Van Wolputte
Biographic Data
| ID | 18824 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Van Wolputte |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Wolputte |
| SIGNATURE | VAN WOLPUTTE |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0450-1756 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Aftermath – What Future for African Studies (in Europe?). A View From Behind the Scenes of Ecas9
In the spring of 2023, the ninth European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) took place in Cologne. Though not unexpected (or unusual) this event sparked critical comments and questions. As the organisers, we understand and appreciate this criticism. We, therefore, felt the need to respond to at least some of them, partly because we also asked ourselves many of these questions before, during, and after the conference. At the same time, we want …
Futuring Africa: An Introduction
Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated. Whichever angle you take, be sure to leave the strong impression
An officer and an activist: Futuring, precarity and life after exile in Namibia
This article explores the life histories of two Namibians who grew up in SWAPO's exile camps in Angola and their 'futuring' trajectories once they returned home to Namibia after independence. Presenting these actors' life histories of navigating Namibian society helps challenge a one-sided economic interpretation of precariousness. More critical than asserting dichotomies between 'elite' and 'precariat' are the stratagems and choices shaping live…
African Futures
The essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider what is possible in Africa. The essays shake the tree of received wisdom and received categories, and hone in on the complexities of life under ecological and economic constraints. Yet, throughout this volume, people do not emerge as victims, but rather as inventors, engineers, scientists, planners, writers, artists, and activists, or as children, mothers, fathers, friends, or…
Using Liminality and Subjunctivity to Better Understand How Patients With Cancer Experience Uncertainty Throughout Their Illness Trajectory
Uncertainty is a central theme in the illness experiences of older cancer patients throughout their illness trajectory. Mishel's popular theory on uncertainty during illness approaches uncertainty as an outcome and is characterized by the patient's inability to find meaning in illness events. This study used the concepts of liminality and subjunctivity to explore uncertainty throughout the illness trajectory of cancer patients. We interviewed 18 …
Indaba-Fieldwork, Jive and Phenomenology
When on my first fieldwork trip in north-western Namibia, the music by the Soul Brothers (a South African jive band) confronted me with my own naivety and estrangement. But it also introduced me to phenomenology, and continues to warn against an all too intellectualist understanding of social and cultural realities
A Tale of Six Circles: A Travelogue
sponsorship: The Research For This, ER, Story was made possibile by successive Grants by the research Foundation Flanders, and especially by Grant 150911N on the politics of love; urban devepment, intimacy and the future in the northern kunene region, nambia, even if i sincerely doubt that they would classify this undesr "scientific output". Graphics to hyamakuma and my friends and interlocutors in Omirora and Opuwo for sharing their drawings, fo…
Six Notes: Afterthoughts
status: Published
Sex in troubled times: Moral panic, polyamory and freedom in north-west Namibia
In Namibia, early missionary accounts on Herero society were intrigued by the important role of the matriclan, as it did not fit their ideas of an ideal pastoral society . Despite however their obsession with female sexuality, metonymically expressed in concerns over political organization and kinship, female agency was absent from the equation.\nAt first sight, contemporary public discourse on ‘traditional’ sexuality in north-western Namibia is …
The natives are clever enough: Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia and the politics of ambiguity in north-west Namibia
In Kaoko, north-west Namibia, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia was the background to the local experience of colonialism and South African rule, a period that is locally remembered for the smell of putrefaction spread by animals bearing the disease. This article investigates what this smell tells us about the particular modalities of colonial rule in this remote borderland. By means of two case studies, it argues that in this particular context …
Interview: Rosalind Hackett reflects on religious media in Africa
In October 2013, the editors of this special issue conducted an interview with Rosalind Hackett, one of the pioneering scholars in the field of media and religion. The interview took place via email and consisted of five questions that address the discussion in this special issue of Social Compass and attempt to look into the future of religion and technology studies. As African societies and their media production and reception are transforming …
