Narrating the Everyday: Windows on Life in Central South Africa

Magdalena Wojciechowska, Jan K. Coetzee, Asta Rau

Description

The chapters in this book reflect on the practice of using narratives to understand individual and social reality. They all reveal dimensions of the same concrete reality: contemporary society of Central South Africa. Except for two, all the chapters originated from research in the program The Narrative Study of Lives, situated in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Each chapter opens a window on an aspect of everyday life in Central South Africa. Each window displays the capacity of the narrative as a methodological tool in qualitative research to open up better understandings of everyday experience. The chapters also reflect on the epistemological journey towards unwrapping and breaking open of meaning. Narratives are one of many tools available to sociologists in their quest to understand and interpret meaning. But, when it comes to deep understanding, narratives are particularly effective in opening up more intricate levels of meaning associated with emotions, feelings, and subjective experiences.

Sujets

• Littérature Sud-Africaine
• Littérature sud-africaine
• Libération
• Transformation
• Emotions
• The Stranger
• Interaction
• Emotion
• Relationship
• Slavery
• Creativity
• Sangoma
• Physical disability
• Liberation
• Intimate relationship
• Social network service
• Belonging
• Stranger
• Emotions (álbum)
• Relationships

Informations

• Publié par: UJ Press
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781928424192
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

Narrating the Everyday Windows on Life in Central South Africa

Jan K . Coetzee Asta Rau Magdalena Wojciechowska Editors

Narrating the Everyday

Windows on Life in Central South Africa

EDITORS Jan K. COeTzee ASTa rau MagDalena WOjcIechOwSka

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This was the openness the sky had been promising. The land dropped and dropped. The continent here was gigantically awed. The eye lost itself in the colourless distances of the wide valley, dissolving in every direction in cloud and haze … ‘Africa, Africa.’ ‘Shall we stop and have a look?’

– V.S. Naipaul – In a Free State(1973:116)

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on sTORIeS anD UnDeRSTanDIng ............................................................ Jan K. Coetzee & Asta Rau

decOnSTRucTIng My LIbRaRy, UnwRappIng My LIfewORlD ............. Jan K. Coetzee

EmOTIOnS anD BelOngIng ....................................................................... Asta Rau

BeTween EnSlavemenT anD LIbeRaTIOn .............................................. Jan K. Coetzee & Asta Rau

the EveRyDay In a tIme Of tRanSfORmaTIOn ..................................... P. Conrad Kotze & Jan K. Coetzee

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Reecting on Female Beauty............................................................... 113 Alessandra K. Heggenstaller, Asta Rau, Jan K. Coetzee, Anne Ryen & Ria Smit

BeauTy anD The COSmeTIc secReT ......................................................... 136 Alessandra K. Heggenstaller, Asta Rau, Jan K. Coetzee, Ria Smit & Anne Ryen

HaIR dIScOuRSeS .......................................................................................... 160 Zukiswa Majali, Jan K. Coetzee & Asta Rau

the CReaTIve PROceSS ............................................................................... 179 Phokeng T. Setai, Jan K. Coetzee, Christoph Maeder, Magdalena Wojciechowska & Leane Ackermann

onlIne sOcIal NeTwORkIng, inTeRacTIOnS, anD relaTIOnS .............. 195 Sello J. Sele, Jan K. Coetzee, Florian Elliker, Cornie Groenewald & Sethulego Z. Matebesi

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onlIne GameRS, LIveD ExpeRIenceS, anD senSe Of BelOngIng ... André J. Pietersen, Jan K. Coetzee, Dominika Byczkowska-Owczarek, Florian Elliker & Leane Ackermann

oveRcOmIng The dIvIDe .......................................................................... Michael Kok, Jan K. Coetzee & Florian Elliker

GROup iDenTITy anD GROupneSS ............................................................ Florian Elliker, P. Conrad Kotze & Jan K. Coetzee

A shOck TO The sySTem ........................................................................... Ndakaitei Chikonzo, Asta Rau, Jan K. Coetzee, Anne Ryen, Florian Elliker & Amanda Young-Hauser

the sangOma OR The HealThcaRe CenTeR? ........................................ Naomi Yvonne Mbelekani, Amanda M. Young-Hauser & Jan K. Coetzee

ExpeRIencIng PhySIcal dISabIlITy .......................................................... Seithati Rafoneke, Jan K. Coetzee, Pia H. Bülow, Penny Jaray & Amanda Young-Hauser

MOTheR-daughTeR COmmunIcaTIOn On inTImaTe relaTIOnShIpS .............................................................................................. Ntombizonke A. Gumede, Amanda M. Young-Hauser & Jan K. Coetzee

