Melanie Samson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 289988 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Melanie Samson |
| NOMBRES | Melanie |
| APELLIDO | Samson |
| FIRMA | SAMSON M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8693-6795 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 142 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Thinking Households—How Resident Conceptualisations of Waste, Reclaimers and Separation at Source Shape Recycling Practices
Municipalities across the globe are implementing separation at source programmes to reduce waste sent to landfills. Yet typically, significant numbers of households do not participate. This article contributes to debates on reasons for low S@S participation rates through comparative analysis of participation in Johannesburg’s first S@S programme by residents in the low-income, predominantly black suburb of Newlands and the high-income, predominan…
Wasters, agnostics, enforcers, competitors, and community integrators
Within South Africa’s recycling economy, informal waste pickers (also known as reclaimers) generate immense value for local waste management systems by diverting waste from landfills. However, official municipal separation at source ([email protected]) programmes, that task residents with sorting recyclables from their waste for separate collection, have failed to integrate reclaimers’ unofficial collection system. This dislocates reclaimers, for…
Ethnographies of Power
generations, classes, genders and societies.He introduces
Contested Understandings of Reclaimer Integration—Insights from a Failed Johannesburg Pilot Project
Whose Frontier is it Anyway? Reclaimer "Integration" and the Battle Over Johannesburg's Waste-based Commodity Frontier
The City of Johannesburg's Pikitup waste management utility is regarded as South Africa's leader in piloting initiatives to integrate reclaimers (also known as waste pickers) into municipal waste management systems. Yet paradoxically, these integration initiatives are creating new forms of exclusion of reclaimers. In seeking to understand how this could be the case, this article brings Moore's concept of "commodity frontiers" into conversation wi…
Trashing Solidarity
This article presents a nuanced social history of how reclaimers at the Marie Louise landfill in Soweto, South Africa, organized against each other on the basis of nationality instead of uniting to combat the effects of the 2008 global economic crisis. Through this narrative of struggles at one particular dump, the article contributes to debates on informal worker organizing by theorizing the importance of the production of identities, power rela…
Not Just Recycling the Crisis
This article contributes to debates on the relationship between waste and value by exploring how the revaluation of waste at a dump in Soweto, South Africa, was transformed during the 2008 economic crisis. It critically engages Herod, Pickren, Rainnie & McGrath-Champ’s differentiation between ‘devalorisation’ due to material degradation and ‘devaluation’ due to prices being too low for recycling to be profitable, in order to develop three argumen…
The social uses of the law at a Soweto garbage dump
The informal economy is typically understood as being outside the law. However, this article develops the concept 'social uses of the law' to interrogate how informal workers understand, engage and deploy the law, facilitating the development of more nuanced theorizations of both the informal economy and the law. The article explores how a legal victory over the Johannesburg Council by reclaimers of reusable and recyclable materials at the Marie …
Revisiting Qúebec's Jus Commune in the Era of the Human Rights Charters
Québec is a distinct society because of its history, its legal system, and its values. Our analysis examines the delicate issue of the relationship between the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Québec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, and the Civil Code of Québec, the primary expression of Québec's jus commune, as noted in its Preliminary Provision. As of the nineteenth century, a doctrinal trend born of the desire to protect the i…
Accumulation by dispossession and the informal economy - Struggles over knowledge, being and waste at a Soweto garbage dump
Recent scholarship highlights that accumulation by dispossession creates surplus populations who must sustain themselves outside wage labor, often through informal work. This article theorizes a different aspect of the relationship between the informal economy and accumulation by dispossession by analyzing how the state and capital seek to capture new spheres of accumulation created by informal workers. Drawing on Searle's theorization of social …
La méthodologie juridique en quête d'identité
Les dommages punitifs en droit québécois
Dans les systèmes de common law, il est largement admis que des dommages-intérêts punitifs peuvent être accordés pour sanctionner une conduite malveillante, opprimante ou abusive. L’attribution de ces dommages vise à punir l’auteur de cette conduite, à dissuader les tiers d’agir de la même façon et à marquer la désapprobation du tribunal. La situation est quelque peu différente en droit québécois où le régime des dommages exemplaires conserve un …
High Hopes, Scant Resources
Focusing on some undertheorized aspects of Article 31(3)(c) of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, the present article aims to reassess critically the anti-fragmentation function generally assigned to this provision. The high hopes associated with the harmonizing potential of Article 31(3)(c) are usually based on a reading of this provision as requiring the interpreter to take into account not only rules applicable between all of the pa…
Producing Privatization
This article combines insights into the mutually constituting nature of gender, race, class and space with Marxist analyses that interrogate how social relations both produce and are constrained by institutions to explore waste management privatization in Johannesburg. It argues that the crystallization of racialized, gendered inequalities within bargaining institutions underpinned financial motivations for privatization. The form of privatizatio…
Wasted Citizenship? Reclaimers and the Privatised Expansion of the Public Sphere
A large body of literature explores changes in the public sphere relatedto the transfer of services and activities performed by the public intothe private sector. Less attention has been paid, however, to theprivatised expansion of the public sphere. This article explores such aprocess in Metsimaholo, South Africa, where the municipality soughtto bring landfill recycling into the realm of public policy through apublic-private partnership. As info…
(Sub)imperial South Africa? Reframing the Debate1
Mopping up the labour shortage
This article explores the gendered nature of work reorganisation in Johannesburg's privatised Pikitup waste management utility. It establishes that feminist analysis requires an exploration of the historical production of gendered and racialised divisions of labour, the continuities and disjunctures that arise with privatisation, the consequences for men and women workers in the workplace and the home and the effects of men's gendered privileges.…
Rescaling the State, Restructuring Social Relations
The literatures on rescaling of the State and feminist analyses of state restructuring have generally spoken past one another. Recent work by feminist theorists that begins to bridge this gap looks at gender in isolation from race and class and focuses primarily on the implications of state rescaling for service recipients. By contrast this article focuses on the relationship between state rescaling in post-apartheid South Africa and the restruct…
Les conflits de compétence entre tribunaux spécialisés
Au Québec, les organismes administratifs sont nombreux à exercer des fonctions juridictionnelles dans le domaine du travail, et il n’est pas rare que leurs champs de compétence s’entrecoupent ou se chevauchent. S’il arrive que le législateur anticipe les éventuels conflits de compétence entre les tribunaux spécialisés et qu’il leur apporte des solutions législatives relativement claires, le contraire se produit aussi assez fréquemment. Lorsque pl…
Le droit à l'égalité dans l'accès aux biens et aux services
Alors qu’un débat de société est en cours sur la question des accommodements raisonnables et qu’il a récemment été jugé nécessaire de modifier la Charte des droits et libertés de la personne pour assurer une protection accrue du droit à l’égalité entre les hommes et les femmes, force est de constater que certaines dispositions anti-discrimination qui existent depuis plus de trente ans en droit québécois sont encore fréquemment bafouées et que leu…
Le Droit À L’égalité Dans L’accès Aux Biens Et Aux Services
LE DROIT À L’ÉGALITÉ DANS L’ACCÈS AUX BIENS ET AUX SERVICES : L’ORIGINALITÉ DES GARANTIES OFFERTES PAR LA CHARTE QUÉBÉCOISE. Un article de la revue Revue de droit de l'Université de Sherbrooke (Volume 38, numéro 2, 2008, p. 291-601) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Developmental Local Government in Post-Apartheid South Africa? A Feminist Rethinking of the State and Development in the Context of Neo-liberalism
Neoliberal dictates and structural adjustment policies have denuded African states and attempted to limit their role to enabling the building and functioning of markets. These policies have failed to promote development, exacerbated gender inequities, and deepened Africa’s entanglement within exploitative imperialist economic relations. There is, therefore, a pressing need to re-establish a proactive, developmental role for the state in Africa. T…
Privatizing Collective Public Goods
Where Ruckert’s article considers the uneven effects of hegemonic strategies, Melanie Samson examines the partial and fragmented effects of privatization and the spatialization of social policy. Her study “Privatizing Collective Public Goods: A Case Study of Street Cleaning in Johannesburg, South Africa” examines how the privatization of street cleaning in Johannesburg took different and uneven forms, and the ways in which that unevenness served …
Training for Transformation
MELANIE SAMSON reviews new policy on education, skills and training in the workplace and labour market
Undressing Redress
1At the time of writing this article, Melanie Samson was a gender researcher at the Education Policy Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
Accumulation by dispossession and the informal economy - Struggles over knowledge, being and waste at a Soweto garbage dump
