M Hunter
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 32676 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | M Hunter |
| NOMBRES | M |
| APELLIDO | Hunter |
| FIRMA | HUNTER M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8486-7602 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 406 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Penal-welfare systems in a (post)colonial world
Apartheid South Africa developed a notoriously punitive and racist approach to alcohol and drug use. Less reported is that the state gave significant attention to rehabilitation, first for the minority white population and later for black South Africans. This paper asks why in the post-apartheid era—despite a huge influx of cheap heroin, methamphetamines, and other drugs—the government showed a relative disregard for rehabilitation. Addressing th…
The Labor-Drug Question in Colonial Worlds
How does drug use change in a country once desperate for waged labor but now marked by youth unemployment rates of more than 50%? This article considers historical connections between drugs and labor in South Africa, a colonial setting where capitalism was notoriously drug fueled. Drawing on oral histories, ethnography, and archival sources in the port city of Durban, I suggest that a gradual but important change in drug use occurred from around …
Living alone in the age of freedom
This paper considers an apparent paradox in South Africa: the share of single‐person households increased after the end of apartheid despite the ending of apartheid's racial laws that restricted ‘African’ families from living together, the postapartheid state's building of around four‐million low‐cost houses for families, the economies of scale offered by multiple‐person households in a country where poverty remains prevalent and the reduced sign…
Colour matters
Colour matters: Essays on the experiences, education, and pursuits of Black youth, by Carl James." Journal of Urban Affairs, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Revisiting the prevalence of English
In this study, we revisit the status of English relative to the African languages in South Africa by analysing new national data on the main language spoken outside the home. These data, which derive from the General Household Surveys of 2017 and 2018, complement commonly collected data on the main language spoken within the home. Our analysis shows that only a small minority of ‘Africans’ report speaking English most often outside the home, and …
The rise of Xanax in South African schools
Intersections of race, gender and the drug economy
Intimate crimes
The term 'amaphara', possibly derived from 'parasites', burst into South African public culture in the 2010s to refer to petty thieves addicted to a heroin-based drug locally called whoonga/nyaope. Drawing on ethnography and media sources to interrogate the rise of 'amaphara', this paper argues that South Africa's heroin epidemic magnifies the attention - criticism but also sympathy - directed toward marginalised black men who have few prospects …
Corporal punishment and gender equality
Many policy interventions designed to achieve gender equality in education are predicated on the assumption that the enforcement of a human rights framework will promote equality and reduce (gender) inequalities. In South Africa, the ending of apartheid led to the introduction of a rights-based constitution in 1996. In line with this Constitution the education system was overhauled and a new Act, the South African Education Act of 1996 came into …
Peripheral Intravenous Education in North American Nursing Schools
BACKGROUND: Peripheral intravenous (PIV) management requires knowledge, skill, and clinical judgment to ensure positive patient outcomes; yet, many nurses lack confidence in their PIV knowledge and skills. It is important that graduate nurses acquire PIV knowledge and skills in nursing school. This study aimed to explore PIV content coverage and clinical opportunities provided in U.S. and Canadian nursing curricula. METHOD: Using a descriptive, e…
Heroin hustles
Race and the Geographies of Education
Geographical concepts have been widely and effectively employed to understand the imposition of market principles on schooling systems. This article brings this literature into tension with critical race theory and specifically David Goldberg’s analysis of “racial neoliberalism” that foregrounds the constitutive role of race in marketization. It begins by surveying and mapping 350 publications in the field of the “geographies of education.” Altho…
Township Violence and the End of Apartheid
Disagreements about the causes and consequences of the bloodshed that dogged South Africa’s democratic transition have not abated. Indeed, over the last year the slow pace of land reform has propel
The political economy of concurrent partners
Parental choice without parents
From the 1980s and 1990s, governments around the world began to champion ‘parental choice’ over schooling. Much of the existing scholarship has been based on examples taken from the global North. In such settings, where nuclear families are common, a major theme has been the privileged educational strategies and outcomes of middle-class families. Yet this South African study gives attention to gender and family dynamics in helping to explain and …
The Race for Education
In the early 1990s, privileged "white" South African public schools began to admit "black" pupils. Drawing on interviews, ethnography, and archival sources related to formerly-white schools in Durban, this article addresses two main questions: first, why did white parents so enthusiastically vote for schooling desegregation when apartheid was still in place?; and second, why, over time, did intense competition emerge between schools, and become s…
Is it enough to talk of marriage as a process? Legitimate co-habitation in Umlazi, South Africa
