Gary Minkley
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 376226 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gary Minkley |
| NOMBRES | Gary |
| APELLIDO | Minkley |
| FIRMA | MINKLEY G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Fort Hare |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6912-6224 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Ukusebenza/Ukuphangela
This paper is not about work or labour itself, and how it changes historically in South Africa (from pastoral, to agricultural and industrial; native labour, wage labour, migrant labour etc.), but about how the meaning of 'work' and 'labour' itself changes. What we want to suggest, is that an 'original' meaning of the tasks/duties associated with 'work' was 'woman': ukusebenza. What men did, does not constitute 'work' but something else entirely:…
IMpuma-Koloni / Eastern Cape, Part 2
originary scene of social division in South Africa. 2 We have no intention of undoing the critical distance History has taken from a liberal 'frontier tradition' . The past two years, however -the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns, states of disaster, genderbased violence, police brutality, mass protests against the racism that that brutality exposes contagion, conflict, isolation, containment, confinement -have only intensified the close but enigmati…
IMpuma-Koloni / Eastern Cape
The project from which this special issue emerges began in 2019 in a workshop at Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape, entitled, iMpuma-Koloni Bearings: An Other Cape? The call to this workshop brought together a group of scholars from various universities and locations in southern Africa who had a commitment to critical history, to reconsidering the implications of the discipline in the colonial and apartheid project, and to addressing a contin…
The Subject as Migrant
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, the…
Ambivalent
The Pass Photograph and the Intimate Photographic Event in South Africa
Remains of the Social
x progress in his 'Theses on the Philosophy of History'. Indeed, what is explored here, in various ways, is the notion that the very question of loss, as Zita Nunes has argued, might be read not only as constitutive of, or constituted by, the social -the social produced through loss, the grave as its first commemorative sign, or the social apportioning life and death and designating its grievability -but rather as a masking of that which enables …
Remains of the Social
Traversing the Social
Unsettled History
Unsettled History examines South African society and the construction and presentation of its public pasts, from Nelson Mandela's release from prison in 1990 to South Africa's hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup ®. Conventionally represented as a time of rectifying the silences and distortions of settler history through inclusion and recovery, the focus here instead is on the shifts in processes and locations of historicizing and the unsettled sta…
Red Assembly
Paolo Veronese’s Wedding at Cana and Simon Gush’s Red. Two artworks, one from the North (Venice), one from the South (East London).Figure 1. Simon Gush, Red, 2014. Installation view, Ann Bryant Gal
The Speaking Crow or ‘On a clear day you can see the class struggle from here’? ( Career Girls , 1997)
The Politics of Heritage in Africa
Heritage work has had a uniquely wide currency in Africa's politics. Secure within the pages of books, encoded in legal statutes, encased in glass display cases and enacted in the panoply of court ritual, the artefacts produced by the heritage domain have become a resource for government administration, a library for traditionalists and a marketable source of value for cultural entrepreneurs. The Politics of Heritage in Africa draws together disp…
The Graves of Dimbaza and the Empire of Liberation
This paper focuses on the ambiguous, contradictory and montaged space of Dimbaza in the former Ciskei bantustan of the Eastern Cape, figured simultaneously as homeland resettlement village, betterment rural township, decentralised industrialisation showcase, site of political banishment, international symbol of apartheid difference and as graveyard of the racially discarded, among others. Drawing on empire as the dependent space to command sovere…
Across the Continents
Academics study the concept of community as a dynamic force and, increasingly, universities have become researchers, partners, and participants in community engagement. What is surprising is the lack of a definitional framework for the word “community”, and perhaps due to the use (one might say overuse) of the term in common parlance, no one questions what we mean by community. To engage a discussion without questioning what community means would…
In search of a developmental university
(2012). In search of a developmental university: community engagement in theory and practice. South African Review of Sociology: Vol. 43, IN SEARCH OF A DEVELOPMENTAL UNIVERSITY: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN THEORY AND PRACTICE, pp. 1-4
Repackaging the past for South African tourism
Legacies of Struggle
Going Nowhere Slowly? Land, Livelihoods and Rural Development in the Eastern Cape
Colonial dichotomies continue to operate quite freely in the present ... Of these dichotomies, that between "modernity" and "tradition" has proved to be the most enduring. The first axis – modernity – is associated with progress, development, "the West", science and technology, high standards of living, rationality and order; the other axis – tradition – is associated with stasis or even stagnation, underdevelopment, conventional tools and techno…
