Maxim Bolt
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 90359 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Maxim Bolt |
| NOMBRES | Maxim |
| APELLIDO | Bolt |
| FIRMA | BOLT M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0739-8018 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 132 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Bringing Formalisation ‘to the People’
In matters of inheritance, post-apartheid transformation has meant extending formal administrative arrangements previously for a privileged minority to all South Africans. That formalisation is hampered by the distance between popular ideas of proper inheritance and formal intestate succession rules, exacerbated by a confusing system. Yet a wide range of legal practitioners see the formalisation of inheritance as increasing popular access in the …
Creature of statute
South Africa's Master of the High Court administers property inheritance. Described as a 'creature of statute', and staffed by legally trained officials, the law takes centre-stage. Focusing on Johannesburg, the Master's biggest and busiest branch, this article examines how law is performed in bureaucratic encounters, and how this shapes the everyday relations that make legal bureaucrats as middle-class professionals. Middle-class status is perfo…
Engineering the middle classes
The 'middle class' has become the subject of euphoric narratives of growth and improving standards of living around the globe, and the object of government interventions and social engineering. Government interventions may be ineffective, have unintended outcomes, or be left barely articulated. Yet the place of the middle classes as embodying national success, stability and modernity has taken on the power of common sense. Modern states have long…
Homeownership, Legal Administration, And The Uncertainties Of Inheritance In South Africa’s Townships
Expanded homeownership in Johannesburg’s townships offered the prospect of post-apartheid formal inclusion. Yet allocation of title to former rental homes has been characterized by a profound lack of normative consensus regarding ownership or inheritance. In bitter disputes over houses, appeals to law jostle and interweave with claims in a customary register. In much regional scholarship, normative pluralism provides a point of departure for unde…
Fluctuating formality
One of Malinowski's legacies was a sensitivity to the ways institutions unevenly shape lives and relationships. Taking his lead, this article develops an approach to the formal economy, combining, sharpening, and extending theories of state and market infrastructures in political and economic anthropology. Focusing on urban South Africa, it examines property inheritance among the black majority previously excluded from property rights. As a lens …
Recognising the family house
In South Africa, popular notions of the township family house derive from an interplay of customary norms and the racialised history of administration and urban government – particularly exclusion from urban property rights. They also represent an insistence on the materialisation of kinship through fixed property, and on the home as transcending individual ownership or market asset. Focusing on the metropolitan area of South Gauteng, this paper …
Globalization, Economic Inclusion and African Workers
Making workers real
Documents are central to the infrastructure through which formal workforces are constituted. They thus offer a privileged vantage point onto how formality is asserted and experienced as real. On the Zimbabwean-South African border, where formality is a plural and uneven patchwork of "formalizations," thousands of migrants are employed on export-oriented commercial farms. Connections between state institutions and workplaces are regulatory spotlig…
Becoming and unbecoming farm workers in Southern Africa
More than most forms of employment in Southern Africa, farm work seems to evoke the past. Recent events, however, have foregrounded global integration and cost-cutting casualisation as much as plantation-style racialised hierarchies. Legacies of farmer paternalism, themselves shaped by workers' on-site residence, have inflected changes in agriculture. But these changes invite fresh investigation of what we mean by "farm workers," as a stereotyped…
Accidental Neoliberalism and the Performance of Management
South Africa’s export farms have shifted from racialised paternalism to corporate managerialism. But how have workforce dynamics changed? This article offers an ethnographic perspective on agriculture on the transient Zimbabwean border. An ‘actor-centred’ approach examines the causes and extent of transformation. Who furthers managerial logics? Why? With what effects? White farmers emphasise impersonal, rationalised business for diverse reasons. …
Introduction
This introductory article explores the transformative potential of global connections for African workers. It challenges recent claims that African workers have become functionally irrelevant to the global economy by examining the shift of global demand for African workers from formal to increasingly informalised labour arrangements, mediated by social enterprises, labour brokers and graduate entrepreneurs. Focusing on global employment connectio…
Introduction
struggles are not unique to South Africa.Yet the centrality of violence to South Africa's labour arrangements -both underpinning and feeding off them -is a striking feature of the country's history. 4 The 'precarious liberation' 5 of post-apartheid South Africa has produced its own vulnerabilities and frustrations, giving way to a new era of protest and claim-making.At the same time, Marikana focuses attention not only on the forms of violence an…
Mediated Paternalism and Violent Incorporation