Some 65 years ago Radcliffe-Brown wrote that marriage is "not an event or a condition but a developing process." This position became modified two decades later when John Comaroff and Simon Roberts demonstrated the ambiguity of the process of marriage in order to challenge the dominant "jural" view. This article argues that these insights still hold well, but that in an era of very low marriage rates in Southern Africa the processual approach is …
Schooling choice in South Africa
The political economy of concurrent partners
Over the last decade, one of the most influential explanations for high HIV prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa is the existence of sexual networks characterised by concurrent partners. Recently, however, a growing number of scholars have challenged the evidential basis for the concurrency argument. While this dispute has led to a call for more sophisticated quantitative methods to measure concurrency, this article widens the discussion to emphasise…
The Intimate Politics of the Education Market
After decades of entrenched racial discrimination, virtually all South African children today enter the schooling system, and many progress further than did their parents. Yet the increased importance of fees at the best schools means that a child’s schooling and subsequent life chances depend, in new ways, on the efforts of others, usually family members. These efforts are indicated in isiZulu by the term ukufundisa, which means ‘to cause to lea…
The Bond of Education
‘High apartheid’ in the 1960s was marked by intensified efforts to redraw urban areas along racial lines and quash black South Africans' schooling and employment ambitions. The 1953 Bantu Education Act became infamous for limiting African educational opportunities. Yet this article shows how women in Umlazi Township, outside of Durban, schooled their children – despite and indeed because of apartheid's oppressive educational and urban policies. D…
Here to work
Government policy towards informal settlements in south africa reflects a tension between two approaches: recognizing the legitimacy of informal settlements and aggressively removing these so-called “slums”. ( 1 ) drawing on nationally representative household survey data and interviews with 25 individuals relocated from an informal settlement to a “transit camp”, this paper argues that more detailed attention should be paid to the changing conne…
Geography and Critical Development Studies
Key Words: critical development studiescultural politicsethnographysocial capital
Talking class, talking race
Against a backdrop of declining manufacturing employment, this article uses a study of the call center industry to argue that English language proficiency is central to new service jobs in post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on research in Durban, we in this study show that access to call center work—especially the highest paid niches—is heavily mediated by English language skills generally attainable only at the most elite high schools. In doin…
Beneath the “Zunami”
In April 2009, African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma was swept into power in South Africa's fourth democratic general election. To date, this political “Zunami” has largely been presented as either a leftist rebellion against Mbeki's neoliberalism, a reassertion of patriarchal “traditionalism”, or an example of Zulu ethnic mobilization. This article draws on a long-term ethnographic study to provide a critical gendered perspective on Zuma's…
The Materiality of Everyday Sex
2002). The Materiality of Everyday Sex: Thinking beyond 'prostitution' African Studies: Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 99-120
The changing political economy of sex in South Africa
Here to work
Government policy towards informal settlements in south africa reflects a tension between two approaches: recognizing the legitimacy of informal settlements and aggressively removing these so-called “slums”. ( 1 ) drawing on nationally representative household survey data and interviews with 25 individuals relocated from an informal settlement to a “transit camp”, this paper argues that more detailed attention should be paid to the changing conne…
Is it enough to talk of marriage as a process? Legitimate co-habitation in Umlazi, South Africa
Some 65 years ago Radcliffe-Brown wrote that marriage is "not an event or a condition but a developing process." This position became modified two decades later when John Comaroff and Simon Roberts demonstrated the ambiguity of the process of marriage in order to challenge the dominant "jural" view. This article argues that these insights still hold well, but that in an era of very low marriage rates in Southern Africa the processual approach is …
Talking class, talking race
Against a backdrop of declining manufacturing employment, this article uses a study of the call center industry to argue that English language proficiency is central to new service jobs in post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on research in Durban, we in this study show that access to call center work—especially the highest paid niches—is heavily mediated by English language skills generally attainable only at the most elite high schools. In doin…
Beneath the “Zunami”
In April 2009, African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma was swept into power in South Africa's fourth democratic general election. To date, this political “Zunami” has largely been presented as either a leftist rebellion against Mbeki's neoliberalism, a reassertion of patriarchal “traditionalism”, or an example of Zulu ethnic mobilization. This article draws on a long-term ethnographic study to provide a critical gendered perspective on Zuma's…
Beyond the male-migrant
Racial Desegregation and Schooling in South Africa
Much research on racial desegregation in South Africa uses residential data to track how richer black South Africans are moving from apartheid spaces to higher income suburbs; how racial privilege is giving way to class privilege. Drawing on geographers' relational conception of space and anthropologist Sherry Ortner's notion of a 'class project', in this paper I show the importance of geographies of schooling to class formation. The study tracks…
