Helen Dampier
Biographic Data
| ID | 179345 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Dampier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Dampier |
| SIGNATURE | DAMPIER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6934-8978 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction: Humanitarianism and Biography
Constructing a Humanitarian Self: Emily Hobhouse’s Auto/Biographical Traces, 1899-1926
Following her relief work during and after the 1899-1902 South African War, British suffragist and humanitarian Emily Hobhouse (1860-1926) testified to her humanitarianism in several auto/biographical forms, all of them incorporating Boer women's accounts of wartime suffering. We consider the implications of Schaffer and Smith's (2004) 'ethics of recognition' for Hobhouse's construction of her humanitarian authority and the processes whereby the …
‘Undoubtedly Love Letters’? Olive Schreiner’s Letters to Karl Pearson
Letters have sometimes been assumed to be a private form of life writing, and certainly many of the South African writer Olive Schreiner’s (1855–1920) letters have been read in this way. However, her letters trouble any simple, binary notions of public and private. This article offers a re-reading of Schreiner’s letters to the statistician and founder of the Men and Women’s Club, Karl Pearson (1857–1936). It argues that the dominant reading that …
Colonizing Consent: Rape and Governance in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, by Elizabeth Thornberry
In early September 2019, a wave of protests swept South Africa: participants called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to address the country’s crisis of violence—especially sexual violence—against women, and called for tougher sentencing for those convicted of rape. In 2018/19, 41,583 rapes were recorded in South Africa, a rate that equates to 114 reported rapes a day. Some protesters called for capital punishment to be reinstated. Elizabeth Thornberr…
Abortion under Apartheid: Nationalism, Sexuality, and Women’s Reproductive Rights in South Africa, by Susanne M. Klausen
Stories That Find their Place’: Retelling the Protest at Brandfort, 1901–1949
This paper concerns eight women's testimonies produced over a period of some 50 years, which describe a protest about meat rations at Brandfort concentration camp in November 1901, during the 1899–1902 South African War. The focus here is not the ‘event itself’, which cannot now be recovered except in its archival or documentary forms, but on the subsequent re/telling of this incident, and on the politicised, (proto-) nationalist content and tone…
Going on with our little movement in the hum drum-way which alone is possible in a land like this: Olive Schreiner and suffrage networks in Britain and South Africa, 1905-1913
This article explores the letters of South African feminist writer Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) to illuminate connections and tensions between suffrage movements in the imperial metropole and on the colonial periphery. Schreiner's letters shed fascinating light on how she used her contacts in the global suffrage movement to advance local suffrage work. They indicate key differences Schreiner identified between the British and South African suffrag…
Olive Schreiner, Epistolary Practices and Microhistories: A Cultural Entrepreneur in a Historical Landscape
Focusing on the letters of the South African feminist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner (1855–1920), this article explores Schreiner's strategic uses of letter-writing as a key tool in her work as a cultural entrepreneur in a number of different social and political contexts. In advocating a microhistory approach which recognizes that macro and micro are interconnected and should be seen as lenses of perspective rather than as separate s…
The Work of Making and the Work it Does: Cultural Sociology and 'Bringing- Into-Being' the Cultural Assemblage of the Olive Schreiner Letters
Programmatic ideas regarding cultural sociology and its inter-relationship with cultural production inspired by the work of Inglis et al., Mukerji and Bennett are explored. A particular cultural assemblage, the editorial practices arising in an interdisciplinary project concerned with researching and publishing the letters of South African feminist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner, is detailed. Four key aspects of the particular 'bringi…
I Just Express My Views & Leave Them to Work’: Olive Schreiner as a Feminist Protagonist in a Masculine Political Landscape with Figures
There are disturbances as well as regularities in the gender order, including challenges to and re-workings of conventional hierarchies. An example of such re-workings provides the focus of discussion: the political interventions of South African feminist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner (18551920). Discussion of Schreiners letters to a number of important white political figures is organised around an epistemological question: can Schr…
The Epistolary Pact, Letterness: And the Schreiner Epistolarium
To a great extent, this is the epistolary pact-the call for a response from a specific reader within the correspondent's world.Most of the other aspects of epistolary discourse
Olive Schreiner Globalising Social Inquiry: A Feminist Analytics of Globalization
