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October 31, 2018 Qualitative Sociology Review Volume XIV Issue 4 The Narrative Study of Lives in Central South Africa Part II by Jan K. Coetzee & Asta Rau Available Online www.qualitativesociologyreview.org Qualitative Qualitative Sociology QSR Review Sociology ©2018 QSR • ISSN: 1733-8077 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Review Krzysztof T. Konecki, University of Lodz EXECUTIVE EDITORS Łukasz T. Marciniak, University of Lodz Magdalena Wojciechowska, Volume XIV University of Lodz Issue 4 ASSOCIATE EDITORS Anna Kacperczyk, University of Lodz Dominika Byczkowska-Owczarek, University of Lodz APPROVING EDITORS Steven Kleinknecht, The Narrative Study of Lives in Brescia University College Geraldine Leydon, Southampton University Antony J. Puddephatt, Lakehead University Central South Africa BOOK REVIEWS EDITOR Part II Dominika Byczkowska-Owczarek, University of Lodz EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Anna Kubczak, University of Lodz by Jan K. Coetzee and Asta Rau ONLINE CONTENT EDITOR Edyta Mianowska, Zielona Gora University LINGUISTIC EDITOR Jonathan Lilly STATISTICAL EDITOR Piotr Chomczyński, University of Lodz Note MANAGING EDITOR, DTP Magdalena Chudzik-Duczmańska The journal and all published articles are a contribution to the COVER DESIGNER contemporary social sciences. They are available without spe- Anna Kacperczyk, University of Lodz cial permission to everyone who would like to use them for non-commercial, scientific, educational, or other cognitive pur- QSR Editorial Office University of Lodz poses. Making use of resources included in this journal for com- Faculty of Economics and Sociology mercial or marketing aims requires a special permission from Institute of Sociology publisher. Possible commercial use of any published article will The Sociology of Organization be consulted with the author beforehand. & Management Department Rewolucji 1905 r. 41/43 It is forbidden to charge for access to this journal or to put any 90-214 Lodz, Poland limitations on the accessibility of published papers. The au- tel. (4842) 635 52 63 thors are responsible for obtaining the necessary permissions email: [email protected] for publication of materials which are protected by a copyrights www.qualitativesociologyreview.org owned by other persons. 2 ©2018 QSR Volume XIV Issue 4 EDITORIAL BOARD Patricia A. Adler Tony Hak Constantinos N. Phellas Peter Adler Scott R. Harris Susan Pickard Mahbub Ahmed Paul ten Have Jason L. Powell Michael Atkinson Judith Holton Andrea Press Kate Bacon Domenico Jervolino Robert Prus Howard S. Becker Benjamin Kelly George Psathas Laura Bisaillon Robert A. Kenedy Antony J. Puddephatt Nicolette Bramley Steven Kleinknecht Anne Warfield Rawls Attila Bruni Hubert Knoblauch Johanna Rendle-Short Marie Buscatto Joseph A. Kotarba Brian Roberts Tanya Cassidy Ireneusz Krzemiński Roberto Rodríguez-Gomez Kathy Charmaz Margarethe Kusenbach Bernt Schnettler Catherine A. Chesla Riitta Kyllonen William Shaffir Cesar A. Cisneros Puebla Staffan Larsson Phyllis N. Stern Adele E. Clarke Geraldine Leydon Antonio Strati Jan K. Coetzee Lyn H. Lofland Joerg Struebing Juliet Corbin Jordi Lopez Sintas Andrzej Szklarski Michael Dellwing Michael Lynch Massimiliano Tarozzi Norman K. Denzin Christoph Maeder Roland Terborg Robert Dingwall Barbara Misztal Victor Thiessen Agata Dziuban Setsuo Mizuno Jan Trost Rosalind Edwards Lorenza Mondada Jonathan H. Turner Peter Eglin Janusz Mucha Dennis D. Waskul Gary Alan Fine Elena Neiterman Shalva Weil Silvia Gherardi Peter Nugus Fred Wester Barney Glaser Tony O’Connor Ingrid Westlund Giampietro Gobo Sandi Michele de Oliveira Patrick Williams Jaber F. Gubrium Dorothy Pawluch Ruth Wodak Nina Veetnisha Gunnarsson Eleni Petraki Kiyomitsu Yui Qualitative Sociology Review • www.qualitativesociologyreview.org 3 CONTENTS Editorial Jan K. Coetzee, Asta Rau Narratives and Everyday Life 6 Articles Jan K. Coetzee Deconstructing My Library, Unwrapping My Lifeworld 16 Asta Rau Emotions and Belonging: Constructing Individual Experience and Organizational Functioning in the Context of an Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) Program 32 Alessandra K. Heggenstaller, Asta Rau, Jan K. Coetzee, Anne Ryen, Ria Smit Reflecting on Female Beauty: Cosmetic Surgery and (Dis)Empowerment 48 Alessandra K. Heggenstaller, Asta Rau, Jan K. Coetzee, Ria Smit, Anne Ryen Beauty and the Cosmetic Secret 66 Phokeng T. Setai, Jan K. Coetzee, Christoph Maeder, Magdalena Wojciechowska, Leane Ackermann The Creative Process. A Case for Meaning-Making 86 4 ©2018 QSR Volume XIV Issue 4 Sello J. Sele, Jan K. Coetzee, Florian Elliker, Cornie Groenewald, Sethulego Z. Matebesi Online Social Networking, Interactions, and Relations: Students at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 100 André