Rebekah Lee
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3592085 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rebekah Lee |
| NOMBRES | Rebekah |
| APELLIDO | Lee |
| FIRMA | LEE R |
| AFILIACIONES | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3368-3971 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 115 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Crash Narratives and Accidental Archives
This article considers the implications of historicising road safety in contemporary South Africa. It offers a critical interrogation of the 'epidemiological turn' evident in recent global road safety campaigns, primarily by 'refiguring' or decentring the archive on road safety in South Africa. Using the frame of 'crash narratives', this study assembles a diverse range of 'fragments' provided through oral testimonies and ethnographic observation …
Death in Africa
In this chapter, we explore a number of issues raised by the existing literature and suggest ways forward for future research. Death has long been a central concern of social anthropological writing on African societies and of the extensive scholarship on African belief systems. Until recently, however, little attention has been paid to the history of death practices in Africa in relation to demographic change, urbanization, the interventions of …
Art, Activism and the Academy
We are in the fourth decade of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.1 In South Africa, widely regarded as the epicentre of sub-Saharan Africa’s AIDS crisis, this pivotal moment has been marked with ambival
Arrive Alive
This article is among the first historical considerations of road safety in Africa. It argues that race and class, as colonial dualisms, analytically frame two defining moments in the development of African automobility and its infrastructure-"Africanization" in the first decade of Kenya's political independence from Britain, 1963-75, and democratization in postapartheid South Africa. We argue that recent road safety interventions in both countri…
Death in Slow Motion
The article focuses on the development, within the Xhosa-speaking population of South Africa, of intricate cultural practices enacted around fatal road accident sites and en route to funerals. African funeral directors, whose informal enterprises are premised on the lucrative transport of dead bodies and mourners across long distances, attest to the potentially fatal hazards brought on by poor drivers, inebriated mourners and the stresses of over…
Introduction
Death 'On the Move
This article primarily concerns the intersection of the changing management of death with the problems and possibilities presented by the growing mobility of the African, and specifically Xhosa-speaking, population in South Africa from the latter half of the twentieth century to the present day. I am interested in how shifts in the practices and beliefs around death are mediated by individuals, households and businesses who have an historical aff…
African Women and Apartheid
In this compelling study, Rebekah Lee explores the process and consequences of settlement through the everyday lives and testimonies of three generations of African women in Cape Town during the apartheid (1948-94) and post-apartheid periods. How did African women experience apartheid? How did they create a sense of belonging in a city that actively denied and resisted their presence? Through detailed analyses of women's management of domestic ec…
Death and Dying in the History of Africa Since 1800
In this Introduction to the Special Issue on Death in African History we explore issues raised by the existing literature and suggest ways forward for future research. Death has long been a central concern of social anthropological writing on African societies, and of the extensive literature on African belief systems. Until recently, however, little attention has been paid to the history of death practices in Africa in relation to demographic ch…
Reconstructing 'Home' in Apartheid Cape Town
This article concerns itself with home improvements – both as internalised process and externally visible practice – in African households in Cape Town, South Africa, under apartheid (1948–1994). It is argued that a historical analysis of home improvement provides an important portrayal not only of the structural changes to the homes in which urban Africans lived, but also of the underlying processes of settlement they undertook. The collection o…
Conversion or continuum? The spread of Islam among African women in Cape Town
Death and Dying in the History of Africa Since 1800
In this Introduction to the Special Issue on Death in African History we explore issues raised by the existing literature and suggest ways forward for future research. Death has long been a central concern of social anthropological writing on African societies, and of the extensive literature on African belief systems. Until recently, however, little attention has been paid to the history of death practices in Africa in relation to demographic ch…
Death 'On the Move
This article primarily concerns the intersection of the changing management of death with the problems and possibilities presented by the growing mobility of the African, and specifically Xhosa-speaking, population in South Africa from the latter half of the twentieth century to the present day. I am interested in how shifts in the practices and beliefs around death are mediated by individuals, households and businesses who have an historical aff…
Death in Slow Motion
