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Dealing with a traumatic past: the victim hearings of the South African truth and reconciliation commission and their reconciliation discourse
In the final years of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century, there has been a worldwide tendency to approach conflict resolution from a restorative rather than from a retributive perspective. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), with its principle of 'amnesty for truth' was a turning point. Based on my discursive research of the TRC victim hearings, I would argue that it was on a discursive level in particular that the Truth Commission has exerted/is still exerting a long-lasting impact on South African society. In this article, three of these features will be highlighted and illustrated: firstly, the TRC provided a discursive forum for thousands of ordinary citizens. Secondly, by means of testimonies from apartheid victims and perpetrators, the TRC composed an officially recognised archive of the apartheid past. Thirdly, the reconciliation discourse created at the TRC victim hearings formed a template for talking about a traumatic past, and it opened up the debate on reconciliation. By discussing these three features and their social impact, it will become clear that the way in which the apartheid past was remembered at the victim hearings seemed to have been determined, not so much by political concerns, but mainly by social needs
The African intellectualsâ project
Soon after taking the position of editor of IJARS at the beginning of 2019, I was
contacted by the dean of Unisaâs College of Graduate Studies (CGS), Prof. Lindiwe
Zungu, who informed me that the universityâs principal and vice-chancellor, Prof.
Mandla Makhanya, had decided to revive his project, the African Intellectualsâ Project
(AIP). I was asked to coordinate this project, through which Makhanya sought to invite
scholars, academics, and intellectuals, both on and outside of the African continent,
to deliver presentations reflecting on the ills afflicting Africa and, at the same time, to
offer possible solutions. In pursuing the AIP, Prof. Makhanya was carrying on a
perennial tradition
An exploration of German subjectivity three generations after the end of World War Two.
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Black scholarship : doing something active and positive about academic racism
This 'article' serves as introduction to the Special Issue: black scholarship. As such, it outlines the
various articles contained in, as well as the rationale for the issue. In this article the authors argue
that programmatic anti-racist interventions such as this Special Issue are crucial to the process of
redressing the 'racialised' patterns of research and authorship characterising mainstream
psychology journals.Published when Prof de la Rey was a lecturer in psychology at the University of Cape Town
Retrieving Biko: a black consciousness critique of whiteness
There is an important history often neglected by genealogies of âcritical whiteness studiesâ: Steve Biko's Black Consciousness critique of white liberalism. What would it mean to retrieve this criticism in the context of white anti-racism in the post-apartheid era? Said's (2003) contrapuntal method proves useful here as a juxtaposing device whereby the writings of a past figure can be critically harnessed, travelling across temporal and ideological boundaries to interrogate the present. Four interlinked modes of disingenuous white anti-racism can thus be identified: (1) a fetishistic preoccupation with disproving one's racism; (2) ostentatious forms of anti-racism that function as means of self-promotion, as paradoxical means of white self-love; (3) the consolidation and extension of agency through redemptive gestures of âheroic white anti-racismâ; (4) âcharitable anti-racismâ which fixes tolerance within a model of charity, as an act of generosity and that reiterates the status and role of an anti-racist benefactor
Identifying barriers to the provision of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in high-risk regions: a qualitative review of emergency calls
© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Introduction: Understanding regional variation in bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is important to improving out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survival. In this study we aimed to identify barriers to providing bystander CPR in regions with low rates of bystander CPR and where OHCA was recognised in the emergency call. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed emergency calls for adults in regions of low bystander CPR in the Australian state of Victoria. Included calls were those where OHCA was identified during the call but no bystander CPR was given. A thematic content analysis was independently conducted by two investigators. Results: Saturation of themes was reached after listening to 139 calls. Calls progressed to the point of compression instructions before EMS arrival in only 26 (18.7%) of cases. Three types of barriers were identified: procedural barriers (time lost due to language barriers and communication issues; telephone problems), CPR knowledge (skill deficits; perceived benefit) and personal factors (physical frailty or disability; patient position; emotional factors). Conclusion: A range of factors are associated with barriers to delivering bystander CPR even in the presence of dispatcher instructions â some of which are modifiable. To overcome these barriers in high-risk regions, targeted public education needs to provide information about what occurs in an emergency call, how to recognise an OHCA and to improve CPR knowledge and skills