Description
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.
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.
Author: Kathleen Rice
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 08/01/2023
Pages: 198
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d
ISBN13: 9780253066176
ISBN10: 0253066174
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | African Studies
- History | Africa | South | Republic of South Africa
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
About the Author
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.