Shannon Morreira
Biographic Data
| ID | 137652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shannon Morreira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shannon |
| FAMILY NAME | Morreira |
| SIGNATURE | MORREIRA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6591-4565 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
These are our stories: Children’s more-than-human encounters with migration in Global South and North contexts
This paper explores children’s encounters with migration in global contexts through storytelling. Children from two primary schools in Manchester, UK and Cape Town, South Africa, developed stories of self through object elicitation, poetry and self-made artefacts. The children had either directly or indirectly experienced migration across borders. We combined objects that were brought from home, drawings and annotations in exploring the significa…
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria
In January 2022, the World Council of Anthropological Associations Task Force "Making Anthropology Global" was formed, consisting of Gonzalo Díaz Crovetto, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, P.-j. Ezeh, Shannon Morreira, Yasmeen Arif, Chen Gang, Gordon Mathews (chairperson), and Takami Kuwayama, reporting on Chile, Norway, Nigeria, South Africa. India, China, Hong Kong, and Japan. The task force met via Zoom once a month during 2022 and early 2023, with ass…
Slow repair: Gender and restorative justice in Zimbabwe
This article reports on a ceremony gone awry at Kufunda Village, Zimbabwe, in which women had refused to follow a gendered cultural script of forgiveness and had instead released rather than slaughtered a chicken. They thus reinscribed old symbols with new meanings as a means of contesting patriarchy and beginning a slow process of restorative justice. Kufunda Village was set up as a direct response to conditions of postcolonial modernity in Zimb…
Away from the water and into the hills: On the Fieldwork Diary as Ethnographic Form
2020). Away from the water and into the hills: on the fieldwork diary as ethnographic form. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 48-50
Place and pedagogy: Using space and materiality in teaching social science in Southern Africa
This article responds to recent perspectives from the Global South calling for the decolonisation of universities. Drawing on examples from two post-independence universities in Southern Africa – Sol Plaatje University in South Africa, and Great Zimbabwe University in Zimbabwe – we examine pedagogic innovation in undergraduate social science teaching. In particular, we examine the use of space and materiality as teaching tools in social anthropol…
Confronting the complexities of decolonising curricula and pedagogy in higher education
Recent critiques voiced by students in both the Global South and North have turned attention to the ways in which higher education practices have been informed by, and continue to perpetuate, a series of assumptions that favour particular epistemological perspectives. Across the world, students have criticised universities for the content of their curricula, institutional cultures, and pedagogic practices that perpetuate the attainment gap and ex…
Mutualism Despite Ostensible Difference: HuShamwari, Kuhanyisana, and Conviviality Between Shona Zimbabweans and Tsonga South Africans in Giyani, South Africa
This ethnographic study explores forms of mutuality and conviviality between Shona migrants from Zimbabwe and Tsonga-speaking South Africans living in Giyani, South Africa. To analyse these forms of mutuality, we draw on Southern African concepts rather than more conventional development or migration theory. We explore ways in which the Shona concept of hushamwari (translated as 'friendship') and the commensurate xiTsonga category of kuhanyisana …
Accessing Powerful Knowledge: A Comparative Study of Two First Year Sociology Courses in a South African University
This paper presents a case study of two first year sociology courses run at an elite South African university in order to speak to student perspectives on the sociology curriculum. The paper provides a comparative analysis of the academic experiences of extended degree (ED) students registered on two first year courses, one of which drew on literature and sociological theory which was mainly Euro-American in origin, and the other of which attempt…
Steps Towards Decolonial Higher Education in Southern Africa? Epistemic Disobedience in the Humanities
In South African universities, a particular epistemic hierarchy exists within which African knowledge and resources are under-valued. This paper examines humanities courses that include content that deliberately aims to interrupt the existing knowledge hierarchies, through a qualitative analysis of spaces where African knowledge is granted importance. The paper provides a snapshot of the potentials for change in South African higher education tod…
