Denunciations of dependence

Race, gender, and the double bind of domestic work in the Eastern Cape

Datos Bibliográficos

ID18992124
AutoresLotte Danielsen (Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway [email protected], autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen2021
Número90
Páginas47-57
Fecha de publicación2021-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFocaal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0920-1297 • E-ISSN: 1558-5263
EditorialBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/fcl.2021.900105
OpenAlexW3164653228
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas38

This article focuses on workers in a South African township who enter into relationships of hierarchical dependence due to a lack of alternatives in the context of high unemployment and neoliberal fiscal restraint. The relationships are characterized by a double bind: workers seek relations of dependence in order to be recognized as persons, yet within these relations they are often denied such recognition, which reproduces experiences of infantilization, paternalism, and dehumanization associated with the past. The article explores how racialized and gendered meanings condition how men and women navigate relationships of hierarchical dependence, what they can expect to get from them and how these bonds can potentially be drawn on in efforts to escape them

Dehumanization · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Paternalism · Political science · Sociology · Unemployment · Anthropology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics