Eric Worby
Biographic Data
| ID | 75087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Worby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Worby |
| SIGNATURE | WORBY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 162 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Privatization
Privatization is most often taken today to describe the process whereby a state‐owned enterprise is transferred to private ownership. Evoking long‐standing debates concerning the morality and social consequences of enclosing the commons and the responsibility of states for ensuring the welfare of citizens, privatization provides an especially apt lens for bringing into focus the broad sweep of social, political, and economic history—in particular…
The disappointment of nostalgia
Departing from a consideration of Jacob Dlamini’s book, Native Nostalgia, this essay critically reviews the conceptual terrain implied by “nostalgia,” re-situating it in relation to memory, especially where it intersects with debates over the status of “truth” in relation to “history.” We explore nostalgia through three dualities that underpin a burgeoning literature: remembering and forgetting, witnessing and testimony, and mourning and melancho…
The sexual economy of a sugar plantation
Drawing on intensive ethnographic work, we explore how privatization has transformed the field of social and sexual relations on a large sugar plantation in northern Tanzania. Privatization has resulted in permanent layoffs, intensified labor discipline, and the displacement of former residents and of informal economic activities from the plantation itself into villages on the plantation perimeter. We show how spatial and temporal changes in the …
Address Unknown
Zimbabwean immigrants in Johannesburg are typically beset by a complex set of material demands and ethical constraints. These may include the demand to send money, food, durable goods, and clothing to relatives back home. They may also include the demand to physically host and provide for relatives and friends in unending succession. At the same time, a migrant may have competing ethical obligations to a diverse network of people in Johannesburg:…
Introduction
Alcohol and transactional sex
The Play of Race in a Field of Urban Desire
The brutal history of racially based segregation in Johannesburg, as in other post-apartheid cities, would appear to condemn its inhabitants to live in perpetual fear of violence based on perceptions of racial and national difference. Yet urban pick-up soccer recreates spaces in which that history can be suspended, if not forgotten. In creating evanescent form out of spontaneous play, such games may be understood as artful conversations among bod…
Cricket Ethics and Indo-Xhosa Ethnics
India and South Africa have long been mutually implicated in a common ethical field. The principal motivation for both scholars and inhabitants of these two large social formations to take an interest in one another - to make comparisons as much as to actively recall or forge connections - derives from a shared preoccupation with civic virtue and private ethics. In this article, I examine postcolonial cricket and a beauty contest as exemplary are…
Go Home or Die Here
xenophobic attacks that started in Alexandra, Johannesburg in May 2008 before quickly spreading around the country caused an outcry across the world and raised many fundamental questions: Of what profound social malaise is xenophobia - and the violence that it inspires - a symptom? Have our economic and political choices created new forms of exclusion that fuel anger and distrust? What consequences does the emergence of xenophobia hold for the id…
Introduction
Terrific Majesty
Terrific Majesty: The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Imagination. Carolyn Hamilton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii. 278 pp., map, glossary, notes, bibliography, index
A Redivided Land? New Agrarian Conflicts and Questions in Zimbabwe
The recent land invasions in Zimbabwe represent a profound and contradictory revolution in that country's agrarian social order, with implications that have already spilled over the borders of this small southern African country. A settler colonial heritage that tenaciously mapped land and tenure forms into unequal zones according to race is giving way to a more complex and spatially diversi ?ed con?guration of agrarian property forms and product…
Discipline Without Oppression’
In 1941, Prime Minister Godfrey Huggins of Southern Rhodesia presented a prescription for his colony's survival under white stewardship. ‘It is essential for the preservation of the European civilization,’ he wrote, ‘that the African should be advanced’. A decade later, the variables in this explicitly racial equation had been fleshed out, and black Southern Rhodesians were subjected to a revised and actively interventionist regime of governance …
Tyranny, parody, and ethnic polarity
