L Vincent
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 19642 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | L Vincent |
| NOMBRES | L |
| APELLIDO | Vincent |
| FIRMA | VINCENT L |
| AFILIACIONES | Rhodes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9745-8979 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 125 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Narrative Disruption
Narcofeminism Storyshare is an iterative storyshare model developed by NC Survivors Union, a harm reduction and advocacy organization led by directly impacted people, that uses autobiographical story development by women and gender diverse people who use drugs to disrupt stigmatizing societal narratives, achieve healing for individuals and communities, and spark organizing and structural change. We describe the theoretical frameworks behind Narco…
Community-Driven Research with People Who Use Drugs
Sociological approaches to digital and community-engaged research experienced significant innovation in recent years. This article examines developing and implementing a primarily virtual community-driven research (CDR) project with the National Survivors Union, the American national drug-users union, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Relationships between researchers and directly impacted people, such as people who use drugs, face many barriers. The…
We are the researched, the researchers, and the discounted
Consumer discernment of fentanyl in illicit opioids confirmed by fentanyl test strips
Learners’ perspectives on Life Orientation sexuality education in South Africa
This article examines the views of male and female learners regarding how Life Orientation (LO) sexuality education is taught at their schools. Learners in the study were selected from five former ‘Black’ schools in the Eastern and Western Cape Provinces of South Africa. Focus groups were used to identify what learners could recall about their LO sexuality education classes. The strong trend in the data speaks to how LO sexuality education implie…
Funding and inclusion in higher education institutions for students with disabilities
Background: Historically, challenges faced by students with disabilities (SWDs) in accessing higher education institutions (HEIs) were attributed to limited public funding. The introduction of progressive funding models such as disability scholarships served to widen access to, and participation in, higher education for SWDs. However, recent years have seen these advances threatened by funding cuts and privatisation in higher education.Objectives…
Fentanyl test strips as an opioid overdose prevention strategy
We found that using FTS and receiving a positive test result was associated with changes in drug use behavior and perceptions of overdose safety. FTS may represent an effective addition to current overdose prevention efforts when included with other evidence-based strategies to prevent opioid overdose and related harm
Strategic competence and agency
Social relations, institutional arrangements and cultures bequeathed by South Africa’s system of apartheid continue be felt in the present despite the country’s formal transition to democracy 25 years ago. Race, class and gender inequities continue to structure South African society in ways that have proven intransigent to change, leading to growing frustration and widespread public dissatisfaction expressed in multiple arenas including worker st…
Wheelchair users, access and exclusion in South African higher education
South African universities are still not places where all students are equally able to integrate socially. DUSMs know what ought to be done to make campuses more accessible and welcoming to students with disabilities and should be empowered to play a leading role in sensitising non-disabled members of universities, to create greater awareness of, and appreciation for, the multiple ways in which wheelchair user students continue to be excluded fro…
Disclaiming/denigrating/dodging
The call for the ‘transformation’ of higher education in South Africa is one instance of a wider effort, since the country’s first democratic election in 1994, to surmount an apartheid and colonial legacy of institutionalised racism. In 2015 and 2016 nationwide protests led to universities being shut down as students and staff expressed frustration institutions that continue to be experienced as racist and ‘untransformed’. In this study we report…
Interpreting press coverage of South Africa’s post-apartheid “obesity epidemic”
This study examines news reporting on South Africa’s alleged “obesity” epidemic between 1997 and 2012. Results indicate that fatness is equated with disease, crisis, and dysfunction and the fat black body is singled out for particular attention as a social problem. News reporting on fat in South Africa uncritically takes up the views of sources with commercial interests who are presented as “experts” on fat. Their interpretations of the fat black…
Fat in a time of slim
This article critically examines the way in which the reported sexual desire of black African men for fat women is contained and managed in South African media representations of fat. While sexual desire for fat women represents a potential challenge to the dominant framing of fat as diseased/dysfunctional/disgusting, the article shows how the reduction of this desire to one of two (racialized) ‘explanations’ – either evidence of racial primitivi…
