Critical Arts articles from January 1 2001

Critical Arts archives from January 1 2001

The Metamorphosis of Ovid: from Chaucer to Ted Hughes.
January 1, 2001... Sarah Annes [sic] Brown London: Gerald Duckworth, 1999, pp. 246. The expectations aroused by the felicitously ironic title of Sarah A. Brown's book are largely fulfilled. Ovid, she points out, is the "source for some of the most memorable...

African Tears: the Zimbabwe Land Invasions.
January 1, 2001... Catherine Buckle Johannesburg: Covos Day, 2001, pp. 243. This is an important descriptive book which chronicles some highlights of the events leading up to what is now commonly referred to as the `Zimbabwe farm invasions' which accelerated...

Caught between empires: ambivalence in Australian films.
January 1, 2001... Abstract Australian films have gained an international reputation for their whimsical look at everyday life. Beneath the quirky veneer of Australian movies, however, lies a deep ambivalence to Australia's cultural dependency on Britain and...

The Internet in Africa--a new road to developmental opportunities or a digital highway leading to nowhere?
January 1, 2001... Abstract This article deals with the issue of censorship and access restrictions to the Internet in sub-Saharan Africa as part of a general discussion on sustainable social development. Formal aspects of media censorship are discussed. The...

New media, old struggles: Pan Africanism, anti-racism and information technology.
January 1, 2001... Abstract This paper examines the counter-penetration of information technology by people of African descent in the struggle against human rights violations produced by slavery, colonialism, apartheid and globalisation. Historical...

Journalism education in Africa: from critical pedagogical theory to meaning-based practice.
January 1, 2001... Abstract The construction of meaning-based educational theory creates a foundation for greater tolerance and mutual respect among and between divergent peoples. This provides possibilities for pedagogical praxis to assist journalism...

Problematising race for journalists: critical reflections on the South African Human Rights Commission Inquiry into media racism.
January 1, 2001... Abstract How journalists report race and racism was at the centre of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) Inquiry into racism in the media. A critical analysis of the conceptual assumptions in the Inquiry's Final Report,...

A tale of two paradoxes: media censorship in South Africa, pre-liberation and post-apartheid.
January 1, 2001... Abstract Prior to liberation from apartheid, South Africa's information system laboured under a draconian system of censorship that could have crippled the media. Yet the tradition of defiance and the rise of a strong civil rights movement...

Human rights and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa.
January 1, 2001... Abstract The South African constitutional discourse is the foundational agency that produces citizenship, centring subjectivity as a relational engagement with the existential reality of the everyday life of ordinary people. In this paper,...

Twenty-one years later.
January 1, 2001... Re-reading the article I wrote in 1980 makes me take a huge breath--release it from the depth of my being rather than my lungs! I quote myself from that period: "We shall not be rid of censorship until we are rid of apartheid." We are rid...

New forms of strategy--no change of heart.
January 1, 2001... Sharing the preoccupations of my fellow writers, I was the first to express the conviction, now become a general stand, that the release from ban of a few books by well-known white writers is not a major victory for the freedom to write, and...

Introduction: human rights and the media.
January 1, 2001... Abstract The best way to preface this issue of Critical Arts is by commending the editors on their timely and pertinent choice of the topic "human rights and the media". It would seem to me that this is one of the most urgent themes in...

Revisiting media and human rights.
January 1, 2001... The post-Cold War period has seen a much greater emphasis than previously on democratisation, human and media rights, the right to communicate, and the communication of rights. A host of new charters have emerged, the People's Communication...