The article focuses on the development, within the Xhosa-speaking population of South Africa, of intricate cultural practices enacted around fatal road accident sites and en route to funerals. African funeral directors, whose informal enterprises are premised on the lucrative transport of dead bodies and mourners across long distances, attest to the potentially fatal hazards brought on by poor drivers, inebriated mourners and the stresses of over…
Reconstructing 'Home' in Apartheid Cape Town
This article concerns itself with home improvements – both as internalised process and externally visible practice – in African households in Cape Town, South Africa, under apartheid (1948–1994). It is argued that a historical analysis of home improvement provides an important portrayal not only of the structural changes to the homes in which urban Africans lived, but also of the underlying processes of settlement they undertook. The collection o…
Arrive Alive
This article is among the first historical considerations of road safety in Africa. It argues that race and class, as colonial dualisms, analytically frame two defining moments in the development of African automobility and its infrastructure-"Africanization" in the first decade of Kenya's political independence from Britain, 1963-75, and democratization in postapartheid South Africa. We argue that recent road safety interventions in both countri…
Introduction
Conversion or continuum? The spread of Islam among African women in Cape Town
Art, Activism and the Academy
We are in the fourth decade of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.1 In South Africa, widely regarded as the epicentre of sub-Saharan Africa’s AIDS crisis, this pivotal moment has been marked with ambival
Conversion or continuum? The spread of Islam among African women in Cape Town
Reconstructing 'Home' in Apartheid Cape Town
This article concerns itself with home improvements – both as internalised process and externally visible practice – in African households in Cape Town, South Africa, under apartheid (1948–1994). It is argued that a historical analysis of home improvement provides an important portrayal not only of the structural changes to the homes in which urban Africans lived, but also of the underlying processes of settlement they undertook. The collection o…
Death and Dying in the History of Africa Since 1800
In this Introduction to the Special Issue on Death in African History we explore issues raised by the existing literature and suggest ways forward for future research. Death has long been a central concern of social anthropological writing on African societies, and of the extensive literature on African belief systems. Until recently, however, little attention has been paid to the history of death practices in Africa in relation to demographic ch…
African Women and Apartheid
In this compelling study, Rebekah Lee explores the process and consequences of settlement through the everyday lives and testimonies of three generations of African women in Cape Town during the apartheid (1948-94) and post-apartheid periods. How did African women experience apartheid? How did they create a sense of belonging in a city that actively denied and resisted their presence? Through detailed analyses of women's management of domestic ec…
Death 'On the Move
This article primarily concerns the intersection of the changing management of death with the problems and possibilities presented by the growing mobility of the African, and specifically Xhosa-speaking, population in South Africa from the latter half of the twentieth century to the present day. I am interested in how shifts in the practices and beliefs around death are mediated by individuals, households and businesses who have an historical aff…
Death in Slow Motion
The article focuses on the development, within the Xhosa-speaking population of South Africa, of intricate cultural practices enacted around fatal road accident sites and en route to funerals. African funeral directors, whose informal enterprises are premised on the lucrative transport of dead bodies and mourners across long distances, attest to the potentially fatal hazards brought on by poor drivers, inebriated mourners and the stresses of over…
Introduction
Arrive Alive
This article is among the first historical considerations of road safety in Africa. It argues that race and class, as colonial dualisms, analytically frame two defining moments in the development of African automobility and its infrastructure-"Africanization" in the first decade of Kenya's political independence from Britain, 1963-75, and democratization in postapartheid South Africa. We argue that recent road safety interventions in both countri…
Art, Activism and the Academy
We are in the fourth decade of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.1 In South Africa, widely regarded as the epicentre of sub-Saharan Africa’s AIDS crisis, this pivotal moment has been marked with ambival
Death in Africa
In this chapter, we explore a number of issues raised by the existing literature and suggest ways forward for future research. Death has long been a central concern of social anthropological writing on African societies and of the extensive scholarship on African belief systems. Until recently, however, little attention has been paid to the history of death practices in Africa in relation to demographic change, urbanization, the interventions of …
Crash Narratives and Accidental Archives
This article considers the implications of historicising road safety in contemporary South Africa. It offers a critical interrogation of the 'epidemiological turn' evident in recent global road safety campaigns, primarily by 'refiguring' or decentring the archive on road safety in South Africa. Using the frame of 'crash narratives', this study assembles a diverse range of 'fragments' provided through oral testimonies and ethnographic observation …
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