‘Licking the snake’ – the i'khothane and contemporary township youth identities in South Africa
The i'khothane youth subculture is a relatively new phenomenon that has emerged in some of South Africa's townships. Characterised by the rampant consumption of certain goods, such as expensive clothing, the subculture is unique in that it is also defined by the destruction of these goods in performances known as ‘battles’. Demonised by the media, we set out to explore what makes these practices meaningful to the participants themselves. On the b…
‘Unnatural’, ‘Un-African’ and ‘Ungodly’
On 28 November 2006, South Africa’s legislature passed the Civil Union Act (No. 17, 2006), which legalised same-sex marriages or civil partnerships. While South Africa was fifth in the world to recognise the right of people of the same sex to marry, the country is by no means free of homophobic attitudes. However, we argue that an examination of the discourses embedded in the public discussion of gay marriage shows that the post-1994 period has n…
Losing, using, refusing, cruising
In this article we ask how senior academic women in South Africa narrate their experience of being ‘outside in’ the teaching machine. Wide research literature documents the gross underrepresentation of women in senior positions in the academy. It has been argued that intertwined sexist, patriarchal and phallocentric knowledges and practices in academic institutions produce various forms of discrimination, inequality, oppression and marginalisatio…
Embracing Racial Reasoning
We examine the response to a poster published by South Africa's official opposition's youth wing, the Democratic Alliance's Student Organisation (DASO) as part of a political campaign in 2012. From commentary that the poster's publication generated, we excavate some of the key discursive strategies used by commentators to negotiate the gulf between the constitutional value of non-racialism and the lived contemporary reality of race in South Afric…
New lives for old
This is a reply to:Bulled, Nicola L. 2013. “New lives for old: modernity, biomedicine, traditional culture and HIV prevention in Lesotho.” Global Discourse. 3 (2): 284–299. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2013.804700
Rehearsing or reversing harmful masculine scripts? South African men's romance narratives
In this Article we discuss the results of 42 in-depth qualitative interviews with young black South African men who self-identified as heterosexual and who reported that they were at the time of the interview or had at some time in their lives, experienced being ‘in love’ with a woman. South Africa, as is commonly pointed out, is in the throes of an epidemic of gender based violence. To declare oneself ‘in love’ potentially contradicts some of th…
Shaking a hornets' nest
There exists an enormous gulf between the aspirations of South Africa's abortion legislation--among the most liberal in the world--and its implementation. One weakness in the provision of abortion services in South Africa is the absence of comprehensive abortion counselling services. On the face of it, the idea that counselling ought, as a matter of course, to be a significant component of a country's termination of pregnancy service provision, s…
When breast is not best – young women and breast reduction surgery
Most cosmetic surgery patients in South Africa are younger than 21, and in this focus we examine narrative accounts from young South African women who have chosen to undergo cosmetic breast reduction surgery. Feminist debates on cosmetic surgery have focused on the question of whether to regard women who modify their bodies in this way as active agents engaged in liberatory ‘body projects’, or whether such projects are evidence of their subjectio…
Seducing the people
Recent ructions in South Africa's ruling African National Congress have been described from time to time in the media as signalling a dangerous shift towards ‘populism’. The article examines this contention. It argues that South Africa is witnessing a significant challenge to the founding precepts of constitutional democracy. This challenge emanates from the (populist) equation of democracy with ‘the will of the people’. The article unpacks some …
Rethinking rugby and the rainbow nation
The Hollywood film Invictus tells the story of South Africa's hosting and winning of the World Rugby Cup in 1995 just months after the country's transition to democracy. It is a mythical moment in South Africa's contemporary history, capturing the hope and optimism that a brutally divided nation would come together and in doing so would be, as the title suggests, invincible. Central to the narrative is the game of rugby itself. Once emblematic of…
Moral Panic and the Politics of Populism
The rise of Zuma offers a lense into an important component of South African popular culture that is very familiar in the postcolony: a populism that legitimates an oppressive conformism—in this case a conformism framed in Africanist terms. It is this politics of culture, with its narratives of the return to the true Africa, which Zuma has publicly embraced, and through which he is legitimated as the benevolent patriarch. For example, in leading …
Putting the 'T' into South African Human Rights
Informed by narratives provided by self-identified South African transsexuals, whose lives span different periods of South Africa's political and social history, this article seeks to explore how South Africa's medical, legal and military establishments have exerted power over the transsexual body. A variety of studies outline the extent to which the apartheid state was a highly gendered state characterized by inflexible patriarchal norms and the…
Cutting Tradition
The South African Xhosa ethnic group, the majority of whom live in the country's Eastern Cape province, are one of several ethnic groups in southern Africa that practise the ritual of circumcision as part of a rite admitting boys to manhood. Recent years have seen a rise in casualties among those participating in traditional circumcision rites. Since 1995 more than 6,000 boys have been admitted to Eastern Cape hospitals, more than 300 have died a…
The limitations of 'inter-racial contact
This paper argues that, while the demise of apartheid has led to many situations in which South Africans now come into closer contact with one another, this increased 'contact' does not amount to greater racial integration. Contact occurs within a context of unequal power relations in which 'whiteness' continues to be privileged over 'blackness'. The result is that white people tend to benefit more from contact with the racial 'other' than black …
Cutting Tradition
The South African Xhosa ethnic group, the majority of whom live in the country's Eastern Cape province, are one of several ethnic groups in southern Africa that practise the ritual of circumcision as part of a rite admitting boys to manhood. Recent years have seen a rise in casualties among those participating in traditional circumcision rites. Since 1995 more than 6,000 boys have been admitted to Eastern Cape hospitals, more than 300 have died a…
Virginity testing in South Africa
Umhlanga is a ceremony celebrating virginity. In South Africa, it is practiced, among others, by the Zulu ethnic group who live mainly in the province of KwaZulu Natal. After falling into relative disuse in the Zulu community, the practice of virginity testing made a comeback some 10 years ago at around the time of the country's first democratic election and coinciding with the period when the HIV pandemic began to take hold. In July 2005 the Sou…
Putting the 'T' into South African Human Rights
Informed by narratives provided by self-identified South African transsexuals, whose lives span different periods of South Africa's political and social history, this article seeks to explore how South Africa's medical, legal and military establishments have exerted power over the transsexual body. A variety of studies outline the extent to which the apartheid state was a highly gendered state characterized by inflexible patriarchal norms and the…
Bread and Honour
Women have occupied a central place in the ideological formulations of nationalist movements. In particular, the figure of woman as mother recurs throughout the history of nationalist political mobilizations. In Afrikaner nationalism, this symbolic female identity takes the form of the volksmoeder (mother of the nation) icon, commonly assumed to describe a highly circumscribed set of women's social roles, created for women by men. The academic or…
Quotas
This paper argues that while quotas can quite easily be used rapidly to address the problem of insufficient numbers of women in representative political institutions, effective representation requires us to pay attention to far more than merely the numbers of women present. This article suggests that, in particular, we need to look at which kinds of women are made present by quotas, how these women gain office and what they do once they are there…
A Question of Interest
1Among the issues with which opposition in South Africa is struggling, Southall lists questions of how best to oppose, whether to work singly or in combination, in informal alliance or formal coalition and whether to proceed in a manner that may be construed as ‘constructive’ or ‘robust’. Many of these questions can usefully be asked from the standpoint of women. Do women constitute a kind of opposition that is seeking to articulate its interests…
Seducing the people
Recent ructions in South Africa's ruling African National Congress have been described from time to time in the media as signalling a dangerous shift towards ‘populism’. The article examines this contention. It argues that South Africa is witnessing a significant challenge to the founding precepts of constitutional democracy. This challenge emanates from the (populist) equation of democracy with ‘the will of the people’. The article unpacks some …
A Cake of Soap
The 1920s witnessed a great volume of activity associated with the women's suffrage campaign in South Africa. Existing women's organisations added the demand for the vote to their programmes and new organisations were formed with suffrage as their exclusive goal. This campaign is usually associated with the English-speaking women of the country. Cherryl Walker, for example, in her article on "The Women's Suffrage Movement" asserts that "its leade…
The Power Behind the Scenes
