‘Licking the snake’ – the<i>i'khothane</i>and contemporary township youth identities in South Africa

Howell, Simon; Vincent, Louise

doi:10.1080/21528586.2014.917883

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“…His reference to burning clothes may suggest a youth sub-culture in the township which is characterised by buying expensive brand name clothes and then burning these as a performance of their identity (Howell & Vincent, 2014). The vision of the Makhaza Lifestyle team is to develop access to information for youth in the township; they undertake various projects to meet and reach this vision.…”

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Becoming Social Activist Leaders: Stories of Passion, Motivation and Bold Ideas from the Township of Khayelitsha in Cape Town, South Africa

Fulani¹,

Ismail²,

Khuzani³

et al. 2019

Tikkun Beyond Borders: Connecting Youth Voices, Leading Change

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The chapter from the South African site reports on how the youth researchers initially understood the concepts Tikkun Olam and civic engagement, and how they developed their understandings during the research and at the symposium. We then reflect on the Participatory Action Research (PAR) process and challenges with the methodology as we experienced it in South Africa. A major focus of our chapter will be on presenting, discussing, and analysing the findings from the research. We will conclude with highlights and lessons learnt, and reflect on the influence the Symposium had on all of us.

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Becoming Social Activist Leaders: Stories of Passion, Motivation and Bold Ideas from the Township of Khayelitsha in Cape Town, South Africa

Fulani¹,

Ismail²,

Khuzani³

et al. 2019

Tikkun Beyond Borders: Connecting Youth Voices, Leading Change

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“…While resistance exists, post-apartheid South Africa is deeply embedded in global financial systems, and increasingly part of the transnational commodity context, one within which young people and their gender productions are caught in powerful, and often disempowering, currents of imagined futures. The consumption of globalised objects of desire, including cars, technology, furniture and dress, has become a key marker in the making of a free society and free subjects (Howell and Vincent 2014). But while there may well be global circuits and pressures around meanings of gender and freedoms, how individuals present and re-present themselves as gendered beings should also be understood against particular local contexts.…”

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“Because They Are Me”: Dress and the Making of Gender

Shefer

Ratele

Clowes

2017

South African Review of Sociology

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Young people in contemporary South Africa inhabit a multiplicity of diverse, often contradictory, economic and socio-cultural contexts. These contexts offer a range of possibilities and opportunities for the affirmation of certain identities and positionalities alongside the disavowal of others. Dress-clothes, accessories and body styling-is one of the key components through which, within specific social conditions, people perform these identities. In making statements about themselves in terms of these multiple and intersecting group (or social) historical identities, the meanings soaked into people's dress simultaneously speak to the present and their aspirations for the future. This article reports on a study that explored how a group of third year students at a South African university use dress to negotiate the multiple and intersecting identities available to them in a context characterised by neoliberal democracy and market ideologies that continue to be mediated by the racialised legacies of apartheid. The study employed a qualitative feminist discourse analysis to consider 53 semi-structured in-depth interviews conducted by third year students with other students on campus as part of an ongoing project exploring gender productions and performance. The discussion focuses on student understandings of ways in which contemporary clothes and dress signal gender. The research suggests that while there are moments in which clothes are acknowledged as expressions that can reinforce or challenge inequalities structured around gender, participants are also strongly invested in neoliberal consumerist understandings of clothes as accessories to an individualised self in ways that reinforce neoliberal market ideologies and reinstate hegemonic performances of gender.

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Postcolonial Spaces

Johansson¹,

Herz²

2019

Youth Studies in Transition: Culture, Generation and New Learning Processes

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‘Licking the snake’ – thei'khothaneand contemporary township youth identities in South Africa

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

Becoming Social Activist Leaders: Stories of Passion, Motivation and Bold Ideas from the Township of Khayelitsha in Cape Town, South Africa

Becoming Social Activist Leaders: Stories of Passion, Motivation and Bold Ideas from the Township of Khayelitsha in Cape Town, South Africa

“Because They Are Me”: Dress and the Making of Gender

Postcolonial Spaces

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