Argentine South Africans ways of speaking about social responsibility in South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorHamity, Ayelen
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-28T09:36:13Z
dc.date.available2016-01-28T09:36:13Z
dc.date.issued2016-01-28
dc.descriptionA research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Diversity Studies). March 2014en_ZA
dc.description.abstractDespite the end of apartheid, South Africa remains a grossly unequal society. This has meant that the current social order must again be challenged. One of the tasks faced in post-apartheid South Africa is the philosophical and moral interrogation of white privilege. This research investigates the ways of speaking of Argentine immigrants living in South Africa. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and analysed by making use of Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory as well as Melissa Steyn’s characteristics of “white talk”. It was found that Argentine immigrants living in South Africa aligned themselves with the ways of speaking of white South Africans. These are largely informed by and embedded in Eurocentric discourses; in particular liberal ideology. In line with the agenda of Critical Whiteness studies, this positionality was exposed and theoretically interrogated. Keywords: whiteness, immigrants, discourse, Laclau and Mouffe discourse theory, white talk, racism, identity, liberalismen_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/19380
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshRacism--South Africa
dc.subject.lcshWhites--Race identity--South Africa
dc.subject.lcshPrejudices--South Africa
dc.subject.lcshIdentity (Psychology) politics--South Africa
dc.subject.lcshRace awareness--South Africa
dc.subject.lcshSouth Africa--Race relations
dc.titleArgentine South Africans ways of speaking about social responsibility in South Africaen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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