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Title
RECIPE NOTES FOR A FEMINIST KOEKSISTER FIGURATION: White Afrikaner politics of belonging, preservation and nostalgia |
Full text
http://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/399524 |
Date
2020 |
Author(s)
Plessis, P. du |
Contributor(s)
Olivieri, D. |
Abstract
This thesis, or rather, RECIPE BOOK, through a feminist autoethnographic approach (Ettorre, 2017), engages white Afrikaner identity in contemporary South Africa. Departing from the kitchen, food, recipes, Boerekos, a type of cuisine associated with white Afrikaners, and Afrikaner history is approached through a decolonial lens (Maldonado-Torres, 2016). Considering the colonial relationship between white Afrikaners and the Netherlands, this RECIPE BOOK draws attention to the manner in which white Afrikaners have preserved Boerekos and argues that this points to a 'coloniality of being in the world'. Through provoking Boerekos-recipes: MELKTERT, BILTONG, MALVA POEDING, and KOEKSISTERS, they are placed in conversation with the politics of belonging, preservation and nostalgia which further seeks to engage the notion of the 'Rainbow Nation Melting Pot' in pointing to the comfort that it creates for white Afrikaners. Autoethnographic stories are presented that add flesh to the politics of belonging, preservation and nostalgia among white Afrikaners. In an attempt to draw many discourses and assemblages characterized by coloniality into conversation with one another, this RECIPE BOOK makes use of KITCHEN TOOLS. These TOOLS consist of intersectionality and assemblage theory in conversation with one another (Puar, 2012), as well as theories of intraaction, re-turning and entanglement (Barad, 2014), to point to the intimate and everyday forms of coloniality in South Africa and the 'coloniality of being in the world' among whiteAfrikaners. The aim is to engage with possibilities of change and re-articulating white Afrikaner identity critically and through a decolonial intersectional feminist approach. A FEMINIST KOEKSISTER FIGURATION is offered as a companion to think with and to create 'counter-discourses, counter-knowledges, counter-creative acts, and counter-practices' (Maldonado-Torres, 2016) that challenges the cultural archive (Wekker, 2016) which white Afrikaners have inherited and continues to embody and, in turn, continues to inform coloniality in contemporary South Africa. |
Subject(s)
White Afrikaners; Decoloniality; Coloniality; Boerekos; Recipes; Feminist Autoethnography; South Africa |
Language
en |
Type of publication
Master thesis |
Format
image/pdf |
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/ClosedAccess |
Repository
Utrecht - University of Utrecht
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