- Title
- Black-boxing and the politics of parliamentary oversight in South Africa
- Creator
- Siebörger, Ian, Adendorff, Ralph D
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/433497
- Identifier
- vital:72976
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-9027206565
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.65
- Description
- We investigate a parliamentary committee meeting overseeing a randomly chosen state-owned entity, in order to track the processes of knowledge production that occur in parliamentary oversight. The entity’s representatives use “epistemological condensation” (Maton 2014:130) to present the information they give to the MPs as incontestable, effectively “black-boxing” it. “Black-boxing” (Latour 1987) is a process which presents knowledge in such a way that very little room is left for questioning it. The committee members also use “epistemological rarefaction” (Maton 2014:130) to open the black box of the presentation and question its contents, challenging the practices of the entity.
- Format
- 39 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company; UK ed. edition
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Siebörger, I. and Adendorff, R., 2015. Black-boxing and the politics of parliamentary oversight in South Africa. In Singing, Speaking and Writing Politics, (ed) Mairjana N Dedaic. pp.43-66
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- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the John Benjamins Publishing Company Open Access Policy Statement (https://www.benjamins.com/content/authors/openaccesspolicy)
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