Denunciations of dependence

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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID18992124
AutoresLotte Danielsen (Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway [email protected], autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume2021
Fascículo90
Páginas47-57
Data de publicação2021-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFocaal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0920-1297 • E-ISSN: 1558-5263
EditoraBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/fcl.2021.900105
OpenAlexW3164653228
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências 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