J. Pietersen, Jan K. Coetzee, Dominika Byczkowska-Owczarek, Florian Elliker, Leane Ackermann Online Gamers, Lived Experiences, and Sense of Belonging: Students at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 122 Ndakaitei Chikonzo, Asta Rau, Jan K. Coetzee, Anne Ryen, Florian Elliker, Amanda Young-Hauser A Shock to the System: HIV among Older African Women in Zimbabwe 138 Seithati Rafoneke, Jan K. Coetzee, Pia H. Bülow, Penny Jaffray, Amanda Young-Hauser Experiencing Physical Disability: Young African Women in Lesotho 154 Sethulego Z. Matebesi Insurgent Citizenship and Sustained Resistance of a Local Taxi Association 168 Qualitative Sociology Review • www.qualitativesociologyreview.org 5 Jan K. Coetzee & Asta Rau University of the Free State, South Africa Narratives and Everyday Life DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.14.4.01 ontributions in this Special Edition reflect on This Special Edition follows on the one that ap- Cthe epistemological and methodological prac- peared in the January 2017 edition of this journal tice of using narratives to understand individual (http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/ and social reality from a sociological standpoint. volume40.php). As with the previous Special Edition, They all reveal dimensions of the same concrete re- each article in this issue opens a window on every- ality: contemporary society of Central South Africa. day life in Central South Africa. Except for two, the We invite readers to engage with individual articles, articles originated from research in the program The each of which provide a brief episode—a vignette— Narrative Study of Lives, situated in the Department in a larger reality. We also invite you to engage with of Sociology at the University of the Free State in the entire collection, through which a more detailed Bloemfontein, South Africa. These windows on real- and clearer picture of the larger reality will emerge. ity display the capacity of the narrative as a method- ological tool in qualitative research to open up better understandings of everyday experience. The articles also reflect on the epistemological journey towards Jan K. Coetzee is a Senior Professor of Sociology and unwrapping and breaking open of meaning. Narra- Director of the program The Narrative Study of Lives in the tives are one of many tools available to sociologists in Department of Sociology at the University of the Free State, their quest to understand and interpret meaning. But, Bloemfontein, South Africa. He specializes in qualitative so- when it comes to deep understanding, narratives are ciology and serves on several international advisory boards. particularly effective in opening up more intricate email address: [email protected] levels of meaning associated with emotions, feelings, and subjective experiences. Asta Rau is the outgoing Director of the Centre for Health Systems Research & Development at the Universi- Storytelling ty of the Free State, South Africa. She works in a range of qualitative and mixed-method designs and currently leads Humans live in storytelling societies. If you want to a project in partnership with the University of Antwerp on know somebody, then you must know that person’s HIV and TB stigma among healthcare workers. story. Likewise, if you want to know a particular email address: [email protected] group, you need to know at least the most import- 6 ©2018 QSR Volume XIV Issue 4 Narratives and Everyday Life ant stories told within and about that group. When which elements in society constitute obstacles to we share our stories with other groups and cultures, living together—or even make it impossible. We we get to know more about each other. The more we have to acknowledge the presence of a multiplici- know about other groups, the less likely we will be to ty of relevance and meaning structures, and to hold unjustified stereotypes and to spread untruths. achieve this we need to listen to various—often di- So, through our stories, we discover what is true and vergent—accounts. The stories of individuals often what is meaningful in our life and also what is likely differ because their experiences, circumstances, and to be true and meaningful in the lives of others. lifeworlds differ. Underlying our understanding of the meaning that people attribute to their lifeworld We pass our stories on from one generation to an- is the assumption that such meaning is accessible other. And in this process, we add to our ever-grow- to others. The mutual accessibility of meaning pro- ing narrative repertoire: our reflections of, and on, vides a crucial starting point for understanding of the overall reality in which we live. As sociologists, narratives, and via narratives. we are particularly interested in the social role and functioning of these stories: how they are told, the Our search to understand