Jonathan Cane
Biographic Data
| ID | 126160 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Cane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Cane |
| SIGNATURE | CANE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8735-5917 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Queer Notes and Forest Fragments
In this essay, the authors—two queer ecology researchers, ex-partners and collaborators from the Global South—reflect on their 2023 fieldwork in the long-running Forest Fragments Project set up in 1979 north of Manaus, in the Brazilian Amazon. This essay experiments with fragments as a form to foreground the formal nature of knowledge production, advancing form as a shape from which one may find directions as opposed to a secondary or merely aest…
Monsoon as method
This paper is a reflective discussion of the research method developed by a small research team over a 5-year period as it intra-acted with the south Asian monsoon in three south/southeast Asian cities. It reflects on how the team's practice was transformed from being research on or about the monsoon as a discrete unit of analysis, to research in the monsoon and with its agential materiality. The paper first outlines the theoretical resources fro…
Concrete Oceans
This article is concerned with an object called the “dolos,” a concrete coastal structure developed by the South African state at the height of apartheid, in 1963. A twisted H-shape with attenuating limbs, it is formally rather beautiful, exhibiting a kind of brutal elegance, and it has been successfully used in hydraulic engineering projects around the globe. It is, nevertheless, a relatively unremarkable invention. Even in its category of “coas…
The promises, poetics and politics of verticality in the really high African city
This article is an attempt to foreground considerations in African cities of three-dimensional urbanism, or what Eyal Weizman has called the ‘politics of verticality’. Through analysis of the work of three builder/artists the article resists a strain of persistent horizontality in African urban studies. The focus of this article is on three specific urban forms which are contested in interesting and provocative ways. The first, the Tower, in Lime…
Civilising Grass
Cruising queer, old Joburg
The article presents a queer reflection on the method of Walter Benjamin in Johannesburg, South Africa. Using a critical method of ephemera collection and collage, it offers a layered and provocative map of the city before the end of apartheid and at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. The notion of "cruising," an anachronistic theoretical mode, is applied to one iconic club, the Dungeon. Through archival research, oral histories with elder gay a…
Monsoon as method
This paper is a reflective discussion of the research method developed by a small research team over a 5-year period as it intra-acted with the south Asian monsoon in three south/southeast Asian cities. It reflects on how the team's practice was transformed from being research on or about the monsoon as a discrete unit of analysis, to research in the monsoon and with its agential materiality. The paper first outlines the theoretical resources fro…
The promises, poetics and politics of verticality in the really high African city
This article is an attempt to foreground considerations in African cities of three-dimensional urbanism, or what Eyal Weizman has called the ‘politics of verticality’. Through analysis of the work of three builder/artists the article resists a strain of persistent horizontality in African urban studies. The focus of this article is on three specific urban forms which are contested in interesting and provocative ways. The first, the Tower, in Lime…
Civilising Grass
Cruising queer, old Joburg
The article presents a queer reflection on the method of Walter Benjamin in Johannesburg, South Africa. Using a critical method of ephemera collection and collage, it offers a layered and provocative map of the city before the end of apartheid and at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. The notion of "cruising," an anachronistic theoretical mode, is applied to one iconic club, the Dungeon. Through archival research, oral histories with elder gay a…
Concrete Oceans
This article is concerned with an object called the “dolos,” a concrete coastal structure developed by the South African state at the height of apartheid, in 1963. A twisted H-shape with attenuating limbs, it is formally rather beautiful, exhibiting a kind of brutal elegance, and it has been successfully used in hydraulic engineering projects around the globe. It is, nevertheless, a relatively unremarkable invention. Even in its category of “coas…
The promises, poetics and politics of verticality in the really high African city
This article is an attempt to foreground considerations in African cities of three-dimensional urbanism, or what Eyal Weizman has called the ‘politics of verticality’. Through analysis of the work of three builder/artists the article resists a strain of persistent horizontality in African urban studies. The focus of this article is on three specific urban forms which are contested in interesting and provocative ways. The first, the Tower, in Lime…
Queer Notes and Forest Fragments
In this essay, the authors—two queer ecology researchers, ex-partners and collaborators from the Global South—reflect on their 2023 fieldwork in the long-running Forest Fragments Project set up in 1979 north of Manaus, in the Brazilian Amazon. This essay experiments with fragments as a form to foreground the formal nature of knowledge production, advancing form as a shape from which one may find directions as opposed to a secondary or merely aest…
Monsoon as method
This paper is a reflective discussion of the research method developed by a small research team over a 5-year period as it intra-acted with the south Asian monsoon in three south/southeast Asian cities. It reflects on how the team's practice was transformed from being research on or about the monsoon as a discrete unit of analysis, to research in the monsoon and with its agential materiality. The paper first outlines the theoretical resources fro…
Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (3 works) · Affordance (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)