Working with our grandparents' illusions: On colonial lineage and inheritance in Southern African anthropology
In the late 1950s my grandfather, Blair Ewing, a politician in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), was one of the last people to travel down the Zambezi River before the filling of Lake Kariba forever altered its route. His role was to persuade those people who had thus far resisted resettlement that the only options left for them were to move or to die. It was an episode that stayed with him, where the dehumanizing logic of colonialism and moderni…
"You can't just step from one place to another": The socio-politics of illegality in migration from Zimbabwe to South Africa
Drawing on anthropological fieldwork conducted in Musina and Cape Town, South Africa in 2010 and 2011, in this paper I present a qualitative analysis of the (largely illegal) means of entry of Zimbabwean research participants into South Africa, and their attempts to seek legal status once in the country. I present an ethnographic consideration of one woman’s experiences crossing the border, augmented with quantitative data gathered from a sample …
Making a plan”: Responses amongst the wealthy to declining socioeconomic conditions in suburban Harare
Although the term “crisis” is often used to describe politico-economic conditions in post-2000 Zimbabwe, the period of hyperinflation in Zimbabwe was also accompanied by creative responses to declining socioeconomic conditions. In this paper, I consider the ways in which wealthy suburban Zimbabweans resident in Harare during this period dealt with the withdrawal of the state from some aspects of daily life: most notably, experienced through a dec…
Introduction: "Knowledge Production in a Time of "Crisis
Zimbabwe in transition: A View From Within
edited by Tim Murithi and Aquilina Mawadza. South Africa, Fanele / Jacana Media and The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, 2011, 324pp., ISBN 978-1-92019-635-6 In 2009, when the Global Polit
Anthropological futures'? Thoughts on social research and the ethics of engagement
This article was presented as the keynote address at the 2012 Anthropology Southern Africa Conference. The theme of the conference was Southern African Anthropological Futures: Opportunities and Constraints, and as such in this piece I consider some of the themes I see emerging in Southern African anthropology, from my position as a nascent practitioner. Specifically, I examine the ethical difficulties raised by the discipline's emphasis upon bri…
Framing Harm: Legal, Local and Anthropological Knowledge in the Context of Forced Migration
The southern African state of Zimbabwe, which borders South Africa, has undergone a decade of severe political and economic instability. Migration from Zimbabwe to South Africa has been extensive, and continues even with the slight improvements that Zimbabwe has seen since 2009. In this paper I use migration from Zimbabwe to South Africa as a case study through which to explore knowledge creation within the field of forced migration and human rig…
Seeking Solidarity: Zimbabwean Undocumented Migrants in Cape Town, 2007
The political and economic crisis that Zimbabwe has been experiencing since 2000 has resulted in the large-scale migration of Zimbabweans to South Africa. Based upon ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Zimbabwe and South Africa in 2006 and 2007, this article argues that Zimbabwean migrants expected that the South African state would acknowledge the incidences of violation in Zimbabwe that prompted their movement to South Africa. Specifically, mig…
Living with uncertainty: Disappearing modernities and polluted urbanity in post-2000 Harare, Zimbabwe
Most studies of Zimbabwean migration and the country’s politico‐economic crisis focus on the material aspects of these two issues. In this article, through dual‐sited ethnographic work, I illustrate the symbolisms and meanings that are entangled within political and economic decline in urban Zimbabwe. Using data from fieldwork in Zimbabwe and South Africa, I argue that ‘crisis’ has carried with it a re‐configuration of the meanings associated wit…
Seeking Solidarity: Zimbabwean Undocumented Migrants in Cape Town, 2007
The political and economic crisis that Zimbabwe has been experiencing since 2000 has resulted in the large-scale migration of Zimbabweans to South Africa. Based upon ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Zimbabwe and South Africa in 2006 and 2007, this article argues that Zimbabwean migrants expected that the South African state would acknowledge the incidences of violation in Zimbabwe that prompted their movement to South Africa. Specifically, mig…
Steps Towards Decolonial Higher Education in Southern Africa? Epistemic Disobedience in the Humanities
