Recovering praxis: Cultural studies in Africa: The unnaming continues (reply to Wright, 1998 and McNeil, 1998)

European Journal of Cultural Studies

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 387-402

  Tomaselli, Keyan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

African cultural studies; commodification; corporatization, indigenization; praxis; travelling theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009959906     PISSN: 13675494     EISSN: 14603551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/136754949800100305     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Aitken, Richard, ed.(1988/9) Education, Capital and Discourse, Critical Arts theme issue 4(4)/5(1).
2. Anderson, Michael B. (1997) Media and Democracy. Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Media and Communication.
3. Ashcroft, B., G. Griffiths and H. Tiffin (1989) Theory and Practice in Post-colonial Literatures. London: Routledge.
4. Baxter, Veronica (1992) Popular Performance in South Africa in the 1980s. Unpublished Masters Thesis, University of Natal, Durban.
5. Beer, William (1986) The Tears of the White Man; Compassion and Contempt. New York: The Free Press.
6. Biella, Peter (1993) Beyond Ethnographic Film: Hypermedia and Scholarship, in J.R. Rollwagen (ed.) Anthropological Film and Video in the 1990s, pp. 131-76. Brockport, NY: The Institute Inc.
7. CCCS (Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies) (1986) The Empire Strikes Back. London: Hutchinson.
8. Chapman, Michael (1997) South Africa in the Global Neighbourhood: Toward a Method of Cultural Analysis, Critical Arts 11(1/2): 17-27.
9. Crahay, F. (n.d.)'Le décollage conceptuel: Conditions d'une philosophe bantoe', Diogene 52: 61-84.
10. Critical Arts (1983) Retrospective. Monograph No. 1. Durban: University of Natal.
11. Dalrymple, Lynn (1987) Explorations in Drama, Theatre, Education: A Critique of Theatre Studies in South Africa. Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Natal, Durban.
12. Dalyrmple, Lynn (1997) The Use of Traditional Cultural Forms in Community Education, Africa Media Review 11(1): 75-91.
13. Dalrymple, Lynn and Eleanor Preston-Whyte (1996) 'Dramaide: Is Dramaide Making a Difference?', Evaluations of the DramAidE Programme. Kwa-Dlangezwa: University of Zululand: via Empangeni.
14. Diawara, Manthia (1992) 'Black Studies, Cultural Studies, Performative Acts', Afterimage 20(3): 6-8.
15. Edeani, D.O. (1995) Role of Africa Media Review m the Sustainable Development of African Communication Research, Africa Media Review 9(1): 24-52.
16. Freire, Paulo (1974) Education for Critical Consciousness. London: Sheed and Ward.
17. Gramsci, Antonio (1971) Prison Notebooks. London: Lawrence and Wishart.
18. Grossberg, Lawrence (1989) The Formation of Cultural Studies: An American in Birmingham, Strategies 2: 114-49.
19. Grossberg, Lawrence (1995) What's in a Name? (One More Time, Taboo 1 (Spring): 1-37.
20. Grossberg, Lawrence, Cary Nelson, Paula Treichler and Linda Baughman, eds (1992) Cultural Studies. London: Routledge.
21. Group Media Journal, ed. Klaus Muller, Missio, Munich. Ceased publication.
22. Guambe, Donald and Arnold Shepperson (1997) Developing Cultural Development Policy Research Programmes: A Focus on the Material Communities of Cultural Practice, Africa Media Review 11(1): 18-44.
23. Hickey, Dennis and Kenneth Wylie (1993) An Enchanting Darkness: The American Vision of Africa in the Twentieth Century. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.
24. Hoosain, Faruk (1992) Alternative Cultural Practices in Drama Studies: An Exploratory Study. Unpublished MA Thesis, University of Natal, Durban. www.und.ac.za/und/ccms.
25. Hountondji, P. (1983) African Philosophy: Myth and Reality. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
26. Kerr, David (1995) African Popular Theatre: From Pre-Colonial Times to the Present Day. London: James Currey.
27. Kerr, David (1997) Cultural Engineering and Development, Africa Media Review 11(1): 64-74.
28. Loots, Lliane (1997) Remembering Protest Theatre in South Africa - A Gendered Review and Cultural Production of Knowledge Around Two Plays, Critical Arts: A Journal for Cultural Studies 11(1/2): 142-52.
29. Masilela, Ntongela (1988) Preface: Establishing an Intellectual Bridgehead, in K.G. Tomaselli (ed.) Rethinking Culture, pp. i-ix. Bellville: Anthropos Publishers.
30. Masolo, D.A. (1994) African Philosophy in Search of Identity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
31. Matiwana, M. and S. Walters (1986) The Struggle for Democracy: A Study of Community Organisations in Greater Cape Town from the 1960s to 1985. Bellville: University of Western Cape.
32. Matlhasedi, ed. Michael Lawrence, Institution for Education Research, University of the North West. Ceased publication.
33. McNeil, Maureen (1998) De-centring or Re-focusing Cultural Studies: A Response to Handel Wright, European Journal of Cultural Studies 1(1): 57-64.
34. Media Development, eds Philip Lee and Pradip Thomas, published by the World Association for Christian Communication, London.
35. Moyo, Felix Fandyroy (1997) Drama: An Appropriate Tool in Development Support Communication, Africa Media Review 11(1): 92-105.
36. Mudimbe, Valentin (1988) The Invention of Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
37. Muller, Johan and Keyan Tomaselli (1990) Becoming Appropriately Modern: A Genealogy of Cultural Studies in South Africa, in J. Mouton and D. Joubert (eds) Knowledge and Method in the Human Sciences, pp. 301-22. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council. An update of this study can be found in N. Denzin (ed.) Cultural Studies: A Research Annual, Vol. IV (forthcoming, 1998).
38. Murphy, Brian Martin (1999) 'Africa Media Modelling in the Post" Era', Critical Arts: A Journal for Cultural Studies (forthcoming).
39. Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1986) Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. London: James Currey.
40. Nyamjoh, Francis (1999) 'African Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies in Africa', Critical Arts: A Journal for Cultural Studies (forthcoming).
41. Parker, Warren (1997) 'Action Media: Consultation, Collaboration and Empowerment in Health Education', Africa Media Review 11(1): 45-63.
42. Pinnock, Don (1991) Popularise, Organise, Educate and Mobilise: Culture and Communication in the 1980s, in K. Tomaselli and P.E. Louw (eds) The Alternative Press in South Africa, pp. 133-54. London: James Currey.
43. Shepperson, Arnold and Tomaselli, Keyan (1993) 'Semiotics in an African Context: "Science" vs "Priestcraft" - "Semiotics" vs "Semiology" ', Acta Semiotica Fennica II: 159-77.
44. Sitas, Arrie (1986) Culture and Production: The Contradications of Working Class Theatre in South Africa, Africa Perspective (New Series), 1(2): 84-111.
45. Smet, A.J. (1977) Qu'est-ce que la philosophie africaine, La Philosophie Africaine 1: 33-68.
46. Soresen, Signe and Karen Thorne, eds (1998) Audio-visual Media in the New South Africa. Copenhagen: Zebra Information Centre.
47. Steyn, A. and S. Walters (1986) The Struggle for Democracy. Bellville: University of Western Cape.
48. Teer-Tomaselli, Ruth E. (1996) DEBI Does Democracy: Recollecting Democratic Voter Education in the Electronic Media Prior to the South African Elections, in G.E. Marcus (ed.) CONNECTED: Engagement with Media. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
49. Tomaselli, Keyan (1998) African Cultural Studies: Excavating for the Future, International Journal of Cultural Studies 1(1): 143-53.
50. Tomaselli, Keyan (1988) Culture and Communication: Whatever Happened to Struggle?, Continuum: An Australian Journal of the Media 1(2): 141-6.
51. Tomaselli, Keyan (1990) Culture and Communication: Whatever Happened to Struggle, Part 2, Continuum 4(1): 219-23.
52. Tomaselli, Keyan and Eric P. Louw (1991) Shifts in Communication Studies: From Idealism and Functionalism to Praxis, in B. Dervin and U. Hararihan (eds) Progress in Communication Sciences, IX, pp. 279-312. New Jersey: Ablex.
53. Tomaselli, Keyan, Ruth E. Tomaselli, Eric P. Louw and Ansuya Chetty (1988) 'Community and Class Struggle: Problems in Methodology', Journal of Communication Inquiry 12(1): 11-25.
54. Tshaimelenga, N. (1973) La vision Ntu de l'homme: Essai de philosophie linguistique et anthropologique, Cahiers des Religions Africaines 14: 175-97.
55. Von Kotze, Astrid (1988) Organize and Act: The Natal Workers Theatre Movement. Durban: Culture and Working Life, Department of Sociology, University of Natal, Durban.
56. Windschuttle, K. (1997) The Poverty of Media Theory, Ecquid Novi 18(1): 3-20.
57. Wright, Handel (1998) 'Dare we De-centre Birmingham? Troubling the "Origin" and Trajectories of Cultural Studies', European Journal of Cultural Studies 1(1): 33-56.
58. Zhuwarara, Rino, Kimani Gecau and Marianna Drag, eds (1997) Media, Democratization and Identity. Harare: University of Zimbabwe, Department of English.