- Title
- Radical plural feminisms and emancipatory practice in post-Apartheid South Africa
- Creator
- Macleod, Catriona I
- Date Issued
- 2006
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:6291
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014711
- Description
- Despite ten years of democracy, gross inequities continue to permeate South African society, implying the need for emancipatory theory and practice. Furthermore, despite a minority critical voice, South African psychology, as elsewhere, has been a generally conservative discipline. In this paper I explore how a radical plural feminism provides a resource for liberatory theory/practice. Drawing on Foucauldian discourse and postcolonial insights, this framework performs a ‘both/and’ (rather than an ‘either/or’) function in the theorizing and practice of diversity/unity and micro/macro-level politics. This theory is installed in practice through intellectual activism. Intellectual activism implies in this context: refusing abstractions that pre-define who one is, while at the same time strategically deploying plural identities around contingent issues; working in the bordersites of dominant understandings; identifying, communicating and acting upon transversal relations of commonality; identifying and inhabiting the contradictions and disparities contained in dominant and oppressive discourses; and being constantly vigilant and reflective in terms of self, other, context, process, assumptions and theory.
- Description
- This article was written by Catriona Macleod in affiliation with the University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Macleod, C. (2006). Radical plural feminisms and emancipatory practice in post-Apartheid South Africa. Theory & Psychology, 16, 367-389. http://tap.sagepub.com/content/16/3/367.abstract
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