Janeke Thumbran
Biographic Data
| ID | 190499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janeke Thumbran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janeke |
| FAMILY NAME | Thumbran |
| SIGNATURE | THUMBRAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3854-5511 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Coloured: How Classification Became Culture
Coloured: How Classification Became Culture. Anthropology Southern Africa. Ahead of Print. Coloured: How Classification Became Culture. Anthropology Southern Africa. Ahead of Print
South Africa, 1994 + 30: A Conversation About History After Apartheid
In this wide-ranging conversation, six scholars of South Africa detail threads of continuity and change in the historiographies, popular memories, archives, research agendas, methodologies, and within the South African academy and historical professional since the end of formal apartheid in 1994
Naomi Roux. Remaking the Urban: Heritage and Transformation in Nelson Mandela Bay
Naomi Roux’s Remaking the Urban: Heritage and Transformation in Nelson Mandela Bay is a thoughtful text that shifts the focus of heritage studies in South Africa to the geographical site of the Eastern Cape. By grappling with the politics and processes of memory making in the urban landscape of Nelson Mandela Bay, Roux expands upon recent scholarship, such as Minkley, Rassool, and Wits’s Unsettled Histories (2017). Like Unsettled Histories, which…
Until the people govern”: The Black students’ movement at Rhodes University in the 1980s
This paper examines the emergence of the Black Students’ Movement (BSM), a black organization formed at Rhodes University in the 1980s. The BSM aligned its anti-apartheid politics with the United Democratic Front (UDF) and black consciousness philosophy. It emerged due to the conservative disposition of the Student Representative Council (SRC), and sought to address both the issues that black students faced on campus and to draw attention to the …
Transporting the "Bus Stop Republic" - resilience and apartheid's transport infrastructure, 1979 to present times
This article examines how PUTCO buses formed part of apartheid infrastructure by transporting commuters between the Bantustan of KwaNdebele and Pretoria. It discusses the arduous conditions of this daily commute, as well as the ways in which PUTCO buses became central to mobilising against KwaNdebele’s independence in 1986. More specifically, this article demonstrates how the daily exhaustion of commuters, the poor design of these buses, their la…
Rethinking resilience: South Africa and self-reliance
This article, as the introduction to the Rethinking Resilience special issue, lays out the political and historical terrain of thinking with resilience, from South Africa, in 2021. It outlines the urgencies of the current moment, while delving into how the use of “resilience” has been adapted from scientific disciplines into various fields and broader popular culture. We discuss the two primary interlinking and overlapping themes of Rethinking Re…
Headlands and Headings: Re-locating the Coloured Category
In this paper I make two arguments: first, that the Western Cape has always functioned as the epistemological heading of the 'coloured' category. This is because it is in the Western Cape where the category first emerged as a descriptor for the 'mixing of blood', and where knowledge around the category was first produced through the appointment of commissions of inquiry. In addition, intellectuals in the Western Cape based primarily at Stellenbos…
Forging an Alternative to Separate Development: Afrikaner Sociology, the Apartheid State, and the ‘Coloured’ Question (c.1932–1984)
This article makes an intervention into the historiography which has positioned Afrikaner sociology as an unambiguous instrument of the apartheid state. In doing so, the article examines how leading Afrikaner sociologists used Parsonian structural functionalism to engage with the coloured question in the 1970s – articulated as the conundrum of where to position coloureds politically in the absence of direct representation in parliament. The prima…
South Africa, 1994 + 30: A Conversation About History After Apartheid
In this wide-ranging conversation, six scholars of South Africa detail threads of continuity and change in the historiographies, popular memories, archives, research agendas, methodologies, and within the South African academy and historical professional since the end of formal apartheid in 1994
Headlands and Headings: Re-locating the Coloured Category
In this paper I make two arguments: first, that the Western Cape has always functioned as the epistemological heading of the 'coloured' category. This is because it is in the Western Cape where the category first emerged as a descriptor for the 'mixing of blood', and where knowledge around the category was first produced through the appointment of commissions of inquiry. In addition, intellectuals in the Western Cape based primarily at Stellenbos…
Forging an Alternative to Separate Development: Afrikaner Sociology, the Apartheid State, and the ‘Coloured’ Question (c.1932–1984)
This article makes an intervention into the historiography which has positioned Afrikaner sociology as an unambiguous instrument of the apartheid state. In doing so, the article examines how leading Afrikaner sociologists used Parsonian structural functionalism to engage with the coloured question in the 1970s – articulated as the conundrum of where to position coloureds politically in the absence of direct representation in parliament. The prima…
Until the people govern”: The Black students’ movement at Rhodes University in the 1980s
This paper examines the emergence of the Black Students’ Movement (BSM), a black organization formed at Rhodes University in the 1980s. The BSM aligned its anti-apartheid politics with the United Democratic Front (UDF) and black consciousness philosophy. It emerged due to the conservative disposition of the Student Representative Council (SRC), and sought to address both the issues that black students faced on campus and to draw attention to the …
Transporting the "Bus Stop Republic" - resilience and apartheid's transport infrastructure, 1979 to present times
This article examines how PUTCO buses formed part of apartheid infrastructure by transporting commuters between the Bantustan of KwaNdebele and Pretoria. It discusses the arduous conditions of this daily commute, as well as the ways in which PUTCO buses became central to mobilising against KwaNdebele’s independence in 1986. More specifically, this article demonstrates how the daily exhaustion of commuters, the poor design of these buses, their la…
Rethinking resilience: South Africa and self-reliance
This article, as the introduction to the Rethinking Resilience special issue, lays out the political and historical terrain of thinking with resilience, from South Africa, in 2021. It outlines the urgencies of the current moment, while delving into how the use of “resilience” has been adapted from scientific disciplines into various fields and broader popular culture. We discuss the two primary interlinking and overlapping themes of Rethinking Re…
Naomi Roux. Remaking the Urban: Heritage and Transformation in Nelson Mandela Bay
Naomi Roux’s Remaking the Urban: Heritage and Transformation in Nelson Mandela Bay is a thoughtful text that shifts the focus of heritage studies in South Africa to the geographical site of the Eastern Cape. By grappling with the politics and processes of memory making in the urban landscape of Nelson Mandela Bay, Roux expands upon recent scholarship, such as Minkley, Rassool, and Wits’s Unsettled Histories (2017). Like Unsettled Histories, which…
South Africa, 1994 + 30: A Conversation About History After Apartheid
In this wide-ranging conversation, six scholars of South Africa detail threads of continuity and change in the historiographies, popular memories, archives, research agendas, methodologies, and within the South African academy and historical professional since the end of formal apartheid in 1994
Coloured: How Classification Became Culture
Coloured: How Classification Became Culture. Anthropology Southern Africa. Ahead of Print. Coloured: How Classification Became Culture. Anthropology Southern Africa. Ahead of Print
Sociology (6 works) · South African History and Culture (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · History (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Legal Issues in South Africa (3 works)