Globalization theory sees the processes of change it is concerned with as distinctively new, with a feminist analytics part of the newness of the current period too, focusing on some of the specific gender dynamics involved. However, the work of the feminist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) challenges, indeed overturns, such assumptions. Similar structural economic and political circumstances to those now called globalizatio…
The Number of the South African War (1899-1902) Concentration Camp Dead: Standard Stories, Superior Stories and a Forgotten Proto-Nationalist Research Investigation
Tilly extols the power and compass of 'superior stories' compared with 'standard stories'. However, things are not always so clear cut, as the case study discussed here shows. A 1906 - 1914 research investigation headed by P. L. A. Goldman, which has initially concerned with the enumeration and commemoration of the deaths of Boer combatants during the South African War (1899-1902), and later with the deaths of people in the concentration camps es…
Re-reading as a methodology: The case of Boer Women's testimonies
Re-reading as a methodology is often invoked in literary and historical work, but seldom specifically delineated. The substantive focus herein concerns Boer women's testimonies of the 1899-1902 South African War, in particular testimonies of the British military scorched earth policy of forced removals and concentration camps. The methodology of re-reading such texts against each other is explored so as to 're-read the record' of the Mafeking con…
Cultural Entrepreneurs, Proto-Nationalism and Women's Testimony Writings: From the South African War to 1940
Women cultural entrepreneurs were busy in promoting the development of proto-nationalism in South Africa in the aftermath of the 1899–1902 South African War. The work of some key cultural entrepreneurs who solicited and published women's testimonies about the wartime concentration camps instituted by the British military provides the focus of discussion. Boer testimonies were presented as factual ‘I-witness’ statements; they also followed a proto…
Simulacrum Diaries: Time, the “moment of writing,” and the diaries of Johanna Brandt-Van Warmelo
Diary writing is popularly defined around assumptions about the temporal and spatial circumstances of writing, which underpin the kind of knowledge diaries are often understood to "hold." The epistemological status of diaries is rooted in an assumed ontology, concerning the time/space of their writing and the temporal location of their writer in relation to "entries" in them.This article explores "what happens" to the knowledge a diary is seen to…
Aftermaths: Post/memory, commemoration and the concentration camps of the South African War 1899–1902
This discussion aims to provide ‘a genuine historicisation ... that counters the tendency to treat twentieth-century practices as a prism through which to interpret ... previous centuries' concerning a
Olive schreiner and the progress of feminism: Evolution, Gender, Empire
Aftermaths: Post/memory, commemoration and the concentration camps of the South African War 1899–1902
This discussion aims to provide ‘a genuine historicisation ... that counters the tendency to treat twentieth-century practices as a prism through which to interpret ... previous centuries' concerning a
Simulacrum Diaries: Time, the “moment of writing,” and the diaries of Johanna Brandt-Van Warmelo
Diary writing is popularly defined around assumptions about the temporal and spatial circumstances of writing, which underpin the kind of knowledge diaries are often understood to "hold." The epistemological status of diaries is rooted in an assumed ontology, concerning the time/space of their writing and the temporal location of their writer in relation to "entries" in them.This article explores "what happens" to the knowledge a diary is seen to…
The Epistolary Pact, Letterness: And the Schreiner Epistolarium
To a great extent, this is the epistolary pact-the call for a response from a specific reader within the correspondent's world.Most of the other aspects of epistolary discourse
Olive Schreiner Globalising Social Inquiry: A Feminist Analytics of Globalization
Globalization theory sees the processes of change it is concerned with as distinctively new, with a feminist analytics part of the newness of the current period too, focusing on some of the specific gender dynamics involved. However, the work of the feminist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) challenges, indeed overturns, such assumptions. Similar structural economic and political circumstances to those now called globalizatio…
Olive Schreiner, Epistolary Practices and Microhistories: A Cultural Entrepreneur in a Historical Landscape
Focusing on the letters of the South African feminist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner (1855–1920), this article explores Schreiner's strategic uses of letter-writing as a key tool in her work as a cultural entrepreneur in a number of different social and political contexts. In advocating a microhistory approach which recognizes that macro and micro are interconnected and should be seen as lenses of perspective rather than as separate s…
The Work of Making and the Work it Does: Cultural Sociology and 'Bringing- Into-Being' the Cultural Assemblage of the Olive Schreiner Letters
Programmatic ideas regarding cultural sociology and its inter-relationship with cultural production inspired by the work of Inglis et al., Mukerji and Bennett are explored. A particular cultural assemblage, the editorial practices arising in an interdisciplinary project concerned with researching and publishing the letters of South African feminist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner, is detailed. Four key aspects of the particular 'bringi…
