Marginalising women in politics: Recent trends in KwaZulu-Natal

Isike, Christopher; Uzodike, Ufo Okeke

doi:10.1080/0376835x.2011.570069

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“…I found myself, in other words, a feminist in a space devoted to promoting social justice where gender (let alone other subjectivities) was barely acknowledged -and this in a society in which women have been described as 'under siege' (Gqola 2007, see also Lewis 2009;Ratele 2006;Hassim 2009;Gouws 2005;Steyn and van Zyl 2009;Isike and Uzodike 2011;Salo et al 2010;Hunter 2011;Bak 2008). I found myself furthermore a feminist historian in a space where the centrality of gender and sexuality to racialised and racist processes of imperialism, colonialism, industrialisation, urbanisation and, more recently, apartheid, were dismissed.…”

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Teacher as learner: a personal reflection on a short course for South African university educators

Clowes

2013

Teaching in Higher Education

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Higher education is understood to play a critical role in ongoing processes of social transformation in post-apartheid South Africa through the production of graduates who are critical and engaged citizens. A key challenge is that institutions of higher education are themselves implicated in reproducing the very hierarchies they hope to transform. In this paper, I reflect critically on my experiences of a course aimed at transforming teaching through transforming teachers. In this paper, I foreground my own positionality as a white female educator as I draw on feminist theorising to reflect on my experiences as a learner in the Community, Self and Identity course. I suggest that we need to teach in ways that are more cognisant of the complexities of the constraints on personal freedom in the past if we are to contribute to the development of social justice in the future.

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Section: Tensions and Frustrationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Teacher as learner: a personal reflection on a short course for South African university educators

Clowes

2013

Teaching in Higher Education

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“…According to Isike and Uzodike (2011) Zulu culture is 'deeply patriarchal, with women seen as subhuman, commodified and subordinated. ' Religion also does not allow women to lead free life.…”

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Language, Gender and Women Development in South Africa

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Luvuno

2015

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“…This is precisely what this study looks at when exploring how word choice and framing contribute to agenda-setting in reporting GBV in three KwaZulu-Natal community newspapers. Sometimes political and social processes such as patriarchy, culture and tradition have the potential to reduce framing effects, and with KZN being a highly patriarchal and traditional community (Isike & Uzodike, 2011), studying frames such as word choice, story frequency, story priority, image use, and sources used is important in understanding how framing effects are applied and work in the stories being looked at.…”

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An exploration of how word choice and framing contribute to agendasetting in the reporting of gender-based violence in three KwaZulu-Natal community newspapers (November 2021 to December 2022)

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This study primarily concerns how word choice and framing contribute to agenda-setting in reporting gender-based violence (GBV) in three KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) community newspapers from November 2021 to December 2022. Three weekly English community newspapers, namely, Zululand Observer, Maritzburg Echo and South Coast Sun, were purposively selected and provided the data for this study. The key objectives of this study were to look at descriptive and emotive words used in the GBV-related articles posted by the three publications; to determine if any changes occurred in the framing of articles during the 16 Days of Activism campaign period of November to December 2021 and November to December 2022, and to determine how word choice and framing prioritised the issue of GBV in terms of the media agenda setting.This study was guided by framing theory. A mixed-method research approach was used to collect and analyse the data. Quantitative content analysis was used to tally all GBV-related stories published during the period of study and to record all descriptive and emotive words used in these stories.Qualitative thematic analysis was used to group these words according to similarities and connotations to identify emerging themes on GBV. Because GBV is an issue that comes out of the private into the public sphere through being reported in community newspapers and other media platforms, it is important for this study to look at word choice and framing and, for this reason, initiate future debate on media responsibility when reporting on GBV.Looking at national stats-to-story-frequency and priority ratio, findings indicate that GBV was not given priority in the publications under review. Overall, 42% of all the GBV-related stories discussed in this study were posted during the two 16 Days of Activism time periods discussed. This indicates an outstanding visibility of GBV-related stories compared to the rest of the study period. Lastly, literature on GBV and the media in South Africa is very broad, but the study of word choice in the media, especially community newspapers in South Africa is yet to be thoroughly explored through research. This study acknowledges literature on analysing discourse around GBV in the South African media, that has been done by scholars such as Kulne Oparinde

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Marginalising women in politics: Recent trends in KwaZulu-Natal

Cited by 5 publications

References 25 publications

Teacher as learner: a personal reflection on a short course for South African university educators

Teacher as learner: a personal reflection on a short course for South African university educators

Language, Gender and Women Development in South Africa

An exploration of how word choice and framing contribute to agendasetting in the reporting of gender-based violence in three KwaZulu-Natal community newspapers (November 2021 to December 2022)

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