Femke Brandt
Biographic Data
| ID | 183629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Femke Brandt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Femke |
| FAMILY NAME | Brandt |
| SIGNATURE | BRANDT F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Asserting autonomy and belonging in precarious times: Working lives of women labour broker workers in Johannesburg, South Africa
In this article, I present ethnographic insights into a precarious workers’ struggle at the Heineken Sedibeng brewery nearby Johannesburg. Through oral histories of key women organisers in this struggle, this article looks at the ways neoliberal externalisation of labour shapes contemporary working lives in South Africa. I use the concepts of autonomy and belonging to interpret workers’ realities and efforts to change precarious conditions. From …
Land Reform Revisited: Democracy, State Making and Agrarian Transformation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Power and politics in stakeholder engagement: Farm dweller (in)visibility and conversions to game farming in South Africa
Here, we discuss tensions inherent in multistakeholder approaches addressing conflicts over natural resources as well as the involvement of stakeholders in research. Our discussion is built on knowledge generated by extensive research on the impacts of private farm conversions to game farms in South Africa, where significant increases in farm conversions have been observed since the 1990s. The studies had a particular focus on the consequences fo…
Power battles on South African trophy-hunting farms: Farm workers, resistance and mobility in the Karoo
South Africa’s countryside is transforming through rapid and widespread farm conversions from agricultural land to wildlife enclosures. This paper interprets trophy hunting as a reconfiguration process in which land, power and belonging are contested through relations between farmers, workers, the state and animals. The argument is based on ethnographic material generated in the Eastern Cape Karoo through engagements with farm workers and commerc…
The meaning of compliance with land and labour legislation: Understanding justice through farm workers' experiences in the Eastern Cape
This paper explores the social meanings and uses of formal labour legislation on commercial farms in the Eastern Cape. Farm workers' and dwellers' experiences expose ongoing land and labour struggles on South Africa's commercial farms. We focus on the ways that farm workers resist and negotiate persistent power imbalances, how they access justice, and the role of mediators. The empirical material was generated through long-term research with farm…
Securing wilderness landscapes in South Africa: Nick Steele, private wildlife conservancies and saving rhinos
Game fences in the Karoo: Reconfiguring spatial and social relations
In this article, we discuss how farm conversions to wildlife habitats result in the reconfiguration of spatial and social relations on white-owned commercial farms in the Karoo region of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. Farmers and landowners justify such conversions stressing economic and ecological rationales. We illustrate how conversions are (also) a reaction to post-apartheid land reform and labour legislation policies, which white farmers …
Game fences in the Karoo: Reconfiguring spatial and social relations
In this article, we discuss how farm conversions to wildlife habitats result in the reconfiguration of spatial and social relations on white-owned commercial farms in the Karoo region of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. Farmers and landowners justify such conversions stressing economic and ecological rationales. We illustrate how conversions are (also) a reaction to post-apartheid land reform and labour legislation policies, which white farmers …
Power battles on South African trophy-hunting farms: Farm workers, resistance and mobility in the Karoo
South Africa’s countryside is transforming through rapid and widespread farm conversions from agricultural land to wildlife enclosures. This paper interprets trophy hunting as a reconfiguration process in which land, power and belonging are contested through relations between farmers, workers, the state and animals. The argument is based on ethnographic material generated in the Eastern Cape Karoo through engagements with farm workers and commerc…
Asserting autonomy and belonging in precarious times: Working lives of women labour broker workers in Johannesburg, South Africa
In this article, I present ethnographic insights into a precarious workers’ struggle at the Heineken Sedibeng brewery nearby Johannesburg. Through oral histories of key women organisers in this struggle, this article looks at the ways neoliberal externalisation of labour shapes contemporary working lives in South Africa. I use the concepts of autonomy and belonging to interpret workers’ realities and efforts to change precarious conditions. From …
Power and politics in stakeholder engagement: Farm dweller (in)visibility and conversions to game farming in South Africa
Here, we discuss tensions inherent in multistakeholder approaches addressing conflicts over natural resources as well as the involvement of stakeholders in research. Our discussion is built on knowledge generated by extensive research on the impacts of private farm conversions to game farms in South Africa, where significant increases in farm conversions have been observed since the 1990s. The studies had a particular focus on the consequences fo…
The meaning of compliance with land and labour legislation: Understanding justice through farm workers' experiences in the Eastern Cape
This paper explores the social meanings and uses of formal labour legislation on commercial farms in the Eastern Cape. Farm workers' and dwellers' experiences expose ongoing land and labour struggles on South Africa's commercial farms. We focus on the ways that farm workers resist and negotiate persistent power imbalances, how they access justice, and the role of mediators. The empirical material was generated through long-term research with farm…
Game fences in the Karoo: Reconfiguring spatial and social relations
In this article, we discuss how farm conversions to wildlife habitats result in the reconfiguration of spatial and social relations on white-owned commercial farms in the Karoo region of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. Farmers and landowners justify such conversions stressing economic and ecological rationales. We illustrate how conversions are (also) a reaction to post-apartheid land reform and labour legislation policies, which white farmers …
Power battles on South African trophy-hunting farms: Farm workers, resistance and mobility in the Karoo
South Africa’s countryside is transforming through rapid and widespread farm conversions from agricultural land to wildlife enclosures. This paper interprets trophy hunting as a reconfiguration process in which land, power and belonging are contested through relations between farmers, workers, the state and animals. The argument is based on ethnographic material generated in the Eastern Cape Karoo through engagements with farm workers and commerc…
The meaning of compliance with land and labour legislation: Understanding justice through farm workers' experiences in the Eastern Cape
This paper explores the social meanings and uses of formal labour legislation on commercial farms in the Eastern Cape. Farm workers' and dwellers' experiences expose ongoing land and labour struggles on South Africa's commercial farms. We focus on the ways that farm workers resist and negotiate persistent power imbalances, how they access justice, and the role of mediators. The empirical material was generated through long-term research with farm…
Securing wilderness landscapes in South Africa: Nick Steele, private wildlife conservancies and saving rhinos
Land Reform Revisited: Democracy, State Making and Agrarian Transformation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Power and politics in stakeholder engagement: Farm dweller (in)visibility and conversions to game farming in South Africa
Here, we discuss tensions inherent in multistakeholder approaches addressing conflicts over natural resources as well as the involvement of stakeholders in research. Our discussion is built on knowledge generated by extensive research on the impacts of private farm conversions to game farms in South Africa, where significant increases in farm conversions have been observed since the 1990s. The studies had a particular focus on the consequences fo…
Asserting autonomy and belonging in precarious times: Working lives of women labour broker workers in Johannesburg, South Africa
In this article, I present ethnographic insights into a precarious workers’ struggle at the Heineken Sedibeng brewery nearby Johannesburg. Through oral histories of key women organisers in this struggle, this article looks at the ways neoliberal externalisation of labour shapes contemporary working lives in South Africa. I use the concepts of autonomy and belonging to interpret workers’ realities and efforts to change precarious conditions. From …
Geography (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Law (3 works) · South African History and Culture (3 works)