Gendering disability and disabling gender: Critical reflections on intersections of gender and disability

Discourses of normalcy are deeply imbricated in the construction of the social world and organise relations between persons, persons and the State, persons and institutions and intra-psychic relations. Conversely, discourses about pathology and the abnormal underpin the regulation and disciplining of subjectivities intersected with ideas about race, gender, sexuality, class, ethnicities, nationalisms, and other identity vectors.Scopu

Where my dad was from he was quite a respected man

The aim of this article is to analyze the operation of nostalgia in the Apartheid Archive Project narratives. In total, a corpus of 138 narratives was read with nostalgia as a frame and 23 narratives were selected for further analysis in which the relationship between Black subjects and parental figures were the focus. Themes that emerged were the role of silences, apartheid’s spatial configurations, transferred humiliation, parent’s powerlessness, and postapartheid efforts to undo the past. The article delves into children’s traumatic remembrances of parental authority figures being addressed by representatives of the apartheid state and the resulting cognizance of themselves, as racialized subjects materialize. To make a postapartheid self, the article shows, the memory of subjection appears to rely on an ambivalent identification with the parental figure and becomes the object of a nostalgia that oscillates dialectically between the dystopian realities of apartheid racism and utopian remembrances of the family

'Where My Dad Was From He Was Quite a Respected Man'

The aim of this article is to analyze the operation of nostalgia in the Apartheid Archive Project narratives. In total, a corpus of 138 narratives was read with nostalgia as a frame and 23 narratives were selected for further analysis in which the relationship between Black subjects and parental figures were the focus. Themes that emerged were the role of silences, apartheid's spatial configurations, transferred humiliation, parent's powerlessness, and postapartheid efforts to undo the past. The article delves into children's traumatic remembrances of parental authority figures being addressed by representatives of the apartheid state and the resulting cognizance of themselves, as racialized subjects materialize. To make a postapartheid self, the article shows, the memory of subjection appears to rely on an ambivalent identification with the parental figure and becomes the object of a nostalgia that oscillates dialectically between the dystopian realities of apartheid racism and utopian remembrances of the family