This field I call home
Black feminist (auto)ethnography in Alexandra Township, South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6030643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tumi Mampane (0000-0002-6278-4256, DSI-NRF SARChI Chair in African Imagination, Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha, South Africa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 570-583 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Identities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1472-5843 • E-ISSN: 1472-5851 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14725843.2022.2082378 |
| OpenAlex | W4282030175 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 38 |
This article is based on a study of Pentecostal Charismatic constructions of femininity in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. I narrate my ‘native’ and (auto)ethnographic standing within the community I study and show how this stance accounts for my ethical considerations and for the building of relationships with my participants. Relying on ‘Blackwomen’ scholarship (Gqola, 2017), this article addresses the gaps and misconceptions in anthropological accounts of Black African Pentecostal women by writing as an embodied voice within the movement, rather than a mere object of research. This article then, heeds to Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s argument for ethnographies ‘that offer new points of reentry by questioning the symbolic world upon which “nativeness” is premised’ and ‘that aim explicitly at the destabilization and eventual destruction of the Savage slot’ (Trouillot, 2003, p. 22). I argue that Black and African feminist autoethnography is a research method that can destruct this Savage slot as it not only questions reductionist representations of what Black African women are. Black African feminist autoethnography also takes seriously the foregrounding and offering of Black women’s voices to transform the anthropological canon so that it reflects the richness and validity of Black feminist thought. In this way, I take a stand for the telling of African stories by African women in a responsibility for engagement and change, and to illuminate the meaning of township women’s everyday experiences as a legitimate source of knowledge
Aesthetics · Autoethnography · Black feminism · Charisma · Epistemology · Ethnography · Feminism · Foregrounding · Liminality · Participant observation · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · South African History and Culture · Theological Perspectives and Practices
The Womanist Reader
Willful Subjects
Working with Qualitative Data
First steps in qualitative data analysis
The Newer Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa
Professional Women in South African Pentecostal Charismatic Churches
Global Transformations
Black Feminist Thought
Dislocating the Sign
The Promise of Happiness
Becoming Girl-Woman-Bride
Is marriage a dying institution in South Africa? Exploring changes in marriage in the context of ilobolo payments
The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen
The promise of happiness
Transcribing Talk
The Natives Are Gazing and Talking Back
Race, Culture, and Researcher Positionality
Singleness, Sexuality, and the Dream of Marriage
Homing with My Mother / How Women in My Family Married Women
Conjugality
Bringing Flesh to Theory
TheNative Speaker
Wombs As God's Laboratories
Field Research in Minority Communities
Remember, Me
Hybridity and Identity Performance in Diasporic Context
Representing the language of the 'other
The Ambivalent Practices of Reflexivity
Saved from hegemonic masculinity? Charismatic Christianity and men's responsibilization in South Africa
New subjectivities
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |