Patricia Spears Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 1110914 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Spears Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia Spears |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES P S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9512-7244 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Contested visions of sustainable development in conflicts over renewable energy, land, and human rights
The so-called ‘green shift’ poses dilemmas in developing sustainable sources of energy while ensuring the respect and protection of the rights of affected communities. The article seeks to advance understanding of how prevailing conceptualisations of Sustainable Development – as formulated in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – are constructed and adopted at different scales and are implicated in and shape struggles over land and enviro…
Somatic Ritual Poem (#1)
Somatic Ritual Poem (#1)The Mapping Patricia Spears Jones (bio) Hub encircledLines—once surveyedAtop the farmed landOnce hunting, resting,Playing grounds for the LenapeThen Dutch gentle rousersMonied, profit seekingAll landed here. Give wayTo church bells, dark pewsGlassed windows brilliantly coloredHuge tree branches felledSettlers houses builtBurned downBuilt againRebuilt, profit making,Bricks arrive.And ex-slaves are forbiddenTo sit where they…
Nairobi
This chapter charts some of the key characteristics of Nairobi County, particularly those of development and governance that are directly relevant for how we may imagine the capital as a city of politics. The aim is, first, to provide an overview of the key issues that have an important bearing on contemporary politics, such as the historical geography of the capital’s divided urban areas and the enduring politics of the majority’s exclusion thro…
Security beyond the men
Security issues imbricate a wide range of fears and agendas in cities of the global North and South. Everyday life experiences in informal settlements reflect, however, not only residents’ urgent need for enhanced security but that the state is unable (and often unwilling) to provide it. Because approaches are dominated overwhelmingly by a focus on young men, our article foregrounds the unseen yet important aspect of security provision: the every…
Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance
Since the late 1990s – and 2000s in particular – socioeconomic rights (ESCR) have gained rapid momentum, breaking dynamic new ground in expanding the field of human rights theory and practice. Not
Only the people can defend this struggle
Though a perennial problem in postcolonial Kenya, extrajudicial executions (EJE) show few signs of ending and in recent years are even accelerating amongst young men in informal settlements. Avenues for legal, institutional and civil society redress, nominally expanded in recent years, display an ongoing tendency towards disconnection from the grassroots. A case study from Mathare, Nairobi, seeks explanations for the lack of urgency in addressing…
Jayne Cortez
What kind of hell is this!' Understanding the Mungiki movement's power of mobilisation
There is a flourishing of collective actors such as vigilante groups, militias and gangs that could be termed 'uncivil society'. These actors often have a 'Janus faced' nature and slide between roles as legitimate providers of social services and oppressors of communities. A potent channel for the articulation of grievances of underprivileged youths in particular, due to their illegality or militancy these actors are often disqualified from parti…
Powering up the people? The politics of indigenous rights implementation
The article looks at the role of International Labour Organisation Convention 169 (ILO 169) in struggles for indigenous rights. Nepal is a particularly apposite example, where ILO 169 is currently being invoked and contested in a process of political and state restructuring. The article focuses upon one sector, namely, water resources pertaining to hydroelectric power (HEP) development, with data based upon interviews with key stakeholders at bot…
Mind the gap
Ai
Aids Treatment and Human Rights in Context
The book poses and explores questions about the roles of antiretroviral treatment and human rights in the global AIDS epidemic. A novel approach is used, which places treatment and human rights in the
Impact of New Technologies and Globalization on Literature, Publishing, and Distribution in the African Diaspora
(2008). Impact of New Technologies and Globalization on Literature, Publishing, and Distribution in the African Diaspora. The Black Scholar: Vol. 38, Yari Yari Pamberi International Conference: Black Women Writers Dissect Globalization, pp. 21-23
Poetry
A Test of Governance
When ‘development’ devastates
If globalisation is the mighty tremor shaking the landscape of the ‘project of development’, then, in certain regions of the world, hiv/aids is surely its epicentre. Nonetheless, for all the burden of the disease, Western donor policy on hiv/aids still remains largely silent about the provision of anti-retroviral treatment. This paper seeks explanations for this pervasive medical neglect and donor preference for prevention programmes over treatme…
Urban Regeneration's Poisoned Chalice
The meteoric rise of 'participation' in urban policy is premised upon the supposed benefits it brings in terms of added project 'efficiency', 'sustainability' and even 'empowerment' of participants. Yet, even as participation appears to reach its very zenith, it comes under heightened criticism from a growing chorus of observers. Some critics have suggested, for example, that 'participation', and contemporary urban regeneration's preferred instit…
The etiquette of state-building and modernisation in dependent states
"Shack with Vines"
© Patricia Spears Jones, October 1996; "Shack With Vines" is the title of a painting by African-American artist Beverly Buchanan
Wearing My Red Silk Chinese Jacket
Callaloo - Volume 24, Number 3, Summer 2001
Why is it alright to do development ‘over there’ but not ‘here’? Changing vocabularies and common strategies of inclusion across the ‘First’ and ‘Third’ Worlds
The basic assumptions as regards the nature and requirements of a capital city' identity, modernization and urban form at Mafikeng's margins
With their acute spatial dislocation and racial polarization, South African cities have always offered a great deal of interest for the specialist and non-specialist alike. Arguably, however, this racial 'uniqueness' has in fact burdened and restricted analysis of these cities. Alternative insights are needed to fill out the wider picture of urban diversity in South Africa, particularly variants of the apartheid city within the neglected bantusta…
From 'Nationhood' to Regionalism to the North West Province
Although majority rule has been achieved in South Africa, the final years of one ‘independent’ bantustan, namely Bophuthatswana, and their aftermath, illustrate the problems of creating a unified identity. Ironically, in the death throes of apartheid, a Pandora's box of ethnic and regionalist claims was opened. Although these claims were tied to the maintenance of privileges gained by a tiny minority created through apartheid policy, Bophuthatswa…
To Come Together for Progress
Apartheid's bantustans reflected extreme forms of territorial fragmentation and (neo)colonially-derived dependency. Whilst the bantustans have been dismantled, paradoxically, the imagery of dependency which they came to symbolize has been used recently to characterize other 'nation-building' situations. In order to provide a more thorough account of the complexity of bantustan nation-building, background to its subsequent collapse and ambiguous l…
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Patricia Spears Jones (bio) There are many parched lips as the cup of human kindness empties. So little milk, this year the main course consists of boiled greens, no salt, and a tantalizing meat. It stinks. Fat flies link a pyramid above the rotting flesh. On each of the round clothed tables a bouquet of silk roses plucked by the hands of women working in El Salvador, Sri Lanka, the Cameroons. I will become a vegetarian. What of this…
Urban Regeneration's Poisoned Chalice
The meteoric rise of 'participation' in urban policy is premised upon the supposed benefits it brings in terms of added project 'efficiency', 'sustainability' and even 'empowerment' of participants. Yet, even as participation appears to reach its very zenith, it comes under heightened criticism from a growing chorus of observers. Some critics have suggested, for example, that 'participation', and contemporary urban regeneration's preferred instit…
Only the people can defend this struggle
Though a perennial problem in postcolonial Kenya, extrajudicial executions (EJE) show few signs of ending and in recent years are even accelerating amongst young men in informal settlements. Avenues for legal, institutional and civil society redress, nominally expanded in recent years, display an ongoing tendency towards disconnection from the grassroots. A case study from Mathare, Nairobi, seeks explanations for the lack of urgency in addressing…
Why is it alright to do development ‘over there’ but not ‘here’? Changing vocabularies and common strategies of inclusion across the ‘First’ and ‘Third’ Worlds
Mind the gap
A Test of Governance
When ‘development’ devastates
If globalisation is the mighty tremor shaking the landscape of the ‘project of development’, then, in certain regions of the world, hiv/aids is surely its epicentre. Nonetheless, for all the burden of the disease, Western donor policy on hiv/aids still remains largely silent about the provision of anti-retroviral treatment. This paper seeks explanations for this pervasive medical neglect and donor preference for prevention programmes over treatme…
To Come Together for Progress
Apartheid's bantustans reflected extreme forms of territorial fragmentation and (neo)colonially-derived dependency. Whilst the bantustans have been dismantled, paradoxically, the imagery of dependency which they came to symbolize has been used recently to characterize other 'nation-building' situations. In order to provide a more thorough account of the complexity of bantustan nation-building, background to its subsequent collapse and ambiguous l…
Security beyond the men
Security issues imbricate a wide range of fears and agendas in cities of the global North and South. Everyday life experiences in informal settlements reflect, however, not only residents’ urgent need for enhanced security but that the state is unable (and often unwilling) to provide it. Because approaches are dominated overwhelmingly by a focus on young men, our article foregrounds the unseen yet important aspect of security provision: the every…
What kind of hell is this!' Understanding the Mungiki movement's power of mobilisation
There is a flourishing of collective actors such as vigilante groups, militias and gangs that could be termed 'uncivil society'. These actors often have a 'Janus faced' nature and slide between roles as legitimate providers of social services and oppressors of communities. A potent channel for the articulation of grievances of underprivileged youths in particular, due to their illegality or militancy these actors are often disqualified from parti…
Powering up the people? The politics of indigenous rights implementation
The article looks at the role of International Labour Organisation Convention 169 (ILO 169) in struggles for indigenous rights. Nepal is a particularly apposite example, where ILO 169 is currently being invoked and contested in a process of political and state restructuring. The article focuses upon one sector, namely, water resources pertaining to hydroelectric power (HEP) development, with data based upon interviews with key stakeholders at bot…
The etiquette of state-building and modernisation in dependent states
From 'Nationhood' to Regionalism to the North West Province
Although majority rule has been achieved in South Africa, the final years of one ‘independent’ bantustan, namely Bophuthatswana, and their aftermath, illustrate the problems of creating a unified identity. Ironically, in the death throes of apartheid, a Pandora's box of ethnic and regionalist claims was opened. Although these claims were tied to the maintenance of privileges gained by a tiny minority created through apartheid policy, Bophuthatswa…
Contested visions of sustainable development in conflicts over renewable energy, land, and human rights
The so-called ‘green shift’ poses dilemmas in developing sustainable sources of energy while ensuring the respect and protection of the rights of affected communities. The article seeks to advance understanding of how prevailing conceptualisations of Sustainable Development – as formulated in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – are constructed and adopted at different scales and are implicated in and shape struggles over land and enviro…
The basic assumptions as regards the nature and requirements of a capital city' identity, modernization and urban form at Mafikeng's margins
With their acute spatial dislocation and racial polarization, South African cities have always offered a great deal of interest for the specialist and non-specialist alike. Arguably, however, this racial 'uniqueness' has in fact burdened and restricted analysis of these cities. Alternative insights are needed to fill out the wider picture of urban diversity in South Africa, particularly variants of the apartheid city within the neglected bantusta…
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Patricia Spears Jones (bio) There are many parched lips as the cup of human kindness empties. So little milk, this year the main course consists of boiled greens, no salt, and a tantalizing meat. It stinks. Fat flies link a pyramid above the rotting flesh. On each of the round clothed tables a bouquet of silk roses plucked by the hands of women working in El Salvador, Sri Lanka, the Cameroons. I will become a vegetarian. What of this…
All Saints Day
All Saints Day Patricia Spears Jones (bio) Diamanda Galas screams sings rage upon love as winter forms drop by cooling drop. Summer past, perfect cool of morning walks through the park’s severe architecture. Earlier, spring in the Blue Ridge pastures and hill bejeweled with violets, dogwoods, the Judas Tree softens the bitter taste of recipes for worming, for worry, for the death of masters, overseers, the uniformed patriarchs of a history astoni…
Saltimbanque
Callaloo - Volume 19, Number 4, Fall 1996
From 'Nationhood' to Regionalism to the North West Province
Although majority rule has been achieved in South Africa, the final years of one ‘independent’ bantustan, namely Bophuthatswana, and their aftermath, illustrate the problems of creating a unified identity. Ironically, in the death throes of apartheid, a Pandora's box of ethnic and regionalist claims was opened. Although these claims were tied to the maintenance of privileges gained by a tiny minority created through apartheid policy, Bophuthatswa…
To Come Together for Progress
Apartheid's bantustans reflected extreme forms of territorial fragmentation and (neo)colonially-derived dependency. Whilst the bantustans have been dismantled, paradoxically, the imagery of dependency which they came to symbolize has been used recently to characterize other 'nation-building' situations. In order to provide a more thorough account of the complexity of bantustan nation-building, background to its subsequent collapse and ambiguous l…
Why is it alright to do development ‘over there’ but not ‘here’? Changing vocabularies and common strategies of inclusion across the ‘First’ and ‘Third’ Worlds
The basic assumptions as regards the nature and requirements of a capital city' identity, modernization and urban form at Mafikeng's margins
With their acute spatial dislocation and racial polarization, South African cities have always offered a great deal of interest for the specialist and non-specialist alike. Arguably, however, this racial 'uniqueness' has in fact burdened and restricted analysis of these cities. Alternative insights are needed to fill out the wider picture of urban diversity in South Africa, particularly variants of the apartheid city within the neglected bantusta…
"Shack with Vines"
© Patricia Spears Jones, October 1996; "Shack With Vines" is the title of a painting by African-American artist Beverly Buchanan
Wearing My Red Silk Chinese Jacket
Callaloo - Volume 24, Number 3, Summer 2001
The etiquette of state-building and modernisation in dependent states
Urban Regeneration's Poisoned Chalice
The meteoric rise of 'participation' in urban policy is premised upon the supposed benefits it brings in terms of added project 'efficiency', 'sustainability' and even 'empowerment' of participants. Yet, even as participation appears to reach its very zenith, it comes under heightened criticism from a growing chorus of observers. Some critics have suggested, for example, that 'participation', and contemporary urban regeneration's preferred instit…
When ‘development’ devastates
If globalisation is the mighty tremor shaking the landscape of the ‘project of development’, then, in certain regions of the world, hiv/aids is surely its epicentre. Nonetheless, for all the burden of the disease, Western donor policy on hiv/aids still remains largely silent about the provision of anti-retroviral treatment. This paper seeks explanations for this pervasive medical neglect and donor preference for prevention programmes over treatme…
A Test of Governance
Impact of New Technologies and Globalization on Literature, Publishing, and Distribution in the African Diaspora
(2008). Impact of New Technologies and Globalization on Literature, Publishing, and Distribution in the African Diaspora. The Black Scholar: Vol. 38, Yari Yari Pamberi International Conference: Black Women Writers Dissect Globalization, pp. 21-23
Poetry
Aids Treatment and Human Rights in Context
The book poses and explores questions about the roles of antiretroviral treatment and human rights in the global AIDS epidemic. A novel approach is used, which places treatment and human rights in the
Ai
Powering up the people? The politics of indigenous rights implementation
The article looks at the role of International Labour Organisation Convention 169 (ILO 169) in struggles for indigenous rights. Nepal is a particularly apposite example, where ILO 169 is currently being invoked and contested in a process of political and state restructuring. The article focuses upon one sector, namely, water resources pertaining to hydroelectric power (HEP) development, with data based upon interviews with key stakeholders at bot…
Mind the gap
Jayne Cortez
What kind of hell is this!' Understanding the Mungiki movement's power of mobilisation
There is a flourishing of collective actors such as vigilante groups, militias and gangs that could be termed 'uncivil society'. These actors often have a 'Janus faced' nature and slide between roles as legitimate providers of social services and oppressors of communities. A potent channel for the articulation of grievances of underprivileged youths in particular, due to their illegality or militancy these actors are often disqualified from parti…
Only the people can defend this struggle
Though a perennial problem in postcolonial Kenya, extrajudicial executions (EJE) show few signs of ending and in recent years are even accelerating amongst young men in informal settlements. Avenues for legal, institutional and civil society redress, nominally expanded in recent years, display an ongoing tendency towards disconnection from the grassroots. A case study from Mathare, Nairobi, seeks explanations for the lack of urgency in addressing…
Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance
Since the late 1990s – and 2000s in particular – socioeconomic rights (ESCR) have gained rapid momentum, breaking dynamic new ground in expanding the field of human rights theory and practice. Not
Security beyond the men
Security issues imbricate a wide range of fears and agendas in cities of the global North and South. Everyday life experiences in informal settlements reflect, however, not only residents’ urgent need for enhanced security but that the state is unable (and often unwilling) to provide it. Because approaches are dominated overwhelmingly by a focus on young men, our article foregrounds the unseen yet important aspect of security provision: the every…
Nairobi
This chapter charts some of the key characteristics of Nairobi County, particularly those of development and governance that are directly relevant for how we may imagine the capital as a city of politics. The aim is, first, to provide an overview of the key issues that have an important bearing on contemporary politics, such as the historical geography of the capital’s divided urban areas and the enduring politics of the majority’s exclusion thro…
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