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Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa: Gender, Personhood, and the Crisis of Meaning

Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa: Gender, Personhood, and the Crisis of Meaning

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African HistoryAnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0253066166
ISBN13: 9780253066169
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Jun 20 2023
Pages: 198
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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-Apartheid 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, with particular implications for understanding and responding to widespread gendered and sexual conflict and violence.

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