Paternalism and violence on South African farms have been famously intertwined. In a kinship idiom, fatherly white farmers confer 'gifts' on black workers, their 'people'. This discretion maintains the conditions for racialised violence. But, on the Zimbabwean-South African border, mass-migration and globalised agriculture give paternalism and violence new significance. If white extra-legal violence was previously key to maintaining racialised, h…
Zimbabwe's Migrants and South Africa's Border Farms
During the Zimbabwean crisis, millions crossed through the apartheid-era border fence, searching for ways to make ends meet. Maxim Bolt explores the lives of Zimbabwean migrant labourers, of settled black farm workers and their dependants, and of white farmers and managers, as they intersect on the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa. Focusing on one farm, this book investigates the role of a hub of wage labour in a place of crisis. A close …
The sociality of the wage
While wage labour and money have received much anthropological attention, the same cannot be said of wages themselves - actual banknotes and coins distributed in workforces. This article traces wages' social productivity among farm workers on the Zimbabwean-South African border. In this migrant-labour setting, money's form matters. Because currency objects are physically the same, it is difficult for workers to store them in an insecure environme…
Transcending the Economic
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The dynamics of dependence
Producing permanence
What does it mean to be 'permanent' in an increasingly flexible world of work? On the Zimbabwean-South African border, white farmers guard against risk by investing in portfolios of estates and emphasizing their mobility. But the farms rely on core black workforces of resident 'general workers', known as mapermanent. The lives of mapermanent embody temporal contradictions in South African agriculture. Work regimes depend on arrangements establish…
The Citi Money Gallery, British Museum
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Waged Entrepreneurs, Policed Informality
Keen to show the fluidity of border areas, and the limits of state control, much anthropological scholarship on borders highlights arrangements, activities and opportunities that pass beneath the official radar. But while such a clandestine focus casts border dwellers as preoccupied with resisting state regulation, this article shows how Zimbabwean-South African border dwellers make the most of their location by beingvisibleto state officials, as…
Camaraderie and its Discontents
As a result of Zimbabwe's economic troubles and displacement, the Zimbabwean workforces on South Africa's border farms display a heightening diversity of regional origins, languages, ages, ethnicities and class histories. This article asks what happens to class consciousness under such conditions. It does so by exploring how male fruit pickers on one particular farm interpret the nexus of class, ethnicity and masculinity. It illustrates how migra…
Introduction
This introductory article explores the transformative potential of global connections for African workers. It challenges recent claims that African workers have become functionally irrelevant to the global economy by examining the shift of global demand for African workers from formal to increasingly informalised labour arrangements, mediated by social enterprises, labour brokers and graduate entrepreneurs. Focusing on global employment connectio…
Waged Entrepreneurs, Policed Informality
Keen to show the fluidity of border areas, and the limits of state control, much anthropological scholarship on borders highlights arrangements, activities and opportunities that pass beneath the official radar. But while such a clandestine focus casts border dwellers as preoccupied with resisting state regulation, this article shows how Zimbabwean-South African border dwellers make the most of their location by beingvisibleto state officials, as…
Producing permanence
What does it mean to be 'permanent' in an increasingly flexible world of work? On the Zimbabwean-South African border, white farmers guard against risk by investing in portfolios of estates and emphasizing their mobility. But the farms rely on core black workforces of resident 'general workers', known as mapermanent. The lives of mapermanent embody temporal contradictions in South African agriculture. Work regimes depend on arrangements establish…
The sociality of the wage
While wage labour and money have received much anthropological attention, the same cannot be said of wages themselves - actual banknotes and coins distributed in workforces. This article traces wages' social productivity among farm workers on the Zimbabwean-South African border. In this migrant-labour setting, money's form matters. Because currency objects are physically the same, it is difficult for workers to store them in an insecure environme…
Camaraderie and its Discontents
As a result of Zimbabwe's economic troubles and displacement, the Zimbabwean workforces on South Africa's border farms display a heightening diversity of regional origins, languages, ages, ethnicities and class histories. This article asks what happens to class consciousness under such conditions. It does so by exploring how male fruit pickers on one particular farm interpret the nexus of class, ethnicity and masculinity. It illustrates how migra…
Mediated Paternalism and Violent Incorporation
Paternalism and violence on South African farms have been famously intertwined. In a kinship idiom, fatherly white farmers confer 'gifts' on black workers, their 'people'. This discretion maintains the conditions for racialised violence. But, on the Zimbabwean-South African border, mass-migration and globalised agriculture give paternalism and violence new significance. If white extra-legal violence was previously key to maintaining racialised, h…
Introduction
struggles are not unique to South Africa.Yet the centrality of violence to South Africa's labour arrangements -both underpinning and feeding off them -is a striking feature of the country's history. 4 The 'precarious liberation' 5 of post-apartheid South Africa has produced its own vulnerabilities and frustrations, giving way to a new era of protest and claim-making.At the same time, Marikana focuses attention not only on the forms of violence an…
Engineering the middle classes
The 'middle class' has become the subject of euphoric narratives of growth and improving standards of living around the globe, and the object of government interventions and social engineering. Government interventions may be ineffective, have unintended outcomes, or be left barely articulated. Yet the place of the middle classes as embodying national success, stability and modernity has taken on the power of common sense. Modern states have long…
Fluctuating formality
One of Malinowski's legacies was a sensitivity to the ways institutions unevenly shape lives and relationships. Taking his lead, this article develops an approach to the formal economy, combining, sharpening, and extending theories of state and market infrastructures in political and economic anthropology. Focusing on urban South Africa, it examines property inheritance among the black majority previously excluded from property rights. As a lens …
Recognising the family house
In South Africa, popular notions of the township family house derive from an interplay of customary norms and the racialised history of administration and urban government – particularly exclusion from urban property rights. They also represent an insistence on the materialisation of kinship through fixed property, and on the home as transcending individual ownership or market asset. Focusing on the metropolitan area of South Gauteng, this paper …
Making workers real
Documents are central to the infrastructure through which formal workforces are constituted. They thus offer a privileged vantage point onto how formality is asserted and experienced as real. On the Zimbabwean-South African border, where formality is a plural and uneven patchwork of "formalizations," thousands of migrants are employed on export-oriented commercial farms. Connections between state institutions and workplaces are regulatory spotlig…
The dynamics of dependence
Homeownership, Legal Administration, And The Uncertainties Of Inheritance In South Africa’s Townships
Expanded homeownership in Johannesburg’s townships offered the prospect of post-apartheid formal inclusion. Yet allocation of title to former rental homes has been characterized by a profound lack of normative consensus regarding ownership or inheritance. In bitter disputes over houses, appeals to law jostle and interweave with claims in a customary register. In much regional scholarship, normative pluralism provides a point of departure for unde…
Creature of statute
South Africa's Master of the High Court administers property inheritance. Described as a 'creature of statute', and staffed by legally trained officials, the law takes centre-stage. Focusing on Johannesburg, the Master's biggest and busiest branch, this article examines how law is performed in bureaucratic encounters, and how this shapes the everyday relations that make legal bureaucrats as middle-class professionals. Middle-class status is perfo…
Transcending the Economic
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Camaraderie and its Discontents
As a result of Zimbabwe's economic troubles and displacement, the Zimbabwean workforces on South Africa's border farms display a heightening diversity of regional origins, languages, ages, ethnicities and class histories. This article asks what happens to class consciousness under such conditions. It does so by exploring how male fruit pickers on one particular farm interpret the nexus of class, ethnicity and masculinity. It illustrates how migra…
Waged Entrepreneurs, Policed Informality
Keen to show the fluidity of border areas, and the limits of state control, much anthropological scholarship on borders highlights arrangements, activities and opportunities that pass beneath the official radar. But while such a clandestine focus casts border dwellers as preoccupied with resisting state regulation, this article shows how Zimbabwean-South African border dwellers make the most of their location by beingvisibleto state officials, as…
The dynamics of dependence
Producing permanence
What does it mean to be 'permanent' in an increasingly flexible world of work? On the Zimbabwean-South African border, white farmers guard against risk by investing in portfolios of estates and emphasizing their mobility. But the farms rely on core black workforces of resident 'general workers', known as mapermanent. The lives of mapermanent embody temporal contradictions in South African agriculture. Work regimes depend on arrangements establish…
The Citi Money Gallery, British Museum
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The sociality of the wage
While wage labour and money have received much anthropological attention, the same cannot be said of wages themselves - actual banknotes and coins distributed in workforces. This article traces wages' social productivity among farm workers on the Zimbabwean-South African border. In this migrant-labour setting, money's form matters. Because currency objects are physically the same, it is difficult for workers to store them in an insecure environme…
Transcending the Economic
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Zimbabwe's Migrants and South Africa's Border Farms
During the Zimbabwean crisis, millions crossed through the apartheid-era border fence, searching for ways to make ends meet. Maxim Bolt explores the lives of Zimbabwean migrant labourers, of settled black farm workers and their dependants, and of white farmers and managers, as they intersect on the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa. Focusing on one farm, this book investigates the role of a hub of wage labour in a place of crisis. A close …
