Gerhard Mare
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 185628 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gerhard Mare |
| PRENOMES | Gerhard |
| SOBRENOME | Mare |
| ASSINATURA | MARE G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0937-1871 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1987 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Think More Clearly than the State Allows’
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGerhard MaréGerhard Maré is professor emeritus at the University of KwaZulu-Natal
Race, class and power
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGerhard MaréBIOGRAPHICAL NOTEGERHARD MARÉ is an emeritus professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and sometime fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS)
Theorising Race
This special issue emerges from a concern with academic practice around researching and theorising race, racialism and racism; particularly within the current theoretical climate in which race is, in the majority, accepted as a social construct. In public thinking and discourse, however, acceptance of the biological existence of races continues to dominate in many societies. Racial classification also continues in many state practices in South Af…
The cradle to the grave
Despite a constitutional and oft-stated political commitment to an undefined notion of non-racialism, South Africans continue to operate in formal and informal ways with 'race' as the common-sense organizing principle of legal systems, ways of thinking, social identities, constructing arguments or closing debate, organizational and mobilizing strategies, policy development and execution, and interaction in daily life. This state of affairs is reg…
The Possibilities of Researching Non-Racialism
Using as a starting point the research conducted by the Gauteng City-Region Observatory for the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation in 2011 to explore the status of non-racialism in South Africa, we conclude that in nearly all of the focus groups the participants and moderators find it impossible to define the notion of non-racialism—at least, not in a way that distinguishes it from non-racism, multi-racialism or ‘good/better race relations’. We initiate t…
Fear of numbers
Arjun Appadurai's The Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (2006) draws largely on the case of India for empirical data. The 'fear of small numbers' that he discusses relates to the insecurity of contemporary societies, where 'pollution' of the national body by minority groups leads not only to irritation and discomfort but at times to the need for the violent cleansing of the pollutant, to conflict. Neville Alexander (2008) …
Tradition's Desire The Politics of Culture in the Rape Trial of Jacob Zuma
This article examines the recent trial of ANC president Jacob Zuma, and how gender power was framed in respect to, and within, the politics of culture. The trial centred on allegations of rape by Zuma of an HIV positive woman many years his junior, who was also the daughter of a former anti-apartheid struggle comrade. All of these details were considered pertinent, not only to the legal debates about whether a crime had been committed, but also t…
Race, Nation, Democracy
Gerhard Maré Race, Nation, Democracy: Questioning Patriotism in the New South Africa Just as you cannot survive without dreams, you cannot move on without the memory of where you come from, even if that journey is fictitious. Is what we call identity not that situation made up of bits and pieces which one remembers from previous encounters, events and situa tions? Is memory not hanging from the branches? — BREYTEN BREYTENBACH (1998) . . . since …
Going In
John Aspinall (1926-2000) was an eccentric, wealthy English plutocrat, private zoo-owning conservationist, gambling casino czar, 'white Zulu' patron of the Inkatha Freedom Party in South Africa, and conservative Euro-sceptic politician. He was controversially famous in many spheres, not least for his advocacy and practice of what he called 'going in'. This refers to keepers crossing the boundaries between 'wild' animals and people, entering the z…
Race, Democracy and Opposition in South African Politics
Versions of resistance history in South Africa
Since the 1999 elections in South Africa the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) has entered into a ‘coalition’ with the African National Congress (ANC) (now described as such by both parties) at both provincial (KwaZulu‐Natal ‐ KZN) and national levels of government. Such close cooperation, albeit largely at leadership and parliamentary representative level, would have been hard to imagine even five years ago, when the IFP refused to participate in the …
Workers and warriors
(1999). Workers and warriors: Inkatha's politics of masculinity in the 1980s. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 197-216
