ICGC Brown Bag 9.23: Maurits van Bever Donker, "Thinking in apartheid's wake: On community as limit" ICGC Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of the Western Cape
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ICGC Brown Bag Series Friday
September 23, 2016
Noon-1pm,
537 Heller Hall
Thinking in apartheid's wake: on community as limit
Presented by:
Dr. Maurits van Bever Donker
Doctoral Teaching
Fellow, University of the Western Cape
Abstract:
Many of the dominant critiques of post-apartheid South Africa focus on community as a terrain for the expression of life in the wake of apartheid. There is, certainly, much to agree with in these interventions where community must be rediscovered, healed, or produced. I contend, through offering a reading of Wally Mongane Serote’s To Every Birth its Blood and Jeremy Cronin’s “Motho ke motho ka batho babang” (A person is a person because of other persons), both of which attempt to think the conditions of the postapartheid from within a moment of the ongoing struggle against apartheid itself, that the work of thinking in the wake of apartheid necessitates an attempt at abiding by the limit of the concept of community. It is in such a practice of reading that the possibility of a new terrain for post-apartheid community begins to emerge, one structured through “encounter” and the “touch”.
http://image.ecommunications2.umn.edu/lib/fe9012737260047f7c/m/1/2016+Fall+Events+Schedule.pdf
ICGC Brown Bag Series Friday
September 23, 2016
Noon-1pm,
537 Heller Hall
Thinking in apartheid's wake: on community as limit
Presented by:
Dr. Maurits van Bever Donker
Doctoral Teaching
Fellow, University of the Western Cape
Abstract:
Many of the dominant critiques of post-apartheid South Africa focus on community as a terrain for the expression of life in the wake of apartheid. There is, certainly, much to agree with in these interventions where community must be rediscovered, healed, or produced. I contend, through offering a reading of Wally Mongane Serote’s To Every Birth its Blood and Jeremy Cronin’s “Motho ke motho ka batho babang” (A person is a person because of other persons), both of which attempt to think the conditions of the postapartheid from within a moment of the ongoing struggle against apartheid itself, that the work of thinking in the wake of apartheid necessitates an attempt at abiding by the limit of the concept of community. It is in such a practice of reading that the possibility of a new terrain for post-apartheid community begins to emerge, one structured through “encounter” and the “touch”.