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Running with the jackals: Antjie Krog the journalist

- Garman, Anthea

Authors: Garman, Anthea
Date: 2014
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159813 , vital:40346 , ISBN 9781869142537
Description: Antjie Krog: An Ethics of Body and Otherness brings together critical responses to the fascinating life's work of one of South Africa's most prominent writers and public figures. As the writer of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission chronicle, Country of My Skull (1998), other works of creative non-fiction, Afrikaans poetry, translations, and journalism, Antjie Krog has, over a career spanning four decades, produced an important body of work informed by her no-holds-barred openness, acute self-awareness, and social engagement. As a public figure, she is both a dissident who provocatively challenges norms and a mediator between cultures. In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the many facets of Antjie Krog's work. The book's essays focus on identity, race, gender, apartheid, trauma, and transformation. There is also a thought-provoking interview with Krog on translation. This book will be of interest to scholars of postcolonial literature, politics, South African literature, as well as media and translation studies.
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Date Issued: 2014

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The meanings of citizenship: media use and democracy in South Africa

- Wasserman, Herman, Garman, Anthea

Authors: Wasserman, Herman , Garman, Anthea
Date: 2014
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159901 , vital:40354 , https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2014.929304
Description: In 1994, South Africans embarked on a project to create new meanings of citizenship in order to transcend the disenfranchisement and divisions created by apartheid. This article examines the context in which new forms of citizenship are evolving in South Africa and how South African citizens use the media to give meaning to concepts such as “an active public sphere,” “civic agency” and “participatory politics.” The objective of the research is to provide information about the way in which the media contribute to the quality of democracy in South Africa through mediating citizenship in a way that improves prospects for citizens to exert influence over public decisions.
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Date Issued: 2014

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Troubling White Englishness in South Africa: a self-interrogation of privilege, complicity citizenship, and belonging

- Garman, Anthea

Authors: Garman, Anthea
Date: 2014
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159746 , vital:40339 , ISBN 978-0739192962
Description: Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century: Global Manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions is a tightly interconnected and richly collaborative book that will advance our understanding of why it is so difficult to re-form and reimagine whiteness in the twenty-first century. Composed after the election of the first black U.S. president, post-global financial crisis, more than a decade after 9/11, and concomitant with a rash of xenophobic incidents across the globe, the book distills several key themes associated with a post-millennial global whiteness: the individual and collective emotions of whiteness, the recentering of whiteness through governing and legal strategies, and the retreats from social equity and justice that have characterized the late twentieth and twenty-first century nation state. It also attempts the difficult work of reimagining white identities and cultures for a new era.
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Date Issued: 2014

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A baseline study of youth identity, the media and the public sphere in South Africa:

- Malila, Vanessa, Duncan, Jane, Costera Meijer, Irene, Drok, Nico, Garman, Anthea, Strelitz, Larry N, Steenveld, Lynette N, Bosch, Tanja, Ndlovu, Musa

Authors: Malila, Vanessa , Duncan, Jane , Costera Meijer, Irene , Drok, Nico , Garman, Anthea , Strelitz, Larry N , Steenveld, Lynette N , Bosch, Tanja , Ndlovu, Musa
Date: 2013
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159780 , vital:40343 , https://research.vu.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/3635364/Baseline+study+single+column+(1).pdf
Description: The project on youth identity, the media and the public sphere in South Africa was led by Prof Jane Duncan, Highway Africa Chair of Media and Information Society, at Rhodes University in South Africa. The research project was funded by the South Africa Netherlands Research Programme on Alternatives in Development (SANPAD), and partnered in the Netherlands with Prof Irene Costera Meijer (of VU University of Amsterdam) and Prof Nico Drok (of Windesheim University).
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Date Issued: 2013

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Being South African and belonging: the status and practice of mediated citizenship in a new democracy

- Wasserman, Herman, Garman, Anthea

Authors: Wasserman, Herman , Garman, Anthea
Date: 2013
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159769 , vital:40342 , ISBN 978-1-84888-186-0
Description: Democratic South Africa, with its highly inclusive constitution and embrace of all races, creeds and colours, could be understood as having an ideal form of citizenship to be emulated by other nations. At the heart of the 1996 constitution is the eradication of apartheid separation and the provision that all South Africans have shared humanity (‘ubuntu’). The Truth and Reconciliation Commission entrenched three founding critical ideas in public life: the right to talk, the recognition of shared humanity and the impulse to speak out about the horrors of the past. As a result the public sphere is filled with a great outpouring of personal stories and experiences in both the mainstream and popular forms of media. But South Africans continue to be preoccupied with the status of their citizenship; who a South African is and who belongs is uppermost in many public conversations.
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Date Issued: 2013

