Lauren Dyll
Biographic Data
| ID | 1399231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren Dyll |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren |
| FAMILY NAME | Dyll |
| SIGNATURE | DYLL L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8722-029X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Communicating Healing Through Ethnic Music: An Analysis of Shona Indigenous Approaches to Psycho-Social Support for the Bereaved as Projected Through Selected Songs by Oliver Mtukudzi
Through analyzing Zimbabwean musician, Oliver Mtukudzi’s lyrics, we explore the Shona community’s concept of death as a culturally codified rite of passage. Through a discursive analysis of Mtukudzi’s songs, the paper explores approaches to psycho-social support for the grieving that occurs within Shona cosmology and cultural praxis. It shows that healing is a multi-factorial process that is contextualized within community cultural and ethical va…
Cultural Studies with Communities in South Africa: Implications for Participatory Development Communication and Social Change Research
This article theorizes the role of local and indigenous culture in its intersection with development initiatives. It argues that Communication for Development and Social Change (CDSC), through a cultural studies framework, strengthens the potentiality of democratization and participation within community-based development and social change settings. We advocate that applied cultural studies can facilitate agency (through voice and self-representa…
Rapid Communication: Critical Management Studies/Cultural Studies
Zulu masculinities in South African soap opera: Uzalo, Imbewu and Isibaya
This paper explores the production and consumption of contemporary Zulu masculinities presented in three South African soap operas by Zulu male audiences living in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Exploring the interpretations of the constructions of Zulu masculinities in Uzalo, Imbewu, and Isibaya by the situated Zulu male audience provides insight into their various forms of identity and social experience, bearing in mind the dominant societal and …
Insights into a Beneficial but Labour Intensive Post-Doctoral Publishing Project
Post-doctoral research fellowships (PDRF) in South Africa often require the fellow to produce a particular number of publications each year. Many of the PDRFs, however, find publishing a challenge. In response to this, a project was established to support, encourage and enable PDRFs based in South African universities to publish in this special issue of Critical Arts. During the course of the project, contacts were made and events attended which …
Methods of “Literacy” in Indigenising Research Education: Transformative Methods Used in the Kalahari
Within the current South African “research education” context, characterised by the call for decolonisation, massification of education (yet a lack of resources) and neoliberal managerialism, graduate students and academics face challenges in conducting “culturally literate” research that is transformative. This article establishes that language, in rethinking indigeneity, means more than just linguistic symbolic expression, and extends to includ…
A Dialectic Analysis of Views on Participation in HIV/Aids Communication of Selected South African People Living with HIV/Aids: Beyond the Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV/Aids
In the absence of an HIV vaccine, the current means to contain HIV/AIDS include reducing behavioural risks and seropositive infectivity among sexually active people living with HIV (PLHIV). Both require targeted communication. However, even with exposure to the same information, people choose and show diverse and sometimes risky behaviours. This article analyses views on HIV/AIDS communication by selected South African PLHIV (people living with H…
Indigenous environmental knowledge and challenging dualisms in development: Observations from the Kalahari
The dividing practice of separating indigenous and scientific knowledge should be avoided. The article illustrates how these forms of knowledge are negotiated in development projects where research participants are included as co-researchers. Data were collected through interviews and participant observation during fieldtrips to the Kalahari. !Xaus Lodge, the first research site, a poverty alleviation tourism asset built by the South African gove…
Public self-expression: Decolonising researcher–researched relationships
A case is made for research participants (normally known as ‘informants’, ‘subjects’, ‘objects’, ‘sources’, etc.) to be included in certain kinds of studies as co-authors and co-researchers. Self-narrative is examined from the perspectives of both the researchers and the researched. Engraved landscape, a post-positivist visual archaeology anthology, is our case study that draws on long-term lived field research amongst the ǂKhomani Bushmen. The ǂ…
Development narratives: The value of multiple voices and ontologies in Kalahari research
This article is based on findings from a PhD study that explored the development communication processes between partners in the establishment of !Xaus Lodge in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. Framed within the critical indigenous qualitative research approach, it reveals the importance of local narratives in the coproduction of knowledge that may guide development initiatives. The ǂKhomani and Mier, as community partners, are San…
Entertainment education theory and practice in HIV/Aids communication: A South Africa/United Kingdom comparison
Within development communication, gaps remain in theory and practice: communication innovations are taking place which either do not incorporate theory or fail to challenge the assumptions of development communication and HIV/AIDS theory. This can lead to the implementation of unsuccessful interventions that lack theoretical frameworks or to uninformed practice, making it difficult to replicate. Further, research has demonstrated that Entertainme…
Community development strategies in the Kalahari: An expression of modernization's monologue?
