship in South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 153-178.
This chapter looks at the policies and assess views , as expressed by key stakeholders, on the impact of the Employment Equity Act (EEA) (No. 55 of 1998) within the labour market. The chapter shows that there is little evidence to suggest that the impact of the EEA undermines the inclusion of the white minority in a creation of cosmopolitan citizenship in South Africa.
Moletsane, R., Mitchell, C. & Moorosi, P. (2009) Guest editorial: towards a new agenda for girlhood studies in Southern Africa:. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 79:2-5.
Mongwe, R. (2010) Race, class and housing in post-apartheid Cape Town. HSRC Review. 8(4):18-19.
The current housing policy may be faulted for paying disproportionate attention to recent migrants living in informal settlements whilst falling short of adequately addressing the housing needs of coloureds and Africans who were born and bred in the apartheid-era townships, says ROBERT MONGWE, following research conducted in the Cape Town area.
Morrow, S. (2005) Book review: Distiller, N. and Steyn, M. (eds.) 2004. Under construction: 'race' and identity in South Africa today. Sandton: Heinemann, ISBN 0796214786, 213 p.. African book publishing record (ABPR). 1(2):109.
Morrow, S. (2002) Book review: Marks, M. (2001) Young warriors: youth politics, identity and violence in South Africa. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press. 171 p. ISBN 1868143708. African book publishing record (ABPR). xxviii (2):129.
Muzondidya, J. (2009) Race, ethnicity and the politics of positioning: the making of coloured identity in colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1980. In: Adhikari, M. (ed). Burdened by race: coloured identities in southern Africa. Cape Town: Juta. 156-184.
This chapter examines the growth of a distinct coloured group consciousness in Zimbabwe. The history of this group has not only been marginalised in political and academic discourses but has also been subject to widespread popular misconception. One of the most prevalent fallacies is the notion that coloured identity is a biologically determined, inherent quality derived from miscegenation. ...
Muzondidya, J. (2006) Makwerekwere: citizenship, nationhood and identity among Zimbabweans in South Africa. Britain Zimbabwe Society. 06/4:1-16.
Naidoo, D. (2010) Book review: Reddy, V., Sandfort, T., Rispel, L. (eds). 2009. From social silence to social science: same-sex sexuality, HIV & AIDS and gender in South Africa: conference proceedings. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 252 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7969-2276-2. Sahara J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 7(2):85-86.
Ndletyana, M. (2006) Can Africans show un-African behaviour?. South African labour bulletin. 30(3):34-37.
Ndletyana, M. (2006) How black is black enough?: seeking norms for blackness and identity. HSRC Review. 4(2):14-15.
People who claim that culture is the sole indicator of blackness are in danger of ignoring black identity?s political dimensions, warns Mcebisi Ndletyana
Nkomo, M. & Dolby, N. (2004) Common origins, common futures: reflections on identity and difference in education. Perspectives in education. 22(4):1-9.
The history of human evolution is fascinating and complex indeed. Modern science as revealed by the disciplines of archaeology, paleontology, and genetics presents strong evidence about the common origins of humankind. Dispersal from the birthplace over millennia has produced a mosaic of identities that are cultural artefacts or social constructs and determined more by psychology, sociology and...
Norris, S.A., Roeser, R.W., Richter, L.M., Lewin, N., Fleetwood, S.A., Taole, E. & van der Wolf, K. (2008) South African-ness among adolescents: the emergence of a collective identity within the Birth to Twenty Cohort Study. Journal of Early Adolescence. 28(1):51-69.
The authors assessed the emergence of a South African identity among Black, Colored (mixed ancestral origin), White (predominantly English speaking), and Indian adolescents participating in a birth cohort study called "Birth to Twenty" in Johannesburg, South Africa. They examined young people's certainty of their self-categorization as South African; the centrality of their personal, racial, li...
Ntombela, S. & Mashiya, N. (2009) "In my time, girls...": reflections of African adolescent girl identities and realities across two generations. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 79:94-106.
Four women who grew up in different contexts of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, during different periods of apartheid reflect on their adolescent years in relation to what girls' realities were. Through these reflections an attempt is made to examine how girlhood realities and constructions of femininities have changed (or not) over two generations. The article also explores whether and how thei...
Phaswana-Mafuya, R.N. (2010) Keynote address: role of women in society. (Paper presented at the Heritage Gala Dinner, ANC Michael Buka Branch, Cradock, 25 September).
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Puoane, T., Tsolekile, L. & Steyn, N. (2010) Perceptions about body image and sizes among black African girls living in Cape Town. Ethnicity & Disease. 20:29-34.
this study shows that opinions and beliefs about body image start in adolescence. It is therefore important to consider these perceptions when designing interventions for preventing obesity and other chronic non-communicable diseases during early childhood.
Reddy, V. (2010) The "queer" politics of homo(sexuality) and matters of identity: tentative notes in the context of HIV/AIDS. In: Aggleton, P. & Parker, R. (eds). Routledge handbook of sexuality, health and rights. London: Routledge. 433-443.
This chapter outlines a theoretical formulation of sexuality in relation to politics, health, rights and identity in South Africa. Making the argument that the personal is political, the chapter provides a sustained argument motivating why struggles for erotic justice in South Africa are deeply connected to meanings and ideas about sex, sexuality, gender justice and activism. Central to this ...
Reddy, V. (2010) Identity, law, justice: thinking about sexual rights and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa. Perspectives: Political Analysis and Commentary from Africa. 4:18-23.
South Africa's hard won gains are notable and has received global acclamation. However, on closer inspection, a more nuanced picture is evident. The translation of law into tangible and accessible justice for homosexuals indicates that dignity, equality, and respect are a struggle still being waged. At the receiving end of homophobia and bigotry are black women in particular, confirming that m...
