Writing Your World Week 4 Video 2 -  Reset your deadline to unlock the assignments. Round table discussion: Reflection on the readings

Nomdo, Gideon; Hunma, Aditi

Writing Your World Week 4 Video 2 - Reset your deadline to unlock the assignments. Round table discussion: Reflection on the readings

MOOC

2019-06-01

Abstract

This video focuses on the discussion of the four authors whose work has been used throughout the course. The initial discussion is on Woodward's writing on sameness. The video covers the dynamic relationship between sameness and otherness whilst providing examples. The video then moves on to Thornton's work. The focus is on the ideas around the act of categorising people. The video touches on the negative effects of the classification process, providing examples from the South African context. It then moves on to the discussion on how people are socialised to use people's region of origin as identity markers. There is also a comparison between Thornton's and Woodward's work. Moeian then discusses the issue of boundaries with regards to Thornton's work by also making using of Sichone's work. This is video 2/7 in week 4 of the Writing your World course.