Tweets from the Launch of Categories of Persons Edited by Jacob Dlamini and Megan Jones at WiSER
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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