Ubuntu Strategies
Constructing Spaces of Belonging in Contemporary South African Culture
Authors: Stuit, Hanneke
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- About this book
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Hanneke Stuit delves into Ubuntu's relevance both in South Africa and in Western contexts, analyzing the political and ethical ramifications of the term's uses in different media including literature, cartoons, journalistic fiction, commercials, commodities, photography, and political manifestos in contemporary South African culture.
- About the authors
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Hanneke Stuit is Assistant Professor of Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA).
- Reviews
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“This is a brilliant testimony to the fact that Ubuntu discourse is finally emerging from the long, dark and, often, sentimental discourse of African nationalism. Drawing on a wide range of cultural strategies in contemporary South Africa including novels, photography, poetry, and advertising, this original, unconventional and erudite, not to mention beautifully written, analysis will no doubt be welcomed by scholars who work in African and continental philosophy, LGBTI studies, literature and culture studies.” (Dr. Leonhard Praeg, author of “A Report on Ubuntu”)
“Hanneke Stuit conducts an innovative and conceptually bracing analysis of Ubuntu by way of detailed attention to diverse materializations of the South African politico-cultural scene. In her close readings of literary texts, cartoons, commercials, photographs, fashion accessories—and testimonies from the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission—Stuit offers an inventive and thought-provoking contribution to theories and philosophies emerging from a South Africa in political transition.” (Prof. dr. Carrol Clarkson, author of “Countervoices and Drawing the Line”)
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction: Ubuntu1 Unchained—A Travelling Concept
Pages 1-38
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Ubuntu and Common Humanity in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Pages 39-82
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Ubuntu in Transit: From Divisive Pasts to Open Futures
Pages 83-123
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Facing Others: Towards an Ethics of Ubuntu
Pages 125-166
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“The Ubuntu Strategy”: Commodification and the Affective Politics of Ubuntu
Pages 167-211
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Ubuntu Strategies
- Book Subtitle
- Constructing Spaces of Belonging in Contemporary South African Culture
- Authors
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- Hanneke Stuit
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-58009-2
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-58009-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-58639-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 240
- Number of Illustrations
- 16 illustrations in colour
- Topics