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LIfe aS a sTRangeR ...................................................................................... 373 ‘Malilimala Moletsane, Jan K. Coetzee & Asta Rau

ExpeRIencIng BOunDaRIeS ....................................................................... Melissa Kelly, ‘Malilimala Moletsane & Jan K. Coetzee

inSuRgenT CITIzenShIp anD suSTaIneD reSISTance Of a LOcal taxI ASSOcIaTIOn ......................................................................................... Sethulego Z. Matebesi

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AcknOwleDgemenTS

We extend our gratitude to:

the InTeRnaTIOnal, acaDemIc jOuRnal Qualitative Sociology Review fOR peRmISSIOn TO RepRInT aRTIcleS publISheD In VOlume Xiii(1), 2017 anD VOlume XiV(4), 2018. Qualitative Sociology ReviewIS an iBss- anD scOpuS-lISTeD, dHEt-accReDITeD jOuRnal.

All aRTIcleS publISheD InQualitative Sociology Review aRe SubjecTeD TO InDepenDenT DOuble-blInD peeR-RevIew.

theUniversity of the Free State’s Vice-Rector (Research) and Research Directorate fOR cOnTInueD SuppORT anD funDIng.

theNational Research Foundation (NRF) fOR funDIng aSpecTS Of The pROgRam, paRTIculaRly ThROugh The Competitive Programme for Rated Researchers.

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NOTeS On The AuThORS

The Editors

Jà K. Côézéé IS senIOR PROfeSSOR In The depaRTmenT Of sOcIOlOgy aT the University of the Free State, South Africa. He is program director for The Narrative Study of Lives, SupeRvISIng anD ReSeaRchIng pROjecTS wIThIn InTeRpReTIve anD qualITaTIve DeSIgnS. HIS RecenT publIcaTIOnS IncluDe 21 aRTIcleS wITh pOSTgRaDuaTe STuDenTS, ReSeaRch fellOwS, anD ReSeaRch paRTneRS In 2 specIal EDITIOnS OfQualitative Sociology Review– VOlume Xiii (1), 2017 anD VOlume XiV (4), 2018 ReSpecTIvely – cOveRIng a Range Of aSpecTS Of The lIfewORlDS Of sOuTh AfRIcanS lIvIng In The cenTRal paRT Of The cOunTRy. He IS a pRacTIcIng vISual aRTIST anD hIS laTeST wORk fOcuSeS On bOOkS aS DOcumenTS Of lIveS, uSIng OlD TexTS juxTapOSeD wITh fOunD anD SculpTeD ObjecTS TO DRaw aTTenTIOn TO The bOOk aS SymbOlIc knOwleDge ObjecT anD pOTenTIal SOuRce Of cRITIcalITy. An InDepenDenTly DOuble-blInD peeR-RevIeweD publIcaTIOn,Books & Bones & Other Things(sUN Press, 2018) cOnTaInS exampleS Of ThIS wORk.

Aŝà RàU IS OuTgOIng dIRecTOR Of The CenTRe fOR HealTh sySTemS reSeaRch & Development at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Her key expertise IS In cOncepTualISIng, TheORISIng, anD DeSIgnIng ReSeaRch, anD OpeRaTIOnalISIng DeSIgnS InTO a Range Of meThODOlOgIeS: qualITaTIve, quanTITaTIve, anD mIxeD- meThODS. she haS cOmpleTeD 30 naTIOnal anD InTeRnaTIOnal ReSeaRch pROjecTS fOcuSeD On SOcIal aSpecTS Of healTh, paRTIculaRly In RelaTIOn TO HiV, healTh SySTemS STRengThenIng, anD healTh cOmmunIcaTIOn. she cO-eDITeD TwO specIal EDITIOnS Of The accReDITeD, OnlIne jOuRnalQualitative Sociology Review (VOlume Xiii (1), 2017 anD VOlume XiV (4), 2018 ReSpecTIvely), wheRe heR wORk In naRRaTIve meThODOlOgy appeaRS. thReaDIng ThROughOuT heR ReSeaRch caReeR IS a STROng InTeReST In The funcTIOnIng anD analySIS Of pOweR – an InTeReST unDeRlyIng heR cOnTRIbuTIOnS In ThIS bOOk.

Màdàéà WôjçIéçôwŝkà IS a LecTuReR In The depaRTmenT Of Sociology of Organisations and Management, Faculty of Economics and Sociology at the University of Łodz, Poland. She is the Executive Editor of the InTeRnaTIOnal OnlIne jOuRnalQualitative Sociology Review.

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