A Call for More Literature and Deeper Data. A Response to "The Cultural Contours of Democracy: Indigenous Epistemologies Informing South African Citizenship"

Authors

Moeketsi Letseka, University of South AfricaFollow

Abstract

This review provides a critical appraisal of Kubow and Min's paper. It teases out their conception of liberalism and argues that the classical notion of liberalism as a political theory that advocates individual liberty based on assumptions of the unencumbered autonomous individual has lost currency. This is because over the years liberalism has mutated into a multiplicity of new forms, and there is no single view that can be said to define what it means to be a liberal. The paper raises methodological questions with respect to the use of focus group interviews. It implores researchers to first ask themselves whether they can tell what a person really believes on the basis of a few questions put to him in an interview.

Response to Article

Patricia K. Kubow and Mina Min, The Cultural Contours of Democracy: Indigenous Epistemologies Informing South African Citizenship

Recommended Citation

Letseka, M. (2017). A Call for More Literature and Deeper Data. A Response to "The Cultural Contours of Democracy: Indigenous Epistemologies Informing South African Citizenship". Democracy and Education, 25 (1), Article 11.
Available at: https://democracyeducationjournal.org/home/vol25/iss1/11