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Lecture | The State of the Ordinary: Moral Tangles after Apartheid

Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 4:10 pm to 6:10 pm

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A lecture by Thomas Hansen, Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam.

Notions of ‘the everyday’ and ordinary life have today replaced ‘culture’ as the proper place from where anthropology constructs its disciplinary perspective. Yet, the epistemological status and the political history of these concepts are by and large left unexamined. It is often overlooked that everyday practices also constituted the preferred site of robust forms of colonial regulation and bio-politics among subjects deemed to beyond systematic persuasion.

Nowhere was this clearer than in the case of the apartheid state which molded and reconfigured a vast array of ordinary micro-practices along racially defined lines. As a result, the status of ordinary life in South Africa is today deeply ambivalent, morally contested and the site of much worry and embarrassment. The paper will question the attribution of heroic and organic qualities to the everyday and to ordinary and will illustrate ethnographically how radical self-doubt pervades life and imagination in a large urban township.

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