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The word "research" has its origins in old French in the 16th
century. The word rechercher meant (and still means) "to search
for". Nowadays we would say that research, and specifically
"scientific" or "scholarly" research, is the search for truth, or
the pursuit of or quest for credible knowledge. It is precisely
because research has become such a complex and multidimensional
endeavour that we need to "make sense of" it. Making sense of
research thus unpacks research as a technical and methodical
process which starts with framing interesting questions and
culminates in credible findings. (Johann Mouton) Making sense of
research is designed to take students beyond the messy experiential
realm into what actually happens when getting registered, writing
proposals, being examined and eventually crossing the stage to be
capped. Making sense of research is aimed at all research students.
The San (hunter- gatherers) and Khoe (herders) of southern Africa
were dispossessed of their land before, during and after the
European colonial period, which started in 1652. They were often
enslaved and forbidden from practicing their culture and speaking
their languages. In South Africa, under apartheid, after 1948, they
were reclassified as "Coloured" which further undermined Khoe and
San culture, forcing them to reconfigure and realign their
identities and loyalties. Southern Africa is no longer under
colonial or apartheid rule; the San and Khoe, however, continue in
the struggle to maintain the remnants of their languages and
cultures, and are marginalised by the dominant peoples of the
region. The San in particular, continue to command very extensive
research attention from a variety of disciplines, from anthropology
and linguistics to genetics. They are, however, usually studied as
static historical objects but they are not merely peoples of the
past, as is often assumed; they are very much alive in contemporary
society with cultural and language needs. This book brings together
studies from a range of disciplines to examine what it means to be
Indigenous Khoe and San in contemporary southern Africa. It
considers the current constraints on Khoe and San identity,
language and culture, constantly negotiating an indeterminate
social positioning where they are treated as the inconvenient
indigenous. Usually studied as original anthropos, but out of their
time, this book shifts attention from the past to the present, and
how the San have negotiated language, literacy and identity for
coping in the period of modernity. It reveals that Afrikaans is
indeed an African language, incubated not only by Cape Malay slaves
working in the kitchens of the early Dutch settlers, but also by
the Khoe and San who interacted with sailors from passing ships
plying the West coast of southern Africa from the 14th century. The
book re- examines the idea of literacy, its relationship to
language, and how these shape identity. The chapters in this book
were originally published in the journal Critical Arts: South-North
Cultural and Media Studies.
This book examines China's identity transformations with a focus on
self-perceptions and their representations and communication in the
mass media. By considering the internal dynamics of change, it
explores the emerging multifaceted 'China brand'. With its growing
economic clout, China has taken a proactive stance in shaping
global economic and strategic order through ambitious programmes
such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the 'Belt and
Road' initiative. However, as a developing country, China is at
pains to manage its own transformations while trying to carve out
an international identity. Arguably, China's unique sense of
history and identities may lead to a 'contested modernity' or
'multiple modernities'; radically different from the prevalent
classical theories of modernisation and convergence of industrial
societies. To understand China's trajectory of future development
has been a major issue in international affairs. This book is
concerned with how China's hybridised identities are articulated,
and intertwined with situational, institutional, and societal
dynamics - and how they are interwoven with China's international
outlook which converges with or diverges from China's historical
assumptions and beliefs. This book will be of interest to those
studying China's identity in the media; situated at the juncture of
past, present, and future, and between China and the wider world.
The chapters in this book were originally published in Critical
Arts.
This volume adopts a transversal South-South approach to the study
of visual culture in transnational, transcultural, and geopolitical
contexts. Every day hundreds of people travel back and forth
between southern countries, including Australia, Argentina, Brazil,
Chile, New Zealand, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and South Africa. With
these people travel cultures, experiences, memories, and images.
This creates the conditions for the generation, sharing, and
circulation of new knowledge that is both southern and about the
South as a specific kind of material and imaginary territory (or
territories). It does so through the study of the southern
hemisphere's screen cultures, addressing the broad spectrum of
cultural expression in both traditional and new screen media,
including film, television, video, digital, interactive, and online
and portable technologies. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Critical Arts.
