Tweets from the Launch of Categories of Persons Edited by Jacob Dlamini and Megan Jones at WiSER
by Thando on Oct 17th, 2013 
Megan Jones and Jacob Dlamini (via Skype) launched their book, Categories of Persons: Rethinking Ourselves and Others, at the Wits Institute for Social & Economic Research (WiSER) with Sarah Nuttall, Bheki Peterson and Neels Blom.
Jones commented that Categories of Persons “recognises that cultural identities are important nodes of mobilisation – the book asks people to think about entanglements, and how they are bound up with others”.
WiSER tweeted from the launch:
We'll live tweet the launch of 'Categories of Persons' (published by @PanMacmillanSA) for those who can't make it, http://t.co/I9VMZQJjyi
— WiSER (@WitsWiSER) October 10, 2013
Sarah Nuttall: #Categories is about the persistence of 'race talk' in South Africa, and the difficulties of moving beyond it.
— WiSER (@WitsWiSER) October 10, 2013
Bhekizizwe Peterson discusses #Categories – it is preoccupied with three things: 1 mapping profound moments of personal revelation…
— WiSER (@WitsWiSER) October 10, 2013
2 the problems attendant on forming intimacies; and 3 how to overcome legacies of segregation #Categories
— WiSER (@WitsWiSER) October 10, 2013
Peterson: #Categories grapples with ideas around intimacy and identity in compelling and provocative ways.
— WiSER (@WitsWiSER) October 10, 2013
Peterson: #Categories remains, though, sensitive to the difficulties of jettisoning racial categories.
— WiSER (@WitsWiSER) October 10, 2013
Sarah Nuttall: We need to think about race in new ways – through the body, through moments of critical self-reflection #Categories
— WiSER (@WitsWiSER) October 10, 2013
Nuttall: This is a book which thinks about connection #Categories
— WiSER (@WitsWiSER) October 10, 2013
Nuttall: the book demonstrates the limits of theory and the value of ethnographies in understanding cities and race #Categories
— WiSER (@WitsWiSER) October 10, 2013
Nuttall: How to we mobilised 'brownness' in response to pious evocations of the term 'people of colour'? #Categories
— WiSER (@WitsWiSER) October 10, 2013
Megan Jones: Could we address the question of readership by rethinking genre? #Categories
— WiSER (@WitsWiSER) October 10, 2013
Jones: All proceeds from #Categories go to the Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa at UCT.
— WiSER (@WitsWiSER) October 10, 2013
Jones: The essay form opens up conversations – is an accessible form #Categories
— WiSER (@WitsWiSER) October 10, 2013
Jacob Dlamini joins us via Skype from Barcelona.
— WiSER (@WitsWiSER) October 10, 2013
Jones: #Categories recognises that cultural identities are important nodes of mobilisation – the book asks people to think about …
— WiSER (@WitsWiSER) October 10, 2013
… entanglements, and how they are bound up with others.
— WiSER (@WitsWiSER) October 10, 2013
Book details
- Categories of Persons: Rethinking Ourselves and Others edited by Jacob Dlamini and Megan Jones
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EAN: 9781770103061
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