The Subject as Migrant

Refiguring the Migrant Image in the Eastern Cape

Bibliographic Data

ID11423634
AuthorsCandice Steele (0000-0001-6854-2904, Stellenbosch University), Gary Minkley (0000-0001-6912-6224, University of Fort Hare)
Year2021
Volume47
Issue1
Pages1-25
Publication date2021-12-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueKronos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0259-0190 • E-ISSN: 2309-9585
PublisherAcademy of Science of South Africa (PUBLISHER • ZA)
DOI10.17159/2309-9585/2021/v47a8
OpenAlexW4226242239
SCIELO_PIDS0259-01902021000100009
LanguageEN
References cited6

This paper engages with the concept of the migrant subject, as framed through contemporary literature on migrancy, and read through the Pauline Ingle photographic collection, located in the Eastern Cape. As against gendered historiographies of labour migrancy and the associated meanings attributed to the rural as a site of social reproduction, Ingle's photographs invite a series of atypical readings that unsettle these subjectivities. Rather, they suggest social and political acts that presage and constitute a migrant citizenship, one that undermines the dichotomy of the rural (traditional) and urban (modern) and projects the possibility of reading the history of the subject in the Eastern Cape differently

Archaeology · Cape · Citizenship · Ethnology · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Reading (process) · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · South African History and Culture