Ties that bind : race and the politics of friendship in South Africa / edited by Shannon Walsh & Jon Soske.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walsh, Shannon, editor.

Soske, Jon, 1977- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race relations.

Friendship--South Africa.

Friendship.

Friendship--South Africa--Sociological aspects.

South Africa--Race relations.

South Africa.

South Africa--Social conditions--1994-.

Social conditions.

South Africa--Politics and government--1994-.

Politics and government.

Friendship--Sociological aspects.

Physical Description:

viii unnumbered pages, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"What does friendship have to do with racial difference, settler colonialism and post-apartheid South Africa? While histories of apartheid and colonialism in South Africa have often focused on the ideologies of segregation and white supremacy, Ties that Bind explores how the intimacies of friendship create vital spaces for practices of power and resistance. Combining interviews, history poetry, visual arts, memoir and academic essay, the collection keeps alive the promise of friendship and its possibilities while investigating how affective relations are essential to the social reproduction of power. From the intimacy of personal relationships to the organising ideology of liberal colonial governance, the contributors explore the intersection of race and friendship from a kaleidoscope of viewpoints and scales. Insisting on a timeline that originates in settler colonialism, Ties that Bind uncovers the implication of anti-Blackness within nonracialism, and powerfully challenges a simple reading of the Mandela moment and the rainbow nation. In the wake of countrywide student protests calling for decolonization of the university, and reignited debates around racial inequality, this timely volume insists that the history of South African politics has always already been about friendship. Written in an accessible and engaging style, Ties that Bind will interest a wide audience of scholars, students, and activists, as well as general readers curious about contemporary South African debates around race and intimacy"--Amazon.

Contents:

Thinking about race and friendship in South Africa

With friends like these : the politics of friendship in post-apartheid South Africa

Bound to violence : scratching beginnings and endings with Lesego Rampolokeng

Afro-pessimism and friendship in South Africa : an interview Frank B. Wilderson III

The impossible handshake : the fault lines of friendship in colonial Natal, 1850-1910

The problem with 'we' : affiliation, political economy, and the counterhistory of nonracialism

Affect and the state : precarious workers, the law, and the promise of friendship

'A song of seeing' : art and friendship under apartheid 'Friend of the family' :maids, madams, and domestic cartographies of power in South African art

Corner loving : ways of speaking about love

Kutamba Naye : in search of ant-racist and queer solidarities

The native informant speaks back to the offer of friendship in white academia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781868149681

1868149684

OCLC:

965607947

Publisher Number:

99973528286