Ethnicity, regionalism and conflict in a democratic South Africa
South Africa's transition to a democratic order is especially threatened by the strongly contested areas of the place of ethnicity and of regionalism within the new order. This article investigates the most threatening manifestations of such conflict, especially as it relates to the KwaZulu‐Natal province, and suggests that legitimate concerns over identity and decentralisation have to be addressed
Evidence for an ethnic identity in the life histories of Zulu-speaking Durban township residents
This paper addresses the nature of ethnic consciousness among Zulu‐speaking workers in Natal through an analysis of 24 open‐ended life history interviews with residents in Umlazi township in Durban. The authors are concerned with four main issues: the evidence for Zulu ethnic consciousness in the life stories collected, the situations in which Zulu identity becomes salient, the ways in which ethnic identities are being refashioned under the impac…
Ethnicity and Politics in South Africa
Ethnicity, society and conflict in Natal
In September 1992 a conference was held at the University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg. This Briefing is a slightly amended version which sets out the issues raised by that conference
Ethnicity and Politics in South Africa
Ethnicity and Politics in South Africa
An Appetite for Power
An Appetite for Power
Inkatha and regional control
Dealing with the Public 1. Never abuse, insult, shout at or beat any member of the public. 2. Never take anything in the form of money or property from any member of the public not even somebody's sweet bananas or sugar-cane on the ground that it is a mere sugar-cane without paying for the same. 3. Pay promptly for anything you take and in cash. 4. Never kill any member of the public or any captured prisoners, as guns should only be reserved for …
An Appetite for Power
Education in a ‘liberated zone’
‘People's education’ has become the rallying cry of the struggle to overturn the present educational system in South Africa; to direct it towards a new form and content in line with calls for democracy in a unitary country. The tremendous difficulties in giving practical effect to such an education within an undemocratic, repressive society have taxed activists for decades. 1 Hyslop. J. 1987: “‘Let Us Cry for our Children’: Lessons of the 1955-6 …
Reply to Dhlomo
During a previous interchange with Dr Dhlomo we had to separate the little material that was relevant to the article that he had taken issue with from the personal attacks. We (the two authors of the article in question) then wrote that ‘Dr Dhlomo does not address himself to our main arguments. Instead he picks up on peripherial issues, and descends to the level of casting personal slurs on us’ (Sunday Tribune, 25.01.86). Unfortunately this is th…
Violence and Solace
Mxolisi Mchunu’s Violence and Solace is a significant contribution to understanding the singularly important period of Natal’s bloody civil war, which emerged towards the end of apartheid and into
Race, Democracy and Opposition in South African Politics
The Ambiguities of Dependence in South Africa
An Appetite for Power
Ethnicity and Politics in South Africa
Fear of numbers
Arjun Appadurai's The Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (2006) draws largely on the case of India for empirical data. The 'fear of small numbers' that he discusses relates to the insecurity of contemporary societies, where 'pollution' of the national body by minority groups leads not only to irritation and discomfort but at times to the need for the violent cleansing of the pollutant, to conflict. Neville Alexander (2008) …
Going In
John Aspinall (1926-2000) was an eccentric, wealthy English plutocrat, private zoo-owning conservationist, gambling casino czar, 'white Zulu' patron of the Inkatha Freedom Party in South Africa, and conservative Euro-sceptic politician. He was controversially famous in many spheres, not least for his advocacy and practice of what he called 'going in'. This refers to keepers crossing the boundaries between 'wild' animals and people, entering the z…
Evidence for an ethnic identity in the life histories of Zulu-speaking Durban township residents
This paper addresses the nature of ethnic consciousness among Zulu‐speaking workers in Natal through an analysis of 24 open‐ended life history interviews with residents in Umlazi township in Durban. The authors are concerned with four main issues: the evidence for Zulu ethnic consciousness in the life stories collected, the situations in which Zulu identity becomes salient, the ways in which ethnic identities are being refashioned under the impac…
Violence and Solace
Mxolisi Mchunu’s Violence and Solace is a significant contribution to understanding the singularly important period of Natal’s bloody civil war, which emerged towards the end of apartheid and into
The Possibilities of Researching Non-Racialism