Reddy, V. (2009) Turning sugar and spice on its head: recent research on the gendered meanings within girlhood studies. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 79:78-84.
This review focuses on two publications that foreground scholarly perspectives on "girlhood". Focusing on the inaugural issue of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Summer 2008, Berghan Books) and Methodologies for Mapping a Southern African Girlhood in the Age of AIDS (Sense Publishers, 2008), the review offer a series of ideas that motivate why these two texts are to be considered...
Reddy, V. & Cakata, Z. (2008) Marriage, citizenship and contested meanings. In: Judge, M., Manion, A. & De Waal, S. (eds). To have & to hold: the making of same-sex marriage in South Africa. Johannesburg: Fanele. 274-277.
The chapter explores the contested meanings of same-sex marriage in the broader national debate about identity, sexuality, gender in a human rights context. The chapter highlights the gendered dimension of marriage in relation to same-sex marriage and the legal, social and political meanings that accrue within this debate.
Reddy, V. & Cakata, Z. (2007) 'Even animals of the same sex don't take this route': politics, rights and identity about same-sex marriage in South Africa. Sexuality in Africa. 4(1):1-4.
Roefs, M. (2006) Identity and race relations. In: Pillay, U., Roberts, B. & Rule, S. (eds). South African social attitudes: changing times, diverse voices. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 77-100.
Sanger, N. (2010) Women's rights and lesbian rights. Perspectives: Political Analysis and Commentary from Africa. 4:24-28.
A belief among some is that the South African women's movement is fragmented and weak. Gouws notes for instance that a demobilised women's movement cannot hold the state to account, or enforce a feminist-centred discourse into state politics. This article, while not focused on engaging the state, explores the dynamics of this 'fragmented' women's movement; the 'politics' and philosophies that ...
Sanger, N. (2009) Semenya's gender: the right to be different. HSRC Review. 7(3):6-7.
The controversy surrounding South Africa's new female 800 metre world champion, Caster Semenya, has created a hugely important space in which we can publicly talk about gender and gender presentation in our post-apartheid nation. And if there is one conclusive finding with which we can walk away from this episode, it is that gender and how we present our bodies is extremely important.
Sanger, N. (2008) 'There's got to be a man in there': reading intersections between gender, race and sexuality in South African magazines. African Identities. 6(3):275-291.
The aim of this article is to interrogate the ways that compulsory heteropatriarchy establishes women's representation as hyper(hetero)sexual in a select group of South African mainstream magazines. In men's magazines targeting both black and white male readers, women are depicted as objects for an unnamed and unmarked, but clearly, masculine audience. In contrast, women's magazines with a dom...
Sanger, N. (2006) Feminist intellectual activism: within and beyond the academy: constructions of 'whiteness', gender and sexuality in South African magazines.
This presentation aims to explore the ways in which whiteness, gender and sexuality are represented through a select group of South African magazines. By looking at magazines such as Men?s Health, GQ, FHM, True Love, Femina and Fair Lady, I intend to explore how these magazines as a medium of communication construct whiteness, gender and sexuality to their imagined readerships constituted of va...
Sanger, N. (2006) Whose teaching whom?: interrogating subjectives in the teaching of literature in post-apartheid South Africa. (Paper presented at the Fullbright-Hayes Project Abroad, Program to SA Conference, University of the Western Cape, 29 July).
This paper focuses on the notion of reflexivity in teaching South African literature, particularly at institutions of higher learning. In the context of deconstructing and producing literary texts within the current South African landscape, the aim was to highlight the critical role of academic `intellectuals? in the interrogation of their subjectivities when engaging with students from differe...
Shefer, T., Crawford, M., Strebel, A., Simbayi, L.C., Dwadwa-Henda, N., Cloete, A., Kaufman, M.R. & Kalichman, S.C. (2008) Gender, power and resistance to change among two communities in the Western Cape, South Africa. Feminism & Psychology. 18(2):157-182.
This study investigates how women and men in the Western Cape, South Africa, construct their gender identities and roles. As part of the development of an HIV prevention intervention for men, key informant interviews and focus group discussions were conducted. Several themes regarding the construction of gender were identified. First, participants reported that traditional gender relations o...
Sithole, M.P. (2006) Where the local meets the global: does social science have an identity?. (Paper presented at the Social Science Network Conference, Birchwood Conference Centre, Benoni, 27-30 September).
Soudien, C. & Botsis, H. (2011) Accent on desire: desire and race in the production of ideological subjectivities in post-apartheid South Africa. Feminist Formations. 23(3):89-109.
Understanding the transformation of South African institutions requires taking into account the ways in which category maintenance and transgression operate in post-apartheid South Africa. Despite the official ideology of the post-apartheid government being one of no racialism, there are still incongruent messages about identity from all quarters, which learners have to negotiate. We consider h...
Struwig, J. & Grossberg, A. (2006) National identity and pride in a multicultural society: the South African perspective. (Paper presented at the Annual ISSP Conference in Prague, 30 March-3 April).
Van der Merwe, J. & Van der Westhuizen, J. (2007) The 2003 cricket world cup and its implications for identity formation and democracy in Zimbabwe. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics. 45(3):345-366.
Sports mega-events have the potential to provide a focal point for strengthening national unity and reinforcing national identity. They are also said to be able to provide a catalyst for democratisation and an incentive for human rights observance if hosted by authoritarian or democratically weak regimes. However, the outcomes for host nations are not always pre-determinable. An analysis of ...
Wamucii, P. & Idwasi, P. (2011) Social insecurity, youth and development issues in Kenya. In: Kondlo, K. & Ejiogu, C. (eds). Governance in the 21st century. (Africa in Focus). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 188-199.