This paper seeks to explore how the post‐colonial Zimbabwean state has engaged in ritual, performative, and ultimately tyrannical demonstrations of power, both at the centre and at the peripheries of rule. Equally, it seeks to explore how the subjects of rule reciprocally interpret and performatively engage with the state. Finally, it attempts to show how ethnicity figures differently in distinct loci of state‐making. Beginning with an analysis o…
Inscribing the State at the "Edge of Beyond." Danger and Development in Northwestern Zimbabwe
Eleven Guilty Men from Goredema
In the late 1980s, at a time when the newly independent Zimbabwean state was still struggling fortify local organs of legal and development administration, a group of male collaterals in the northwestern district of Gokwe was inventing a parallel corporate structure for purposes of limited self-governance. This article narrates the dramatic events consequent upon a case of rape and incest, using it as a point of departure explore how spheres of l…
Law's Fictions, State-Society Relations and the Anthropological Imagination-Pathways out of Africa
Pour les peuples colonises, la decolonisation et l'acces a l'independance a ete marquee par un changement formel de leur statut juridique. De sujet colonial, ils sont devenus citoyen national. En quoi cela a-t-il transforme leur experience et leur relation avec le pouvoir etatique ? Quels types d'identites et quels champs d'action le droit, dans ses manifestations coloniales et postcoloniales, a-t-il permis d'imaginer ? De quelle maniere peut-on …
What does agrarian wage-labour signify? Cotton, commoditisation and social form in Gokwe, Zimbabwe
In the decade following Zimbabwe's Independence, the idea of a homogeneous, subsistence peasantry was soon dissolved by the 'discovery' of agrarian wage relations in the former African reserves. Simultaneously, residual collective labour forms were identified both as signs of a pre-capitalist past and as institutional templates out of which a socialist future in agriculture might be imagined and constructed. In this article, I examine the complex…
Maps, names, and ethnic games
(1994). Maps, names, and ethnic games: the epistemology and iconography of colonial power in Northwestern Zimbabwe. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 20, Ethnicity and identity in Southern Africa, pp. 371-392
Books/Livres
A Survey of Workers' Education Activities in Zimbabwe, 1980-81
Maps, names, and ethnic games
(1994). Maps, names, and ethnic games: the epistemology and iconography of colonial power in Northwestern Zimbabwe. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 20, Ethnicity and identity in Southern Africa, pp. 371-392
The disappointment of nostalgia
Departing from a consideration of Jacob Dlamini’s book, Native Nostalgia, this essay critically reviews the conceptual terrain implied by “nostalgia,” re-situating it in relation to memory, especially where it intersects with debates over the status of “truth” in relation to “history.” We explore nostalgia through three dualities that underpin a burgeoning literature: remembering and forgetting, witnessing and testimony, and mourning and melancho…
Address Unknown
Zimbabwean immigrants in Johannesburg are typically beset by a complex set of material demands and ethical constraints. These may include the demand to send money, food, durable goods, and clothing to relatives back home. They may also include the demand to physically host and provide for relatives and friends in unending succession. At the same time, a migrant may have competing ethical obligations to a diverse network of people in Johannesburg:…
A Redivided Land? New Agrarian Conflicts and Questions in Zimbabwe
The recent land invasions in Zimbabwe represent a profound and contradictory revolution in that country's agrarian social order, with implications that have already spilled over the borders of this small southern African country. A settler colonial heritage that tenaciously mapped land and tenure forms into unequal zones according to race is giving way to a more complex and spatially diversi ?ed con?guration of agrarian property forms and product…
Tyranny, parody, and ethnic polarity
This paper seeks to explore how the post‐colonial Zimbabwean state has engaged in ritual, performative, and ultimately tyrannical demonstrations of power, both at the centre and at the peripheries of rule. Equally, it seeks to explore how the subjects of rule reciprocally interpret and performatively engage with the state. Finally, it attempts to show how ethnicity figures differently in distinct loci of state‐making. Beginning with an analysis o…
What does agrarian wage-labour signify? Cotton, commoditisation and social form in Gokwe, Zimbabwe
In the decade following Zimbabwe's Independence, the idea of a homogeneous, subsistence peasantry was soon dissolved by the 'discovery' of agrarian wage relations in the former African reserves. Simultaneously, residual collective labour forms were identified both as signs of a pre-capitalist past and as institutional templates out of which a socialist future in agriculture might be imagined and constructed. In this article, I examine the complex…
