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This study explores how migrant black African entrepreneurs in Johannesburg’s haircare business naturalise their identities as transnational citizens through transactional exchanges in the importation and consumption of hair, in the context of ethnicity, citizenship, gender, entrepreneurship and social life, as factors of belonging in the experiences of life in Johannesburg. The function of hair exchange enables migrants to seek ways of building integration, unity and security in an environment that is hostile to immigrants, through integrational strategies of downsizing and outsourcing identities that foster and naturalise belonging. In the context of the politics of identity, the rights of migrant black African entrepreneurs to claim belonging and national citizenship in Johannesburg and South Africa are heavily contested. Urban life in South Africa as elsewhere in the world is shaped by vast migration, urbanisation and flexible mobility. This create tensions in complex social life, diverse temporary encounters and shifting multiple identities, where fixed notions of belonging, state citizenship and identity making incite exclusion of migrants especially. This thesis uses the concept and practice of conviviality to challenge the continual ‘insider and outsider’ dichotomies that sustain local hostilities towards non-nationals in the labour, social, cultural and political arenas of belonging. It does so through explorations of conviviality amongst insiders and outsiders through the prism of the economy and sociality of hair. Conviviality emerges as a process of coping with difference. Migrant hair providers demonstrate their abilities to traverse fixities by exploring fluid and flexible identities that impact cohabitation encounters in messy and complex everyday life realities. Keywords: Conviviality, entrepreneurship, migrant, haircare, insiders-outsiders, identity, belonging, interdependence, new ways of knowing, citizenship.
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Spatial Realities of Salon Cultures among Female Undergraduates of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria
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University life reinforces the process of self-discovery and self-expression of students, which takes place across spaces within and outside the campus. The hairdressing salon is a cultural site and sphere of socialization where part of students’ lives are also nurtured, yet it is largely ignored in scholarship. By inquiring into salon cultures, particularly underexplored dimensions of the transformations of salons into spaces transcending beautification purposes, this study questions how emerging salon cultures influence lifestyles and personalities of undergraduate students, representing the growing population of adolescents to womanhood. The study is organized as a qualitative research, supported by the Habermasian theory of the public sphere to provide a platform for discussing spatial realities of salons. The study cogently contributes to the hair discourse as central to the socialisation of girls and women in Nigerian cultural studies. By exploring the social forces and factor...
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Styling the Nation: Fear and Desire in the South Sudanese Beauty Trade
Caroline Faria
Feminist scholarship on emotion and the ‘global intimate’ offers innovative ways to rethink nationalism as embodied, affective and lived in the everyday. This approach also brings into focus the significance of the transnational: flows of commodities, bodies and ideas that cross state boundaries and are taken up, reworked, celebrated and worried over as part of nation-making. I approach nationalism here in this way, centring the beauty salon industry in the newly independent Republic of South Sudan. Beauty salons are owned, staffed and supplied by inherently transnational subjects: migrant workers and entrepreneurs as well as members of the returning diaspora. They are also stocked with transnational material objects: hair weaves, cosmetics and beauty technologies from across Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the USA. The fashioning of the nation through these salons is thus cosmopolitan in style: orientated outward, embracing the modern and privileging a sense of worldliness and affinity with distant people and places. However, this styling of nationalism is ambivalent and contested. Clients clamour for new fashions, the latest technologies in hair and beauty, and the know-how brought by migrant ‘saloonists’, as they are referred to in the region. Yet this desire interweaves with a growing panic around the foreign: foreign styles, migrants, capital and commodities. Through this case study I argue that nation- making in South Sudan is fundamentally transnational – constructed not in isolation from, but explicitly through, cosmopolitanism and the modern exterior. In connection I argue that nationalism is emotional – marked at once by contradictory feelings of fear and desire that require, and indeed depend on, a foreign other. In this way I demonstrate how quotidian spaces and subjects, transnational flows of bodies, commodities and styles, and analyses of emotion can all be richly explored to better understand and theorise the operations of nationalism. Key words Republic of South Sudan; feminist political geography; nation; cosmopolitan; emotion; beauty
