{"id":12596,"date":"2011-03-10T23:39:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T23:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12596"},"modified":"2012-03-24T18:52:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T18:52:33","slug":"a-creolising-south-africa-mixing-hybridity-and-creolisation-reimagining-the-south-african-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12596","title":{"rendered":"A creolising South Africa? Mixing, hybridity, and creolisation: (re)imagining the South African experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1468-2451.2006.00600.x\" target=\"_blank\">A creolising South Africa? Mixing, hybridity, and creolisation: (re)imagining the South African experience<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1468-2451\" target=\"_blank\">International Social Science Journal<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/issj.2006.58.issue-187\/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 58, Issue 187<\/a> (March 2006)<br \/>\npages 165\u2013176<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1468-2451.2006.00600.x\" target=\"_blank\">10.1111\/j.1468-2451.2006.00600.x<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.warwick.ac.uk\/fac\/soc\/sociology\/rsw\/current\/cscs\/key_figures\/academics\/denisconstantmartin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Denis-Constant Martin<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0[in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cean.sciencespobordeaux.fr\/page%20perso\/martin.htm\" target=\"_blank\">French<\/a>], Senior Research Fellow<br \/>\n<em>Centre for International Research and Studies (CERI) of the National Foundation for Political Science (Paris)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The present state of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa\" target=\"_blank\">South Africa&#8217;s<\/a> society is the outcome of protracted processes of contacts and mixing, in the course of which people coming from different cultural areas blended and produced an original culture. More than three centuries of racism and apartheid have bequeathed representations in which South Africa is construed as an addition of different people, each with its own culture and language. Such representations do not take into account the interactions between them that produced what is today a mix that is impossible to disentangle. This article attempts to look at theories of m\u00e9tissage and creolisation that have been devised to analyse societies in South America and the West Indies and check whether they could contribute to producing a better understanding of the history of South Africa. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%89douard_Glissant\" target=\"_blank\">\u00c9douard Glissant&#8217;s<\/a> [(1928-2011)]\u00a0theories of m\u00e9tissage and creolisation, because they stress processes and relations, because they consider that creolisation is a continuous process, could be relevant to South Africa. However, the example of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%89douard_Glissant\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil<\/a> shows that re-imagining the past does not suffice to pacify memories of violence and segregation; it remains ineffective if it is not accompanied by economic and social policies aiming at redressing the inequalities inherited from this very past.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1468-2451.2006.00600.x\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A creolising South Africa? Mixing, hybridity, and creolisation: (re)imagining the South African experience International Social Science Journal Volume 58, Issue 187 (March 2006) pages 165\u2013176 DOI: 10.1111\/j.1468-2451.2006.00600.x Denis-Constant Martin\u00a0[in French], Senior Research Fellow Centre for International Research and Studies (CERI) of the National Foundation for Political Science (Paris) The present state of South Africa&#8217;s society [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,1649,12,8,26,394,520],"tags":[5664,1852,20756],"class_list":["post-12596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-south-africa","tag-denis-constant-martin","tag-international-social-science-journal","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}