The non-disclosure agreement has become a modern form of the 16th century scold’s bridle to shut up, discipline and punish people who carry vital knowledge about institutional or societal failures.
First, they mistreat you, make you question your own judgement and sense of self, demean you, then they silence you, and then they tell your story while you sit in silence, rumour and lies become truth, and evidence is hidden or destroyed. Mankurt!
We have, in the modern era become more sophisticated, and adopted less corporeal methods of shutting up people with NDAs or confidentiality agreements to silence dissenting voices or voices that may expose those in positions of authority who would use these instruments to shore up their power, secure their tenure and ensure their own “reputational credibility”.
We get then, perhaps harshly put, to contemporary South African institutions in which a verisimilitude of the Mankurt or Jannisery have acquired positions within iniquitous organisational structures, and are charged with maintaining as much of theIt is in their interests to imagine their contemporaries and subordinates as processes, not people, which makes it easy to use the NDA as an instrument of punishment, the scold’s bridle — that 16century punishment for women who dared to speak — often...
At the level of academic scholarship, too, research by Speak Out Revolution this year revealed a distinct pattern of “structural sexism and misogyny” that effectively shuts down scholarly work that captures women’s lived experiences.century scold’s bridle, women who produce “dangerous knowledge” , or anyone who questions dubious passages of progress, of retrogressive social change and transformation, are dismissed as disruptive, radical or militant.
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