(1999). The Power Behind the Scenes: The Afrikaner Nationalist Women's Parties, 1915 to 1931. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 51-73
Destined to Come to Blows
In 1994, a democratic government came to power in South Africa for the first time in the country's history. But political transition is never a single event or moment. Rather, it is a continuous process that faces setbacks and contradictions. One of the questions we might ask about a society in transition is to what extent its gender order has changed or is changing. The present paper sets out to read the country's transformation drama through th…
What's love got to do with it? The effect of affect in the academy
This article argues that in the dominant discourse of the academy a questionable binary between reason and emotion holds sway. This binary is profoundly gendered with the emotional and bodily situated on the feminine side of the binary while reason and intellect are on the male side. Moreover, the binary is not neutral. The expression of emotion is viewed as undermining the capacity for reason and intellect. The article attempts to disrupt the fa…
Narrative Disruption
Narcofeminism Storyshare is an iterative storyshare model developed by NC Survivors Union, a harm reduction and advocacy organization led by directly impacted people, that uses autobiographical story development by women and gender diverse people who use drugs to disrupt stigmatizing societal narratives, achieve healing for individuals and communities, and spark organizing and structural change. We describe the theoretical frameworks behind Narco…
Community-Driven Research with People Who Use Drugs
Sociological approaches to digital and community-engaged research experienced significant innovation in recent years. This article examines developing and implementing a primarily virtual community-driven research (CDR) project with the National Survivors Union, the American national drug-users union, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Relationships between researchers and directly impacted people, such as people who use drugs, face many barriers. The…
Disclaiming/denigrating/dodging
The call for the ‘transformation’ of higher education in South Africa is one instance of a wider effort, since the country’s first democratic election in 1994, to surmount an apartheid and colonial legacy of institutionalised racism. In 2015 and 2016 nationwide protests led to universities being shut down as students and staff expressed frustration institutions that continue to be experienced as racist and ‘untransformed’. In this study we report…
Moral Panic and the Politics of Populism
The rise of Zuma offers a lense into an important component of South African popular culture that is very familiar in the postcolony: a populism that legitimates an oppressive conformism—in this case a conformism framed in Africanist terms. It is this politics of culture, with its narratives of the return to the true Africa, which Zuma has publicly embraced, and through which he is legitimated as the benevolent patriarch. For example, in leading …
Losing, using, refusing, cruising
In this article we ask how senior academic women in South Africa narrate their experience of being ‘outside in’ the teaching machine. Wide research literature documents the gross underrepresentation of women in senior positions in the academy. It has been argued that intertwined sexist, patriarchal and phallocentric knowledges and practices in academic institutions produce various forms of discrimination, inequality, oppression and marginalisatio…
Rehearsing or reversing harmful masculine scripts? South African men's romance narratives
In this Article we discuss the results of 42 in-depth qualitative interviews with young black South African men who self-identified as heterosexual and who reported that they were at the time of the interview or had at some time in their lives, experienced being ‘in love’ with a woman. South Africa, as is commonly pointed out, is in the throes of an epidemic of gender based violence. To declare oneself ‘in love’ potentially contradicts some of th…
Labouring to Love
South Africa is 10 years into its new democratic order. An aspect of the country's political transformation has been an official political commitment to gender trans-formation. While great strides have been made towards greater gender equality at the institutional and legal level of society, the present article suggests that highly unequal power relations between men and women continue to be perpetuated in unexpected ways among those whom we woul…
Calendar of Meetings
Current Legal Aspects of Doing Business in Latin America, The New Challenge of Latin American Nationalism to Foreign Investment-Present and Future. The Institute inquired into and attempted to provide the means of understanding recent changes in the investment climate together with the new social restlessness, the new economic and political nationalism, and motivations underlying these changes in Latin America
The Power Behind the Scenes
(1999). The Power Behind the Scenes: The Afrikaner Nationalist Women's Parties, 1915 to 1931. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 51-73
A Cake of Soap
