Jon Soske
Biographic Data
| ID | 158241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon Soske |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon |
| FAMILY NAME | Soske |
| SIGNATURE | SOSKE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0446-2686 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Carrying the Weight of a Broken System
The Problem: Recognizing the scale of challenges faced by the behavioral health care industry, there is a growing call to expand the utilization of community-based health workers (CBHWs). However, neglecting to fully understand the complex realities of working in these roles risks undermining the true costs and sacrifices made by CBHWs as we strive to reshape health care policies and systems. Purpose of Article: Drawing on 21 interviews we conduc…
Access and care for people with opioid use disorder in U.S. skilled nursing facilities
“It’s a revolving door”
E dward W ebster and K arin P ampallis, editors. The Unresolved National Question in South Africa
Since its introduction into South Africa by the Communist Party during the 1920s, the debate over the “national question” has arguably been the central organizing framework of left-wing political thought. In this excellent collection, The Unresolved National Question in South Africa: Left Thought under Apartheid, the editors and contributors seek to reconstruct the way that different sections of the South African Left, broadly understood to inclu…
Regarding Muslims
In this scintillating book, Gabeba Baderoon undertakes a genealogy of Muslims and slavery in South African culture. Her starting point is the ambiguous visibility of Muslims and especially the figu
Internal Frontiers
Internal Frontiers
In this ambitious new history of the antiapartheid struggle, Jon Soske places India and the Indian diaspora at the center of the African National Congress's development of an inclusive philosophy of nationalism. In so doing, Soske combines intellectual, political, religious, urban, and gender history to tell a story that is global in reach while remaining grounded in the everyday materiality of life under apartheid. Even as Indian independence pr…
The impossible concept
This article traces the history of four words: ‘non-racial’, ‘non-racialism’, ‘multi- racial’, and ‘multi-racialism’. Its main concern is to identify when and how these terms developed a role within British colonial and South African political discourse. At the end of the 1950s, the struggles within the anti-apartheid movement became entangled with a broader discussion across southern and eastern Africa regarding democracy, nationalism, and polit…
The First President
One Hundred Years of the ANC
One Hundred Years of the Anc
Open Secrets, Off the Record
This article reflects on the ways that individuals, communities, and political organizations sometimes invest in an understanding of history based on their lived experiences or, to borrow a term from Hugh Raffles, their “intimate knowledge.“ Debates regarding the practice of public history often begin with the question of how historians can—or should—address the abstract figure of “the public.“ In contrast, this article discusses how individuals …
Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400-1948
Paul S. Landau, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010, xvi +300 pp. Is there a longue duree to South African history? Most existing scholarship would suggest not. If the revisionist historian
The Life and Death of Dr Abu Baker 'Hurley' Asvat, 23 February 1943 to 27 January 1989
At the time of his murder in 1989, Dr Abu Baker ‘Hurley’ Asvat was widely revered as ‘the people's doctor’ based on almost two decades of medical work in Soweto and health projects initiated across the Transvaal as Azapo's secretary of health. Despite his close relationship with leading African National Congress (ANC) figures and his major role in anti-apartheid medical activism, Asvat's name rarely appears in histories of the liberation struggle…
The Dissimulation of Race
Research Article| December 01 2004 The Dissimulation of Race: “Afro-Pessimism” And the Problem of Development Jon Soske Jon Soske Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 15–56. https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.14.2.15 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jon Soske; The Dissimulation of Race: “Afro-Pessimism” And the Problem of Development. Qui Parle 1 December 2004; 1…
The impossible concept
This article traces the history of four words: ‘non-racial’, ‘non-racialism’, ‘multi- racial’, and ‘multi-racialism’. Its main concern is to identify when and how these terms developed a role within British colonial and South African political discourse. At the end of the 1950s, the struggles within the anti-apartheid movement became entangled with a broader discussion across southern and eastern Africa regarding democracy, nationalism, and polit…