Using as a starting point the research conducted by the Gauteng City-Region Observatory for the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation in 2011 to explore the status of non-racialism in South Africa, we conclude that in nearly all of the focus groups the participants and moderators find it impossible to define the notion of non-racialism—at least, not in a way that distinguishes it from non-racism, multi-racialism or ‘good/better race relations’. We initiate t…
Versions of resistance history in South Africa
Since the 1999 elections in South Africa the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) has entered into a ‘coalition’ with the African National Congress (ANC) (now described as such by both parties) at both provincial (KwaZulu‐Natal ‐ KZN) and national levels of government. Such close cooperation, albeit largely at leadership and parliamentary representative level, would have been hard to imagine even five years ago, when the IFP refused to participate in the …
Workers and warriors
(1999). Workers and warriors: Inkatha's politics of masculinity in the 1980s. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 197-216
Ethnicity, regionalism and conflict in a democratic South Africa
South Africa's transition to a democratic order is especially threatened by the strongly contested areas of the place of ethnicity and of regionalism within the new order. This article investigates the most threatening manifestations of such conflict, especially as it relates to the KwaZulu‐Natal province, and suggests that legitimate concerns over identity and decentralisation have to be addressed
Inkatha and regional control
Dealing with the Public 1. Never abuse, insult, shout at or beat any member of the public. 2. Never take anything in the form of money or property from any member of the public not even somebody's sweet bananas or sugar-cane on the ground that it is a mere sugar-cane without paying for the same. 3. Pay promptly for anything you take and in cash. 4. Never kill any member of the public or any captured prisoners, as guns should only be reserved for …
Education in a ‘liberated zone’
‘People's education’ has become the rallying cry of the struggle to overturn the present educational system in South Africa; to direct it towards a new form and content in line with calls for democracy in a unitary country. The tremendous difficulties in giving practical effect to such an education within an undemocratic, repressive society have taxed activists for decades. 1 Hyslop. J. 1987: “‘Let Us Cry for our Children’: Lessons of the 1955-6 …
The Ambiguities of Dependence in South Africa
Education in a ‘liberated zone’
‘People's education’ has become the rallying cry of the struggle to overturn the present educational system in South Africa; to direct it towards a new form and content in line with calls for democracy in a unitary country. The tremendous difficulties in giving practical effect to such an education within an undemocratic, repressive society have taxed activists for decades. 1 Hyslop. J. 1987: “‘Let Us Cry for our Children’: Lessons of the 1955-6 …
Reply to Dhlomo
During a previous interchange with Dr Dhlomo we had to separate the little material that was relevant to the article that he had taken issue with from the personal attacks. We (the two authors of the article in question) then wrote that ‘Dr Dhlomo does not address himself to our main arguments. Instead he picks up on peripherial issues, and descends to the level of casting personal slurs on us’ (Sunday Tribune, 25.01.86). Unfortunately this is th…
An Appetite for Power
Inkatha and regional control
Dealing with the Public 1. Never abuse, insult, shout at or beat any member of the public. 2. Never take anything in the form of money or property from any member of the public not even somebody's sweet bananas or sugar-cane on the ground that it is a mere sugar-cane without paying for the same. 3. Pay promptly for anything you take and in cash. 4. Never kill any member of the public or any captured prisoners, as guns should only be reserved for …
An Appetite for Power
An Appetite for Power
An Appetite for Power
Ethnicity and Politics in South Africa
Ethnicity, society and conflict in Natal
In September 1992 a conference was held at the University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg. This Briefing is a slightly amended version which sets out the issues raised by that conference
Ethnicity and Politics in South Africa
Ethnicity, regionalism and conflict in a democratic South Africa
South Africa's transition to a democratic order is especially threatened by the strongly contested areas of the place of ethnicity and of regionalism within the new order. This article investigates the most threatening manifestations of such conflict, especially as it relates to the KwaZulu‐Natal province, and suggests that legitimate concerns over identity and decentralisation have to be addressed
Evidence for an ethnic identity in the life histories of Zulu-speaking Durban township residents
