Grounded in Aristotle, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida and Peter Sloterdijk’s reflections on the synesthesia of touch, the haptic sense as “corpus,” and the philosophical possibility of the gestation of a bodily apparatus via the ear, this article takes shape around a thought ex
A natural punishment occurs when an agent commits a wrong, and then, as a result of this wrong, faces a significant harm that is not caused by anyone seeking retribution against the agent for their wrong.
This chapter from a creative nonfiction book in progress tells a story of Nelson Mandela’s Robben Island prison nurse in her own words. Mrs. N.Z. was the first sister of rank hired to administer care to prisoners there, including Mr.
This paper employs the history of negritude’s intellectual and institutional expansion across the twentieth century, to argue for a new conceptualization of public spheres.
I present material from the introduction to my book manuscript, Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (to be published by Duke University Press), which analyzes the history, visual rhetoric, and spatial politics of the Dadaab refugee camps in Northeastern
Whereas scholarship has generally cast the narrative of apartheid-era censorship in understandably national terms, this essay asks: What would an international account of apartheid censorship look like? And what are its implications?
Based on a newly-published book, the paper highlights themes drawn from a historical overview of resistance politics in South Africa and Israel/Palestine.
This is partly a paper about Christianity and its influence on black family life in the first half of the twentieth century, but more centrally about the conceptualization of social change in South African history.
I will present some work in progress on the possibilities and limits of creating new epistemic infrastructures and orientations which are invested in South-South knowledge-production and collaborations.
In this presentation I will provide an outline of the main arguments of the book project that is currently under contract with Wiley Blackwell, as part of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Studies in Urban and Social Change series.
The concluding chapter from The Coolie's Great War. Though largely invisible in histories of the First World War, over 550,000 men in the ranks of the Indian army were non-combatants.
It has been 24 years since South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) delivered its final report to then-President Nelson Mandela, and 19 since the TRC’s Amnesty Committee presented its findings to Mandela’s successor Thabo Mbeki.
This chapter examines the opposition by members of the Xolobeni community to proposed mining on their communally-occupied land, including through litigation.
This paper is an attempt to account for the ascendancy of finance in the South African economy, and the collapse of gold mining. It emphasises the contest between the derivatives markets that were nurtured by the Black-Scholes-Merton formula, and the Bretton Woods gold standard, both
Abstract The recognition of African ‘traditional’ or ‘customary’ law and its ideological elevation to a status that in principle equals that of the written, legislative South African legal code has provided professional opportunities for anthropologists.
This chapter begins with a description of developments in South Sudan since the 2005
Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CpA). Division and enmity between
southern factions persisted during the postwar years, and independence
This paper briefly reflects on intersectionality’s travels to two distinct locales in the Global South, India and South Africa, where it has been enthusiastically taken up by academics and activists alike.
This paper looks at the work of Nigerian author Amos Tutuola arguing that Tutuola’s first works, The Palmwine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, inaugurate a negotiation over which poetics and politics were best suited to imagine and thus write a post-colonial future.
The development of the Witbank coal area has been explained by historians and other scholars in terms of environmental exploitation, its railway connectivity to the Witwatersrand, and the availability of cheap and strictly controlled African labour.
Assumptions surrounding public space and norms in Johannesburg’s public space management and policies appear to be based on core aims such as inclusivity and justice which ultimately aspire to social cohesion.
This is an abstract of the historical appendix to the commission appointed by Oriel College to discuss the Rhodes legacy, which I would like to make the basis of the discussion.
The presentation, examining the economic and infrastructural performance of Cape Town, Johannesburg and Nelson Mandela Bay will refer to the data in the attached slides.
This paper traces the genealogy of the New Right from its earlier inception in the late 1980s and early 1990s, unravelling the core features of the 'New Right' that can be demonstrated to be relevant for current day South Africa.
A considerable amount of research shows that drugs in colonial settings drew groups into relations of dependence—that is, they acted as ‘labour inducers’ and ‘labour enhancers’ in the words of Jankowiak and Bradburd.
Artificial intelligence systems are being developed to identify known ‘criminals’ through facial recognition profiling, and also to identify criminal physiognomies of those considered to be potential criminals.
