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Parental communication with children about sex in the South African HIV epidemic: raced, classed and cultural appropriations of Lovelines
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Lindy WilbrahamResponsive to perceived high risk of HIV infection by sexually active youth, several South African sexual health-promotion campaigns have used media targeting mothers, instructing them on how sex should be talked about with their children to 'risk-proof' them. A Foucauldian... -
Auditing poverty? Applied anthropologists and the discourse of development in post-apartheid South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Teresa Connor --- Fort Hare Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Fort Hare, South AfricaThis article debates the opportunities and disadvantages attached to applied anthropology, specifically consultancy linked to development work, within the institutions and processes of the modern neo-liberal state. Located within political and applied anthropology, the article uses insights gained from two... -
The feasibility of resistance in the workplace: A critical investigation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: A. Benda Hofmeyr --- , South AfricaIn this article, I undertake a critical interrogation of the complex relations of control operating in the contemporary workplace of the knowledge worker by drawing on Foucault’s theorisation of power and resistance. I plot the risks to which the knowledge... -
Of vaccines, biopower, subjects and governmentality: an ethnographic enquiry into the Zimbabwean Covid-19 vaccination drive
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Talent Moyo --- Midlands State University, ZimbabweThe article highlights the politics of the Covid-19 vaccination drive in Zimbabwe. It interrogates questions of individual agency and institutional power in the administration of the vaccine. It is framed within Foucauldian scholarship, particularly that concerning the role of biopower,...