In South African universities, a particular epistemic hierarchy exists within which African knowledge and resources are under-valued. This paper examines humanities courses that include content that deliberately aims to interrupt the existing knowledge hierarchies, through a qualitative analysis of spaces where African knowledge is granted importance. The paper provides a snapshot of the potentials for change in South African higher education tod…
Mutualism Despite Ostensible Difference: HuShamwari, Kuhanyisana, and Conviviality Between Shona Zimbabweans and Tsonga South Africans in Giyani, South Africa
This ethnographic study explores forms of mutuality and conviviality between Shona migrants from Zimbabwe and Tsonga-speaking South Africans living in Giyani, South Africa. To analyse these forms of mutuality, we draw on Southern African concepts rather than more conventional development or migration theory. We explore ways in which the Shona concept of hushamwari (translated as 'friendship') and the commensurate xiTsonga category of kuhanyisana …
Anthropological futures'? Thoughts on social research and the ethics of engagement
This article was presented as the keynote address at the 2012 Anthropology Southern Africa Conference. The theme of the conference was Southern African Anthropological Futures: Opportunities and Constraints, and as such in this piece I consider some of the themes I see emerging in Southern African anthropology, from my position as a nascent practitioner. Specifically, I examine the ethical difficulties raised by the discipline's emphasis upon bri…
Confronting the complexities of decolonising curricula and pedagogy in higher education
Recent critiques voiced by students in both the Global South and North have turned attention to the ways in which higher education practices have been informed by, and continue to perpetuate, a series of assumptions that favour particular epistemological perspectives. Across the world, students have criticised universities for the content of their curricula, institutional cultures, and pedagogic practices that perpetuate the attainment gap and ex…
Making a plan”: Responses amongst the wealthy to declining socioeconomic conditions in suburban Harare
Although the term “crisis” is often used to describe politico-economic conditions in post-2000 Zimbabwe, the period of hyperinflation in Zimbabwe was also accompanied by creative responses to declining socioeconomic conditions. In this paper, I consider the ways in which wealthy suburban Zimbabweans resident in Harare during this period dealt with the withdrawal of the state from some aspects of daily life: most notably, experienced through a dec…
Living with uncertainty: Disappearing modernities and polluted urbanity in post-2000 Harare, Zimbabwe
Most studies of Zimbabwean migration and the country’s politico‐economic crisis focus on the material aspects of these two issues. In this article, through dual‐sited ethnographic work, I illustrate the symbolisms and meanings that are entangled within political and economic decline in urban Zimbabwe. Using data from fieldwork in Zimbabwe and South Africa, I argue that ‘crisis’ has carried with it a re‐configuration of the meanings associated wit…
Working with our grandparents' illusions: On colonial lineage and inheritance in Southern African anthropology
In the late 1950s my grandfather, Blair Ewing, a politician in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), was one of the last people to travel down the Zambezi River before the filling of Lake Kariba forever altered its route. His role was to persuade those people who had thus far resisted resettlement that the only options left for them were to move or to die. It was an episode that stayed with him, where the dehumanizing logic of colonialism and moderni…
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria
In January 2022, the World Council of Anthropological Associations Task Force "Making Anthropology Global" was formed, consisting of Gonzalo Díaz Crovetto, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, P.-j. Ezeh, Shannon Morreira, Yasmeen Arif, Chen Gang, Gordon Mathews (chairperson), and Takami Kuwayama, reporting on Chile, Norway, Nigeria, South Africa. India, China, Hong Kong, and Japan. The task force met via Zoom once a month during 2022 and early 2023, with ass…
Place and pedagogy: Using space and materiality in teaching social science in Southern Africa
This article responds to recent perspectives from the Global South calling for the decolonisation of universities. Drawing on examples from two post-independence universities in Southern Africa – Sol Plaatje University in South Africa, and Great Zimbabwe University in Zimbabwe – we examine pedagogic innovation in undergraduate social science teaching. In particular, we examine the use of space and materiality as teaching tools in social anthropol…
