Voices That Reason

by Sitas, Ari

• ISBN13: 9781868882786
• ISBN10: 1868882780
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-30
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

Voices that Reason is a path-breaking work. The author has charted the thoroughfares that speed the thought of many black South Africans towards specific expectations, grievances and actions. The present work constitutes an important and thought-provoking culmination of a generations worth of disparate but related revisionist thinking within the social sciences and history of South Africa.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
SECTION 1 Theoretical Parables	1	(12)
One The parables	3	(10)
It was only used...	3	(1)
The amasi bird...	3	(1)
The madman was truly dangerous...	3	(1)
For twenty nights and nineteen days...	4	(1)
I am student number 94356123...	4	(1)
Shelelembuze was not human...	5	(1)
She had received the envelopes...	5	(1)
He had taken all the spiritual counsel...	6	(1)
He was a proud one...	6	(1)
There on my forklift...	6	(1)
He was the hope of the hopeless...	7	(1)
We want you, said the ancestors...	7	(1)
When she returned...	7	(1)
Nobkhuluwana changed her mind	7	(1)
Concluding riddle	8	(5)
SECTION 2 Beyond Afropessimism	13	(24)
One Beyond Afropessimism — Development and identity in a globalising world	15	(10)
Two Exploiting Phumelele Nene Postmodernism, intellectual work and ordinary lives	25	(12)
SECTION 3 Sociological Parables and Sociological Practice	37	(80)
One Inqol emasondosondo! For a sociology of civic virtue	39	(12)
Two Fencing, cutting, transgressing	51	(19)
Three The invisible labour process — a study of daydreams at work	70	(17)
Four Parables of orality, identity and survival	87	(17)
Five Emancipation, civic virtue and the social	104	(10)
Six The riddle of traditions and diversity	114	(3)
Notes	117	(9)
References	126	(7)
Author Index	133