Jacklyn Cock
Biographic Data
| ID | 184663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacklyn Cock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacklyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Cock |
| SIGNATURE | COCK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 134 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Relation Between Sociology and Threats to Our Survival
This paper argues that increasing threats to our survival call for a deeper sociological engagement with environmental issues. The argument is presented in different sections: firstly, the need for a reorientation of the discipline around the complex interrelation and interdependence of society and nature. This reorientation could build on the sociologial work on environmental risks by Ulrich Beck and that on “slow violence” by Rob Nixon, both of…
Marxism and Feminism: ‘Unhappy Marriage’ or Creative Partnership
Writing the Ancestral River: A biography of the Kowie
Beyond the nature–labour divide: Trade union responses to climate change in South Africa
We present the life histories of two environmentally engaged unionists in South Africa, who were decisive for formulating the environmental programmes of their respective trade unions. Their experiences of participating in the resistance against apartheid in universities and factories taught them the necessity to connect different struggles and equipped them with the knowledge and ability to connect the fight for workers’ rights with the fight ag…
Eco-feminist Organizing in South Africa: Reflections on the Feminist Table
This article focuses on the activities of a modest feminist initiative called "The Feminist Table." Established in 2012, it is one of a number of initiatives trying to develop grassroots eco-feminist solidarity among black women in contemporary South Africa. It uses the Marxist feminist notion of social reproduction, i.e. the unpaid care work which these women do outside the market, both in their households and in their communities. This work is …
A feminist response to the food crisis in contemporary South Africa
Women’s responses to the food crisis in contemporary South Africa raise important questions for feminism. The realisation of the ’right to sufficient food’ enshrined in the post-apartheid constitution is central to achieving an active, gendered citizenship. However grassroots mobilisation is necessary to give such justiciable socio-economic rights substantive content. As part of that struggle women are driving alternatives to the neo-liberal food…
Sociology and the ‘slow violence’ of toxic pollution. An invitation to debate
Steel, Nature and Society
The paper analyses the impact of free-market corporate logic on nature and society through focusing on ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel producer. The rapid expansion of this company from the Global South was achieved through strategic acquisitions of privatized state steel companies. This growth is characterized by processes which seriously altered nature in ways which proved detrimental to society. This impact is considered through field…
Challenging the Invisibility of Domestic Workers
(2011). Challenging the Invisibility of Domestic Workers. South African Review of Sociology: Vol. 42, DEBATING THE DOMESTIC, pp. 132-133
From Servants to Workers: South African Domestic Workers and the Democratic State
Island of shame: The secret history of the US military base on Diego Garcia
Island of shame: The secret history of the US military base on Diego Garcia by David Vine, Princeton University Press, 2009, 259 pp., ISBN 10-06911-38699 It has been claimed by many, most powerfull
A Gendered Analysis of the Crisis of Social Reproduction in Contemporary South Africa
This article argues that African working class households are the sites of a crisis of social reproduction in contemporary South Africa. Through a gendered analysis of five townships in Emnambithi the article demonstrates that African working class women are the shock absorbers of this crisis. While feminist scholars point to a growing crisis of social reproduction as a global phenomenon, the South African material illustrates how poor women expe…
Caddies and ‘Cronies’: Golf and changing patterns of exclusion and inclusion in post-apartheid South Africa
The golf course is a significant social and ecological space which contributes to both increasing social polarisation and environmental injustice. Golf illustrates the shift from race to class-based exclusion that has characterised South Africa since 1994. and the increasing conspiCUOUS consumption that shift has involved. The paper first demonstrates how golf involves the exclusion of the majority of South Africans from crucial resources. and th…
War Against Ourselves: Nature, Power and Justice
Public sociology and the social crisis
At the core of the crisis of social relations in contemporary South Africa is a privatisation of the public sphere which is forcing individuals to seek private remedies to socially produced problems. The way access to clean and adequate water is threatened by both privatisation and pollution illustrates this process. The article argues that resistance to these processes has the potential to ‘resocialise’ the crisis, and could be strengthened by t…