The 1920s witnessed a great volume of activity associated with the women's suffrage campaign in South Africa. Existing women's organisations added the demand for the vote to their programmes and new organisations were formed with suffrage as their exclusive goal. This campaign is usually associated with the English-speaking women of the country. Cherryl Walker, for example, in her article on "The Women's Suffrage Movement" asserts that "its leade…
Bread and Honour
Women have occupied a central place in the ideological formulations of nationalist movements. In particular, the figure of woman as mother recurs throughout the history of nationalist political mobilizations. In Afrikaner nationalism, this symbolic female identity takes the form of the volksmoeder (mother of the nation) icon, commonly assumed to describe a highly circumscribed set of women's social roles, created for women by men. The academic or…
A Question of Interest
1Among the issues with which opposition in South Africa is struggling, Southall lists questions of how best to oppose, whether to work singly or in combination, in informal alliance or formal coalition and whether to proceed in a manner that may be construed as ‘constructive’ or ‘robust’. Many of these questions can usefully be asked from the standpoint of women. Do women constitute a kind of opposition that is seeking to articulate its interests…
Quotas
This paper argues that while quotas can quite easily be used rapidly to address the problem of insufficient numbers of women in representative political institutions, effective representation requires us to pay attention to far more than merely the numbers of women present. This article suggests that, in particular, we need to look at which kinds of women are made present by quotas, how these women gain office and what they do once they are there…
What's love got to do with it? The effect of affect in the academy
This article argues that in the dominant discourse of the academy a questionable binary between reason and emotion holds sway. This binary is profoundly gendered with the emotional and bodily situated on the feminine side of the binary while reason and intellect are on the male side. Moreover, the binary is not neutral. The expression of emotion is viewed as undermining the capacity for reason and intellect. The article attempts to disrupt the fa…
Global observed changes in daily climate extremes of temperature and precipitation
A suite of climate change indices derived from daily temperature and precipitation data, with a primary focus on extreme events, were computed and analyzed. By setting an exact formula for each index and using specially designed software, analyses done in different countries have been combined seamlessly. This has enabled the presentation of the most up‐to‐date and comprehensive global picture of trends in extreme temperature and precipitation in…
Labouring to Love
South Africa is 10 years into its new democratic order. An aspect of the country's political transformation has been an official political commitment to gender trans-formation. While great strides have been made towards greater gender equality at the institutional and legal level of society, the present article suggests that highly unequal power relations between men and women continue to be perpetuated in unexpected ways among those whom we woul…
Of no account? South Africa's electoral system (non) debate
(2006). Of no account? South Africa's electoral system (non) debate. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 81-100
Virginity testing in South Africa
Umhlanga is a ceremony celebrating virginity. In South Africa, it is practiced, among others, by the Zulu ethnic group who live mainly in the province of KwaZulu Natal. After falling into relative disuse in the Zulu community, the practice of virginity testing made a comeback some 10 years ago at around the time of the country's first democratic election and coinciding with the period when the HIV pandemic began to take hold. In July 2005 the Sou…
Destined to Come to Blows
In 1994, a democratic government came to power in South Africa for the first time in the country's history. But political transition is never a single event or moment. Rather, it is a continuous process that faces setbacks and contradictions. One of the questions we might ask about a society in transition is to what extent its gender order has changed or is changing. The present paper sets out to read the country's transformation drama through th…
Cutting Tradition
The South African Xhosa ethnic group, the majority of whom live in the country's Eastern Cape province, are one of several ethnic groups in southern Africa that practise the ritual of circumcision as part of a rite admitting boys to manhood. Recent years have seen a rise in casualties among those participating in traditional circumcision rites. Since 1995 more than 6,000 boys have been admitted to Eastern Cape hospitals, more than 300 have died a…
The limitations of 'inter-racial contact
This paper argues that, while the demise of apartheid has led to many situations in which South Africans now come into closer contact with one another, this increased 'contact' does not amount to greater racial integration. Contact occurs within a context of unequal power relations in which 'whiteness' continues to be privileged over 'blackness'. The result is that white people tend to benefit more from contact with the racial 'other' than black …
