Johan Geertsema
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 94917 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Johan Geertsema |
| NOMBRES | Johan |
| APELLIDO | Geertsema |
| FIRMA | GEERTSEMA J |
| AFILIACIONES | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6540-408X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Students as partners
The goal of this paper is to contribute to theorising the complex concept of students as partners (SaP). This is important because SaP has far-reaching implications for higher education, but as yet there appears to be insufficient understanding about what exactly partnership is, and what it can legitimately claim to achieve. ‘Partnership’ may not be best for describing situations where students work with academics, due to hierarchical differences…
Connecting academics’ disciplinary knowledge to their professional development as university teachers
Disciplinary knowledge lies at the heart of academic work. However, connecting academics’ disciplinary knowledge to their professional development as teachers has been a longstanding challenge for (research-intensive) universities. This is reflected in criticism of the practices that aim to support the professional development of university teachers. In order to create better connections, a deeper understanding is needed of how academics’ discipl…
A Companion to the Works of J. M. Coetzee
New essays providing critical views of Coetzee's major works for the scholar and the general reader
Fine Lines from the Box
Njabulo S. Ndebele. 2007. Fine Lines from the Box: Further Thoughts about Our Country . Houghton: Umuzi-Random House. 279pp. ISBN 9781415200377.
"A "Vast, Unmysterious Landscape
Pauline Smith’s short story “Desolation” (1930) and C.W. de Kiewiet’s A History of South Africa: Social and Economic (1941) evince a shared concern with “poor whites”. Moreover, both locate white poverty in the same barren landscape, that of the Karoo. However, while de Kiewiet refuses to see the Karoo as sublime, Smith deploys a version of the sublime that helps naturalize the position of Afrikaners by rendering the autochthonous inhabitants of …
White Natives? Dan Roodt, Afrikaner Identity and the Politics of the Sublime
The aesthetic of the sublime and its political effects have not been investigated extensively in postcolonial studies. In the case of South Africa, it has been deemed–following an influential argument by J.M. Coetzee–to have played a minor role. Yet the evocation of landscape as sublime is significant for understanding the complex processes of identity formation that are involved in particular instances of colonial settlement. This article pays a…
Ndebele, Fanon, agency and irony
This article critically considers the place of the figure of irony in the critical work of the prominent South African intellectual Njabulo Ndebele. It argues that irony forms an important but underrated part of Ndebele's critical project of the ‘rediscovery of the ordinary’, a project aimed at restoring the agency of the oppressed victims of apartheid in order to transcend an apartheid discourse fixated on essentialised categories of blackness a…
A PRAAG Spring
Homelessness, Irony and Suffering
Inventing innocence
Allochronism, the denial of the simultaneity of the ethnographic other with the representing subject and the consequent placing of that other in an other time, is investigated in this article with reference to Paul de Man's examination of the relation between symbol and allegory. Johannes Fabian's discussion of allochronism in terms of the spatialisation of time is related to De Man's conception of the symbol, after which the collusion of allochr…
Traductions’
Echoes and Ghosts
In one of the footnotes Kierkegaard added to his treatise on irony (1841) the old opposition between the cold north and the sunny south is deconstructed. This deconstruction is carried out by means of the echo: the Greek nymph Echo is called Bergmund or Zwergmund in the north; in the north Echo is a Troll. Echo is therefore echoed in the north as a Troll ‐ the happy Greek south and the cold Denmark are echoes of each other. The relationship betwe…
White Natives? Dan Roodt, Afrikaner Identity and the Politics of the Sublime
The aesthetic of the sublime and its political effects have not been investigated extensively in postcolonial studies. In the case of South Africa, it has been deemed–following an influential argument by J.M. Coetzee–to have played a minor role. Yet the evocation of landscape as sublime is significant for understanding the complex processes of identity formation that are involved in particular instances of colonial settlement. This article pays a…
Ndebele, Fanon, agency and irony
