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Living Together, Living Apart?: Social Cohesion in aFuture South Africa, Eds: Ballantine,Christopher, Chapman,Michael, Erwin,Kira and Maré,Gerhard (NEW, NB FOR SA TODAY)
These interventions are spurred by what in South Africatoday is a buzz-phrase: social cohesion. The term, or concept, is bandied aboutwith little reflection by leaders or spokespeople in politics, business,labour, education, sport, entertainment and the media. Yet, who would not wishto live in a socially cohesive society? How, then, do we apply the ideal in thedaily round when diversity of language, religion, culture, race and the economytoo often supersedes our commitment to a common citizenry? How do we livetogether rather than live apart? Such questions provoke the purpose of theseinterventions.
The interventions essays, which are short, incisive, attimes provocative tackle issues that are pertinent to both living togetherand living apart: equality/inequality, public pronouncement, xenophobia,safety, chieftaincy in modernity, gender-based abuse, healing, the law,education, identity, sport, new national projects, the role of the arts,South Africa in the world. In focusing on such issues, the essays point towardsthe making of a future, in which a critical citizenry is key to a healthysociety.
Contributors include leading academics and public figures in South Africatoday: Christopher Ballantine, Ahmed Bawa, Michael Chapman, Jacob Dlamini,Jackie Dugard, Kira Erwin, Nicole Fritz, Michael Gardiner, Gerhard Maré,Monique Marks, Rajend Mesthrie, Bonita Meyersfeld, Leigh-Ann Naidoo, Njabulo S.Ndebele, Kathryn Pillay, Faye Reagon, Brenda Schmahmann, Himla Soodyall, DavidSpurrett and Thuto Thipe.
Christopher Ballantine, Michael Chapman and GerhardMaré are professors emeriti who are affiliated to the University ofKwaZulu-Natal. They have all published prominently in areas of the humanitiesand social sciences in South Africa. Kira Erwin is aresearcher at the Urban Futures Centre at the Durban University of Technology.Her publications focus on race, space and urban identities.
