Discursive psychological analysis on the construction and performance of identity through rights talk on social media related to #FeesMustFall
- Authors: Mashaba, Tumelo Thabo
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: Identity , Right to education , Human rights , Social media -- Political aspects -- South Africa , College students -- Political activity -- South Africa , College students -- Attitudes -- South Africa , College students, Black -- Psychology -- South Africa , College students, Black -- Attitudes -- South Africa , College students -- Psychology -- South Africa , Student protestors -- Attitudes -- South Africa , Student movements -- South Africa , Internet and activisim -- South Africa , Internet in political campaigns -- South Africa , Higher education and state -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/96668 , vital:31306
- Description: #FeesMustFall emerged at the end of 2015 after an announcement that tuitions would increase. The student protests occurred across higher education institutions within the country in which mass shutdowns were initiated, there was the presence of violence and the use of social media. The protests occurred in 2016 but experienced a shift in tone in terms of the violence present in the protests. The research sought to unpack how identity was constructed and performed through rights talk in regards to #FeesMustFall on social media. The methodology worked from a social constructionist perspective where the research consisted of a discursive psychological analytical approach to the texts presented. The discursive repertoires that were identified were: emotions repertoire; struggle repertoire; apartheid repertoire; racial repertoire; and rights repertoire. The subject positions revealed through the repertoires indicated that protesters and supporters constructed and performed their identity in particular ways. They were positioned as black; working class; victims who are enacting a sense of agency; denied their rights; have moral authority and are a parallel to the protesters under apartheid. The repertoire of struggle, racial and apartheid all link with each other. The rights repertoire is the foundation and the emotions repertoire is the tone of the student protests.
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- Date Issued: 2019
A critical Fanonian understanding of black student identities at Rhodes University, South Africa
- Authors: Mercadal-Barroso, Adriana Kimberly
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961 -- Political and social views , Rhodes University , Education, Higher , College graduates, Black -- South Africa -- Grahamstown -- Attitudes , Identity , Black people -- Ethnic identity
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSocSc
- Identifier: vital:3391 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016375
- Description: South African history is rooted in racial identities, inequalities and injustices, which the post-apartheid government has sought to address for twenty years since 1994. The transition to a post-apartheid society though has been a difficult one with the social structure and everyday life still marked by the racial past. Though racial classifications on an official basis no longer exist, racial identities continue to pervade the country. Of particular significance to this thesis are black identities including the possibility of black inferiority, which I examine in relation to black post-graduate university students in contemporary South Africa, specifically at Rhodes University. In examining this topic, I draw extensively on the work of Frantz Fanon, who wrote about both colonial society and the emerging post-colonial experience. Fanon was a young black intellectual whose work was in part based on his own experiences of being a once-colonised black person in a world which he perceived as being dominated by whiteness. In his work he expresses his own perceptions of whiteness and how the black identity has come to be shaped by and around this dominant white foundation. Fanon extensively discussed the lives of black intellectuals and elites, and demonstrated how the black identity becomes shaped by and around the world of whiteness. In doing so, he raised a range of themes, such as black inferiority, mimicry and double consciousness. I draw upon the work of Fanon in a critically sympathetic manner to delve into the experiences of black postgraduate students as they negotiate their way through a university setting dominated by a white institutional culture. I bring to the fore the argument that the racial identities of these students is not fixed and sutured but, rather, is marked by considerable fluidity and ambiguity such that black identity must be understood not just as a state of being but also as a process of becoming.
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- Date Issued: 2015
The African Heritage in music and art
- Authors: Tracey, Hugh
- Subjects: Churches , Nyasaland , Sikoshe , Datshi , The Church of Sinners , Sinners , Archive , Library , Identity , Group identity , Funds , Heritage , Tradition , Western material , Basutholand , Lesotho , Pentatonic , Hexatonic , Heptatonic , Sotho , Zulu , Carol , Distortion , Stress , Tone , Poetry , Trochaic , Iambic , Ciskei , Country , Wedding song , Preacher , Ntsikana , Ntsikana‘s Bell , Ntsikana‘s Prayer , Ntsikana‘s Song , Arab grunt , Dar es Salaam , Dr Bokwe , Zwelitsha , Southern Congo , Kamina , Country dance , Latin mass , Missa Luba , Gloria , Rattles , Drums , Xylophone , Bell , Drum , Hand piano , Clicking , Mouth smacking , The Talkative Woman , Folk music , Self-reflectation , Morality songs , Lilongwe , Snatching season , Tobacco , Courts , Mouth of the Limpopo , Subjects , Complex tune , Mbira , Likembe , Sansi , Kalimba , Nyongonyongo , Zimbabwe , Karinungu , Attitude (Psychology) , Kwela music , Tsostis , Penny whistle , Four-note harmonies , Thumbs , Congo River , Wagenya , Alexander Corder , Canoe song , Hollywood , Negro music , Sound of the South , Roots of the Blues , Negro Church Music , What do you think about Jesus? He‘s alright
- Language: English
- Type: Sound , Music
- Identifier: vital:15108 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008536 , Reel number: BC171
- Description: Second half of the lecture "The African heritage in music and art" , A lecture presented by Hugh Tracey at the General Education Conference Technical College Pretoria South Africa , For further details refer to the ILAM document collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcast Collection
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The Sound of Africa: Southern Rhodesia - The Federation of Rhodesia Nyasaland No.3
- Authors: Tracey, Hugh
- Subjects: Marimba , Gold miners , Traders , Persia , Baboons , Sprites , Rocks , History , Shona , Identity , Culture , Indigenous music , Modern music , Musicians , Personality , Poetry , Call and response , Singing , Choir , Language , Naming , Names , Mbira , Hand piano , Dances , Jazz , Rock ‘n roll , African nationalism , Village , Food , Subsistence economy , Drums , Yodelling , Utopia , Politicians , European , Politics , Zulu , Ndebele , Colonisation , Conquer , Class system , Law and order , Organised society , Stability , Discipline , Zidukwana , Donda chawane mauyo , Processional , Chipunza , Story , Acetate , Shamuyarira , Musarurwa , Savanhu , Peter Nahlanzu
- Language: English
- Type: Sound , Radio broadcast , Music
- Identifier: vital:15095 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008523 , Reel number: BC125
- Description: 3rd programme of The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland of ‘The Sound of Africa‘ Series of illustrated talks by Hugh Tracey on his travels in search of African music, broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation , For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcasts
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