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- Title: Ambiguous Bodies, Authentic Bodies: Terrorists, Passports, And Immigration Law in the Post 9/11 World (Report)
- Author : M. Neelika Jayawardane
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 106 KB
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'Unruly bodies' and border control: protecting 'authenticity' in the nation state Some years back, a collective of DJs in Cape Town's underground music scene began the Fong Kong Bantu Sound System. Their inspiration came from the "spazas of Soweto or the bazaars of Grey Street", where "we see fake consumer goods flooding our world and our minds"--be it in the form of endless rows of "shoes with fake Nike logos, 'Diesel' t-shirts [or] badly pirated DVDs" (Fong Kong Bantus 2010). The term "Fong Kong" is slang specific to South Africa, used to denote duplicates of tightly regulated, high-priced, "authentic" goods--which, in the popular imagination, historically originated in Hong Kong, that outpost of the British Empire which manufactured and disseminated various simulacra of the paraphernalia of late capitalism, despite the regulations of corporate empires. "Bantu", the second portion of the collective's name, playfully signals the group's claim on blackness, though in many southern African languages, variations of the word "Ba-muntu" mean, simply, "human". Fong Kong Bantu Sound System's collective of DJs cloak themselves in this complex label, playing with fakeness and authenticity. The hype and swagger of their marketing campaign are delights that aid in an analysis of South Africa's obsession with racial purity, authenticity, and the desire, within a multi-ethnic setting, to maintain delineations between human categories. They also aid in the critique of more recent western obsessions, post September 11, 2001, with circumscribing 'the real', whilst describing that which is outside those borders as dubious at best, and terrorising at worst.