The Bond of Education
‘High apartheid’ in the 1960s was marked by intensified efforts to redraw urban areas along racial lines and quash black South Africans' schooling and employment ambitions. The 1953 Bantu Education Act became infamous for limiting African educational opportunities. Yet this article shows how women in Umlazi Township, outside of Durban, schooled their children – despite and indeed because of apartheid's oppressive educational and urban policies. D…
An Age of Wonders
1Birkbeck College, University of London An Age of Wonders: Prodigies, Politics and Providence in England, 1657–1727 William E.Burns ManchesterManchester U.P. 2002228£45
The Race for Education
In the early 1990s, privileged "white" South African public schools began to admit "black" pupils. Drawing on interviews, ethnography, and archival sources related to formerly-white schools in Durban, this article addresses two main questions: first, why did white parents so enthusiastically vote for schooling desegregation when apartheid was still in place?; and second, why, over time, did intense competition emerge between schools, and become s…
The political economy of concurrent partners
Over the last decade, one of the most influential explanations for high HIV prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa is the existence of sexual networks characterised by concurrent partners. Recently, however, a growing number of scholars have challenged the evidential basis for the concurrency argument. While this dispute has led to a call for more sophisticated quantitative methods to measure concurrency, this article widens the discussion to emphasise…
Race and the Geographies of Education
Geographical concepts have been widely and effectively employed to understand the imposition of market principles on schooling systems. This article brings this literature into tension with critical race theory and specifically David Goldberg’s analysis of “racial neoliberalism” that foregrounds the constitutive role of race in marketization. It begins by surveying and mapping 350 publications in the field of the “geographies of education.” Altho…
Revisiting the prevalence of English
In this study, we revisit the status of English relative to the African languages in South Africa by analysing new national data on the main language spoken outside the home. These data, which derive from the General Household Surveys of 2017 and 2018, complement commonly collected data on the main language spoken within the home. Our analysis shows that only a small minority of ‘Africans’ report speaking English most often outside the home, and …
Corporal punishment and gender equality
Many policy interventions designed to achieve gender equality in education are predicated on the assumption that the enforcement of a human rights framework will promote equality and reduce (gender) inequalities. In South Africa, the ending of apartheid led to the introduction of a rights-based constitution in 1996. In line with this Constitution the education system was overhauled and a new Act, the South African Education Act of 1996 came into …
Parental choice without parents
From the 1980s and 1990s, governments around the world began to champion ‘parental choice’ over schooling. Much of the existing scholarship has been based on examples taken from the global North. In such settings, where nuclear families are common, a major theme has been the privileged educational strategies and outcomes of middle-class families. Yet this South African study gives attention to gender and family dynamics in helping to explain and …
The intercultural and socio-historical context of aboriginal personal violence in remote austral
(1991). The intercultural and socio-historical context of aboriginal personal violence in remote austral. Australian Psychologist: Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 89-98
Heroin hustles
Schooling choice in South Africa
The Intimate Politics of the Education Market
After decades of entrenched racial discrimination, virtually all South African children today enter the schooling system, and many progress further than did their parents. Yet the increased importance of fees at the best schools means that a child’s schooling and subsequent life chances depend, in new ways, on the efforts of others, usually family members. These efforts are indicated in isiZulu by the term ukufundisa, which means ‘to cause to lea…
Intersections of race, gender and the drug economy
The Post-Fordist High Road? A South African Case Study
(2000). The Post-Fordist High Road? A South African Case Study. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 67-90
Hypertension and asthma
The intercultural and socio-historical context of aboriginal personal violence in remote austral
(1991). The intercultural and socio-historical context of aboriginal personal violence in remote austral. Australian Psychologist: Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 89-98
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access MICHAEL HUNTER MICHAEL HUNTER Birkbeck CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 449, November 1997, Pages 1283–1284, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.449.1283 Published: 01 November 1997
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access MICHAEL HUNTER MICHAEL HUNTER Birkbeck College, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 447, June 1997, Pages 740–741, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.447.740 Published: 01 June 1997
Ethical Conflict and Investigative Reporting
The journalistic investigation of France's contaminated blood affair achieved unprecedented results, comparable to the Watergate affair. In attempting to counter the investigation and calm the scandal, medical reporters for Le Monde paradoxically legitimized the former and extended the latter. In the process, they faced an ethical quandary:To betray the health system or to allow themselves to be betrayed by its leaders
Shorter notice. Sir Robert Cotton as Collector. Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and his Legacy. CJ Wright [ed.]