Recent scholarship highlights that accumulation by dispossession creates surplus populations who must sustain themselves outside wage labor, often through informal work. This article theorizes a different aspect of the relationship between the informal economy and accumulation by dispossession by analyzing how the state and capital seek to capture new spheres of accumulation created by informal workers. Drawing on Searle's theorization of social …
Whose Frontier is it Anyway? Reclaimer "Integration" and the Battle Over Johannesburg's Waste-based Commodity Frontier
The City of Johannesburg's Pikitup waste management utility is regarded as South Africa's leader in piloting initiatives to integrate reclaimers (also known as waste pickers) into municipal waste management systems. Yet paradoxically, these integration initiatives are creating new forms of exclusion of reclaimers. In seeking to understand how this could be the case, this article brings Moore's concept of "commodity frontiers" into conversation wi…
(Sub)imperial South Africa? Reframing the Debate1
The social uses of the law at a Soweto garbage dump
The informal economy is typically understood as being outside the law. However, this article develops the concept 'social uses of the law' to interrogate how informal workers understand, engage and deploy the law, facilitating the development of more nuanced theorizations of both the informal economy and the law. The article explores how a legal victory over the Johannesburg Council by reclaimers of reusable and recyclable materials at the Marie …
Producing Privatization
This article combines insights into the mutually constituting nature of gender, race, class and space with Marxist analyses that interrogate how social relations both produce and are constrained by institutions to explore waste management privatization in Johannesburg. It argues that the crystallization of racialized, gendered inequalities within bargaining institutions underpinned financial motivations for privatization. The form of privatizatio…
Wasted Citizenship? Reclaimers and the Privatised Expansion of the Public Sphere
A large body of literature explores changes in the public sphere relatedto the transfer of services and activities performed by the public intothe private sector. Less attention has been paid, however, to theprivatised expansion of the public sphere. This article explores such aprocess in Metsimaholo, South Africa, where the municipality soughtto bring landfill recycling into the realm of public policy through apublic-private partnership. As info…
Privatizing Collective Public Goods
Where Ruckert’s article considers the uneven effects of hegemonic strategies, Melanie Samson examines the partial and fragmented effects of privatization and the spatialization of social policy. Her study “Privatizing Collective Public Goods: A Case Study of Street Cleaning in Johannesburg, South Africa” examines how the privatization of street cleaning in Johannesburg took different and uneven forms, and the ways in which that unevenness served …
Not Just Recycling the Crisis
This article contributes to debates on the relationship between waste and value by exploring how the revaluation of waste at a dump in Soweto, South Africa, was transformed during the 2008 economic crisis. It critically engages Herod, Pickren, Rainnie & McGrath-Champ’s differentiation between ‘devalorisation’ due to material degradation and ‘devaluation’ due to prices being too low for recycling to be profitable, in order to develop three argumen…
High Hopes, Scant Resources
Focusing on some undertheorized aspects of Article 31(3)(c) of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, the present article aims to reassess critically the anti-fragmentation function generally assigned to this provision. The high hopes associated with the harmonizing potential of Article 31(3)(c) are usually based on a reading of this provision as requiring the interpreter to take into account not only rules applicable between all of the pa…
Rescaling the State, Restructuring Social Relations
The literatures on rescaling of the State and feminist analyses of state restructuring have generally spoken past one another. Recent work by feminist theorists that begins to bridge this gap looks at gender in isolation from race and class and focuses primarily on the implications of state rescaling for service recipients. By contrast this article focuses on the relationship between state rescaling in post-apartheid South Africa and the restruct…
Wasters, agnostics, enforcers, competitors, and community integrators
Within South Africa’s recycling economy, informal waste pickers (also known as reclaimers) generate immense value for local waste management systems by diverting waste from landfills. However, official municipal separation at source ([email protected]) programmes, that task residents with sorting recyclables from their waste for separate collection, have failed to integrate reclaimers’ unofficial collection system. This dislocates reclaimers, for…
Trashing Solidarity
This article presents a nuanced social history of how reclaimers at the Marie Louise landfill in Soweto, South Africa, organized against each other on the basis of nationality instead of uniting to combat the effects of the 2008 global economic crisis. Through this narrative of struggles at one particular dump, the article contributes to debates on informal worker organizing by theorizing the importance of the production of identities, power rela…
Developmental Local Government in Post-Apartheid South Africa? A Feminist Rethinking of the State and Development in the Context of Neo-liberalism