Cultural Entrepreneurs, Proto-Nationalism and Women's Testimony Writings: From the South African War to 1940
Women cultural entrepreneurs were busy in promoting the development of proto-nationalism in South Africa in the aftermath of the 1899–1902 South African War. The work of some key cultural entrepreneurs who solicited and published women's testimonies about the wartime concentration camps instituted by the British military provides the focus of discussion. Boer testimonies were presented as factual ‘I-witness’ statements; they also followed a proto…
Re-reading as a methodology: The case of Boer Women's testimonies
Re-reading as a methodology is often invoked in literary and historical work, but seldom specifically delineated. The substantive focus herein concerns Boer women's testimonies of the 1899-1902 South African War, in particular testimonies of the British military scorched earth policy of forced removals and concentration camps. The methodology of re-reading such texts against each other is explored so as to 're-read the record' of the Mafeking con…
Going on with our little movement in the hum drum-way which alone is possible in a land like this: Olive Schreiner and suffrage networks in Britain and South Africa, 1905-1913
This article explores the letters of South African feminist writer Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) to illuminate connections and tensions between suffrage movements in the imperial metropole and on the colonial periphery. Schreiner's letters shed fascinating light on how she used her contacts in the global suffrage movement to advance local suffrage work. They indicate key differences Schreiner identified between the British and South African suffrag…
I Just Express My Views & Leave Them to Work’: Olive Schreiner as a Feminist Protagonist in a Masculine Political Landscape with Figures
There are disturbances as well as regularities in the gender order, including challenges to and re-workings of conventional hierarchies. An example of such re-workings provides the focus of discussion: the political interventions of South African feminist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner (18551920). Discussion of Schreiners letters to a number of important white political figures is organised around an epistemological question: can Schr…
The Number of the South African War (1899-1902) Concentration Camp Dead: Standard Stories, Superior Stories and a Forgotten Proto-Nationalist Research Investigation
Tilly extols the power and compass of 'superior stories' compared with 'standard stories'. However, things are not always so clear cut, as the case study discussed here shows. A 1906 - 1914 research investigation headed by P. L. A. Goldman, which has initially concerned with the enumeration and commemoration of the deaths of Boer combatants during the South African War (1899-1902), and later with the deaths of people in the concentration camps es…
Olive schreiner and the progress of feminism: Evolution, Gender, Empire
Aftermaths: Post/memory, commemoration and the concentration camps of the South African War 1899–1902
This discussion aims to provide ‘a genuine historicisation ... that counters the tendency to treat twentieth-century practices as a prism through which to interpret ... previous centuries' concerning a
Simulacrum Diaries: Time, the “moment of writing,” and the diaries of Johanna Brandt-Van Warmelo
Diary writing is popularly defined around assumptions about the temporal and spatial circumstances of writing, which underpin the kind of knowledge diaries are often understood to "hold." The epistemological status of diaries is rooted in an assumed ontology, concerning the time/space of their writing and the temporal location of their writer in relation to "entries" in them.This article explores "what happens" to the knowledge a diary is seen to…
Cultural Entrepreneurs, Proto-Nationalism and Women's Testimony Writings: From the South African War to 1940
Women cultural entrepreneurs were busy in promoting the development of proto-nationalism in South Africa in the aftermath of the 1899–1902 South African War. The work of some key cultural entrepreneurs who solicited and published women's testimonies about the wartime concentration camps instituted by the British military provides the focus of discussion. Boer testimonies were presented as factual ‘I-witness’ statements; they also followed a proto…
Re-reading as a methodology: The case of Boer Women's testimonies
Re-reading as a methodology is often invoked in literary and historical work, but seldom specifically delineated. The substantive focus herein concerns Boer women's testimonies of the 1899-1902 South African War, in particular testimonies of the British military scorched earth policy of forced removals and concentration camps. The methodology of re-reading such texts against each other is explored so as to 're-read the record' of the Mafeking con…
The Number of the South African War (1899-1902) Concentration Camp Dead: Standard Stories, Superior Stories and a Forgotten Proto-Nationalist Research Investigation
Tilly extols the power and compass of 'superior stories' compared with 'standard stories'. However, things are not always so clear cut, as the case study discussed here shows. A 1906 - 1914 research investigation headed by P. L. A. Goldman, which has initially concerned with the enumeration and commemoration of the deaths of Boer combatants during the South African War (1899-1902), and later with the deaths of people in the concentration camps es…
