RT Article
T1 A Foolish Proposal? Vulnerability as an Alternative Attempt to Contribute to Decolonisation and Reconciliation in Post-Colonial South Africa
JF Transformation
VO 37
IS 2
SP 140
OP 159
A1 Grohmann, Marcus
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1697246672
AB Reconciliation in South Africa is often taken to mean the creation of culturally diverse communities. In reality, though, the multicultural often turns out to be multiracial only with People of Colour being included in White-dominated spaces. Likewise, socio-economic transformation means raising people's chances to attain a living standard more equal to that of the bulk of the White population. In both cases, the strong position of White people in sociocultural and socio-economic terms remains largely untouched. Hence the calls for decolonisation which seem to render the reconciliation discourse dispensable. Vulnerability by White South Africans is proposed as an alternative response to ongoing inequalities which - it is suggested - could contribute to both decolonisation and reconciliation on an interpersonal level. Likely objections to such a proposal are considered before making a case for vulnerability as an appropriate Christian way of living, particularly in the context of former settler colonialism.
K1 cultural conceptualisations
K1 cultural linguistics
K1 Decolonisation
K1 Reconciliation
K1 Settler Colonialism
K1 South Africa
DO 10.1177/0265378820910452