Neoliberal dictates and structural adjustment policies have denuded African states and attempted to limit their role to enabling the building and functioning of markets. These policies have failed to promote development, exacerbated gender inequities, and deepened Africa’s entanglement within exploitative imperialist economic relations. There is, therefore, a pressing need to re-establish a proactive, developmental role for the state in Africa. T…
Undressing Redress
1At the time of writing this article, Melanie Samson was a gender researcher at the Education Policy Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
Training for Transformation
MELANIE SAMSON reviews new policy on education, skills and training in the workplace and labour market
Undressing Redress
1At the time of writing this article, Melanie Samson was a gender researcher at the Education Policy Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
Developmental Local Government in Post-Apartheid South Africa? A Feminist Rethinking of the State and Development in the Context of Neo-liberalism
Neoliberal dictates and structural adjustment policies have denuded African states and attempted to limit their role to enabling the building and functioning of markets. These policies have failed to promote development, exacerbated gender inequities, and deepened Africa’s entanglement within exploitative imperialist economic relations. There is, therefore, a pressing need to re-establish a proactive, developmental role for the state in Africa. T…
Privatizing Collective Public Goods
Where Ruckert’s article considers the uneven effects of hegemonic strategies, Melanie Samson examines the partial and fragmented effects of privatization and the spatialization of social policy. Her study “Privatizing Collective Public Goods: A Case Study of Street Cleaning in Johannesburg, South Africa” examines how the privatization of street cleaning in Johannesburg took different and uneven forms, and the ways in which that unevenness served …
Mopping up the labour shortage
This article explores the gendered nature of work reorganisation in Johannesburg's privatised Pikitup waste management utility. It establishes that feminist analysis requires an exploration of the historical production of gendered and racialised divisions of labour, the continuities and disjunctures that arise with privatisation, the consequences for men and women workers in the workplace and the home and the effects of men's gendered privileges.…
Rescaling the State, Restructuring Social Relations
The literatures on rescaling of the State and feminist analyses of state restructuring have generally spoken past one another. Recent work by feminist theorists that begins to bridge this gap looks at gender in isolation from race and class and focuses primarily on the implications of state rescaling for service recipients. By contrast this article focuses on the relationship between state rescaling in post-apartheid South Africa and the restruct…
Les conflits de compétence entre tribunaux spécialisés
Au Québec, les organismes administratifs sont nombreux à exercer des fonctions juridictionnelles dans le domaine du travail, et il n’est pas rare que leurs champs de compétence s’entrecoupent ou se chevauchent. S’il arrive que le législateur anticipe les éventuels conflits de compétence entre les tribunaux spécialisés et qu’il leur apporte des solutions législatives relativement claires, le contraire se produit aussi assez fréquemment. Lorsque pl…
Le droit à l'égalité dans l'accès aux biens et aux services
Alors qu’un débat de société est en cours sur la question des accommodements raisonnables et qu’il a récemment été jugé nécessaire de modifier la Charte des droits et libertés de la personne pour assurer une protection accrue du droit à l’égalité entre les hommes et les femmes, force est de constater que certaines dispositions anti-discrimination qui existent depuis plus de trente ans en droit québécois sont encore fréquemment bafouées et que leu…
Le Droit À L’égalité Dans L’accès Aux Biens Et Aux Services
LE DROIT À L’ÉGALITÉ DANS L’ACCÈS AUX BIENS ET AUX SERVICES : L’ORIGINALITÉ DES GARANTIES OFFERTES PAR LA CHARTE QUÉBÉCOISE. Un article de la revue Revue de droit de l'Université de Sherbrooke (Volume 38, numéro 2, 2008, p. 291-601) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Wasted Citizenship? Reclaimers and the Privatised Expansion of the Public Sphere
A large body of literature explores changes in the public sphere relatedto the transfer of services and activities performed by the public intothe private sector. Less attention has been paid, however, to theprivatised expansion of the public sphere. This article explores such aprocess in Metsimaholo, South Africa, where the municipality soughtto bring landfill recycling into the realm of public policy through apublic-private partnership. As info…
(Sub)imperial South Africa? Reframing the Debate1
Producing Privatization
This article combines insights into the mutually constituting nature of gender, race, class and space with Marxist analyses that interrogate how social relations both produce and are constrained by institutions to explore waste management privatization in Johannesburg. It argues that the crystallization of racialized, gendered inequalities within bargaining institutions underpinned financial motivations for privatization. The form of privatizatio…
High Hopes, Scant Resources