Olive Schreiner Globalising Social Inquiry: A Feminist Analytics of Globalization
Globalization theory sees the processes of change it is concerned with as distinctively new, with a feminist analytics part of the newness of the current period too, focusing on some of the specific gender dynamics involved. However, the work of the feminist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) challenges, indeed overturns, such assumptions. Similar structural economic and political circumstances to those now called globalizatio…
I Just Express My Views & Leave Them to Work’: Olive Schreiner as a Feminist Protagonist in a Masculine Political Landscape with Figures
There are disturbances as well as regularities in the gender order, including challenges to and re-workings of conventional hierarchies. An example of such re-workings provides the focus of discussion: the political interventions of South African feminist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner (18551920). Discussion of Schreiners letters to a number of important white political figures is organised around an epistemological question: can Schr…
The Epistolary Pact, Letterness: And the Schreiner Epistolarium
To a great extent, this is the epistolary pact-the call for a response from a specific reader within the correspondent's world.Most of the other aspects of epistolary discourse
Olive Schreiner, Epistolary Practices and Microhistories: A Cultural Entrepreneur in a Historical Landscape
Focusing on the letters of the South African feminist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner (1855–1920), this article explores Schreiner's strategic uses of letter-writing as a key tool in her work as a cultural entrepreneur in a number of different social and political contexts. In advocating a microhistory approach which recognizes that macro and micro are interconnected and should be seen as lenses of perspective rather than as separate s…
The Work of Making and the Work it Does: Cultural Sociology and 'Bringing- Into-Being' the Cultural Assemblage of the Olive Schreiner Letters
Programmatic ideas regarding cultural sociology and its inter-relationship with cultural production inspired by the work of Inglis et al., Mukerji and Bennett are explored. A particular cultural assemblage, the editorial practices arising in an interdisciplinary project concerned with researching and publishing the letters of South African feminist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner, is detailed. Four key aspects of the particular 'bringi…
Going on with our little movement in the hum drum-way which alone is possible in a land like this: Olive Schreiner and suffrage networks in Britain and South Africa, 1905-1913
This article explores the letters of South African feminist writer Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) to illuminate connections and tensions between suffrage movements in the imperial metropole and on the colonial periphery. Schreiner's letters shed fascinating light on how she used her contacts in the global suffrage movement to advance local suffrage work. They indicate key differences Schreiner identified between the British and South African suffrag…
Stories That Find their Place’: Retelling the Protest at Brandfort, 1901–1949
This paper concerns eight women's testimonies produced over a period of some 50 years, which describe a protest about meat rations at Brandfort concentration camp in November 1901, during the 1899–1902 South African War. The focus here is not the ‘event itself’, which cannot now be recovered except in its archival or documentary forms, but on the subsequent re/telling of this incident, and on the politicised, (proto-) nationalist content and tone…
Abortion under Apartheid: Nationalism, Sexuality, and Women’s Reproductive Rights in South Africa, by Susanne M. Klausen
Colonizing Consent: Rape and Governance in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, by Elizabeth Thornberry
In early September 2019, a wave of protests swept South Africa: participants called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to address the country’s crisis of violence—especially sexual violence—against women, and called for tougher sentencing for those convicted of rape. In 2018/19, 41,583 rapes were recorded in South Africa, a rate that equates to 114 reported rapes a day. Some protesters called for capital punishment to be reinstated. Elizabeth Thornberr…
‘Undoubtedly Love Letters’? Olive Schreiner’s Letters to Karl Pearson
Letters have sometimes been assumed to be a private form of life writing, and certainly many of the South African writer Olive Schreiner’s (1855–1920) letters have been read in this way. However, her letters trouble any simple, binary notions of public and private. This article offers a re-reading of Schreiner’s letters to the statistician and founder of the Men and Women’s Club, Karl Pearson (1857–1936). It argues that the dominant reading that …
Constructing a Humanitarian Self: Emily Hobhouse’s Auto/Biographical Traces, 1899-1926
Following her relief work during and after the 1899-1902 South African War, British suffragist and humanitarian Emily Hobhouse (1860-1926) testified to her humanitarianism in several auto/biographical forms, all of them incorporating Boer women's accounts of wartime suffering. We consider the implications of Schaffer and Smith's (2004) 'ethics of recognition' for Hobhouse's construction of her humanitarian authority and the processes whereby the …
Introduction: Humanitarianism and Biography
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