Introduction: Reading Post-Apartheid Whiteness

Carolin, Andy; Dass, Minesh; Grogan, Bridget

doi:10.1080/02564718.2020.1822598

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“…Under colonial and apartheid rule, patriarchal structures were reinforced and maintained, as power was concentrated in the hands of white males to uphold white, heteronormative family structures (Carolin et al, 2020). The rigid gender roles and expectations that emerged from these systems served to maintain social control and reinforce racial hierarchies.…”

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Shifting professional and personal identities of the cisgender scholar doing LGBT research

Brown

2024

African Journal of Career Development

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Background: Scholars researching the issues of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other sexual and gender minorities (LGBT) are being denounced as performers of ‘dirty’ work and promotors of ‘immorality’. Such scholars face obstacles in the workplace, such as difficulties in obtaining ethical approval, scarcity of funding, bullying, denial of promotion and unacknowledged scholarship, among other struggles.Objectives: This article intends to highlight the unintended, unanticipated and often overlooked impact that certain LGBT research interests have on the professional and personal identities of the scholar.Method: This exploratory qualitative study uses a reflexive dialogical single case study approach to understand how Katlego (a pseudonym), a cisgender heterosexual researcher, is affected by his interest in LGBT studies. Continuous supervision notes that enable thoughtful reflexive practice in qualitative research shaped the basis of this article.Results: This article shows how Katlego’s LGBT research interest resulted in him being policed, his professional intentions questioned, his bodily expression scrutinised and personal conflict being blamed on his allegedly ‘disgraceful’ research interest. Furthermore, it demonstrates how the conflation of Katlego’s interest in LGBT research with pervasive negative assumptions of non-heteronormative sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions has resulted in a shift in his professional and personal identities.Conclusion: This article calls for awareness of the issues faced by all researchers interested in LGBT research and support strategies for navigating the professional identity, workplace environment and social ecologies within a frowned-upon research field. Failure to do so could compromise their career trajectory, well-being and safety in compulsory heterosexual environments.Contribution: This article illustrated how gender regimes position the researcher as an active creator of knowledge; therefore, the research process experiences can neither be made invisible nor neutralised. Researchers must overtly consider and prepare for situational and unanticipated ethical issues.

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Shifting professional and personal identities of the cisgender scholar doing LGBT research

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2024

African Journal of Career Development

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2021

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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produced volumes of selected poems. My Mother's Laughter: Selected Poems edited by Ivan Vladislavic and Robert Berold is a posthumous collection of Chris van Wyk's poems, drawing on his 1979 collection It Is Time to Go Home as well as poems written in the subsequent years. There have been several posthumous collections of iconic Afrikaans poet Ingrid Jonker with the latest, Waterfall of Moss and Sun, translated and edited by her daughter Simone Jonker. Malibongwe: Poems from the Struggle by ANC Women edited by Sono Molefe (a pseudonym for Lindiwe Mabuza) was first published in Europe in 1981 but banned in South Africa and long out of print. It has now been reissued with a new preface by Uhuru Phalafala and an introduction by Makhosazana Xaba, giving a broader audience access to the poems and providing insight into writing by women activists. The Only Magic We Know: Selected Modjaji Poems 2004 to 2020 edited by Marike Beyers brings together selected poems from each of the poets published by Modjaji Press over the past 16 years. An impressive collection in its own right, it also serves as a testimony to Modjaji's role in bringing women's voices to the fore. The book contains close to 40 poets, with several poems by each author, from Ingrid Anderson and Margaret Clough to Makhosazana Xaba and Fiona Zerbst.Junkets Publisher received the Special Award for Innovation in Theatre at the 55th Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards. A small independent publisher, they have published 62 individual playscripts and ten anthologies of plays. In the drama this year, they published all but two, bringing into print plays by

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Shifting professional and personal identities of the cisgender scholar doing LGBT research

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2023

African Journal of Career Development

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Introduction: Reading Post-Apartheid Whiteness

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Shifting professional and personal identities of the cisgender scholar doing LGBT research

Shifting professional and personal identities of the cisgender scholar doing LGBT research

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Shifting professional and personal identities of the cisgender scholar doing LGBT research

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