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Making South Africa Safe: The Gendered Production of Black Place on the Global Stage
Qualitative Sociology ( IF 2.629 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-18 , DOI: 10.1007/s11133-021-09478-z
Annie Hikido

This article offers an intersectional analysis of how non-elites frame neighborhood as a synecdoche for nation through tourism. In Cape Town, South Africa, white Western tourists perceive the peripheral Black townships to be more dangerous than the city’s white center but also more representative of the country and thus worth visiting. Drawing from ten months of ethnographic fieldwork, I illustrate how Black women who have established home-based township accommodations iron out the tension between tourists’ fear and desire. I employ Goffman’s theories of impression management to demonstrate how township hostesses make Black South African space fit for Western consumption through race, class, gender, and nation. On the frontstage, women assuage tourists’ inhibitions by acting as maternal African figures. On the backstage, they cover the risks borne of poverty as communal Black mothers. Their gendered production of Black place palliates post-apartheid problems and projects South Africa’s stability on the global stage, which invites further Western visitation and capital.



中文翻译:

使南非安全:全球舞台上黑人场所的性别生产

本文对非精英如何通过旅游将邻域定为国家的象征进行了交叉分析。在南非的开普敦,西方白人游客认为周边的黑人乡镇比该城市的白人中心危险得多,但也更代表该国,因此值得一游。我从十个月的民族志田野调查中汲取了经验,说明了已经建立了家乡镇住所的黑人妇女如何消除游客的恐惧和欲望之间的紧张关系。我运用高夫曼的印象管理理论来说明乡镇礼仪小姐如何通过种族,阶级,性别和民族使黑人南非人的空间适合西方消费。在前台,妇女通过扮演非洲孕产妇的角色来缓解游客的束缚。在后台,他们承担着作为黑人社区母亲的贫穷带来的风险。他们在黑人地区的性别化生产减轻了种族隔离之后的问题,并预示了南非在全球舞台上的稳定,这吸引了西方国家的进一步访问和资金的到来。

更新日期:2021-03-18
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