Julia Hornberger
Biographic Data
| ID | 129818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Hornberger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Hornberger |
| SIGNATURE | HORNBERGER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4396-8516 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Gospel of Fakes
Police across the world are increasingly asked to join the fight against fakes that a large and robust global web of intellectual property (IP) regulations has established. But how do already over-stretched police come to believe in this fight and devote scarce resources to it? To answer this, I examine the peculiar space of the IP conference, and the force of persuasion it delivers. Conferences matter because they transform abstract IP policy in…
Police and Policing
Policing, perhaps more than any modern institution, has become the subject of intense political contestation. Police killings have sparked clashes in the public sphere and in the streets over the role of policing in society in diverse places such as the United States, Eswatini, Brazil, France, Hong Kong, and Iran. At the same time, policing from the vantage point of policymakers is often taken as a straightforward way of reordering society, of pu…
Fake-talk as Concept and Method
In a world seemingly awash with fakes-or at least accusations of fake-ness-it is not only difficult to discern what is 'real' but also to know what to make of such a proliferation of worries about fakes. In this article, a manifesto of sorts for the Special Section, we outline how the problem of 'fake drugs' in particular allows us to understand the phenomenon of fakes in general. We introduce the conceptual and methodological tool of 'fake-talk'…
The Long Shadow of Fake Drugs and the Social Lives of Fake-ness
Introduction to the Special Section 'The Long Shadow of Fake Drugs and the Social Lives of Fake-ness', guest edited by Sarah Hodges and Julia Hornberger
Fake-talk and the Spaza Shop
At the end of August 2018, a controversy erupted in South Africa. Accusations of potentially poisonous 'fake food' had been circulating on social media for a month or so, and by early September reports were common on South African news programmes. Accusations fell at the door of foreign-run spaza shops (convenience stores), some of which were looted and their shopkeepers harmed. Many commentators read these events as another outbreak of the xenop…
Confinement, Punishment and Prisons in Africa
Confinement, Punishment and Prisons in Africa
Confinement Punishment and Prisons in Africa
Policing the Pandemic in South Africa
Who is the fake one now? Questions of quackery, worldliness and legitimacy
This paper shows how in the past quackery was seen as a problem of remoteness and isolation while today it is global connects which provide the nourishing grounds for it. It looks at ‘Dr Elsie’ from rural Bushbuckridge, South Africa who uses a Quantum Resonance Magnetic Analysis Machine as a diagnostic tool to prescribe Chinese supplements. The paper describes how the practicing ‘doctor’ draws approval and a sense of legitimate professionalism fr…
From Drug Safety to Drug Security
The counterfeiting of medication is increasingly seen as a major threat to health, especially in the light of both the everyday reliance on and a broadening of world-wide access to pharmaceuticals. Exaggerated or real, this threat has inaugurated, this article argues, a shift from a drug safety regime to a drug security regime that governs the flow of pharmaceuticals and brings together markets, police, and health actors in new ways. This entails…
A Ritual of Corruption
Based on rich oral and written narratives by the students of my third-year class on the anthropology of the state, this article discusses the changing practical and affective relationship of young middle-class people with the South African state. The article centers around how both black and white middle-class students have similar experiences of not being able to pass their drivers' license test without being confronted with paying a bribe. I ar…
The Belly of the Police
This chapter adopts a nuanced view of accusation of African police of being corrupt, particularly with regards to what is often called ‘petty corruption’. Entitled ‘The Belly of the Police’, this chapter takes Jean-François Bayart’s metaphor of the stomach seriously and argues that giving food to police officers is a serious form of corruption, as it creates reciprocal obligations that are more meaningful than the exchange of money. Food fundamen…
Two/ Complicity
From General to Commissioner to General—On the Popular State of Policing in South Africa
Less than two decades after the end of apartheid, South Africa is witnessing a range of policy interventions that almost iconoclastically challenge the premises of democratic governance. Police military ranks have been reintroduced and an exemplary postapartheid law governing the use of lethal force has also been amended in favor of police discretion. Simultaneously, however, community policing, a benchmark for democratic policing, is being rolle…
Policing and Human Rights
Policing and Human Rights analyses the implementation of human rights standards, tracing them from the nodal points of their production in Geneva, through the board rooms of national police management and training facilities, to the streets of downtown Johannesburg. This book deals with how the unprecedented influence of human rights, combined with the inability by police officers to ‘live up’ to international standards, has created a range of po…