Away from the water and into the hills: On the Fieldwork Diary as Ethnographic Form
2020). Away from the water and into the hills: on the fieldwork diary as ethnographic form. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 48-50
Accessing Powerful Knowledge: A Comparative Study of Two First Year Sociology Courses in a South African University
This paper presents a case study of two first year sociology courses run at an elite South African university in order to speak to student perspectives on the sociology curriculum. The paper provides a comparative analysis of the academic experiences of extended degree (ED) students registered on two first year courses, one of which drew on literature and sociological theory which was mainly Euro-American in origin, and the other of which attempt…
Seeking Solidarity: Zimbabwean Undocumented Migrants in Cape Town, 2007
The political and economic crisis that Zimbabwe has been experiencing since 2000 has resulted in the large-scale migration of Zimbabweans to South Africa. Based upon ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Zimbabwe and South Africa in 2006 and 2007, this article argues that Zimbabwean migrants expected that the South African state would acknowledge the incidences of violation in Zimbabwe that prompted their movement to South Africa. Specifically, mig…
Living with uncertainty: Disappearing modernities and polluted urbanity in post-2000 Harare, Zimbabwe
Most studies of Zimbabwean migration and the country’s politico‐economic crisis focus on the material aspects of these two issues. In this article, through dual‐sited ethnographic work, I illustrate the symbolisms and meanings that are entangled within political and economic decline in urban Zimbabwe. Using data from fieldwork in Zimbabwe and South Africa, I argue that ‘crisis’ has carried with it a re‐configuration of the meanings associated wit…
Framing Harm: Legal, Local and Anthropological Knowledge in the Context of Forced Migration
The southern African state of Zimbabwe, which borders South Africa, has undergone a decade of severe political and economic instability. Migration from Zimbabwe to South Africa has been extensive, and continues even with the slight improvements that Zimbabwe has seen since 2009. In this paper I use migration from Zimbabwe to South Africa as a case study through which to explore knowledge creation within the field of forced migration and human rig…
Zimbabwe in transition: A View From Within
edited by Tim Murithi and Aquilina Mawadza. South Africa, Fanele / Jacana Media and The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, 2011, 324pp., ISBN 978-1-92019-635-6 In 2009, when the Global Polit
Anthropological futures'? Thoughts on social research and the ethics of engagement
This article was presented as the keynote address at the 2012 Anthropology Southern Africa Conference. The theme of the conference was Southern African Anthropological Futures: Opportunities and Constraints, and as such in this piece I consider some of the themes I see emerging in Southern African anthropology, from my position as a nascent practitioner. Specifically, I examine the ethical difficulties raised by the discipline's emphasis upon bri…
"You can't just step from one place to another": The socio-politics of illegality in migration from Zimbabwe to South Africa
Drawing on anthropological fieldwork conducted in Musina and Cape Town, South Africa in 2010 and 2011, in this paper I present a qualitative analysis of the (largely illegal) means of entry of Zimbabwean research participants into South Africa, and their attempts to seek legal status once in the country. I present an ethnographic consideration of one woman’s experiences crossing the border, augmented with quantitative data gathered from a sample …
Making a plan”: Responses amongst the wealthy to declining socioeconomic conditions in suburban Harare
Although the term “crisis” is often used to describe politico-economic conditions in post-2000 Zimbabwe, the period of hyperinflation in Zimbabwe was also accompanied by creative responses to declining socioeconomic conditions. In this paper, I consider the ways in which wealthy suburban Zimbabweans resident in Harare during this period dealt with the withdrawal of the state from some aspects of daily life: most notably, experienced through a dec…
Introduction: "Knowledge Production in a Time of "Crisis
Working with our grandparents' illusions: On colonial lineage and inheritance in Southern African anthropology
In the late 1950s my grandfather, Blair Ewing, a politician in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), was one of the last people to travel down the Zambezi River before the filling of Lake Kariba forever altered its route. His role was to persuade those people who had thus far resisted resettlement that the only options left for them were to move or to die. It was an episode that stayed with him, where the dehumanizing logic of colonialism and moderni…
