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A Foolish Proposal? Vulnerability as an Alternative Attempt to Contribute to Decolonisation and Reconciliation in Post-Colonial South Africa
- Source :
- Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies. 37:140-159
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2020.
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Abstract
- Reconciliation in South Africa is often taken to mean the creation of culturally diverse communities. In reality, though, the multicultural often turns out to be multiracial only with People of Colour being included in White-dominated spaces. Likewise, socio-economic transformation means raising people’s chances to attain a living standard more equal to that of the bulk of the White population. In both cases, the strong position of White people in sociocultural and socio-economic terms remains largely untouched. Hence the calls for decolonisation which seem to render the reconciliation discourse dispensable. Vulnerability by White South Africans is proposed as an alternative response to ongoing inequalities which – it is suggested – could contribute to both decolonisation and reconciliation on an interpersonal level. Likely objections to such a proposal are considered before making a case for vulnerability as an appropriate Christian way of living, particularly in the context of former settler colonialism.
- Subjects :
- 060303 religions & theology
Post colonial
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05 social sciences
Religious studies
Vulnerability
Environmental ethics
06 humanities and the arts
0603 philosophy, ethics and religion
0506 political science
Cultural diversity
Multiculturalism
Political science
050602 political science & public administration
Ethnolinguistics
Decolonization
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Details
- ISSN :
- 17598931 and 02653788
- Volume :
- 37
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........026d817ee74ee528cb451a112b8b992c