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Abstract: This paper demonstrates the complexity of a state-owned and managed Johannesburg park in terms of its connections with other spaces. The aim is to reveal the drivers and implications of public dwelling and evictions from public space, both for public dwellers themselves and other users of public space. Thus, while the focus is on Pieter Roos Park, a network of other spaces has been critical in shaping the park’s own dynamics. I use a spatial justice lens, focussing on the inherent interactions between public space and spatial (in)justice which mean public places are circumscribed by broader spatial injustices at the same time as they respond to them (Middelmann 2020). The peripheralisation of housing in relation to ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This article explores a word that has become ubiquitous in public discourse since the Covid19 pandemic but has long been central in feminist theorising about ethics, the economy, and social policy. The stresses on families imposed by the pandemic made visible a key feminist insight: that care is not simply a social virtue, or habit of good people. It became glaringly obvious during the pandemic that the tasks and responsibilities associated with care underpin the economy and shape the relationship between paid work, private relationships and social life. Strategies such as lockdowns exposed the extent to which parents are dependent on paid childcare; the disproportionate impact of illness on people in care ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book, Neither Settler nor Native: the making and unmaking of permanent minorities, is a major building block in the author’s long-standing intellectual project of critiquing ‘political modernity’ and one of its central categories, the ‘nation-state’. A dense work, it is based on a massive research effort displayed in discussing five historical cases in which state building necessitated tackling oppressive political legacies: the ‘Indian question’ in the USA (but regrettably not the gradual unravelling of anti-black racism in that country); German post-war denazification; the South African transition from apartheid; the Sudanese state and its eventual division, with a special focus on the ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Among scholars who study African politics, Mahmood Mamdani is rare for having drawn on this knowledge to contribute to our understanding of global history. This review of his latest book, Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities (Mamdani 2021), will highlight its original contributions and areas to reflect further.I begin with an overview of his approach and contribution, then discuss his analysis of South Africa, after which I summarise the main points of his country case studies. The review will end by highlighting a few conceptual issues I find problematic: his interpretation of the South African case, the inadequate theorisation of critical concepts, and the absence of an ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: While Mamdani’s work has long been critical to understanding modern politics on the African continent, Neither Settler nor Native, is explicitly positioned as a way of generating analytical universals, revelatory of the historically contingent workings of political modernity more generally (Mamdani 1996, 2001, 2021) In doing so it gives real substance to the idea of ‘Theory from Africa’, and produces myriad insights with a refreshing absence of theoretical handwringing about subjective self-positioning, embracing the cosmopolitanism of intellectual work as much as it does the cosmopolitanism of the key ideas underpinning modernity.Mamdani takes the novel decision to extend the historical lineage of the nation state ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Flora Veit-Wild has written a fascinating, disturbing and painfully honest account of her relationship with the Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera during the last years of his life and covering the time after his death when she became responsible for his literary oeuvre. Her first account of her personal relationship with him in ‘Me and Dambudzo’ (2012) revealed the truth of her hitherto unknown sexual affair with the black Zimbabwean poet but tended not to rest on the tremendous uncertainties involved in that relationship. Their tempestuous affair had been something of an open secret in Zimbabwean literary circles but, despite her public, scholarly work in preserving his biography and writing, it was not ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: • Gilbert Achcar was born in Senegal, grew up in Lebanon, researched and taught in Beirut, Paris, and Berlin, and is currently Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at SOAS, University of London. An author published in over fifteen languages, his many books include: The Clash of Barbarisms: the making of the New World Disorder; Perilous Power: the Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy, coauthored with Noam Chomsky; The Arabs and the Holocaust: the Arab-Israeli War of Narratives; Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism; The People Want: a radical exploration of the Arab uprising and Morbid Symptoms: relapse in the Arab Uprising.• Jackyn Cock·is a professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: We are delighted to bring you Transformation #107. The issue begins with Jacklyn Cock’s timely contribution to the ongoing debates and fractious struggles over the place of coal mining in the South African political economy. The notion of a ‘just transition’ from South African dependence on coal in the context of the global climate crisis and local deindustrialization and unemployment crises was first introduced into local debate by the labour movement in 2010. Explicating the often violent contestations around the proposed establishment of a coal mine in the Mabola Protected Area, near Wakkerstroom, in Mpumalanga province, Cock demonstrates how the notion of a ‘just transition’ from coal has been appropriated by ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This article focuses on the concept of a ‘just transition’ and asks what work it does. It draws from an account of the struggle against the establishment of a coal mine in the Mabola Protected Area to illustrate the potential and problems the concept carries.1 The theoretical framing of the paper is ‘Critical Environmental Justice Studies’, an expansive and intersectional approach which includes extending the concern with the causes and consequences of environmental harms to include other social categories of difference besides race, such as class, gender, ethnicity and, particularly, species (Pellow 2020, Size and London 2008, Temper et al 2016). The author’s intention is to contribute to this emerging body of ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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