Accessing Powerful Knowledge: A Comparative Study of Two First Year Sociology Courses in a South African University
This paper presents a case study of two first year sociology courses run at an elite South African university in order to speak to student perspectives on the sociology curriculum. The paper provides a comparative analysis of the academic experiences of extended degree (ED) students registered on two first year courses, one of which drew on literature and sociological theory which was mainly Euro-American in origin, and the other of which attempt…
Steps Towards Decolonial Higher Education in Southern Africa? Epistemic Disobedience in the Humanities
In South African universities, a particular epistemic hierarchy exists within which African knowledge and resources are under-valued. This paper examines humanities courses that include content that deliberately aims to interrupt the existing knowledge hierarchies, through a qualitative analysis of spaces where African knowledge is granted importance. The paper provides a snapshot of the potentials for change in South African higher education tod…
Away from the water and into the hills: On the Fieldwork Diary as Ethnographic Form
2020). Away from the water and into the hills: on the fieldwork diary as ethnographic form. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 48-50
Place and pedagogy: Using space and materiality in teaching social science in Southern Africa
This article responds to recent perspectives from the Global South calling for the decolonisation of universities. Drawing on examples from two post-independence universities in Southern Africa – Sol Plaatje University in South Africa, and Great Zimbabwe University in Zimbabwe – we examine pedagogic innovation in undergraduate social science teaching. In particular, we examine the use of space and materiality as teaching tools in social anthropol…
Confronting the complexities of decolonising curricula and pedagogy in higher education
Recent critiques voiced by students in both the Global South and North have turned attention to the ways in which higher education practices have been informed by, and continue to perpetuate, a series of assumptions that favour particular epistemological perspectives. Across the world, students have criticised universities for the content of their curricula, institutional cultures, and pedagogic practices that perpetuate the attainment gap and ex…
Mutualism Despite Ostensible Difference: HuShamwari, Kuhanyisana, and Conviviality Between Shona Zimbabweans and Tsonga South Africans in Giyani, South Africa
This ethnographic study explores forms of mutuality and conviviality between Shona migrants from Zimbabwe and Tsonga-speaking South Africans living in Giyani, South Africa. To analyse these forms of mutuality, we draw on Southern African concepts rather than more conventional development or migration theory. We explore ways in which the Shona concept of hushamwari (translated as 'friendship') and the commensurate xiTsonga category of kuhanyisana …
Slow repair: Gender and restorative justice in Zimbabwe
This article reports on a ceremony gone awry at Kufunda Village, Zimbabwe, in which women had refused to follow a gendered cultural script of forgiveness and had instead released rather than slaughtered a chicken. They thus reinscribed old symbols with new meanings as a means of contesting patriarchy and beginning a slow process of restorative justice. Kufunda Village was set up as a direct response to conditions of postcolonial modernity in Zimb…
These are our stories: Children’s more-than-human encounters with migration in Global South and North contexts
This paper explores children’s encounters with migration in global contexts through storytelling. Children from two primary schools in Manchester, UK and Cape Town, South Africa, developed stories of self through object elicitation, poetry and self-made artefacts. The children had either directly or indirectly experienced migration across borders. We combined objects that were brought from home, drawings and annotations in exploring the significa…
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria
In January 2022, the World Council of Anthropological Associations Task Force "Making Anthropology Global" was formed, consisting of Gonzalo Díaz Crovetto, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, P.-j. Ezeh, Shannon Morreira, Yasmeen Arif, Chen Gang, Gordon Mathews (chairperson), and Takami Kuwayama, reporting on Chile, Norway, Nigeria, South Africa. India, China, Hong Kong, and Japan. The task force met via Zoom once a month during 2022 and early 2023, with ass…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (12 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (9 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works)