Arnold Shepperson (University of Natal, Durban)

Submitted: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 10:57:57 GMT +0200


Arnold Shepperson
Ph.D. candidate

Affiliation:
Centre for Cultural and Media Studies
University of Natal

Mail address:
Centre for Cultural and Media Studies
University of Natal
Durban 4041
South Africa

phone:         +27-31-260-2505
fax:           +27-31-260-1519
e-mail:        sheppers@mtb.und.ac.za



Activities:

Presently Ph.D candidate in the Centre for Cultural and Media Studies,
University of Natal, Durban, South Africa.  Research topic:  the analysis
of the structure of hazard in the South African deep-level mining sector,
based on close interpretation (using Peircean semiotics and attribution
theory) of statutory accident inquest records, Truth and Reconcilaition
commission submissions, and various formal statutory records of
investigations into health and safety in mining. 

Research interests:  

The historical origins in political theory of the various interpretive
discourses involving the concept of Culture.  African cinema.  The
problematic nature of government in Africa.  Women as cultural agents in
developing political environment. 

Recent publications:

1997 (with Donald L. Guambe):  "Developing Cultural Development Policy
Research Programmes:  a focus on the material communities of cultural
practice."  AFRICA MEDIA REVIEW 11(1).  pp. 18-44.

1996:  "AmaBokkebokke!  National Symbols and the Cultural Task Beyond
Apartheid."  S - EUROPEAN JOURNAL FOR SEMIOTIC STUDIES 8/2,3.  pp. 395-412.

1994:  "Tits'n'Bums:  film and the appropriation of the human body." 
VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY 6().  pp. 395-400.

1998 (with K.G. Tomaselli):  "The NEW NATION At Play with the Lords of the
Field:  Religious and Political Reaction Against Christian Liberation
Media."  In L. Switzer (Ed.) SOUTH AFRICA'S RESISTANCE PRESS:  SUBALTERN
TEXTS AND COMMUNITIES IN THE LAST GENERATION OF THE APARTHEID ERA. 
Forthcoming.

1998 (with K.G. Tomaselli):  "Die Folgen der Apartheid und ihre Uberwindung
durch Zeichenanalyse:  Semiotik in Sudafrika."  ZEITSCHRIFT FUR SEMIOTIK
20(1-2).  pp. 161-174.

1997 (with K.G. Tomaselli):  "Resistance Through Mediated Orality."  In S.
Hoover and K. Lundby (eds), RETHINKING MEDIA, RELIGION, AND CULTURE. 
Thousand Oaks CA.:  Sage Publications. pp. 209-223.

1997 (with K.G. Tomaselli):  "Accepting the Other:  on the ethics of
intercultural communication in ethnographic film."  In C. Christians and M.
Traber (Eds.), COMMUNICATION ETHICS AND UNIVERSAL VALUES.  Thousand Oaks
CA:  Sage Publications.  pp. 277-299.