The sexual economy of a sugar plantation
Drawing on intensive ethnographic work, we explore how privatization has transformed the field of social and sexual relations on a large sugar plantation in northern Tanzania. Privatization has resulted in permanent layoffs, intensified labor discipline, and the displacement of former residents and of informal economic activities from the plantation itself into villages on the plantation perimeter. We show how spatial and temporal changes in the …
Discipline Without Oppression’
In 1941, Prime Minister Godfrey Huggins of Southern Rhodesia presented a prescription for his colony's survival under white stewardship. ‘It is essential for the preservation of the European civilization,’ he wrote, ‘that the African should be advanced’. A decade later, the variables in this explicitly racial equation had been fleshed out, and black Southern Rhodesians were subjected to a revised and actively interventionist regime of governance …
Alcohol and transactional sex
The Play of Race in a Field of Urban Desire
The brutal history of racially based segregation in Johannesburg, as in other post-apartheid cities, would appear to condemn its inhabitants to live in perpetual fear of violence based on perceptions of racial and national difference. Yet urban pick-up soccer recreates spaces in which that history can be suspended, if not forgotten. In creating evanescent form out of spontaneous play, such games may be understood as artful conversations among bod…
Inscribing the State at the "Edge of Beyond." Danger and Development in Northwestern Zimbabwe
Introduction
Terrific Majesty
Terrific Majesty: The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Imagination. Carolyn Hamilton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii. 278 pp., map, glossary, notes, bibliography, index
Eleven Guilty Men from Goredema
In the late 1980s, at a time when the newly independent Zimbabwean state was still struggling fortify local organs of legal and development administration, a group of male collaterals in the northwestern district of Gokwe was inventing a parallel corporate structure for purposes of limited self-governance. This article narrates the dramatic events consequent upon a case of rape and incest, using it as a point of departure explore how spheres of l…
Law's Fictions, State-Society Relations and the Anthropological Imagination-Pathways out of Africa
Pour les peuples colonises, la decolonisation et l'acces a l'independance a ete marquee par un changement formel de leur statut juridique. De sujet colonial, ils sont devenus citoyen national. En quoi cela a-t-il transforme leur experience et leur relation avec le pouvoir etatique ? Quels types d'identites et quels champs d'action le droit, dans ses manifestations coloniales et postcoloniales, a-t-il permis d'imaginer ? De quelle maniere peut-on …
Books/Livres
A Survey of Workers' Education Activities in Zimbabwe, 1980-81
Maps, names, and ethnic games
(1994). Maps, names, and ethnic games: the epistemology and iconography of colonial power in Northwestern Zimbabwe. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 20, Ethnicity and identity in Southern Africa, pp. 371-392
What does agrarian wage-labour signify? Cotton, commoditisation and social form in Gokwe, Zimbabwe
In the decade following Zimbabwe's Independence, the idea of a homogeneous, subsistence peasantry was soon dissolved by the 'discovery' of agrarian wage relations in the former African reserves. Simultaneously, residual collective labour forms were identified both as signs of a pre-capitalist past and as institutional templates out of which a socialist future in agriculture might be imagined and constructed. In this article, I examine the complex…
Eleven Guilty Men from Goredema
In the late 1980s, at a time when the newly independent Zimbabwean state was still struggling fortify local organs of legal and development administration, a group of male collaterals in the northwestern district of Gokwe was inventing a parallel corporate structure for purposes of limited self-governance. This article narrates the dramatic events consequent upon a case of rape and incest, using it as a point of departure explore how spheres of l…
Law's Fictions, State-Society Relations and the Anthropological Imagination-Pathways out of Africa
Pour les peuples colonises, la decolonisation et l'acces a l'independance a ete marquee par un changement formel de leur statut juridique. De sujet colonial, ils sont devenus citoyen national. En quoi cela a-t-il transforme leur experience et leur relation avec le pouvoir etatique ? Quels types d'identites et quels champs d'action le droit, dans ses manifestations coloniales et postcoloniales, a-t-il permis d'imaginer ? De quelle maniere peut-on …
Tyranny, parody, and ethnic polarity
This paper seeks to explore how the post‐colonial Zimbabwean state has engaged in ritual, performative, and ultimately tyrannical demonstrations of power, both at the centre and at the peripheries of rule. Equally, it seeks to explore how the subjects of rule reciprocally interpret and performatively engage with the state. Finally, it attempts to show how ethnicity figures differently in distinct loci of state‐making. Beginning with an analysis o…