Human Rights and Policing
The juncture of human rights and policing is a relatively recent field of scholarship. It tends to explain the relationship between policing and human rights as one of exigency and necessity, culminating in the idea of police as human rights defenders. An ethnographically rich scholarship on policing has emerged both as a critical response to these assumptions and out of an awareness of the impossible but nevertheless central role that policing h…
My police - your police
Maman bat papa
Cet article analyse la façon dont les relations entre la population et la police se sont reconfigurées à la suite de l'application de la nouvelle loi sur la violence domestique dans le township métis de Westbury, en Afrique du Sud. Les citoyens se sont approprié les efforts du gouvernement qui visaient à donner le pouvoir aux communautés par une législation progressive, et correspondaient aux conceptions locales de règlement des conflits domestiq…
From General to Commissioner to General—On the Popular State of Policing in South Africa
Less than two decades after the end of apartheid, South Africa is witnessing a range of policy interventions that almost iconoclastically challenge the premises of democratic governance. Police military ranks have been reintroduced and an exemplary postapartheid law governing the use of lethal force has also been amended in favor of police discretion. Simultaneously, however, community policing, a benchmark for democratic policing, is being rolle…
My police - your police
Human Rights and Policing
The juncture of human rights and policing is a relatively recent field of scholarship. It tends to explain the relationship between policing and human rights as one of exigency and necessity, culminating in the idea of police as human rights defenders. An ethnographically rich scholarship on policing has emerged both as a critical response to these assumptions and out of an awareness of the impossible but nevertheless central role that policing h…
A Ritual of Corruption
Based on rich oral and written narratives by the students of my third-year class on the anthropology of the state, this article discusses the changing practical and affective relationship of young middle-class people with the South African state. The article centers around how both black and white middle-class students have similar experiences of not being able to pass their drivers' license test without being confronted with paying a bribe. I ar…
From Drug Safety to Drug Security
The counterfeiting of medication is increasingly seen as a major threat to health, especially in the light of both the everyday reliance on and a broadening of world-wide access to pharmaceuticals. Exaggerated or real, this threat has inaugurated, this article argues, a shift from a drug safety regime to a drug security regime that governs the flow of pharmaceuticals and brings together markets, police, and health actors in new ways. This entails…
Maman bat papa
Cet article analyse la façon dont les relations entre la population et la police se sont reconfigurées à la suite de l'application de la nouvelle loi sur la violence domestique dans le township métis de Westbury, en Afrique du Sud. Les citoyens se sont approprié les efforts du gouvernement qui visaient à donner le pouvoir aux communautés par une législation progressive, et correspondaient aux conceptions locales de règlement des conflits domestiq…
Fake-talk as Concept and Method
In a world seemingly awash with fakes-or at least accusations of fake-ness-it is not only difficult to discern what is 'real' but also to know what to make of such a proliferation of worries about fakes. In this article, a manifesto of sorts for the Special Section, we outline how the problem of 'fake drugs' in particular allows us to understand the phenomenon of fakes in general. We introduce the conceptual and methodological tool of 'fake-talk'…
Fake-talk and the Spaza Shop
At the end of August 2018, a controversy erupted in South Africa. Accusations of potentially poisonous 'fake food' had been circulating on social media for a month or so, and by early September reports were common on South African news programmes. Accusations fell at the door of foreign-run spaza shops (convenience stores), some of which were looted and their shopkeepers harmed. Many commentators read these events as another outbreak of the xenop…
Maman bat papa
Cet article analyse la façon dont les relations entre la population et la police se sont reconfigurées à la suite de l'application de la nouvelle loi sur la violence domestique dans le township métis de Westbury, en Afrique du Sud. Les citoyens se sont approprié les efforts du gouvernement qui visaient à donner le pouvoir aux communautés par une législation progressive, et correspondaient aux conceptions locales de règlement des conflits domestiq…
My police - your police
Human Rights and Policing
The juncture of human rights and policing is a relatively recent field of scholarship. It tends to explain the relationship between policing and human rights as one of exigency and necessity, culminating in the idea of police as human rights defenders. An ethnographically rich scholarship on policing has emerged both as a critical response to these assumptions and out of an awareness of the impossible but nevertheless central role that policing h…
