Imraan Coovadia
Biographic Data
| ID | 1252552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Imraan Coovadia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Imraan |
| FAMILY NAME | Coovadia |
| SIGNATURE | COOVADIA I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Director of the Writing Programme, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bound to Violence
This dialogue, recorded in 2021, explores the sound and feel of South-South political theory from the perspective of Southern Africa. The interlocutors discuss the question of violence and nonviolence in revolutionary change across generational divides. It centers the enduring place of spirit and ancestral voices in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Corruption
This article considers a case of cannibalism in South Africa during the presidency of Jacob Zuma. It compares corruption to a form of “political cannibalism” as practised in the ruling party and considers various post-colonial cultures of food and eating, including racially polarising forms of vegetarianism
An Interview with Rabai al-Madhoun
TheAzaanclock
In January, returning from her first haj, my mother brought back to Durban this miraculous fusion of technology and spiritual devotion (Hk Reg. Design No. 0501136. 4M002). With its beautiful electr
Stephen Watson (1954–2011)
Stephen Watson, the South African poet, short-story writer and essayist, was a mentor to many younger writers, and a friend, associated with the University of Cape Town, the city, and the province
Eternal grumblers’
The essay studies the uses of South African characters and motifs in V.S. Naipaul's fiction and non fiction
A Brief History of Pin-Making
Reduced to journalistic cliché in our own time, Adam Smith's writing made up an important part of the cultural competence of a late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century intellectual. The article follows the most important of the illustrations Smith used. It studies the variants of the pin factory, the key image of mass production, from Chamber's Cyclopaedia (1728) to its definitive incarnation in The Wealth of Nations and then as it saturates n…
Corruption
This article considers a case of cannibalism in South Africa during the presidency of Jacob Zuma. It compares corruption to a form of “political cannibalism” as practised in the ruling party and considers various post-colonial cultures of food and eating, including racially polarising forms of vegetarianism
Eternal grumblers’
The essay studies the uses of South African characters and motifs in V.S. Naipaul's fiction and non fiction
A Brief History of Pin-Making
Reduced to journalistic cliché in our own time, Adam Smith's writing made up an important part of the cultural competence of a late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century intellectual. The article follows the most important of the illustrations Smith used. It studies the variants of the pin factory, the key image of mass production, from Chamber's Cyclopaedia (1728) to its definitive incarnation in The Wealth of Nations and then as it saturates n…
Stephen Watson (1954–2011)
Stephen Watson, the South African poet, short-story writer and essayist, was a mentor to many younger writers, and a friend, associated with the University of Cape Town, the city, and the province
TheAzaanclock
In January, returning from her first haj, my mother brought back to Durban this miraculous fusion of technology and spiritual devotion (Hk Reg. Design No. 0501136. 4M002). With its beautiful electr
An Interview with Rabai al-Madhoun
Corruption
This article considers a case of cannibalism in South Africa during the presidency of Jacob Zuma. It compares corruption to a form of “political cannibalism” as practised in the ruling party and considers various post-colonial cultures of food and eating, including racially polarising forms of vegetarianism
Bound to Violence
This dialogue, recorded in 2021, explores the sound and feel of South-South political theory from the perspective of Southern Africa. The interlocutors discuss the question of violence and nonviolence in revolutionary change across generational divides. It centers the enduring place of spirit and ancestral voices in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Art (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · South African History and Culture (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Law (2 works)