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Fanon in drag: Decoloniality in sociolinguistics?
(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 ...
Performative ethnography: difference and conviviality of everyday multiculturalism in Bellville (Cape Town)
(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 ...
Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
(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 ...
Facing the stranger in the mirror: Staged complicities in recent South African performances
(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 ...
Oral literature in South Africa: 20 years on
(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 ...
Battling the race: Stylizing language and coproducing whiteness and colouredness in a freestyle rap performance
(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 ...
A hip-hopera in Cape Town: The aesthetics, and politics of performing ‘Afrikaaps’
(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 ...
'We can be united, but we are different': discourse of difference in postcolonial Namibia
(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 ...
Mueda massacre: the musical archive
(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 ...