Introduction: Visions du paradis/Visions of paradise
peer reviewed
Taylor, Julie J: Naming the Land. San Identity and Community Conservation in Namibia’s West Caprivi
Anthropos , Seite 744 - 745
The interdependence of mobility and faith-an introduction
Re ́sume ́\nL’introduction de ce nume ́ro spe ́cial resserre les enjeux the ́oriques et analytiques qui\ntraversent ces quatre textes. Ces textes montrent que de ́votion et mobilite ́, croyance et\ntrajectoire vont de pair. L’argument principal en est que les mouvements religieux\ne ́tudie ́s ici ne constituent pas des phe ́nome`nes locaux qui cherchent a` transcender les\nfrontie`res e ́tablies. Ces mouvements religieux sont eux-meˆmes la transc…
The Ironies of Pop: Local Music Production and Citizenship in a Small Namibian Town
This case study probes the close link between locality and musical production. The setting is Opuwo, a small city in northern Namibia, notorious for its many bars. Here the music of a local band, Bullet ya Kaoko, provides the soundtrack to the quest for belonging and identity that takes place in the marginal space constituted by these bars and pubs. Bullet ya Kaoko performances are characterized by the simultaneous articulation of paradoxical ima…
The socio-cultural-symbolic nexus in the perpetuation of female genital cutting: A critical review of existing discourses
Female Genital Cutting (FGC), also known as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Female Circumcision (FC), continues to be a prevalent practice in many parts of the world and especially in Africa. This is somewhat perplexing given the concerted efforts aimed at eradicating this practice. This article argues that the perperuation of FGC is due to the unintended effects of marginalization experienced by individuals and groups of women as a result of…
The socio-cultural-symbolic nexus in the perpetuation of female genital cutting: A critical review of existing discourses
Female Genital Cutting (FGC), also known as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Female Circumcision (FC), continues to be a prevalent practice in many parts of the world and especially in Africa. This is somewhat perplexing given the concerted efforts aimed at eradicating this practice. This article argues that the perpetuation of FGC is due to the unintended effects of marginalization experienced by individuals and groups of women as a result of…
Female genital cutting and sexual function: In Search of an Alternate Theoretical Model
This article revisits the open debate regarding the link between Female Genital Cutting (FGC) and Female Sexual Function (FSF). In particular, it considers how the practice, both as an operative procedure involving the alteration of external female genitalia, and culturally sanctioned maturation ritual, affects subjects' sexual function and capacity to self-actualise in matters pertaining to sexuality. The article questions the validity of prevai…
All tomorrow's cultures. Anthropological engagement with the future by Collins, Samuel: Reviews
status: Published
Culinary art and anthropology by Adapon, Joy
status: Published
Killing animals by Animal Studies Group
status: Published
Marginal gains: Monetary transactions in Atlantic Africa - By Jane Guyer
Cattle Works: Livestock Policy, Apartheid and Development in Northwest Namibia, c 1920-1980
Reading between the lines of the colonial archive on the northern Kunene Region, Namibia, this article documents the uncertainty of colonial rule in this arid and mountainous borderland. So doing, it advocates a phenomenological approach of the state. Indirect rule and apartheid were primarily experienced in terms of its livestock policy. Livestock also was the principal stake of the intended development of the region. For the colonial regime thi…
Animals at stake. A tribology of modernity and the state
In many ways, nomadic and pastoral communities live at the fringes of the contemporary nation-state: literally, since for historical and political reasons they often inhabit its border regions; and metaphorically, as they often find themselves at a considerable distance from the seats of power and decision-making. These communities also occupy a rather ambivalent position in the modernist imagination: they are regarded on the one hand as 'authent…
Animals at stake. A tribology of modernity and the state1
Hang on to Your Self: Of Bodies, Embodiment, and Selves
During the past twenty years the human body evolved from a rather marginal social fact into a notion of central concern to current social and cultural anthropology. But recent studies question the idea of the body as a given physical entity. They focus on the experience or threat of finiteness, limitation, and vulnerability and also raise doubts regarding the individuality of the self: Instead they emphasize its fragmentary character and focus on…
