Browsing by Author "Makhulu, Anne-Maria"

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    Duress: Imperial Durability in Our Times by Ann Laura Stoler
    (Anthropological Quarterly, 2018) Makhulu, Anne-Maria
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    Poetic Justice: Xhosa Idioms and Moral Breach in Post-Apartheid South Africa
    (Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age, 2004) Makhulu, Anne-Maria
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    “Selassie Souljahz:” The Reggae Revival and Black Millennial Music Protest in Contemporary Jamaica
    (2017-05) Miller, Alexandria
    Coined by Dutty Bookman in 2011, the Reggae Revival is a contemporary cultural and musical movement of consciousness in Jamaica which has captivated the world. Heeding the legacies of reggae forefathers like Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, and Bob Marley, the Revival is a creative community of millennial artists and activists who have used music to disseminate Black Power, anti-colonial thought, and self-determination. Artists like Oje “Protoje” Olliviere and Jamar “Chronixx” McNaughton Jr. have spearheaded this movement with songs like “Wrong Side of the Law” (2011) and “Here Comes Trouble” (2014), respectively. Using an interdisciplinary framework that incorporates an intersectional lens of race and gender, as well as methodologies of History, Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, Performance Theory, and Black Feminist Theory, this thesis serves to connect two generations of reggae activism. It examines a living history of the Reggae Revival and contemporary Jamaica using music to trace the emancipatory legacy of roots reggae on the island. By critically analyzing music lyrics and videos of this movement, this thesis builds upon Jamaica’s far-reaching history of Black resistance and highlights Jamaican millennial conversations about neocolonialism, government corruption, Afrocentricity, poverty and its effects on the working-class, as well as Black Feminism and women’s empowerment. Then and now, this thesis emphasizes reggae as both cultural and intellectual property for perspectives on Black redemption and revolution across the African diaspora.
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    The question of freedom: Post-emancipation South Africa in a neoliberal age
    (Ethnographies of Neoliberalism, 2011-12-01) Makhulu, Anne-Maria
    The early 1990s saw one chapter in world history coming to a close and another just as surely beginning. After the fall of the Wall, the collapse of communism, and European unification, changes on a planetary scale, the new era promised both uncertainty and possibility. Yet while it may have appeared that such a revolution in politics and economy was limited to the North, other such changes were unfolding to the South. In South Africa, the end of apartheid and the collapse of minority rule raised questions about that postcolony's place in the new geopolitical configuration and the vulnerability of its markets no less than its political ideals. Because South Africa's liberation struggle had concluded after "actually existing socialism," there was a sense in which the old Marxist-Leninist 1 and Pan-Africanist principles, so instrumental to the struggle, were no longer salient. Bearing little relevance for a new era, they quickly eroded with the introduction of a different kind of revolution-a revolution of the market. Copyright © 2010 University of Pennsylvania Press. All rights reserved.
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    Tweeting Feminism: African Feminisms, Digital Counterpublics and The Politics of Gendered Violence
    (2019-05) Kanyogo, Mumbi
    Tweeting feminism is a digital ethnographic and archival study of the ways in which Kenyan feminists appropriate Twitter as a site for community building. Firstly, I explore the mutually enabling modes of gendered violence that have been deeply engrained in Kenya’s public sphere for the duration of its existence as a nation-state – what I call a continuum of patriarchal violence. These modes of harm ultimately short-circuit women’s engagement in mainstream politics and therefore the use of public political space to contend with harm exacted on women. In the wake of this violence, I then contend that a “digital feminist counterpublic sphere” emerges – a term which I use to describe the alternative publics that radical Kenyan feminists have developed to survive their exclusion from formal public sphere engagement. I argue that in this online space, radical Kenyan feminists use disrespectability, care, solidarity practices and archival practices – what I call digital ululations – to generate and strengthen feminist community.
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    Violence in a Time of Liberation: Murder and Ethnicity at a South African Gold Mine, 1994
    (AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, 2012-11) Makhulu, Anne-Maria