Inscribing the State at the "Edge of Beyond." Danger and Development in Northwestern Zimbabwe
Discipline Without Oppression’
In 1941, Prime Minister Godfrey Huggins of Southern Rhodesia presented a prescription for his colony's survival under white stewardship. ‘It is essential for the preservation of the European civilization,’ he wrote, ‘that the African should be advanced’. A decade later, the variables in this explicitly racial equation had been fleshed out, and black Southern Rhodesians were subjected to a revised and actively interventionist regime of governance …
Terrific Majesty
Terrific Majesty: The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Imagination. Carolyn Hamilton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii. 278 pp., map, glossary, notes, bibliography, index
A Redivided Land? New Agrarian Conflicts and Questions in Zimbabwe
The recent land invasions in Zimbabwe represent a profound and contradictory revolution in that country's agrarian social order, with implications that have already spilled over the borders of this small southern African country. A settler colonial heritage that tenaciously mapped land and tenure forms into unequal zones according to race is giving way to a more complex and spatially diversi ?ed con?guration of agrarian property forms and product…
Go Home or Die Here
xenophobic attacks that started in Alexandra, Johannesburg in May 2008 before quickly spreading around the country caused an outcry across the world and raised many fundamental questions: Of what profound social malaise is xenophobia - and the violence that it inspires - a symptom? Have our economic and political choices created new forms of exclusion that fuel anger and distrust? What consequences does the emergence of xenophobia hold for the id…
Introduction
Introduction
Alcohol and transactional sex
The Play of Race in a Field of Urban Desire
The brutal history of racially based segregation in Johannesburg, as in other post-apartheid cities, would appear to condemn its inhabitants to live in perpetual fear of violence based on perceptions of racial and national difference. Yet urban pick-up soccer recreates spaces in which that history can be suspended, if not forgotten. In creating evanescent form out of spontaneous play, such games may be understood as artful conversations among bod…
Cricket Ethics and Indo-Xhosa Ethnics
India and South Africa have long been mutually implicated in a common ethical field. The principal motivation for both scholars and inhabitants of these two large social formations to take an interest in one another - to make comparisons as much as to actively recall or forge connections - derives from a shared preoccupation with civic virtue and private ethics. In this article, I examine postcolonial cricket and a beauty contest as exemplary are…
Address Unknown
Zimbabwean immigrants in Johannesburg are typically beset by a complex set of material demands and ethical constraints. These may include the demand to send money, food, durable goods, and clothing to relatives back home. They may also include the demand to physically host and provide for relatives and friends in unending succession. At the same time, a migrant may have competing ethical obligations to a diverse network of people in Johannesburg:…
The sexual economy of a sugar plantation
Drawing on intensive ethnographic work, we explore how privatization has transformed the field of social and sexual relations on a large sugar plantation in northern Tanzania. Privatization has resulted in permanent layoffs, intensified labor discipline, and the displacement of former residents and of informal economic activities from the plantation itself into villages on the plantation perimeter. We show how spatial and temporal changes in the …
The disappointment of nostalgia
Departing from a consideration of Jacob Dlamini’s book, Native Nostalgia, this essay critically reviews the conceptual terrain implied by “nostalgia,” re-situating it in relation to memory, especially where it intersects with debates over the status of “truth” in relation to “history.” We explore nostalgia through three dualities that underpin a burgeoning literature: remembering and forgetting, witnessing and testimony, and mourning and melancho…
Privatization
Privatization is most often taken today to describe the process whereby a state‐owned enterprise is transferred to private ownership. Evoking long‐standing debates concerning the morality and social consequences of enclosing the commons and the responsibility of states for ensuring the welfare of citizens, privatization provides an especially apt lens for bringing into focus the broad sweep of social, political, and economic history—in particular…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · African history and culture studies (7 works) · South African History and Culture (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works)