Guards and Guns: Towards Privatised Militarism in Post-Apartheid South Africa
This article argues that contemporary South Africa is marked by the coexistence of both old and new forms of militarism. A shallow and uneven process of state demilitarisation was underway between 1990 to 1998 in the form of reductions in military expenditure, weapons holdings, force levels, employment in arms production and base closures. However, this has had contradictory consequences including providing an impetus to a ‘privatised militarism’…
Sociological dilemmas in a local context
The theme of this year's meeting of the powerful 13,000 member strong American Sociological Association (ASA) was ‘public sociologies’. The term public sociology was invented in the United States to criticise and counter mounting professionalisation. In many countries of today the term public sociology is not necessary as sociology is presumed to be public. In order to illustrate this point the ASA invited representatives from different regions o…
Engendering gay and lesbian rights: The equality clause in the south african constitution
The impact of globalisation on environmental politics in South Africa, 1990-2002
Gender Differences: Struggles Around ?Needs? and ?Rights? in South Africa
NWSA Journal - Volume 13, Number 3, Fall 2001
Crazy for Democracy
Projecting Peace in Apartheid South Africa
This article analyzes what it meant to pursue “peace” in apartheid South Africa, and shows that a clear and coherent strategy of achieving “peace with justice” was pursued —in the 1980s—by a network of non‐governmental organizations which were seeking to build a non‐racial democratic South Africa by building the future in the present. This approach added to the orthodox repertoire of non‐cooperation anddefiance, and played a crucial role in makin…
Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements . Temma Kaplan Gender in Third World Politics . Georgina Waylen
Diversity and disadvantage: Feminist perspectives from the USA and South Africa
This article is concerned with how the current preoccupation with understanding ‘difference’ has displaced concerns with disadvantage and inequality. It argues that a central issue in both the USA and South Africa is how to address disadvantage and link diversity to unity. The article concludes that it is important to assert the transformative potential of feminism at a time when many define equality conservatively to mean integration into the ex…
The Feminist Challenge to Militarism
JACKLYN COCK explores the globalisation of militarism in the post-Cold War era. She argues that gun ownership is a sign of social disintegration. Only complete demilitarisation will bring stability
Engendering gay and lesbian rights: The equality clause in the south african constitution
A Gendered Analysis of the Crisis of Social Reproduction in Contemporary South Africa
This article argues that African working class households are the sites of a crisis of social reproduction in contemporary South Africa. Through a gendered analysis of five townships in Emnambithi the article demonstrates that African working class women are the shock absorbers of this crisis. While feminist scholars point to a growing crisis of social reproduction as a global phenomenon, the South African material illustrates how poor women expe…
Eco-feminist Organizing in South Africa: Reflections on the Feminist Table
This article focuses on the activities of a modest feminist initiative called "The Feminist Table." Established in 2012, it is one of a number of initiatives trying to develop grassroots eco-feminist solidarity among black women in contemporary South Africa. It uses the Marxist feminist notion of social reproduction, i.e. the unpaid care work which these women do outside the market, both in their households and in their communities. This work is …
Keeping the fires burning: Militarisation and the politics of gender in South Africa
This article focuses on the connection between women and militarisation. It is a connection which is obscured by analyses which conceptualise war as a male affair and the military as a patriarchal institution from which women are excluded and by whom they are often victimised. White women contribute to the militarisation of South African society in both material and ideological terms. At the same time a minority of white women are a source of res…
Disposable nannies: Domestic servants in the political economy of South Africa
Roughly 89 per cent of domestic servants in South Africa are black and of these about 88 per cent are women. Domestic service accounts for the employment of 38 per cent of black women whose conditions of work are the least protected within one of the most regimented labour forces in the world. The institution of black domestic labour socialises whites into the dominant ideological order of race and exposes servants to its most humiliating practic…
Beyond the nature–labour divide: Trade union responses to climate change in South Africa
We present the life histories of two environmentally engaged unionists in South Africa, who were decisive for formulating the environmental programmes of their respective trade unions. Their experiences of participating in the resistance against apartheid in universities and factories taught them the necessity to connect different struggles and equipped them with the knowledge and ability to connect the fight for workers’ rights with the fight ag…
Guards and Guns: Towards Privatised Militarism in Post-Apartheid South Africa
This article argues that contemporary South Africa is marked by the coexistence of both old and new forms of militarism. A shallow and uneven process of state demilitarisation was underway between 1990 to 1998 in the form of reductions in military expenditure, weapons holdings, force levels, employment in arms production and base closures. However, this has had contradictory consequences including providing an impetus to a ‘privatised militarism’…
Women and the Military: Implications for Demilitarization in the 1990s in South Africa
Militarization-the mobilization of resources for war-is a gendering process. It both uses and maintains the ideological construction of gender in the definitions of masculinity and femininity. This article draws on material from contemporary South Africa to illustrate the relation between gender and militarization in four respects: how women actively contribute toward the process of militarization; the similarities in the position of women in bot…
Trapped workers: Constraints and contradictions experienced by black women in contemporary South Africa
A feminist response to the food crisis in contemporary South Africa
Women’s responses to the food crisis in contemporary South Africa raise important questions for feminism. The realisation of the ’right to sufficient food’ enshrined in the post-apartheid constitution is central to achieving an active, gendered citizenship. However grassroots mobilisation is necessary to give such justiciable socio-economic rights substantive content. As part of that struggle women are driving alternatives to the neo-liberal food…
Diversity and disadvantage: Feminist perspectives from the USA and South Africa
This article is concerned with how the current preoccupation with understanding ‘difference’ has displaced concerns with disadvantage and inequality. It argues that a central issue in both the USA and South Africa is how to address disadvantage and link diversity to unity. The article concludes that it is important to assert the transformative potential of feminism at a time when many define equality conservatively to mean integration into the ex…
The Feminist Challenge to Militarism
JACKLYN COCK explores the globalisation of militarism in the post-Cold War era. She argues that gun ownership is a sign of social disintegration. Only complete demilitarisation will bring stability
Society at War: The Militarisation of South Africa
Steel, Nature and Society
The paper analyses the impact of free-market corporate logic on nature and society through focusing on ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel producer. The rapid expansion of this company from the Global South was achieved through strategic acquisitions of privatized state steel companies. This growth is characterized by processes which seriously altered nature in ways which proved detrimental to society. This impact is considered through field…
Public sociology and the social crisis
At the core of the crisis of social relations in contemporary South Africa is a privatisation of the public sphere which is forcing individuals to seek private remedies to socially produced problems. The way access to clean and adequate water is threatened by both privatisation and pollution illustrates this process. The article argues that resistance to these processes has the potential to ‘resocialise’ the crisis, and could be strengthened by t…
Hidden consequences of state violence: Spinal cord injuries in Soweto, South Africa
Projecting Peace in Apartheid South Africa
This article analyzes what it meant to pursue “peace” in apartheid South Africa, and shows that a clear and coherent strategy of achieving “peace with justice” was pursued —in the 1980s—by a network of non‐governmental organizations which were seeking to build a non‐racial democratic South Africa by building the future in the present. This approach added to the orthodox repertoire of non‐cooperation anddefiance, and played a crucial role in makin…
The Link Between Security and Development: The Problem of Light Weapons Proliferation in Southern Africa
The Place of Gender in a Demilitarisation Agenda
Disposable nannies: Domestic servants in the political economy of South Africa
Roughly 89 per cent of domestic servants in South Africa are black and of these about 88 per cent are women. Domestic service accounts for the employment of 38 per cent of black women whose conditions of work are the least protected within one of the most regimented labour forces in the world. The institution of black domestic labour socialises whites into the dominant ideological order of race and exposes servants to its most humiliating practic…
War, State and Society
Trapped workers: Constraints and contradictions experienced by black women in contemporary South Africa
Life ‘Inside the Shell’: A Needs Survey of Spinal Cord-injured Wheelchair Users in a Black South African Township
The paper focuses on the experiences of a sample of black spinal cord-injured people living in Soweto. It is argued that their lives are marked by poverty and social isolation. Both are the outcome of environmental and attitudinal barriers. These barriers operate against both disabled people and black people in apartheid South Africa. Therefore black disabled people are doubly discriminated against. Both sets of constraints prevent them from deve…
What Is Progressive Feminism?' Questions Raised by the Life of Jane Waterston (1843-1932)
Keeping the fires burning: Militarisation and the politics of gender in South Africa
This article focuses on the connection between women and militarisation. It is a connection which is obscured by analyses which conceptualise war as a male affair and the military as a patriarchal institution from which women are excluded and by whom they are often victimised. White women contribute to the militarisation of South African society in both material and ideological terms. At the same time a minority of white women are a source of res…
Hidden consequences of state violence: Spinal cord injuries in Soweto, South Africa
Society at War: The Militarisation of South Africa
Colonels & cadres: War & gender in South Africa
Society at War: The Militarisation of South Africa
Militarism, Armament and Social Change in Africa: Reflections and a Guide Research Bibliography
The World Women's Congress for a Healthy Planet
O ^ ne of Florida's specialities is Key Ume Pie; it is deliciously sweet and fluffy but not especially filling. Eating it in a Miami restaurant the night before the opening of the World Women's Congress for a Healthy Planet in November 1991, Michelle Friedman and I hoped that it wouldn't be a metaphor for the congress itself lots of sweet sounding talk, but insubstantial; lacking the solid base of economic analysis necessary to address human need…
The Place of Gender in a Demilitarisation Agenda
Going Green: People, Politics and the Environment in South Africa
Women and the Military: Implications for Demilitarization in the 1990s in South Africa
Militarization-the mobilization of resources for war-is a gendering process. It both uses and maintains the ideological construction of gender in the definitions of masculinity and femininity. This article draws on material from contemporary South Africa to illustrate the relation between gender and militarization in four respects: how women actively contribute toward the process of militarization; the similarities in the position of women in bot…
The Link Between Security and Development: The Problem of Light Weapons Proliferation in Southern Africa
The Feminist Challenge to Militarism
JACKLYN COCK explores the globalisation of militarism in the post-Cold War era. She argues that gun ownership is a sign of social disintegration. Only complete demilitarisation will bring stability
Diversity and disadvantage: Feminist perspectives from the USA and South Africa
This article is concerned with how the current preoccupation with understanding ‘difference’ has displaced concerns with disadvantage and inequality. It argues that a central issue in both the USA and South Africa is how to address disadvantage and link diversity to unity. The article concludes that it is important to assert the transformative potential of feminism at a time when many define equality conservatively to mean integration into the ex…
Crazy for Democracy
Projecting Peace in Apartheid South Africa
This article analyzes what it meant to pursue “peace” in apartheid South Africa, and shows that a clear and coherent strategy of achieving “peace with justice” was pursued —in the 1980s—by a network of non‐governmental organizations which were seeking to build a non‐racial democratic South Africa by building the future in the present. This approach added to the orthodox repertoire of non‐cooperation anddefiance, and played a crucial role in makin…
Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements . Temma Kaplan Gender in Third World Politics . Georgina Waylen
The impact of globalisation on environmental politics in South Africa, 1990-2002
Gender Differences: Struggles Around ?Needs? and ?Rights? in South Africa
NWSA Journal - Volume 13, Number 3, Fall 2001
Engendering gay and lesbian rights: The equality clause in the south african constitution
Sociological dilemmas in a local context
The theme of this year's meeting of the powerful 13,000 member strong American Sociological Association (ASA) was ‘public sociologies’. The term public sociology was invented in the United States to criticise and counter mounting professionalisation. In many countries of today the term public sociology is not necessary as sociology is presumed to be public. In order to illustrate this point the ASA invited representatives from different regions o…
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