“As long as they behave themselves”: Heterosexual recuperation in South Africans’ talk about homosexuality

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Social justice for the poor : the framing of socioeconomic rights in selected South African newspapers

Apartheid South Africa created a society of deep-seated inequalities divided along race, class, and gender lines. The promotion of socioeconomic rights and redistributive justice is thus an important element in the country’s on-going transformation. This article analyzes the framing of stories on socioeconomic rights by three South African national newspapers. Using a combination of framing analysis and critical political economy insights, we show that although the newspapers foreground the importance of socioeconomic rights and recognize voices of the marginalized, the majority of the stories contain gaps and silences on critical issues concerning the structural causes of inequality and socioeconomic injustices in South Africa. The argument concludes by motivating a rethinking of the country’s normative media frameworks for the development of a journalism practice that would resonate in a country characterized by social polarization and material inequalities.http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jouhj2018Humanities Educatio

As long as they behave themselves: Heterosexual recuperation in South African’s talk about homosexuality

Several qualitative researchers using discursive methodologies have noted how opposition to homosexuality has not necessarily diminished, despite the general expression of liberal tolerance in many settings. Instead, heterosexist rhetoric has shifted to accommodate political change. Our research builds on this observation within the South African context, using a discursive psychology approach. We examine rhetorical strategies of "heterosexual recuperation": the ways that heterosexual boundaries and the dominance of heterosexuality are maintained by speakers, at the same time as they attempt to avoid being heard as heterosexist. Drawing on data from a qualitative study conducted with heterosexual-identifying Black South Africans (32) from four provinces, we focus on talk that was resourced by a "discourse of tolerance" and characterised by speakers' concern to avoid the attribution of heterosexism. This talk was analysed using thematic analysis, to which discursive psychology techniques were applied. We identified two ways of speaking that relied on this discourse - (1) "As long as they do it in private", and (2) "Flashing their homosexuality" - and show how they ultimately worked to recuperate heterosexuality and marginalise non-normative sexualities. We discuss the implications of these findings in relation to a critical psychology that works to challenge hetero-patriarchal norms.falseAccepte

Social justice for the poor: the framing of socioeconomic rights in selected South African newspapers

Apartheid South Africa created a society of deep-seated inequalities divided along race, class, and gender lines. The promotion of socioeconomic rights and redistributive justice is thus an important element in the country's on-going transformation. This article analyzes the framing of stories on socioeconomic rights by three South African national newspapers. Using a combination of framing analysis and critical political economy insights, we show that although the newspapers foreground the importance of socioeconomic rights and recognize voices of the marginalized, the majority of the stories contain gaps and silences on critical issues concerning the structural causes of inequality and socioeconomic injustices in South Africa. The argument concludes by motivating a rethinking of the country's normative media frameworks for the development of a journalism practice that would resonate in a country characterized by social polarization and material inequalities.

Taverns, bars and shebeens: sexual risk and HIV within homosocial spaces among black men who have sex with men in South African townships

Poster presented at the XIX International AIDS Conference, Washington, USA, 22-27 Jul

Making sexual and reproductive health & rights real in South Africa: a baseline study of selected sites in four provinces: year 1

Commissioned by the AIDS Foundation of South Africa (AFSA), JuneThis report presents insights from a baseline study commissioned by the AIDS Foundation of South Africa (AFSA) as a research package in AFSA's three-year programme (2014-2017) to advance the realisation of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) in South Africa. AFSA's programme is intended to strengthen SRHR and community-based HIV/AIDS interventions, and to build the evidence base for effective regional responses. The programme is designed to deliver: (1) Strategic support for community-based organisations (CBOs) and national advocacy/policy actors engaged in effective HIV/AIDS and SRHR interventions; (2) Demonstrable improvements in the realisation of SRHR in South Africa; and (3) A measureable contribution to the knowledge and evidence base on HIV/AIDS in the Southern African region (Southern African Development Community (SADC)). The report provides some emerging evidence to inform the work of implementing partners and potentially to assess the outcomes and the mechanisms by which positive changes resulting from the implementation of AFSA's programme have been achieved