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Conway, Daniel
(2008).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794106093631
URL: http://qrj.sagepub.com/content/8/3/347.abstract
Abstract
This article reflexively analyses the construction of identity and the representation of the past in qualitative interviews with white men who refused to serve in the apartheid-era South African Defence Force (SADF). The contribution that white male objectors made to the anti-apartheid struggle occupies an ambivalent and increasingly forgotten aspect of South African liberation history. In a reflexive research story, I argue that the gendered, sexual and raced subjectivities of the researcher and researched are central to the joint construction of meaning in the interview and in the creation of self-narratives. The article also analyses how the narratives of white men's involvement in resisting apartheid are defined by their perceived position and wider power struggles in contemporary South Africa.
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- Item ORO ID
- 36728
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1741-3109
- Keywords
- apartheid; interviewing; masculinities; men; narratives; performance; race; sexuality; South Africa
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Copyright Holders
- © 2008 Qualitative Research
- Depositing User
- Daniel Conway