This chapter examines aspects of South African and Botswana national tourism agendas and approaches with regard to development among indigenous peoples. The comparative case study focuses on two communities - the Khomani of Witdraai, in the Northern Cape of South Africa, and the !Xoo in Ngwatle, southern Botswana. The methodology incorporates auto-ethnography read through field experiences from 2001-2008, interviews and observations from the fiel…
In the sun with Silikat
Entertainment education theory and practice in HIV/Aids communication: A South Africa/United Kingdom comparison
Within development communication, gaps remain in theory and practice: communication innovations are taking place which either do not incorporate theory or fail to challenge the assumptions of development communication and HIV/AIDS theory. This can lead to the implementation of unsuccessful interventions that lack theoretical frameworks or to uninformed practice, making it difficult to replicate. Further, research has demonstrated that Entertainme…
Methods of “Literacy” in Indigenising Research Education: Transformative Methods Used in the Kalahari
Within the current South African “research education” context, characterised by the call for decolonisation, massification of education (yet a lack of resources) and neoliberal managerialism, graduate students and academics face challenges in conducting “culturally literate” research that is transformative. This article establishes that language, in rethinking indigeneity, means more than just linguistic symbolic expression, and extends to includ…
Indigenous environmental knowledge and challenging dualisms in development: Observations from the Kalahari
The dividing practice of separating indigenous and scientific knowledge should be avoided. The article illustrates how these forms of knowledge are negotiated in development projects where research participants are included as co-researchers. Data were collected through interviews and participant observation during fieldtrips to the Kalahari. !Xaus Lodge, the first research site, a poverty alleviation tourism asset built by the South African gove…
Public self-expression: Decolonising researcher–researched relationships
A case is made for research participants (normally known as ‘informants’, ‘subjects’, ‘objects’, ‘sources’, etc.) to be included in certain kinds of studies as co-authors and co-researchers. Self-narrative is examined from the perspectives of both the researchers and the researched. Engraved landscape, a post-positivist visual archaeology anthology, is our case study that draws on long-term lived field research amongst the ǂKhomani Bushmen. The ǂ…
Development narratives: The value of multiple voices and ontologies in Kalahari research
This article is based on findings from a PhD study that explored the development communication processes between partners in the establishment of !Xaus Lodge in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. Framed within the critical indigenous qualitative research approach, it reveals the importance of local narratives in the coproduction of knowledge that may guide development initiatives. The ǂKhomani and Mier, as community partners, are San…
Insights into a Beneficial but Labour Intensive Post-Doctoral Publishing Project
Post-doctoral research fellowships (PDRF) in South Africa often require the fellow to produce a particular number of publications each year. Many of the PDRFs, however, find publishing a challenge. In response to this, a project was established to support, encourage and enable PDRFs based in South African universities to publish in this special issue of Critical Arts. During the course of the project, contacts were made and events attended which …
In the sun with Silikat
Community development strategies in the Kalahari: An expression of modernization's monologue?
