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Capital or critique?: when journalism education seeks to influence the field

- Boshoff, Priscilla A, Garman, Anthea

Authors: Boshoff, Priscilla A , Garman, Anthea
Date: 2017
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143392 , vital:38242 , DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2016.1262437
Description: Drawing on Bourdieu’s theories of field and capital, we examine the limitations that a journalism school at a prestigious university faces in making a meaningful contribution to the field within a developing country. In the postapartheid South African media landscape, journalism is under pressure both from global forces and a political imperative to address social justice. Given the heterogeneity of the journalistic field and the fact that what counts as capital in it is contested, the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University attempts to redefine the parameters by inculcating a particular approach to and philosophy of journalism practice. While Rhodes wants to educate excellent (professional) journalists, it is guided by an overt political mission to cultivate a journalism that is not necessarily ‘in sync’ with the wider field. Ironically, most undergraduates come from the economic and cultural elite, with specific intentions to accumulate the capital which Rhodes bestows. Students are confronted with their privilege and with alternative ideas about the purpose of journalism, and are asked to make choices and take up positions. We consider whether this critical praxis approach is able to influence the ‘state of play’ – or the distribution of power – within the field.
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Date Issued: 2017

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Shifting the priority from giving voice to listening: journalism new

- Garman, Anthea, Malila, Vanessa

Authors: Garman, Anthea , Malila, Vanessa
Date: 2015
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: vital:38355 , http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC175773
Description: If, as the critics have argued, the South African media prioritise the voices of elite, middleclass South Africans, then the majority of South Africans are certainly invisible in the mainstream media. Kate Lacey argues that "listening is at the heart of what it means to be in the world, to be active, to be political" (2013: 163), and as such more than just providing a 'voice' for citizens, the media needs to be engaged in active listening to allow audiences to feel 'heard'. Servaes and Malikhao argue that people are 'voiceless' not because they have nothing to say, but because "nobody cares to listen to them" (2005: 91).
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Date Issued: 2015

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Listening and the ambiguities of voice in South African journalism:

- Garman, Anthea, Malila, Vanessa

Authors: Garman, Anthea , Malila, Vanessa
Date: 2017
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158394 , vital:40180 , https://doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2016.1226914
Description: Political theorists like Bickford (1996) and media theorists like Couldry (2006) have introduced the concept of listening as a complement to long-standing discussions about voice in democracies and in the media which serve the democratic project. This enhanced understanding of voice goes beyond just hearing into giving serious attention to, in particular, marginalised voices. This article reports on an investigation into the ways in which mainstream and community media in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, understand listening as an important part of their role as journalists. Interviews probed the attitudes of journalists and editors towards listening, and also interrogated their own understandings of their role in South Africa, particularly in relation to young people who are finding their political “voice”.
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Date Issued: 2017

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Confession and public life in post‐apartheid South Africa: A Foucauldian reading of Antjie Krog's country of my skull

- Garman, Anthea

Authors: Garman, Anthea
Date: 2006
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159724 , vital:40337 , DOI: 10.1080/02564710608530406
Description: Truth commissions around the world have given the technique of confession a new public currency and political power. Many works of literature thematising these commissions have also adopted the technique of confession for literary purposes. In this paper I bring Foucault's understanding of the technique of confession, and his discourse on the role of public intellectuals in modernity, to bear upon an examination of Antjie Krog's literary reflection of the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), entitled Country of My Skull (1998). I look at how this text, and Krog's subsequent public intellectual status as a witness of the TRC, perpetuate the technique of confession without problematising it in ways that Foucault's work would suggest is necessary.
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Date Issued: 2006

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When an Editor Decides to Listen to a City: Heather Robertson, The Herald, and Nelson Mandela Bay