Policing and Human Rights
Policing and Human Rights analyses the implementation of human rights standards, tracing them from the nodal points of their production in Geneva, through the board rooms of national police management and training facilities, to the streets of downtown Johannesburg. This book deals with how the unprecedented influence of human rights, combined with the inability by police officers to ‘live up’ to international standards, has created a range of po…
From General to Commissioner to General—On the Popular State of Policing in South Africa
Less than two decades after the end of apartheid, South Africa is witnessing a range of policy interventions that almost iconoclastically challenge the premises of democratic governance. Police military ranks have been reintroduced and an exemplary postapartheid law governing the use of lethal force has also been amended in favor of police discretion. Simultaneously, however, community policing, a benchmark for democratic policing, is being rolle…
The Belly of the Police
This chapter adopts a nuanced view of accusation of African police of being corrupt, particularly with regards to what is often called ‘petty corruption’. Entitled ‘The Belly of the Police’, this chapter takes Jean-François Bayart’s metaphor of the stomach seriously and argues that giving food to police officers is a serious form of corruption, as it creates reciprocal obligations that are more meaningful than the exchange of money. Food fundamen…
Two/ Complicity
From Drug Safety to Drug Security
The counterfeiting of medication is increasingly seen as a major threat to health, especially in the light of both the everyday reliance on and a broadening of world-wide access to pharmaceuticals. Exaggerated or real, this threat has inaugurated, this article argues, a shift from a drug safety regime to a drug security regime that governs the flow of pharmaceuticals and brings together markets, police, and health actors in new ways. This entails…
A Ritual of Corruption
Based on rich oral and written narratives by the students of my third-year class on the anthropology of the state, this article discusses the changing practical and affective relationship of young middle-class people with the South African state. The article centers around how both black and white middle-class students have similar experiences of not being able to pass their drivers' license test without being confronted with paying a bribe. I ar…
Who is the fake one now? Questions of quackery, worldliness and legitimacy
This paper shows how in the past quackery was seen as a problem of remoteness and isolation while today it is global connects which provide the nourishing grounds for it. It looks at ‘Dr Elsie’ from rural Bushbuckridge, South Africa who uses a Quantum Resonance Magnetic Analysis Machine as a diagnostic tool to prescribe Chinese supplements. The paper describes how the practicing ‘doctor’ draws approval and a sense of legitimate professionalism fr…
Confinement, Punishment and Prisons in Africa
Confinement, Punishment and Prisons in Africa
Confinement Punishment and Prisons in Africa
Policing the Pandemic in South Africa
Police and Policing
Policing, perhaps more than any modern institution, has become the subject of intense political contestation. Police killings have sparked clashes in the public sphere and in the streets over the role of policing in society in diverse places such as the United States, Eswatini, Brazil, France, Hong Kong, and Iran. At the same time, policing from the vantage point of policymakers is often taken as a straightforward way of reordering society, of pu…
Fake-talk as Concept and Method
In a world seemingly awash with fakes-or at least accusations of fake-ness-it is not only difficult to discern what is 'real' but also to know what to make of such a proliferation of worries about fakes. In this article, a manifesto of sorts for the Special Section, we outline how the problem of 'fake drugs' in particular allows us to understand the phenomenon of fakes in general. We introduce the conceptual and methodological tool of 'fake-talk'…
The Long Shadow of Fake Drugs and the Social Lives of Fake-ness
Introduction to the Special Section 'The Long Shadow of Fake Drugs and the Social Lives of Fake-ness', guest edited by Sarah Hodges and Julia Hornberger
Fake-talk and the Spaza Shop
At the end of August 2018, a controversy erupted in South Africa. Accusations of potentially poisonous 'fake food' had been circulating on social media for a month or so, and by early September reports were common on South African news programmes. Accusations fell at the door of foreign-run spaza shops (convenience stores), some of which were looted and their shopkeepers harmed. Many commentators read these events as another outbreak of the xenop…
The Gospel of Fakes
Police across the world are increasingly asked to join the fight against fakes that a large and robust global web of intellectual property (IP) regulations has established. But how do already over-stretched police come to believe in this fight and devote scarce resources to it? To answer this, I examine the peculiar space of the IP conference, and the force of persuasion it delivers. Conferences matter because they transform abstract IP policy in…
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