This chapter examines aspects of South African and Botswana national tourism agendas and approaches with regard to development among indigenous peoples. The comparative case study focuses on two communities - the Khomani of Witdraai, in the Northern Cape of South Africa, and the !Xoo in Ngwatle, southern Botswana. The methodology incorporates auto-ethnography read through field experiences from 2001-2008, interviews and observations from the fiel…
Entertainment education theory and practice in HIV/Aids communication: A South Africa/United Kingdom comparison
Within development communication, gaps remain in theory and practice: communication innovations are taking place which either do not incorporate theory or fail to challenge the assumptions of development communication and HIV/AIDS theory. This can lead to the implementation of unsuccessful interventions that lack theoretical frameworks or to uninformed practice, making it difficult to replicate. Further, research has demonstrated that Entertainme…
Development narratives: The value of multiple voices and ontologies in Kalahari research
This article is based on findings from a PhD study that explored the development communication processes between partners in the establishment of !Xaus Lodge in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. Framed within the critical indigenous qualitative research approach, it reveals the importance of local narratives in the coproduction of knowledge that may guide development initiatives. The ǂKhomani and Mier, as community partners, are San…
Public self-expression: Decolonising researcher–researched relationships
A case is made for research participants (normally known as ‘informants’, ‘subjects’, ‘objects’, ‘sources’, etc.) to be included in certain kinds of studies as co-authors and co-researchers. Self-narrative is examined from the perspectives of both the researchers and the researched. Engraved landscape, a post-positivist visual archaeology anthology, is our case study that draws on long-term lived field research amongst the ǂKhomani Bushmen. The ǂ…
A Dialectic Analysis of Views on Participation in HIV/Aids Communication of Selected South African People Living with HIV/Aids: Beyond the Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV/Aids
In the absence of an HIV vaccine, the current means to contain HIV/AIDS include reducing behavioural risks and seropositive infectivity among sexually active people living with HIV (PLHIV). Both require targeted communication. However, even with exposure to the same information, people choose and show diverse and sometimes risky behaviours. This article analyses views on HIV/AIDS communication by selected South African PLHIV (people living with H…
Indigenous environmental knowledge and challenging dualisms in development: Observations from the Kalahari
The dividing practice of separating indigenous and scientific knowledge should be avoided. The article illustrates how these forms of knowledge are negotiated in development projects where research participants are included as co-researchers. Data were collected through interviews and participant observation during fieldtrips to the Kalahari. !Xaus Lodge, the first research site, a poverty alleviation tourism asset built by the South African gove…
Methods of “Literacy” in Indigenising Research Education: Transformative Methods Used in the Kalahari
Within the current South African “research education” context, characterised by the call for decolonisation, massification of education (yet a lack of resources) and neoliberal managerialism, graduate students and academics face challenges in conducting “culturally literate” research that is transformative. This article establishes that language, in rethinking indigeneity, means more than just linguistic symbolic expression, and extends to includ…
Insights into a Beneficial but Labour Intensive Post-Doctoral Publishing Project
Post-doctoral research fellowships (PDRF) in South Africa often require the fellow to produce a particular number of publications each year. Many of the PDRFs, however, find publishing a challenge. In response to this, a project was established to support, encourage and enable PDRFs based in South African universities to publish in this special issue of Critical Arts. During the course of the project, contacts were made and events attended which …
Rapid Communication: Critical Management Studies/Cultural Studies
Zulu masculinities in South African soap opera: Uzalo, Imbewu and Isibaya
This paper explores the production and consumption of contemporary Zulu masculinities presented in three South African soap operas by Zulu male audiences living in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Exploring the interpretations of the constructions of Zulu masculinities in Uzalo, Imbewu, and Isibaya by the situated Zulu male audience provides insight into their various forms of identity and social experience, bearing in mind the dominant societal and …
Cultural Studies with Communities in South Africa: Implications for Participatory Development Communication and Social Change Research
This article theorizes the role of local and indigenous culture in its intersection with development initiatives. It argues that Communication for Development and Social Change (CDSC), through a cultural studies framework, strengthens the potentiality of democratization and participation within community-based development and social change settings. We advocate that applied cultural studies can facilitate agency (through voice and self-representa…
Communicating Healing Through Ethnic Music: An Analysis of Shona Indigenous Approaches to Psycho-Social Support for the Bereaved as Projected Through Selected Songs by Oliver Mtukudzi
Through analyzing Zimbabwean musician, Oliver Mtukudzi’s lyrics, we explore the Shona community’s concept of death as a culturally codified rite of passage. Through a discursive analysis of Mtukudzi’s songs, the paper explores approaches to psycho-social support for the grieving that occurs within Shona cosmology and cultural praxis. It shows that healing is a multi-factorial process that is contextualized within community cultural and ethical va…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (7 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (3 works)