Cattle Works: Livestock Policy, Apartheid and Development in Northwest Namibia, c 1920-1980
Reading between the lines of the colonial archive on the northern Kunene Region, Namibia, this article documents the uncertainty of colonial rule in this arid and mountainous borderland. So doing, it advocates a phenomenological approach of the state. Indirect rule and apartheid were primarily experienced in terms of its livestock policy. Livestock also was the principal stake of the intended development of the region. For the colonial regime thi…
Subject Disobedience: The Colonial Narrative and Native Counterworks in Northwestern Namibia, c.1920-1975
This article concentrates on the ambiguities and contradictions in the colonial archive on North West Namibia (a region also known as Kaokoland), and on the way these were exploited by the "stubborn traditionalists" inhabiting it. Its aim is to place the emergence of postcolonial identities and subjectivities in the region in an historical perspective. To do so, it takes a look at the depoliticized discourse on livestock and development in which …
Using Liminality and Subjunctivity to Better Understand How Patients With Cancer Experience Uncertainty Throughout Their Illness Trajectory
Uncertainty is a central theme in the illness experiences of older cancer patients throughout their illness trajectory. Mishel's popular theory on uncertainty during illness approaches uncertainty as an outcome and is characterized by the patient's inability to find meaning in illness events. This study used the concepts of liminality and subjunctivity to explore uncertainty throughout the illness trajectory of cancer patients. We interviewed 18 …
African Futures
The essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider what is possible in Africa. The essays shake the tree of received wisdom and received categories, and hone in on the complexities of life under ecological and economic constraints. Yet, throughout this volume, people do not emerge as victims, but rather as inventors, engineers, scientists, planners, writers, artists, and activists, or as children, mothers, fathers, friends, or…
Sex in troubled times: Moral panic, polyamory and freedom in north-west Namibia
In Namibia, early missionary accounts on Herero society were intrigued by the important role of the matriclan, as it did not fit their ideas of an ideal pastoral society . Despite however their obsession with female sexuality, metonymically expressed in concerns over political organization and kinship, female agency was absent from the equation.\nAt first sight, contemporary public discourse on ‘traditional’ sexuality in north-western Namibia is …
The interdependence of mobility and faith-an introduction
Re ́sume ́\nL’introduction de ce nume ́ro spe ́cial resserre les enjeux the ́oriques et analytiques qui\ntraversent ces quatre textes. Ces textes montrent que de ́votion et mobilite ́, croyance et\ntrajectoire vont de pair. L’argument principal en est que les mouvements religieux\ne ́tudie ́s ici ne constituent pas des phe ́nome`nes locaux qui cherchent a` transcender les\nfrontie`res e ́tablies. Ces mouvements religieux sont eux-meˆmes la transc…
An officer and an activist: Futuring, precarity and life after exile in Namibia
This article explores the life histories of two Namibians who grew up in SWAPO's exile camps in Angola and their 'futuring' trajectories once they returned home to Namibia after independence. Presenting these actors' life histories of navigating Namibian society helps challenge a one-sided economic interpretation of precariousness. More critical than asserting dichotomies between 'elite' and 'precariat' are the stratagems and choices shaping live…
A Tale of Six Circles: A Travelogue
sponsorship: The Research For This, ER, Story was made possibile by successive Grants by the research Foundation Flanders, and especially by Grant 150911N on the politics of love; urban devepment, intimacy and the future in the northern kunene region, nambia, even if i sincerely doubt that they would classify this undesr "scientific output". Graphics to hyamakuma and my friends and interlocutors in Omirora and Opuwo for sharing their drawings, fo…
Female genital cutting and sexual function: In Search of an Alternate Theoretical Model
This article revisits the open debate regarding the link between Female Genital Cutting (FGC) and Female Sexual Function (FSF). In particular, it considers how the practice, both as an operative procedure involving the alteration of external female genitalia, and culturally sanctioned maturation ritual, affects subjects' sexual function and capacity to self-actualise in matters pertaining to sexuality. The article questions the validity of prevai…
The Ironies of Pop: Local Music Production and Citizenship in a Small Namibian Town
This case study probes the close link between locality and musical production. The setting is Opuwo, a small city in northern Namibia, notorious for its many bars. Here the music of a local band, Bullet ya Kaoko, provides the soundtrack to the quest for belonging and identity that takes place in the marginal space constituted by these bars and pubs. Bullet ya Kaoko performances are characterized by the simultaneous articulation of paradoxical ima…
Killing animals by Animal Studies Group
status: Published
Mort et maladie au Zaire
Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers (ed.), Mort et maladie au Zaïre. Afrika Studien/Cahiers africains, Zaïre, années 90, vol. 8, no. 31–32, Tervuren: CED AF/ASDOC; Paris: Harmattan, 1998, 172 pp., ISBN 2 7384 6233 2. - Volume 71 Issue 3
Hang on to Your Self: Of Bodies, Embodiment, and Selves
During the past twenty years the human body evolved from a rather marginal social fact into a notion of central concern to current social and cultural anthropology. But recent studies question the idea of the body as a given physical entity. They focus on the experience or threat of finiteness, limitation, and vulnerability and also raise doubts regarding the individuality of the self: Instead they emphasize its fragmentary character and focus on…
Subject Disobedience: The Colonial Narrative and Native Counterworks in Northwestern Namibia, c.1920-1975
This article concentrates on the ambiguities and contradictions in the colonial archive on North West Namibia (a region also known as Kaokoland), and on the way these were exploited by the "stubborn traditionalists" inhabiting it. Its aim is to place the emergence of postcolonial identities and subjectivities in the region in an historical perspective. To do so, it takes a look at the depoliticized discourse on livestock and development in which …
Animals at stake. A tribology of modernity and the state
In many ways, nomadic and pastoral communities live at the fringes of the contemporary nation-state: literally, since for historical and political reasons they often inhabit its border regions; and metaphorically, as they often find themselves at a considerable distance from the seats of power and decision-making. These communities also occupy a rather ambivalent position in the modernist imagination: they are regarded on the one hand as 'authent…
Animals at stake. A tribology of modernity and the state1
Marginal gains: Monetary transactions in Atlantic Africa - By Jane Guyer
Cattle Works: Livestock Policy, Apartheid and Development in Northwest Namibia, c 1920-1980
Reading between the lines of the colonial archive on the northern Kunene Region, Namibia, this article documents the uncertainty of colonial rule in this arid and mountainous borderland. So doing, it advocates a phenomenological approach of the state. Indirect rule and apartheid were primarily experienced in terms of its livestock policy. Livestock also was the principal stake of the intended development of the region. For the colonial regime thi…
Killing animals by Animal Studies Group
status: Published
Female genital cutting and sexual function: In Search of an Alternate Theoretical Model
This article revisits the open debate regarding the link between Female Genital Cutting (FGC) and Female Sexual Function (FSF). In particular, it considers how the practice, both as an operative procedure involving the alteration of external female genitalia, and culturally sanctioned maturation ritual, affects subjects' sexual function and capacity to self-actualise in matters pertaining to sexuality. The article questions the validity of prevai…
All tomorrow's cultures. Anthropological engagement with the future by Collins, Samuel: Reviews
status: Published
Culinary art and anthropology by Adapon, Joy
status: Published
The socio-cultural-symbolic nexus in the perpetuation of female genital cutting: A critical review of existing discourses
Female Genital Cutting (FGC), also known as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Female Circumcision (FC), continues to be a prevalent practice in many parts of the world and especially in Africa. This is somewhat perplexing given the concerted efforts aimed at eradicating this practice. This article argues that the perperuation of FGC is due to the unintended effects of marginalization experienced by individuals and groups of women as a result of…
The socio-cultural-symbolic nexus in the perpetuation of female genital cutting: A critical review of existing discourses
Female Genital Cutting (FGC), also known as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Female Circumcision (FC), continues to be a prevalent practice in many parts of the world and especially in Africa. This is somewhat perplexing given the concerted efforts aimed at eradicating this practice. This article argues that the perpetuation of FGC is due to the unintended effects of marginalization experienced by individuals and groups of women as a result of…
The interdependence of mobility and faith-an introduction
Re ́sume ́\nL’introduction de ce nume ́ro spe ́cial resserre les enjeux the ́oriques et analytiques qui\ntraversent ces quatre textes. Ces textes montrent que de ́votion et mobilite ́, croyance et\ntrajectoire vont de pair. L’argument principal en est que les mouvements religieux\ne ́tudie ́s ici ne constituent pas des phe ́nome`nes locaux qui cherchent a` transcender les\nfrontie`res e ́tablies. Ces mouvements religieux sont eux-meˆmes la transc…
The Ironies of Pop: Local Music Production and Citizenship in a Small Namibian Town
This case study probes the close link between locality and musical production. The setting is Opuwo, a small city in northern Namibia, notorious for its many bars. Here the music of a local band, Bullet ya Kaoko, provides the soundtrack to the quest for belonging and identity that takes place in the marginal space constituted by these bars and pubs. Bullet ya Kaoko performances are characterized by the simultaneous articulation of paradoxical ima…
Interview: Rosalind Hackett reflects on religious media in Africa
In October 2013, the editors of this special issue conducted an interview with Rosalind Hackett, one of the pioneering scholars in the field of media and religion. The interview took place via email and consisted of five questions that address the discussion in this special issue of Social Compass and attempt to look into the future of religion and technology studies. As African societies and their media production and reception are transforming …
Introduction: Visions du paradis/Visions of paradise
peer reviewed
Taylor, Julie J: Naming the Land. San Identity and Community Conservation in Namibia’s West Caprivi
Anthropos , Seite 744 - 745
The natives are clever enough: Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia and the politics of ambiguity in north-west Namibia
In Kaoko, north-west Namibia, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia was the background to the local experience of colonialism and South African rule, a period that is locally remembered for the smell of putrefaction spread by animals bearing the disease. This article investigates what this smell tells us about the particular modalities of colonial rule in this remote borderland. By means of two case studies, it argues that in this particular context …
Sex in troubled times: Moral panic, polyamory and freedom in north-west Namibia
In Namibia, early missionary accounts on Herero society were intrigued by the important role of the matriclan, as it did not fit their ideas of an ideal pastoral society . Despite however their obsession with female sexuality, metonymically expressed in concerns over political organization and kinship, female agency was absent from the equation.\nAt first sight, contemporary public discourse on ‘traditional’ sexuality in north-western Namibia is …
A Tale of Six Circles: A Travelogue
sponsorship: The Research For This, ER, Story was made possibile by successive Grants by the research Foundation Flanders, and especially by Grant 150911N on the politics of love; urban devepment, intimacy and the future in the northern kunene region, nambia, even if i sincerely doubt that they would classify this undesr "scientific output". Graphics to hyamakuma and my friends and interlocutors in Omirora and Opuwo for sharing their drawings, fo…
Six Notes: Afterthoughts
status: Published
Indaba-Fieldwork, Jive and Phenomenology
When on my first fieldwork trip in north-western Namibia, the music by the Soul Brothers (a South African jive band) confronted me with my own naivety and estrangement. But it also introduced me to phenomenology, and continues to warn against an all too intellectualist understanding of social and cultural realities
Using Liminality and Subjunctivity to Better Understand How Patients With Cancer Experience Uncertainty Throughout Their Illness Trajectory
Uncertainty is a central theme in the illness experiences of older cancer patients throughout their illness trajectory. Mishel's popular theory on uncertainty during illness approaches uncertainty as an outcome and is characterized by the patient's inability to find meaning in illness events. This study used the concepts of liminality and subjunctivity to explore uncertainty throughout the illness trajectory of cancer patients. We interviewed 18 …
African Futures
The essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider what is possible in Africa. The essays shake the tree of received wisdom and received categories, and hone in on the complexities of life under ecological and economic constraints. Yet, throughout this volume, people do not emerge as victims, but rather as inventors, engineers, scientists, planners, writers, artists, and activists, or as children, mothers, fathers, friends, or…
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