Accidental Neoliberalism and the Performance of Management
South Africa’s export farms have shifted from racialised paternalism to corporate managerialism. But how have workforce dynamics changed? This article offers an ethnographic perspective on agriculture on the transient Zimbabwean border. An ‘actor-centred’ approach examines the causes and extent of transformation. Who furthers managerial logics? Why? With what effects? White farmers emphasise impersonal, rationalised business for diverse reasons. …
Introduction
This introductory article explores the transformative potential of global connections for African workers. It challenges recent claims that African workers have become functionally irrelevant to the global economy by examining the shift of global demand for African workers from formal to increasingly informalised labour arrangements, mediated by social enterprises, labour brokers and graduate entrepreneurs. Focusing on global employment connectio…
Introduction
struggles are not unique to South Africa.Yet the centrality of violence to South Africa's labour arrangements -both underpinning and feeding off them -is a striking feature of the country's history. 4 The 'precarious liberation' 5 of post-apartheid South Africa has produced its own vulnerabilities and frustrations, giving way to a new era of protest and claim-making.At the same time, Marikana focuses attention not only on the forms of violence an…
Mediated Paternalism and Violent Incorporation
Paternalism and violence on South African farms have been famously intertwined. In a kinship idiom, fatherly white farmers confer 'gifts' on black workers, their 'people'. This discretion maintains the conditions for racialised violence. But, on the Zimbabwean-South African border, mass-migration and globalised agriculture give paternalism and violence new significance. If white extra-legal violence was previously key to maintaining racialised, h…
Making workers real
Documents are central to the infrastructure through which formal workforces are constituted. They thus offer a privileged vantage point onto how formality is asserted and experienced as real. On the Zimbabwean-South African border, where formality is a plural and uneven patchwork of "formalizations," thousands of migrants are employed on export-oriented commercial farms. Connections between state institutions and workplaces are regulatory spotlig…
Becoming and unbecoming farm workers in Southern Africa
More than most forms of employment in Southern Africa, farm work seems to evoke the past. Recent events, however, have foregrounded global integration and cost-cutting casualisation as much as plantation-style racialised hierarchies. Legacies of farmer paternalism, themselves shaped by workers' on-site residence, have inflected changes in agriculture. But these changes invite fresh investigation of what we mean by "farm workers," as a stereotyped…
Globalization, Economic Inclusion and African Workers
Recognising the family house
In South Africa, popular notions of the township family house derive from an interplay of customary norms and the racialised history of administration and urban government – particularly exclusion from urban property rights. They also represent an insistence on the materialisation of kinship through fixed property, and on the home as transcending individual ownership or market asset. Focusing on the metropolitan area of South Gauteng, this paper …
Homeownership, Legal Administration, And The Uncertainties Of Inheritance In South Africa’s Townships
Expanded homeownership in Johannesburg’s townships offered the prospect of post-apartheid formal inclusion. Yet allocation of title to former rental homes has been characterized by a profound lack of normative consensus regarding ownership or inheritance. In bitter disputes over houses, appeals to law jostle and interweave with claims in a customary register. In much regional scholarship, normative pluralism provides a point of departure for unde…
Fluctuating formality
One of Malinowski's legacies was a sensitivity to the ways institutions unevenly shape lives and relationships. Taking his lead, this article develops an approach to the formal economy, combining, sharpening, and extending theories of state and market infrastructures in political and economic anthropology. Focusing on urban South Africa, it examines property inheritance among the black majority previously excluded from property rights. As a lens …
Creature of statute
South Africa's Master of the High Court administers property inheritance. Described as a 'creature of statute', and staffed by legally trained officials, the law takes centre-stage. Focusing on Johannesburg, the Master's biggest and busiest branch, this article examines how law is performed in bureaucratic encounters, and how this shapes the everyday relations that make legal bureaucrats as middle-class professionals. Middle-class status is perfo…
Engineering the middle classes
The 'middle class' has become the subject of euphoric narratives of growth and improving standards of living around the globe, and the object of government interventions and social engineering. Government interventions may be ineffective, have unintended outcomes, or be left barely articulated. Yet the place of the middle classes as embodying national success, stability and modernity has taken on the power of common sense. Modern states have long…
Bringing Formalisation ‘to the People’
In matters of inheritance, post-apartheid transformation has meant extending formal administrative arrangements previously for a privileged minority to all South Africans. That formalisation is hampered by the distance between popular ideas of proper inheritance and formal intestate succession rules, exacerbated by a confusing system. Yet a wide range of legal practitioners see the formalisation of inheritance as increasing popular access in the …
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