Focusing on some undertheorized aspects of Article 31(3)(c) of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, the present article aims to reassess critically the anti-fragmentation function generally assigned to this provision. The high hopes associated with the harmonizing potential of Article 31(3)(c) are usually based on a reading of this provision as requiring the interpreter to take into account not only rules applicable between all of the pa…
Les dommages punitifs en droit québécois
Dans les systèmes de common law, il est largement admis que des dommages-intérêts punitifs peuvent être accordés pour sanctionner une conduite malveillante, opprimante ou abusive. L’attribution de ces dommages vise à punir l’auteur de cette conduite, à dissuader les tiers d’agir de la même façon et à marquer la désapprobation du tribunal. La situation est quelque peu différente en droit québécois où le régime des dommages exemplaires conserve un …
La méthodologie juridique en quête d'identité
Revisiting Qúebec's Jus Commune in the Era of the Human Rights Charters
Québec is a distinct society because of its history, its legal system, and its values. Our analysis examines the delicate issue of the relationship between the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Québec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, and the Civil Code of Québec, the primary expression of Québec's jus commune, as noted in its Preliminary Provision. As of the nineteenth century, a doctrinal trend born of the desire to protect the i…
Accumulation by dispossession and the informal economy - Struggles over knowledge, being and waste at a Soweto garbage dump
Recent scholarship highlights that accumulation by dispossession creates surplus populations who must sustain themselves outside wage labor, often through informal work. This article theorizes a different aspect of the relationship between the informal economy and accumulation by dispossession by analyzing how the state and capital seek to capture new spheres of accumulation created by informal workers. Drawing on Searle's theorization of social …
Not Just Recycling the Crisis
This article contributes to debates on the relationship between waste and value by exploring how the revaluation of waste at a dump in Soweto, South Africa, was transformed during the 2008 economic crisis. It critically engages Herod, Pickren, Rainnie & McGrath-Champ’s differentiation between ‘devalorisation’ due to material degradation and ‘devaluation’ due to prices being too low for recycling to be profitable, in order to develop three argumen…
The social uses of the law at a Soweto garbage dump
The informal economy is typically understood as being outside the law. However, this article develops the concept 'social uses of the law' to interrogate how informal workers understand, engage and deploy the law, facilitating the development of more nuanced theorizations of both the informal economy and the law. The article explores how a legal victory over the Johannesburg Council by reclaimers of reusable and recyclable materials at the Marie …
Trashing Solidarity
This article presents a nuanced social history of how reclaimers at the Marie Louise landfill in Soweto, South Africa, organized against each other on the basis of nationality instead of uniting to combat the effects of the 2008 global economic crisis. Through this narrative of struggles at one particular dump, the article contributes to debates on informal worker organizing by theorizing the importance of the production of identities, power rela…
Contested Understandings of Reclaimer Integration—Insights from a Failed Johannesburg Pilot Project
Whose Frontier is it Anyway? Reclaimer "Integration" and the Battle Over Johannesburg's Waste-based Commodity Frontier
The City of Johannesburg's Pikitup waste management utility is regarded as South Africa's leader in piloting initiatives to integrate reclaimers (also known as waste pickers) into municipal waste management systems. Yet paradoxically, these integration initiatives are creating new forms of exclusion of reclaimers. In seeking to understand how this could be the case, this article brings Moore's concept of "commodity frontiers" into conversation wi…
Wasters, agnostics, enforcers, competitors, and community integrators
Within South Africa’s recycling economy, informal waste pickers (also known as reclaimers) generate immense value for local waste management systems by diverting waste from landfills. However, official municipal separation at source ([email protected]) programmes, that task residents with sorting recyclables from their waste for separate collection, have failed to integrate reclaimers’ unofficial collection system. This dislocates reclaimers, for…
Ethnographies of Power
generations, classes, genders and societies.He introduces
Thinking Households—How Resident Conceptualisations of Waste, Reclaimers and Separation at Source Shape Recycling Practices
Municipalities across the globe are implementing separation at source programmes to reduce waste sent to landfills. Yet typically, significant numbers of households do not participate. This article contributes to debates on reasons for low S@S participation rates through comparative analysis of participation in Johannesburg’s first S@S programme by residents in the low-income, predominantly black suburb of Newlands and the high-income, predominan…
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