The Application of Rural Restitution to Betterment Cases in the Eastern Cape
There is little doubt that the Restitution of Land Rights Act had its origins in the rural struggle of the 1980s and early 1990s. However, when one looks back now at the first ten years of restitution, one easily thinks of urban celebrations, less of rural successes. One thinks of District Six in Cape Town, Sophiatown in Johannesburg, Cato Manor in Durban, East Bank and West Bank Locations in East London. But what about rural restitution? It has …
Deep hiStories
Deep hiStories represents the first substantial publication on gender and colonialism in Southern Africa in recent years, and suggests methodological ways forward for a post-apartheid and postcolonial generation of scholars. The volume’s theorizing, which is based on Southern African regional material, is certain to impact on international debates on gender – debates which have shifted from earlier feminisms towards theorizations which include se…
Deep hiStories
Sydafrika och historien
This article deals with the construction of public history in South Africa during the 1990's. Two examples are used to problematize the claims of history being based on written sources and heritage. The authors want to take the field of heritage seriously. McGregor Museum, a flagship in the Northern Cape province, has tried to transform the old excluding radial story told there to a new All South African History. They have tried an Addition of Me…
Not Telling
No End of a [HistoryJ Lesson
Going Nowhere Slowly? Land, Livelihoods and Rural Development in the Eastern Cape
Colonial dichotomies continue to operate quite freely in the present ... Of these dichotomies, that between "modernity" and "tradition" has proved to be the most enduring. The first axis – modernity – is associated with progress, development, "the West", science and technology, high standards of living, rationality and order; the other axis – tradition – is associated with stasis or even stagnation, underdevelopment, conventional tools and techno…
The Application of Rural Restitution to Betterment Cases in the Eastern Cape
There is little doubt that the Restitution of Land Rights Act had its origins in the rural struggle of the 1980s and early 1990s. However, when one looks back now at the first ten years of restitution, one easily thinks of urban celebrations, less of rural successes. One thinks of District Six in Cape Town, Sophiatown in Johannesburg, Cato Manor in Durban, East Bank and West Bank Locations in East London. But what about rural restitution? It has …
Re-Examining Experience
In two recent published, edited works, a series of papers is brought together to demonstrate the explicit attempt to rethink and reconstruct the theoretical and methodological foundations of South African historiography. The editors point to the important impact the “new school” of radical historiography had in challenging and establishing a “break” with the racial and implicated “ruling class” perspective of the liberal paradigm over the last de…
Red Assembly
Paolo Veronese’s Wedding at Cana and Simon Gush’s Red. Two artworks, one from the North (Venice), one from the South (East London).Figure 1. Simon Gush, Red, 2014. Installation view, Ann Bryant Gal
The Speaking Crow or ‘On a clear day you can see the class struggle from here’? ( Career Girls , 1997)
Legacies of Struggle
No End of a [HistoryJ Lesson
This Narrow Language’
Re-Examining Experience
In two recent published, edited works, a series of papers is brought together to demonstrate the explicit attempt to rethink and reconstruct the theoretical and methodological foundations of South African historiography. The editors point to the important impact the “new school” of radical historiography had in challenging and establishing a “break” with the racial and implicated “ruling class” perspective of the liberal paradigm over the last de…
With shouts of Afrika
This paper, through a detailed examination of one of the biggest and most significant strikes in the East London region, suggests its importance lies both in the events and processes of the strike itself, and in its longer term impact on political traditions of union and popular struggle. It argues that a dynamic relationship developed between a newly emergent industrial working class in the textile industry, and an equally rapidly established lo…
Class and culture in the workplace
This paper attempts, through a closer examination of early industrialisation in East London, to re‐assess notions of ‘cheap native labour’ and its impact on class and culture in the workplaces of the city in the 1940s and 1950s. In particular, it seeks to amplify concerns of the dynamic complexity of working‐class formation in this period, and suggests the need to historicize, and problematise these processes beyond more typically represented und…
A counter‐raid into that other country of the racial past
The space for colonial industrialisation and the local construction of race and class, East London, c1900–1927
This article draws on an East London case-study to raise problems with a Rand-centric historiography which is dominant in South African studies. I argue that an important comparative literature, drawn from the ‘African waterfront’ more generally, needs to be engaged in exploring the colonial basis of coastal cities in South Africa. The issues of race, class and the space for industrialisation are explored through asserting the much closer local a…