Journal Article Shorter notice. Sir Robert Cotton as Collector. Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and his Legacy. CJ Wright [ed.] Get access M Hunter M Hunter Birkbeck College, London, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 456, April 1999, Pages 437–438, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.456.437 Published: 01 April 1999
The Post-Fordist High Road? A South African Case Study
(2000). The Post-Fordist High Road? A South African Case Study. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 67-90
The work-diaries of Robert Boyle
Boyle's ‘work-diaries’—his notes on his work experiments and on data given him by others —have been reassembled and transcribed, and are about to be published on the Web
Two Antiquaries
1Birkbeck College, University of London Two Antiquaries: A Selection from the Correspondence of John Aubrey and Anthony Wood MauriceBalme DurhamDurham Academic P. 2001168£14.95
The Materiality of Everyday Sex
2002). The Materiality of Everyday Sex: Thinking beyond 'prostitution' African Studies: Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 99-120
An Age of Wonders
1Birkbeck College, University of London An Age of Wonders: Prodigies, Politics and Providence in England, 1657–1727 William E.Burns ManchesterManchester U.P. 2002228£45
Masculinities, multiple-sexual-partners, and Aids
Masculinities, multiple-sexual-partners, and AIDS:the making and unmaking of Isoka in KwaZulu-Natal Mark Hunter (bio) Courting behaviour among traditional young men is a very important part of their education; for a young man must achieve the distinction of being an isoka, ie a Don Juan or a Casanova. (Vilakazi, A Zulu Transformations 1962:47) There are no longer amasoka (pl.isoka); people are scared to die of AIDS. (Sipho, 20 year old male, Sund…
Report. Robert Hooke revivified
An international conference held from 6 to 9 July 2003 under the auspices of Gresham College and The Royal Society, and with the support of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Cultural politics and masculinities
Cultural politics and masculinities
Drawing from ethnographic, archival and secondary research, this article examines multiple-sexual partners in historical perspective in KwaZulu-Natal, a South Africa province where one in three people are thought to be HIV positive. Research on masculinities, multiple-partners, and AIDS has been predominantly directed towards the present day. This paper stresses the importance of unraveling the antecedents of contemporary masculinities particular…
Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion
THIS interesting, if slightly heterogeneous, volume arose from a seminar series held at All Souls College, Oxford. The contributors were selected for their work on thinkers associated with heterodox views in science, religion, or both, and they were given a broad agenda as outlined by Ian Maclean in his Introduction, in terms of exploring the nature of the supposed heterodoxy of the men in question and the effect of their religious heterodoxy on …
The changing political economy of sex in South Africa
Beyond the male-migrant
Science Uncovered
The study of art in science and science in art can be troublesome. Historians of art who focus on scientific subject matter, like historians of science (and medicine) who deal with visual images, often find themselves in a bind: they can never make both disciplines happy, they can never be confidently versed in the current debates within both fields, and while the more complex methodologies and ideologies of both spheres may be accounted for, the…
Love in the Time of Aids
In this timely and important book, Hunter interrogates misperceptions about AIDS, sexuality, human rights, and gender injustices that perpetuate harmful constructions of African sexuality. Challenging the assumption that Africa is 'loveless,' an emancipatory concept typically reserved for those living in modern Western democracies... Hunter restores questions of love, tenderness, and intimacy in this rich ethnography of gender and sexuality in So…
A tribute and a review
The English Virtuoso. Art, Medicine and Antiquarianism in an Age of Empiricism
This is an intriguing and wide-ranging book which is also handsomely produced and a pleasure to read and handle. It revolves around a series of interconnected themes to do with medicine, the culture of the virtuosi and the emergence of a tradition of artistic connoisseurship in early modern England. Chronologically, it spans from Richard Haydocke's English translation of Lomazzo's Trattato del arte della pittura, scultura ed architectura in the E…
Racial Desegregation and Schooling in South Africa
Much research on racial desegregation in South Africa uses residential data to track how richer black South Africans are moving from apartheid spaces to higher income suburbs; how racial privilege is giving way to class privilege. Drawing on geographers' relational conception of space and anthropologist Sherry Ortner's notion of a 'class project', in this paper I show the importance of geographies of schooling to class formation. The study tracks…
Beneath the “Zunami”
In April 2009, African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma was swept into power in South Africa's fourth democratic general election. To date, this political “Zunami” has largely been presented as either a leftist rebellion against Mbeki's neoliberalism, a reassertion of patriarchal “traditionalism”, or an example of Zulu ethnic mobilization. This article draws on a long-term ethnographic study to provide a critical gendered perspective on Zuma's…
Here to work
Government policy towards informal settlements in south africa reflects a tension between two approaches: recognizing the legitimacy of informal settlements and aggressively removing these so-called “slums”. ( 1 ) drawing on nationally representative household survey data and interviews with 25 individuals relocated from an informal settlement to a “transit camp”, this paper argues that more detailed attention should be paid to the changing conne…
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