- Garman, Anthea, Malila, Vanessa

Authors: Garman, Anthea , Malila, Vanessa
Date: 2018
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158427 , vital:40185 , ISBN 9781351664363
Description: This book provides case studies, many incorporating in-depth interviews and surveys of journalists. It examines issues such as journalists’ attitudes toward their contributions to society; the impact of industry and technological changes; culture and minority issues in the newsroom and profession; the impact of censorship and self-censorship; and coping with psychological pressures and physical safety dilemmas. Its chapters also highlight journalists’ challenges in national and multinational contexts. International scholars, conducting research within a wide range of authoritarian, semi-democratic, and democratic systems, contributed to this examination of journalistic practices in the Arab World, Australia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China, Denmark, India, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, Samoa, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey, and the United States.
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Date Issued: 2018

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When the students are revolting: the (im) possibilities of listening in academic contexts in South Africa

- Garman, Anthea

Authors: Garman, Anthea
Date: 2018
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158416 , vital:40182 , ISBN 978-3-319-93958-2 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1007/978-3-319-93958-2
Description: Student activists in South Africa have put the decolonisation of higher education firmly on the agenda, demanding that researchers and teachers pay attention to something in particular that is very hard to hear and very possibly unhearable. These young, black South Africans are the intellectual force upon whom we are depending for the altered future of our country. We cannot change the circumstances which continue to frustrate and anger them without paying particular attention to them. Taking on the knowledge bases and knowledge generation in the Global South, they are demanding that we rethink the logos-based project of universities in South Africa. Their struggle is critically about how knowledge is implicated as a shaping force in lives which are still defined by colonial governmentality.
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Date Issued: 2018

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Troubling White Englishness in South Africa:

- Garman, Anthea

Authors: Garman, Anthea
Date: 2012
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159756 , vital:40340 , ISBN 978-1-84888-105-1
Description: To be white in Africa is to be part of a minority - but a very powerful minority. To be white in South Africa is to be implicated and complicit in historical dispossession and disenfranchisement. However, in post-apartheid South Africa, whiteness is no longer the invisible condition of the default human being, a condition to which all other humans must aspire. In fact, to be white is suddenly to be very visibly Other to the black African majority who are increasingly shaping the social landscape in ways that undermine the trajectories of both the colonial project and the apartheid project in this country.
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Date Issued: 2012

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The both-and edition:

- Garman, Anthea

Authors: Garman, Anthea
Date: 2009
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158817 , vital:40231 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139955
Description: I was driving down the N2 from Cape Town towards the airport recently and scanning the turn-offs for Vanguard Drive, when suddenly I noticed among the shacks that line the road some really interesting buildings. These were not the pale pink matchboxes that periodically spring up in rows alongside the derelict housing that millions of South Africans call home. They were multi-levelled, had large windows and looked like an architect might have had something to do with them. I was heartened at the sight of housing – at last – with humanity in mind. But as I reread the 2010 pieces in this edition, I’m reminded by Jane Duncan in particular (“Whose World Cup?” page 23) that prettifying the ghastly spaces in our world cup cities that will be visible to those international tourists is high on the agenda for our government. But then, I reason, at least someone will benefit from living along the noisy and congested airport route!.
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Date Issued: 2009

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Troubling White Englishness in South Africa: a self-interrogation of privilege, complicity citizenship, and belonging

- Garman, Anthea

Authors: Garman, Anthea
Date: 2014
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159746 , vital:40339 , ISBN 978-0739192962
Description: Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century: Global Manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions is a tightly interconnected and richly collaborative book that will advance our understanding of why it is so difficult to re-form and reimagine whiteness in the twenty-first century. Composed after the election of the first black U.S. president, post-global financial crisis, more than a decade after 9/11, and concomitant with a rash of xenophobic incidents across the globe, the book distills several key themes associated with a post-millennial global whiteness: the individual and collective emotions of whiteness, the recentering of whiteness through governing and legal strategies, and the retreats from social equity and justice that have characterized the late twentieth and twenty-first century nation state. It also attempts the difficult work of reimagining white identities and cultures for a new era.
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Date Issued: 2014

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