The Life and Death of Dr Abu Baker 'Hurley' Asvat, 23 February 1943 to 27 January 1989
At the time of his murder in 1989, Dr Abu Baker ‘Hurley’ Asvat was widely revered as ‘the people's doctor’ based on almost two decades of medical work in Soweto and health projects initiated across the Transvaal as Azapo's secretary of health. Despite his close relationship with leading African National Congress (ANC) figures and his major role in anti-apartheid medical activism, Asvat's name rarely appears in histories of the liberation struggle…
The Dissimulation of Race
Research Article| December 01 2004 The Dissimulation of Race: “Afro-Pessimism” And the Problem of Development Jon Soske Jon Soske Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 15–56. https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.14.2.15 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jon Soske; The Dissimulation of Race: “Afro-Pessimism” And the Problem of Development. Qui Parle 1 December 2004; 1…
The Life and Death of Dr Abu Baker 'Hurley' Asvat, 23 February 1943 to 27 January 1989
At the time of his murder in 1989, Dr Abu Baker ‘Hurley’ Asvat was widely revered as ‘the people's doctor’ based on almost two decades of medical work in Soweto and health projects initiated across the Transvaal as Azapo's secretary of health. Despite his close relationship with leading African National Congress (ANC) figures and his major role in anti-apartheid medical activism, Asvat's name rarely appears in histories of the liberation struggle…
One Hundred Years of the ANC
One Hundred Years of the Anc
Open Secrets, Off the Record
This article reflects on the ways that individuals, communities, and political organizations sometimes invest in an understanding of history based on their lived experiences or, to borrow a term from Hugh Raffles, their “intimate knowledge.“ Debates regarding the practice of public history often begin with the question of how historians can—or should—address the abstract figure of “the public.“ In contrast, this article discusses how individuals …
Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400-1948
Paul S. Landau, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010, xvi +300 pp. Is there a longue duree to South African history? Most existing scholarship would suggest not. If the revisionist historian
The First President
The impossible concept
This article traces the history of four words: ‘non-racial’, ‘non-racialism’, ‘multi- racial’, and ‘multi-racialism’. Its main concern is to identify when and how these terms developed a role within British colonial and South African political discourse. At the end of the 1950s, the struggles within the anti-apartheid movement became entangled with a broader discussion across southern and eastern Africa regarding democracy, nationalism, and polit…
Internal Frontiers
Internal Frontiers
In this ambitious new history of the antiapartheid struggle, Jon Soske places India and the Indian diaspora at the center of the African National Congress's development of an inclusive philosophy of nationalism. In so doing, Soske combines intellectual, political, religious, urban, and gender history to tell a story that is global in reach while remaining grounded in the everyday materiality of life under apartheid. Even as Indian independence pr…
Regarding Muslims
In this scintillating book, Gabeba Baderoon undertakes a genealogy of Muslims and slavery in South African culture. Her starting point is the ambiguous visibility of Muslims and especially the figu
E dward W ebster and K arin P ampallis, editors. The Unresolved National Question in South Africa
Since its introduction into South Africa by the Communist Party during the 1920s, the debate over the “national question” has arguably been the central organizing framework of left-wing political thought. In this excellent collection, The Unresolved National Question in South Africa: Left Thought under Apartheid, the editors and contributors seek to reconstruct the way that different sections of the South African Left, broadly understood to inclu…
“It’s a revolving door”
Access and care for people with opioid use disorder in U.S. skilled nursing facilities
Carrying the Weight of a Broken System
The Problem: Recognizing the scale of challenges faced by the behavioral health care industry, there is a growing call to expand the utilization of community-based health workers (CBHWs). However, neglecting to fully understand the complex realities of working in these roles risks undermining the true costs and sacrifices made by CBHWs as we strive to reshape health care policies and systems. Purpose of Article: Drawing on 21 interviews we conduc…
Political science (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · South African History and Culture (7 works) · History (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works)