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    'We can be united, but we are different': discourse of difference in postcolonial Namibia 

    Akuupa, Michael (Forum Press, 2010)
    Social scientists who have written about the dynamics of festival rituals have analysed such practices variously as celebrations of commonality, as the enhancement of social cohesion, or as expressions of nostalgia. Festivals ...
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    Battling the race: Stylizing language and coproducing whiteness and colouredness in a freestyle rap performance 

    Williams, Quentin; Stroud, Christopher (American Antrhopological Association, 2015)
    In the last 19 years of post-apartheid South African democracy, race remains an enduring and familiar trope, a point of certainty amid the messy ambiguities of transformation. In the present article, we explore the ...
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    Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa 

    Becker, Heike; Schulz, Dorothea (Routledge, 2017)
    This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive ...
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    Facing the stranger in the mirror: Staged complicities in recent South African performances 

    Flockemann, Miki (Routledge, 2011)
    The staging of complicity has developed into one of the most prevalent trends in recent South Africa theatre. The audience may become aware of their own complicity in injustice, or complicity may feature as a subject to ...
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    Mueda massacre: the musical archive 

    Israel, Paolo (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
    As in Pidjiguiti in Guiné-Bissau or Baixa de Cassanje in Angola, the massacre that occurred in the northern Mozambican town of Mueda on 16 June 1960 has been inscribed in the nationalist narrative as the breaking point ...
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    Oral literature in South Africa: 20 years on 

    Brown, Duncan (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
    I offer a retrospective on the field of orality and performance studies in South Africa from the perspective of 2016, assessing what has been achieved, what may have happened inadvertently or worryingly, what some of the ...
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    A hip-hopera in Cape Town: The aesthetics, and politics of performing ‘Afrikaaps’ 

    Becker, Heike (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
    This paper looks into the aesthetics and politics of the ‘hip-hopera’ Afrikaaps. Afrikaaps was produced in 2010 by a group of musicians and spoken-word artists from Cape Town and the rural Western Cape Province of South ...
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    Fanon in drag: Decoloniality in sociolinguistics? 

    Shaikjee, Mooniq; Stroud, Christopher (Wiley, 2017)
    In focus in this paper is the genre of drag, and the uses to which it is put by its proponents in subverting conventional and repressive (Western) models of gender, sexuality and race. We raise the question of to what ...
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    Performative ethnography: difference and conviviality of everyday multiculturalism in Bellville (Cape Town) 

    Alhourani, Ala Rabiha (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
    The paper explores the benefits of performative ethnography as a methodological intervention. The intervention discussed in this paper utilizes the persuasive power of aesthetics and performance to attain participation ...
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    “Connecting Mind to Pen, to Eyes, to Face, to Arms and Legs”: Toward a Performative and Decolonial Teaching Practice 

    Flockemann, Miki (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
    The push to sustain online learning platforms that have been established in the wake of Covid-19 at South African universities raises a number of concerns. Apart from highlighting the stark and ongoing social inequities ...

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