Kathleen Rice

Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa

Gender, Personhood, and the Crisis of Meaning

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Produktbeschreibung

Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa examines the gendered and generational conflicts surrounding social change in South Africa's rural Eastern Cape roughly twenty years after the end of Apartheid. In post-Aparatheid South Africa, rights-based public discourse and state practices promote liberal, autonomous, and egalitarian notions of personhood, yet widespread unemployment and poverty demand that people rely closely on one another and forge relationships that disrupt the gendered and generational hierarchies framed as traditional and culturally authentic. Kathleen Rice examines the ways these tensions and restructurings lead to uncertainties about how South Africans should live together in their daily lives. Focusing particularly on the women of the village of Mhlambini, Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa offers compelling portraits of how they experience and navigate widespread social and economic change and presents their experiences as a way of understanding how people navigate the moral ambiguities of contemporary South African life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 229mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9780253066176
• ISBN-10: 0253066174
• Artikelnr.: 64695201

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Rice is Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University, where she holds the Tier II Canada Research Chair in the Medical Anthropology of Primary Care.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Lodge and the NGO
2. Rights and Responsibilities
3. Social Grants and the Moral Bureaucracy of Merit
4. Working Women, Wives, and Rural Feminine Personhood
5. The Moral Ambiguity of Ukuthwala
Conclusion: Rights and Responsibilities Revisited
Glossary
Notes
References
Index