Bouncing Back

Description

In 2018 South Africa's so-called "mother city", Cape Town came into the global spotlight as being the first city in the world to (almost) "run out of water," a crisis that only exacerbated the pressures placed upon a population staggering under socio-economic and politically-tinged environmental predicaments. Japan on the other hand has long sustained an international reputation for the massive scale of natural and anthropocentric crises its people have faced, overcome, and succumbed to. The most recent (pre-Pandemic) occurrence of which being the 2011 tsunami and Fukushima Daiima nuclear plant accident. What comes to mind when Japan, South Africa, and the notion of resilience are mentioned in the same utterance? Well, considering how societies respond to disaster, (man-made and natural), Japan and South Africa feature high on many lists both for our triumphs and our failures to account for the most vulnerable among us in moments of catastrophe. This edited volume draws on transdisciplinary perspectives and multi-sited research to reflect on the high stakes involved when people are expected to repeatedly survive crisis. The authors take "resilience" as a contested yet generative lens through which to examine some of the most salient questions of our time. Culled from two seemingly disparate geopolitical locales, the insights offered here are hauntingly connected, shedding light on questions of collective and individual responses to calamity - questions that, in the wake of the Covid-19 global pandemic, are now urgently being grappled with by everyone, everywhere.

Sujets

• African Studies
• Ethnic Studies
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: Langaa RPCIG
• Date de parution: 10 novembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789956553266
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Bouncing Back: Critical reflections on the Resilience Concept in Japan and South Africa
Editors Tamara Enomoto, Marlon Swai, Kiyoshi Umeya & Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group P.O. Box 902 Mankon Bamenda North West Region Cameroon [e-mail] www.langaa-rpcig.net
Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective [e-mail] www.africanbookscollective.com

ISBN-10: 9956-552-23-2 ISBN-13: 978-9956-552-23-8
© Tamara Enomoto, Marlon Swai, Kiyoshi Umeya &Francis B. Nyamnjoh 2022