This Narrow Language’
No End of a [HistoryJ Lesson
Sydafrika och historien
This article deals with the construction of public history in South Africa during the 1990's. Two examples are used to problematize the claims of history being based on written sources and heritage. The authors want to take the field of heritage seriously. McGregor Museum, a flagship in the Northern Cape province, has tried to transform the old excluding radial story told there to a new All South African History. They have tried an Addition of Me…
Not Telling
Deep hiStories
Deep hiStories represents the first substantial publication on gender and colonialism in Southern Africa in recent years, and suggests methodological ways forward for a post-apartheid and postcolonial generation of scholars. The volume’s theorizing, which is based on Southern African regional material, is certain to impact on international debates on gender – debates which have shifted from earlier feminisms towards theorizations which include se…
Deep hiStories
Going Nowhere Slowly? Land, Livelihoods and Rural Development in the Eastern Cape
Colonial dichotomies continue to operate quite freely in the present ... Of these dichotomies, that between "modernity" and "tradition" has proved to be the most enduring. The first axis – modernity – is associated with progress, development, "the West", science and technology, high standards of living, rationality and order; the other axis – tradition – is associated with stasis or even stagnation, underdevelopment, conventional tools and techno…
The Application of Rural Restitution to Betterment Cases in the Eastern Cape
There is little doubt that the Restitution of Land Rights Act had its origins in the rural struggle of the 1980s and early 1990s. However, when one looks back now at the first ten years of restitution, one easily thinks of urban celebrations, less of rural successes. One thinks of District Six in Cape Town, Sophiatown in Johannesburg, Cato Manor in Durban, East Bank and West Bank Locations in East London. But what about rural restitution? It has …
Legacies of Struggle
Repackaging the past for South African tourism
In search of a developmental university
(2012). In search of a developmental university: community engagement in theory and practice. South African Review of Sociology: Vol. 43, IN SEARCH OF A DEVELOPMENTAL UNIVERSITY: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN THEORY AND PRACTICE, pp. 1-4
Across the Continents
Academics study the concept of community as a dynamic force and, increasingly, universities have become researchers, partners, and participants in community engagement. What is surprising is the lack of a definitional framework for the word “community”, and perhaps due to the use (one might say overuse) of the term in common parlance, no one questions what we mean by community. To engage a discussion without questioning what community means would…
The Politics of Heritage in Africa
Heritage work has had a uniquely wide currency in Africa's politics. Secure within the pages of books, encoded in legal statutes, encased in glass display cases and enacted in the panoply of court ritual, the artefacts produced by the heritage domain have become a resource for government administration, a library for traditionalists and a marketable source of value for cultural entrepreneurs. The Politics of Heritage in Africa draws together disp…
The Graves of Dimbaza and the Empire of Liberation
This paper focuses on the ambiguous, contradictory and montaged space of Dimbaza in the former Ciskei bantustan of the Eastern Cape, figured simultaneously as homeland resettlement village, betterment rural township, decentralised industrialisation showcase, site of political banishment, international symbol of apartheid difference and as graveyard of the racially discarded, among others. Drawing on empire as the dependent space to command sovere…
Red Assembly
Paolo Veronese’s Wedding at Cana and Simon Gush’s Red. Two artworks, one from the North (Venice), one from the South (East London).Figure 1. Simon Gush, Red, 2014. Installation view, Ann Bryant Gal
The Speaking Crow or ‘On a clear day you can see the class struggle from here’? ( Career Girls , 1997)
Remains of the Social
x progress in his 'Theses on the Philosophy of History'. Indeed, what is explored here, in various ways, is the notion that the very question of loss, as Zita Nunes has argued, might be read not only as constitutive of, or constituted by, the social -the social produced through loss, the grave as its first commemorative sign, or the social apportioning life and death and designating its grievability -but rather as a masking of that which enables …
Remains of the Social
Traversing the Social
Unsettled History
Unsettled History examines South African society and the construction and presentation of its public pasts, from Nelson Mandela's release from prison in 1990 to South Africa's hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup ®. Conventionally represented as a time of rectifying the silences and distortions of settler history through inclusion and recovery, the focus here instead is on the shifts in processes and locations of historicizing and the unsettled sta…
Sociology (20 obras) · History (19 obras) · Political science (17 obras) · South African History and Culture (14 obras) · Archaeology (13 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · African history and culture studies (9 obras) · Politics (9 obras) · Epistemology (8 obras)