This volume adopts a transversal South-South approach to the study
of visual culture in transnational, transcultural, and geopolitical
contexts. Every day hundreds of people travel back and forth
between southern countries, including Australia, Argentina, Brazil,
Chile, New Zealand, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and South Africa. With
these people travel cultures, experiences, memories, and images.
This creates the conditions for the generation, sharing, and
circulation of new knowledge that is both southern and about the
South as a specific kind of material and imaginary territory (or
territories). It does so through the study of the southern
hemisphere's screen cultures, addressing the broad spectrum of
cultural expression in both traditional and new screen media,
including film, television, video, digital, interactive, and online
and portable technologies. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Critical Arts.
The San/Bushmen are one of the most studied people in anthropology,
subjects of research going back one hundred years, of
documentaries, and even of popular movies (The Gods Must Be Crazy).
This intriguing new work on the San is a team-based ethnography,
collaborative (one of the writers is married to a member of the
community), reflexive (the authors become characters in the book
themselves), and literary (with poetry, dialogue, interviews,
photography, and first person accounts, as well as traditional
ethnographic description). In this book, South Africans are
studying other South Africans, in a new environment in which many
San are no longer hunter gatherers, but are activist and engaged in
cultural tourism. It will be an exciting counterpoint to
traditional ethnographies and stories about the San people, for
anthropologists and Africanists.
This volume examines the crisis of humanities narratives in the
context of neoliberal capitalism and of the emergence and
consolidation of the metrics-driven, corporate, managerial
university. Do narratives of the crisis of the humanities mobilize
specific notions of value and prestige? How are these notions
classed, gendered and racialized? How do narratives of the crisis
of the humanities relate to current debates and contestations
surrounding decolonization? Does the crisis of a traditional
configuration of the humanities open up opportunities to use their
institutional space for work that is both socially and politically
relevant and academically rigorous? The aim is to provide a
counter-narrative of the present and future of the humanities. In
addition to the study of a multiplicity of media texts and other
multimodal expressive forms, formats and platforms and genres, a
communicative turn in the humanities entails deepening the study of
the value chains in which they are inserted and their conditions of
production, circulation and reception. Communicative and digital
capitalism, now labelled the Fourth Industrial Revolution, is on
its way to bringing its own waves of struggles and confrontations
to our campuses and beyond, to which humanities scholars and
activists can make a vital contribution-should some of us decide to
do so. This book will be of interest to researchers and advanced
students of Art, Literature, Media and Cultural Studies, Education,
Politics, Sociology, and Social and Cultural Anthropology. The
chapters in this book were originally published in the journal
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies.
The San/Bushmen are one of the most studied people in anthropology,
subjects of research going back one hundred years, of
documentaries, and even of popular movies (The Gods Must Be Crazy).
This intriguing new work on the San is a team-based ethnography,
collaborative (one of the writers is married to a member of the
community), reflexive (the authors become characters in the book
themselves), and literary (with poetry, dialogue, interviews,
photography, and first person accounts, as well as traditional
ethnographic description). In this book, South Africans are
studying other South Africans, in a new environment in which many
San are no longer hunter gatherers, but are activist and engaged in
cultural tourism. It will be an exciting counterpoint to
traditional ethnographies and stories about the San people, for
anthropologists and Africanists.
This book examines China's identity transformations with a focus on
self-perceptions and their representations and communication in the
mass media. By considering the internal dynamics of change, it
explores the emerging multifaceted 'China brand'. With its growing
economic clout, China has taken a proactive stance in shaping
global economic and strategic order through ambitious programmes
such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the 'Belt and
Road' initiative. However, as a developing country, China is at
pains to manage its own transformations while trying to carve out
an international identity. Arguably, China's unique sense of
history and identities may lead to a 'contested modernity' or
'multiple modernities'; radically different from the prevalent
classical theories of modernisation and convergence of industrial
societies. To understand China's trajectory of future development
has been a major issue in international affairs. This book is
concerned with how China's hybridised identities are articulated,
and intertwined with situational, institutional, and societal
dynamics - and how they are interwoven with China's international
outlook which converges with or diverges from China's historical
assumptions and beliefs. This book will be of interest to those
studying China's identity in the media; situated at the juncture of
past, present, and future, and between China and the wider world.
The chapters in this book were originally published in Critical
Arts.
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