Moral Panic and the Politics of Populism
The rise of Zuma offers a lense into an important component of South African popular culture that is very familiar in the postcolony: a populism that legitimates an oppressive conformism—in this case a conformism framed in Africanist terms. It is this politics of culture, with its narratives of the return to the true Africa, which Zuma has publicly embraced, and through which he is legitimated as the benevolent patriarch. For example, in leading …
Putting the 'T' into South African Human Rights
Informed by narratives provided by self-identified South African transsexuals, whose lives span different periods of South Africa's political and social history, this article seeks to explore how South Africa's medical, legal and military establishments have exerted power over the transsexual body. A variety of studies outline the extent to which the apartheid state was a highly gendered state characterized by inflexible patriarchal norms and the…
Rethinking rugby and the rainbow nation
The Hollywood film Invictus tells the story of South Africa's hosting and winning of the World Rugby Cup in 1995 just months after the country's transition to democracy. It is a mythical moment in South Africa's contemporary history, capturing the hope and optimism that a brutally divided nation would come together and in doing so would be, as the title suggests, invincible. Central to the narrative is the game of rugby itself. Once emblematic of…
When breast is not best – young women and breast reduction surgery
Most cosmetic surgery patients in South Africa are younger than 21, and in this focus we examine narrative accounts from young South African women who have chosen to undergo cosmetic breast reduction surgery. Feminist debates on cosmetic surgery have focused on the question of whether to regard women who modify their bodies in this way as active agents engaged in liberatory ‘body projects’, or whether such projects are evidence of their subjectio…
Seducing the people
Recent ructions in South Africa's ruling African National Congress have been described from time to time in the media as signalling a dangerous shift towards ‘populism’. The article examines this contention. It argues that South Africa is witnessing a significant challenge to the founding precepts of constitutional democracy. This challenge emanates from the (populist) equation of democracy with ‘the will of the people’. The article unpacks some …
Shaking a hornets' nest
There exists an enormous gulf between the aspirations of South Africa's abortion legislation--among the most liberal in the world--and its implementation. One weakness in the provision of abortion services in South Africa is the absence of comprehensive abortion counselling services. On the face of it, the idea that counselling ought, as a matter of course, to be a significant component of a country's termination of pregnancy service provision, s…
New lives for old
This is a reply to:Bulled, Nicola L. 2013. “New lives for old: modernity, biomedicine, traditional culture and HIV prevention in Lesotho.” Global Discourse. 3 (2): 284–299. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2013.804700
Rehearsing or reversing harmful masculine scripts? South African men's romance narratives
In this Article we discuss the results of 42 in-depth qualitative interviews with young black South African men who self-identified as heterosexual and who reported that they were at the time of the interview or had at some time in their lives, experienced being ‘in love’ with a woman. South Africa, as is commonly pointed out, is in the throes of an epidemic of gender based violence. To declare oneself ‘in love’ potentially contradicts some of th…
‘Licking the snake’ – the i'khothane and contemporary township youth identities in South Africa
The i'khothane youth subculture is a relatively new phenomenon that has emerged in some of South Africa's townships. Characterised by the rampant consumption of certain goods, such as expensive clothing, the subculture is unique in that it is also defined by the destruction of these goods in performances known as ‘battles’. Demonised by the media, we set out to explore what makes these practices meaningful to the participants themselves. On the b…
‘Unnatural’, ‘Un-African’ and ‘Ungodly’
On 28 November 2006, South Africa’s legislature passed the Civil Union Act (No. 17, 2006), which legalised same-sex marriages or civil partnerships. While South Africa was fifth in the world to recognise the right of people of the same sex to marry, the country is by no means free of homophobic attitudes. However, we argue that an examination of the discourses embedded in the public discussion of gay marriage shows that the post-1994 period has n…
Losing, using, refusing, cruising
In this article we ask how senior academic women in South Africa narrate their experience of being ‘outside in’ the teaching machine. Wide research literature documents the gross underrepresentation of women in senior positions in the academy. It has been argued that intertwined sexist, patriarchal and phallocentric knowledges and practices in academic institutions produce various forms of discrimination, inequality, oppression and marginalisatio…
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