This paper addresses the nature of ethnic consciousness among Zulu‐speaking workers in Natal through an analysis of 24 open‐ended life history interviews with residents in Umlazi township in Durban. The authors are concerned with four main issues: the evidence for Zulu ethnic consciousness in the life stories collected, the situations in which Zulu identity becomes salient, the ways in which ethnic identities are being refashioned under the impac…
Ethnicity and Politics in South Africa
Workers and warriors
(1999). Workers and warriors: Inkatha's politics of masculinity in the 1980s. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 197-216
Versions of resistance history in South Africa
Since the 1999 elections in South Africa the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) has entered into a ‘coalition’ with the African National Congress (ANC) (now described as such by both parties) at both provincial (KwaZulu‐Natal ‐ KZN) and national levels of government. Such close cooperation, albeit largely at leadership and parliamentary representative level, would have been hard to imagine even five years ago, when the IFP refused to participate in the …
Race, Democracy and Opposition in South African Politics
Going In
John Aspinall (1926-2000) was an eccentric, wealthy English plutocrat, private zoo-owning conservationist, gambling casino czar, 'white Zulu' patron of the Inkatha Freedom Party in South Africa, and conservative Euro-sceptic politician. He was controversially famous in many spheres, not least for his advocacy and practice of what he called 'going in'. This refers to keepers crossing the boundaries between 'wild' animals and people, entering the z…
Race, Nation, Democracy
Gerhard Maré Race, Nation, Democracy: Questioning Patriotism in the New South Africa Just as you cannot survive without dreams, you cannot move on without the memory of where you come from, even if that journey is fictitious. Is what we call identity not that situation made up of bits and pieces which one remembers from previous encounters, events and situa tions? Is memory not hanging from the branches? — BREYTEN BREYTENBACH (1998) . . . since …
Tradition's Desire The Politics of Culture in the Rape Trial of Jacob Zuma
This article examines the recent trial of ANC president Jacob Zuma, and how gender power was framed in respect to, and within, the politics of culture. The trial centred on allegations of rape by Zuma of an HIV positive woman many years his junior, who was also the daughter of a former anti-apartheid struggle comrade. All of these details were considered pertinent, not only to the legal debates about whether a crime had been committed, but also t…
Fear of numbers
Arjun Appadurai's The Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (2006) draws largely on the case of India for empirical data. The 'fear of small numbers' that he discusses relates to the insecurity of contemporary societies, where 'pollution' of the national body by minority groups leads not only to irritation and discomfort but at times to the need for the violent cleansing of the pollutant, to conflict. Neville Alexander (2008) …
The Possibilities of Researching Non-Racialism
Using as a starting point the research conducted by the Gauteng City-Region Observatory for the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation in 2011 to explore the status of non-racialism in South Africa, we conclude that in nearly all of the focus groups the participants and moderators find it impossible to define the notion of non-racialism—at least, not in a way that distinguishes it from non-racism, multi-racialism or ‘good/better race relations’. We initiate t…
Theorising Race
This special issue emerges from a concern with academic practice around researching and theorising race, racialism and racism; particularly within the current theoretical climate in which race is, in the majority, accepted as a social construct. In public thinking and discourse, however, acceptance of the biological existence of races continues to dominate in many societies. Racial classification also continues in many state practices in South Af…
The cradle to the grave
Despite a constitutional and oft-stated political commitment to an undefined notion of non-racialism, South Africans continue to operate in formal and informal ways with 'race' as the common-sense organizing principle of legal systems, ways of thinking, social identities, constructing arguments or closing debate, organizational and mobilizing strategies, policy development and execution, and interaction in daily life. This state of affairs is reg…
Race, class and power
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGerhard MaréBIOGRAPHICAL NOTEGERHARD MARÉ is an emeritus professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and sometime fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS)
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