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Making meaning of citizenship: how ‘born frees’ use media in South Africa's democratic evolution

- Malila, Vanessa, Oeofsen, Marietjie, Garman, Anthea

Authors: Malila, Vanessa , Oeofsen, Marietjie , Garman, Anthea
Date: 2013
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159790 , vital:40344 , DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2013.852598
Description: By examining young people's habits of using the media in relation to citizenship, this article responds to calls that the starting point for research into citizenship and democracy should be the perspectives of citizens themselves. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative research with young South Africans (the ‘born free’ generation), the study sought to gain insight into how young people use media to make sense of notions of citizenship and participatory democracy in ways that are relevant and reliable to their everyday lives.
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Date Issued: 2013

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Media, citizenship and the politics of belonging in contemporary South Africa:

- Milton, Viola C, Wasserman, Herman, Garman, Anthea

Authors: Milton, Viola C , Wasserman, Herman , Garman, Anthea
Date: 2013
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159802 , vital:40345 , DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2013.864447
Description: Drawing on a wide range of theoretical and empirical studies, the articles in this special issue examine issues of citizenship and belonging in South Africa. Questions of belonging and citizenship are neither novel, nor particular to South Africa – they have been high on the intellectual (and popular) agenda internationally since at least the early 1990s. Yet South Africa's history of artificially separating and defining its citizens in the racial regimes of colonialism and apartheid still reverberates today, as is reflected in the continued inequalities marring South African society
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Date Issued: 2013

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Submission to Press Freedom Commission (PFC) on Media Self-regulation, Co-regulation or Statutory regulation in South Africa:

- Wasserman, Herman, Steenveld, Lynette N, Strelitz, Larry N, Amner, Roderick J, Boshoff, Priscilla A, Mathurine, Jude, Garman, Anthea

Authors: Wasserman, Herman , Steenveld, Lynette N , Strelitz, Larry N , Amner, Roderick J , Boshoff, Priscilla A , Mathurine, Jude , Garman, Anthea
Date: 2012
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143571 , vital:38263 , ISBN , https://www.ru.ac.za/media/rhodesuniversity/content/ruhome/documents/JMS Submission to Press Freedom Commission.pdf
Description: Prof Duncan has outlined the relative merits and demerits of self-regulation, co-regulation and deregulation, with which we are in broad agreement. She has also ably dealt with the three functions of regulatory bodies, namely the setting of ground rules for the industry to ensure best practice; enforcement of these; and adjudication of claims and counter claims re journalistic practice (Duncan 2012, p17). Finally, she has also taken up the issue of the necessity of accepting Third Party Complaints as one of the fundamental mechanisms by which citizens can make complaints on the basis of principle, rather than being personally aggrieved. While we are in broad agreement with her on these issues, we would like to highlight some further points for consideration.
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Date Issued: 2012

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Troubling White Englishness in South Africa:

- Garman, Anthea

Authors: Garman, Anthea
Date: 2012
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159756 , vital:40340 , ISBN 978-1-84888-105-1
Description: To be white in Africa is to be part of a minority - but a very powerful minority. To be white in South Africa is to be implicated and complicit in historical dispossession and disenfranchisement. However, in post-apartheid South Africa, whiteness is no longer the invisible condition of the default human being, a condition to which all other humans must aspire. In fact, to be white is suddenly to be very visibly Other to the black African majority who are increasingly shaping the social landscape in ways that undermine the trajectories of both the colonial project and the apartheid project in this country.
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Date Issued: 2012

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Global resonance, local amplification: Antjie Krog on a world stage

- Garman, Anthea

Authors: Garman, Anthea
Date: 2010
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159736 , vital:40338 , https://doi.org/10.1080/02533950903562468
Description: As a result of the publication of Country of my Skull, an extraordinary literary enactment of witness and confession, Antjie Krog has become internationally known as a writer profoundly engaged with the events and human drama uncovered by the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Her voice is read as that of an expert witness of trauma, forgiveness and the means by which the horrors of the past may be addressed. In seeking to understand how Krog came to be taken up internationally as a representative voice of the South African transition, I focus on a particular global–local nexus for an explanation. I theorise that dealing with the past via truth commissions, a global publishing context and the work of a local writer with a record of excellent literary output and political action enabled a fit which resulted in Krog coming to prominence on a world stage.
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Date Issued: 2010

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