Performative ethnography: difference and conviviality of everyday multiculturalism in Bellville (Cape Town)

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dc.contributor.authorAlhourani, Ala Rabiha
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-18T13:37:00Z
dc.date.available2018-10-18T13:37:00Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThe paper explores the benefits of performative ethnography as a methodological intervention. The intervention discussed in this paper utilizes the persuasive power of aesthetics and performance to attain participation amongst a broad spectrum of research interlocutors and to challenge my own power and positionality in the fieldwork, whilst rendering me invisible as a participant observer. The performative ethnography discussed in this paper took place in the central business district (CBD) of Bellville, in the Cape Town area in South Africa, and consists of two performances, curated by the author, that took place at the same time. One is a painting performance through which Somali participants were invited to express their emotional experiences of living in Cape Town, and their memories, nostalgia and attachment to their land of origin. The painting performance revealed Somali diversity, multiple belongings and a politics of making cultural difference. The second performance was staged to overlap, in ways unanticipated by the participants, and consisted of a South African minstrel troupe walking through Bellville CBD, attaining a moment of conviviality through the unmaking of cultural difference. Beneath this methodological intervention is an exploration of the politics of difference and the conviviality of Bellville CBD�s everyday multiculturalism.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAlhourani, A.R. (2017). Performative ethnography: difference and conviviality of everyday multiculturalism in Bellville (Cape Town). Journal of African Cultural Studies, 29(2): 211-226.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1369-6815
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2016.1273764
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/4139
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author-version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2016.1273764
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectPerformative ethnographyen_US
dc.subjectPerformanceen_US
dc.subjectSomalien_US
dc.subjectDifferenceen_US
dc.subjectConvivialityen_US
dc.titlePerformative ethnography: difference and conviviality of everyday multiculturalism in Bellville (Cape Town)en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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