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Notes on Contributors
Maho ARAKI is a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate School for Intercultural Studies, Kobe University, Japan, and a JSPS Research Fellow. She majors in anthropology, folklore and ethnomusicology. Her research interests revolve around the social relations between traditional folk music practitioners and communities in the southern islands of Japan. Her recent publications include ‘Performing Arts on Iou Jima, Mishima Village under COVID-19 Situation’ (2021, Kagoshima Folklore 159: 19–34, in Japanese, and ‘The Development of Uchi-bayashi in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture: Focusing on the Minato Matsuri Festival’ (2021, Tohoku Folklore 55: 41–50, in Japanese).
Tamara ENOMOTO is Professor at the Organization for the Strategic Coordination of Research and Intellectual Properties, Meiji University. From 2003 to 2015, she worked at Oxfam where she was in charge of policy on humanitarian issues. Her recent publications include ‘Demarcating Battle Lines: Citizenship and Agency in the Era of Misanthropy’ in I. Hazama, K. Umeya and F. B. Nyamnjoh (eds), Citizenship in Motion: South African and Japanese Scholars in Conversation (2019, Bamenda: Langaa RPCIG), ‘Overcoming the Dichotomy Between Africa and the West: Norms and Measures for Arms Transfers to Non-State Actors’ in M. Endo, M. Neocosmos and A. K. Onoma (eds), African Politics of Survival Extraversion and Informality in the Contemporary World (2020, Bamenda: Langaa RPCIG), Weapon Taboos: Genealogies of Pariah Weapons (2020, Nihon Keizai Hyouronsha, edited book in Japanese) and The Arms Trade Treaty: The Self, Sovereignty, and Arms Transfer Control (2020, Kouyou Shobou, sole-authored book in Japanese).
Kolawole GBOLAHAN is a Nigerian by birth who has been residing in Cape Town for the past seven years. As a Mellon Fellow, Kola attained his Master’s in music and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at the College of Music, University of Cape Town. As a trumpeter, percussionist and poet, he has shared creative works and performance spaces with diverse musical collectives and creatives such as Mandla Mbothwe, Marlon Swai, Dizu Plaatjies and the UCT Symphony Orchestra. Some of his creative projects include founding the poetry-centered band Sounds & Words in 2016; a theoretical and performative project in 2019 which reclaimed the poetics of indigenous horns and; his 2021 co-founding of ‘The Commons’ (an experiment in the social). The thread that connects all of his work is a deep sense of responsibility for ability of art to facilitate sharing, healing and communing with the widest spectrum of people.
Toru HAMAGUCHI is a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University. His main area of research is human migration, focusing on Filipinos who migrate to oil-producing countries in the Middle East, and especially on how their earnings from migrant work are situated in their social relations. His recent publications include ‘The Relations between Migrant Worker, Migrant and Their Home: The Case of Filipino Specialist’ (2019, Shitennoji University Bulletin 68: 369–386).
Itsuhiro HAZAMA is Professor of Anthropology at Toyo University in the Faculty of Sociology. In addition to thinking about the intersections between multispecies ethnography and citizenship studies, his current research involves an examination of the ways in which the machinations of global governance affect the ability of refugees to live with dignity in contexts such as Uganda. His recent publications include the co-authored ‘Naturalography of Co-Existence among East African Pastoral Societies: An Introductory Overview of Japanese Scholarship’ (2019, African Study Monographs 40(2-3): 45–75) and the co-edited Citizenship in Motion: South African and Japanese Scholars in Conversation (2019, Bamenda: Langaa RPCIG). Email: [e-mail]
Minga Mbweck KONGO is an anthropologist and fellow at HUMA with research interests in water sociality, mobility, urbanism, illness and climate change. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Science and, from UCT, an Honours Degree in Social Anthropology and a Masters in African Studies. He has been a fellow of the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program for undergraduate studies at UCT. Minga has served as a research assistant for several projects at UCT, has worked as tutor and teaching assistant and as curator at UCT’s Centre for African Studies, and is a member of the Citizenship in Motion bilateral cooperation project between South African and Japanese scholars. He has worked widely in emergency medical services, the architecture, construction, arts and community development sectors. At HUMA, Minga’s Ph.D. research in anthropology examines water, sociality and the navigation of dignified livelihoods in the Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa.
Masayuki, KOMEYAMA is the Director-General of Hokudan Earthquake Memorial Park. He was born in Toshima, the epicentre of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. At the time of the earthquake, as a member of the fire brigade, he engaged in rescue work. He has been giving lectures across the country as a kataribe (storyteller) of the experience of disaster to propagate the available lessons. Recently, he has been teaching younger generations under the principle that good storytellers can be grown even if they have not experienced the disaster directly.
Kharnita MOHAMED is a black feminist scholar who lectures in anthropology at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Her research is focused on epistemology, death, debility, disability, race and gender towards developing conceptual tools for thinking about death, disability and debility in and for the global South. In her teaching, she is passionate about developing pedagogies that open epistemic horizons. In 2020, she received the UCT Humanities Faculty’s Dean’s Teaching Award for her innovative curricula. Her 2018 debut novel, Called to Song received the 2020 UCT Meritorious Book Award, was shortlisted for the 2020 National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences Fiction Award and long listed for the 2019 Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize.
Gaku MORIGUCHI is a part-time lecturer of Cultural Anthropology and African Politics at Tokyo University of Agriculture, Komazawa University and Waseda University. He has conducted fieldwork in Kampala, Uganda (2007–2011). During this time, he also served as external consultant to the Grant Assistant for Grass-Roots and Human Security Projects at the Embassy of Japan in Uganda. His recent publications include a chapter, co-authored with S. Kodamaya, ‘Area Studies in the time of Globalisation: Introductory notes on comparative studies of two African nation-states’ in S. Kodamaya, A. Sato and H. Shimada (eds) Approaches to Area Studies: World Analysis from the Global South , (2021, Kyoto: Minerva Shobō) and ‘In and Out of Family: Family Affairs and Deep Play at Nightclubs in Kampala, Uganda’ in I. Hazama, K. Umeya and F. B. Nyamnjoh (eds) Citizenship in Motion: South African and Japanese Scholars in Conversation (2019, Bamenda: Langaa RPCIG).
Zuziwe MSOMI is a lecturer in the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town. Her research interests include whiteness studies, language, discourse analysis, the constructions and deployment of race, higher education, the legal protection of indigenous knowledge and bioresources, privilege and inequality. Her areas of research share the common threads of domination, oppression and agency. She holds an M.A. in Political Studies from Rhodes University (referred by some as the University Currently Known as Rhodes). Her was doctorate, focusing on whiteness and whiteness studies, was awarded by the University of Cape Town. Zuziwe is currently writing a monograph, based on her Ph.D. thesis, titled 'Negotiating whiteness: a discourse analysis of students’ descriptions of their raced experiences at Rhodes University, Grahamstown (now Makhanda), South Africa’.
Francis B. NYAMNJOH is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is the recipient of the ‘ASU African Hero 2013’ annual award by the African Students Union, Ohio University, USA, of the 2014 Eko Prize for African Literature and of the ASAUK 2018 Fage & Oliver Prize for the best monograph for his book #RhodesMustFall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa . He is a B1 rated Professor and Researcher by the South African National Research Foundation (NRF), a Fellow of the Cameroon Academy of Science since August 2011, a Fellow of the African Academy of Science since December 2014, a Fellow of the Academy of Science of South Africa since 2016 and a Fellow of the College of Fellows of the University of Cape Town since December 2021. His scholarly books include Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds (2017) and Incompleteness: Donald Trump, Populism and Citizenship (2022).
Berni SEARLE , born in Cape Town in 1964, is an artist who works with photography and the moving image. Often, but not exclusively, using herself in her work, she perform