Traversing Doctoral Borderlands: Black doctoral students’ experiences of identity construction in South Africa
- Authors: Hwami, Rudo Fortunate
- Date: 2021-10-29
- Subjects: Doctoral students South Africa , College students, Black South Africa , Marginality, Social South Africa , Public spaces Social aspects , Culture Social aspects , Rhythm , Identity (Psychology) , Borderlands Theory
- Language: English
- Type: Doctoral theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/191062 , vital:45055 , 10.21504/10962/191062
- Description: Doctoral studies are described as a process of formation and becoming. This is an in-between space between unknowing and knowing, within and without the ivory tower of academia. In this in-between space the doctoral candidate takes the role of a novice and apprentice unlearning the student/unknowing past and learning to become a professional in academia. This project utilises the borderlands theory to understand the experiences of doctoral students as they undergo the process of becoming and intellectual identity formation. Whilst ‘journey’ and other metaphors that have been used to understand doctoral student experiences capture the process of becoming as a progression through the liminal stages – proposal, literature review, context, writing, reading etc. These stages presuppose temporality of being leading to stasis/completion. I argue that such conceptualisation of doctoral studies, although useful, depict one side of the story and provide a limited, monolithic, and homogenising understanding of the spatial configurations of doctoral space and intellectual identity formation. The dominant discourses of doctoral conceived and perceived space, liminal stages and understanding of doctoral student experiences, mask the more latent and intimate liminal stages of intellectual identity formation. Drawing from borderlands theory, I firstly argue for a holistic approach to understanding the spatiality of doctorate studies. Secondly, I argue that liminality is an everyday process integral to human existence where one is always in a state of ideological transition. An important state of liminality is the awareness of ‘Self’ in perpetual motion, caught between two worlds dominated/dominator and two ideologies of oppression/resistance. If this side of liminality is not made visible, institutional spaces, such as the doctorate, privileged with the power to disseminate and position onto-epistemologies as universal can be used to reproduce and reinforce exclusionary onto-epistemologies that subsequently impact intellectual identity formation. Using Lefebvre’s (1991) rhythmanalysis method, I use student experiences not as mere data for analysis, but as an act of envisioning, reinventing and coknowledge production to propose borderlands as a new metaphor to study doctoral spatial realities and the experiences of the students that traverse through it. , Thesis (PhD) -- Faculty of Humanities, Politics and International Studies, 2021
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- Date Issued: 2021-10-29
BBC Schools
- Authors: Tracey, Hugh
- Subjects: African musicians , Simple , Extraordinary , Conventional , Instrument , Reeds , Bamboo , Brick , Log , Wood , Content , Strict tempo , Rhythm , Tapping , Pulse , Word , Absolute , Regular , Irregular , Clap , Beat , Even , Drums , Distinctive , Tone , Voices , Sticks , Membrane , Play , Nigeria , Yoruba drummers , Pitch , Hourglass , African , Music , Songs , Languages , Common , Story songs , Rhodesia , Chorus , Opera , The Bird of the Valley , Tracey, Hugh version
- Language: English
- Type: Sound , Radio broadcast , Music
- Identifier: vital:15137 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012493 , Reel numbers: BC163, BC164
- Description: Narration on African musicians and African music by Hugh Tracey covering item numbers one to three for schools broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation , For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcasts
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Broadcast series for BBC Schools
- Authors: Tracey, Hugh
- Subjects: African musicians , Ordinary , Simplest , Conventional , Instruments , Reeds , Bamboo , Brick , Content , Single , Log , Wood , Absolute , Regular , Tapping , Pencils , Knuckles , Pulse , Strict tempo , Rhythm
- Language: English
- Type: Sound , Broadcast , Music
- Identifier: vital:15136 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012477 , Reel numbers: BC163, BC164
- Description: Presentation of items one to three on African music by Hugh Tracey a broadcast series for BBC Schools , For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcasts
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The Many Sides of African Music No. 7
- Authors: Tracey, Hugh , Tracey, Peggy
- Subjects: Percussion , Congo , Thundering , Hutu , Kipushi Copper Mine , Urubunda , Uruhamisiza , Uruchantege , Trees , South Africa , Limpopo , Congo Basin , Whistled messages , Herd boys , Southern Rhodesia , Zimbabwe , Tone , Baptist , Antelope horn , Gong , Drum name , Slit drum , Talking drums , Upper Congo , Whistles , Rattles , Singing , Rhythm , Middle Congo , Nigeria , Praise , Gold coast , Poetry on the drums , Izibongo , Lagos street drummer , Nigerian Broadcasting Commission in Lagos , Hourglass shaped drum , Lunda chief , Zambezi river , Central Congo , Tanganyika , Mr. John Carrington , Mr. Ford , Natelope horn , Fort Victoria , Umtali , Bungungu
- Language: English
- Type: Sound , Radio broadcast , Music
- Identifier: vital:15073 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008501 , Reel number: BC055
- Description: The Many Sides of African Music No.7 of illustrated talks by Hugh Tracey and Peggy Tracey on their travels in search of African music, broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation , For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcasts
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