Hanneke Stuit

Ubuntu Strategies

Constructing Spaces of Belonging in Contemporary South African Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-58639-1
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9781137586391
• ISBN-10: 1137586397
• Artikelnr.: 44538299

Autorenporträt

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). 

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Ubuntu Unchained: A Travelling Concept.- 1 Ubuntu and Common Humanity in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.- 2 Ubuntu in Transit: From Divisive Pasts to Open Futures.- 3 Facing Others: Towards an Ethics of Ubuntu.- 4 "The Ubuntu Strategy":The Commodification and Affective Politics of Ubuntu.- Afterword: Ubuntu Security.