This article critically considers the place of the figure of irony in the critical work of the prominent South African intellectual Njabulo Ndebele. It argues that irony forms an important but underrated part of Ndebele's critical project of the ‘rediscovery of the ordinary’, a project aimed at restoring the agency of the oppressed victims of apartheid in order to transcend an apartheid discourse fixated on essentialised categories of blackness a…
Homelessness, Irony and Suffering
"A "Vast, Unmysterious Landscape
Pauline Smith’s short story “Desolation” (1930) and C.W. de Kiewiet’s A History of South Africa: Social and Economic (1941) evince a shared concern with “poor whites”. Moreover, both locate white poverty in the same barren landscape, that of the Karoo. However, while de Kiewiet refuses to see the Karoo as sublime, Smith deploys a version of the sublime that helps naturalize the position of Afrikaners by rendering the autochthonous inhabitants of …
Echoes and Ghosts
In one of the footnotes Kierkegaard added to his treatise on irony (1841) the old opposition between the cold north and the sunny south is deconstructed. This deconstruction is carried out by means of the echo: the Greek nymph Echo is called Bergmund or Zwergmund in the north; in the north Echo is a Troll. Echo is therefore echoed in the north as a Troll ‐ the happy Greek south and the cold Denmark are echoes of each other. The relationship betwe…
Traductions’
Inventing innocence
Allochronism, the denial of the simultaneity of the ethnographic other with the representing subject and the consequent placing of that other in an other time, is investigated in this article with reference to Paul de Man's examination of the relation between symbol and allegory. Johannes Fabian's discussion of allochronism in terms of the spatialisation of time is related to De Man's conception of the symbol, after which the collusion of allochr…
A PRAAG Spring
Homelessness, Irony and Suffering
Ndebele, Fanon, agency and irony
This article critically considers the place of the figure of irony in the critical work of the prominent South African intellectual Njabulo Ndebele. It argues that irony forms an important but underrated part of Ndebele's critical project of the ‘rediscovery of the ordinary’, a project aimed at restoring the agency of the oppressed victims of apartheid in order to transcend an apartheid discourse fixated on essentialised categories of blackness a…
White Natives? Dan Roodt, Afrikaner Identity and the Politics of the Sublime
The aesthetic of the sublime and its political effects have not been investigated extensively in postcolonial studies. In the case of South Africa, it has been deemed–following an influential argument by J.M. Coetzee–to have played a minor role. Yet the evocation of landscape as sublime is significant for understanding the complex processes of identity formation that are involved in particular instances of colonial settlement. This article pays a…
"A "Vast, Unmysterious Landscape
Pauline Smith’s short story “Desolation” (1930) and C.W. de Kiewiet’s A History of South Africa: Social and Economic (1941) evince a shared concern with “poor whites”. Moreover, both locate white poverty in the same barren landscape, that of the Karoo. However, while de Kiewiet refuses to see the Karoo as sublime, Smith deploys a version of the sublime that helps naturalize the position of Afrikaners by rendering the autochthonous inhabitants of …
Fine Lines from the Box
Njabulo S. Ndebele. 2007. Fine Lines from the Box: Further Thoughts about Our Country . Houghton: Umuzi-Random House. 279pp. ISBN 9781415200377.
A Companion to the Works of J. M. Coetzee
New essays providing critical views of Coetzee's major works for the scholar and the general reader
Connecting academics’ disciplinary knowledge to their professional development as university teachers
Disciplinary knowledge lies at the heart of academic work. However, connecting academics’ disciplinary knowledge to their professional development as teachers has been a longstanding challenge for (research-intensive) universities. This is reflected in criticism of the practices that aim to support the professional development of university teachers. In order to create better connections, a deeper understanding is needed of how academics’ discipl…
Students as partners
The goal of this paper is to contribute to theorising the complex concept of students as partners (SaP). This is important because SaP has far-reaching implications for higher education, but as yet there appears to be insufficient understanding about what exactly partnership is, and what it can legitimately claim to achieve. ‘Partnership’ may not be best for describing situations where students work with academics, due to hierarchical differences…
Art (8 obras) · History (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · South African History and Culture (6 obras) · Literature (5 obras) · Aesthetics (4 obras) · Philosophy (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Epistemology (3 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras)