Mbongeni N Mtshali
Biographic Data
| ID | 7523920 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mbongeni N Mtshali |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mbongeni N |
| FAMILY NAME | Mtshali |
| SIGNATURE | MTSHALI M N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8336-5624 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘This shit is political; shit is real.’ The politics of sanitation, protest, and the neoliberal, post-apartheid city
In this article, the authors discuss the use of shit in a series of protests between 2011 and 2017 in the City of Cape Town, South Africa. They specifically interrogate with how these protests mobilised the abject body as a tactical site of political performance, and employ performance as an organising metaphor and conceptual language for interrogating the politics and implications of the act of throwing shit as a tool of protest. In addition, th…
Hottentot Venus Redux: Nelisiwe Xaba’s Critical Moves of Resistance
In her transdisciplinary work, The Venus (2009), Nelisiwe Xaba reimagines Sara Baartman, the so-called Hottentot Venus, as a cosmopolitical black feminist African figure. Her work disrupts the meanings attached to the colonial spectacle of hypervisible black flesh, as well as the logics that keep these meanings intact in the postcolonial world now
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‘This shit is political; shit is real.’ The politics of sanitation, protest, and the neoliberal, post-apartheid city
In this article, the authors discuss the use of shit in a series of protests between 2011 and 2017 in the City of Cape Town, South Africa. They specifically interrogate with how these protests mobilised the abject body as a tactical site of political performance, and employ performance as an organising metaphor and conceptual language for interrogating the politics and implications of the act of throwing shit as a tool of protest. In addition, th…
Hottentot Venus Redux: Nelisiwe Xaba’s Critical Moves of Resistance
In her transdisciplinary work, The Venus (2009), Nelisiwe Xaba reimagines Sara Baartman, the so-called Hottentot Venus, as a cosmopolitical black feminist African figure. Her work disrupts the meanings attached to the colonial spectacle of hypervisible black flesh, as well as the logics that keep these meanings intact in the postcolonial world now
Art history (2 works) · History (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · South African History and Culture (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Astrobiology (1 works) · Biology (1 works) · Colonialism (1 works)