Shahid Vawda
Biographic Data
| ID | 203027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shahid Vawda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shahid |
| FAMILY NAME | Vawda |
| SIGNATURE | VAWDA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4214-6836 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction
Modern Heritage in the Anthropocene draws from a critical selection of the 54 papers presented at the second International MoHoA conference Modern Heritage in the Anthropocene , (October 26–28, 2022), hosted by The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, in partnership with the University of Liverpool's School of Architecture. The conference expanded MoHoA's aim of encouraging equitable approaches to modern heritage as an urge…
Questioning modernity and heritage
The proposed construction of the controversial Amazon African headquarters at the River Club site in Cape Town encompasses several issues related to modern heritage, colonial practices, sustainable development, the nature‐culture divide, and the Anthropocene. Although approved by the City of Cape Town and the provincial government of the Western Cape, with plans for residential and business units, activists, researchers, environmental organizatio…
Prologue
This issue of the Curator is the result of 2 years of intense discussion with colleagues mainly living and working on the African continent in the broad field of heritage studies. Colleagues from other places and institutions, co-hosted by University of Cape Town and The Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL (UK), including various UNESCO agencies, the Getty Conservation Institute, Modern Cities Network have also made immeasurable contributions …
Towards the Cape Town Document
The Modern Heritage of Africa (MoHoA) initiative was conceived at a critical confluence of existential planetary conditions and rising global inequality, exacerbated and accelerated by the Covid‐19 pandemic, the Ukraine ‐Russia war, and a resurgence of racism and extreme nationalism. These phenomena share a common root in being products of the modern age and yet, paradoxically, endanger its legacy through the pursuit of inequitable and unsustaina…
Co‐Curating the Cape Town Document on Modern Heritage
The Modern Heritage of Africa [MoHoA] programme was set up to support an equitable and sustainable heritage agenda in Africa and beyond through the research, protection, utilisation, reinterpretation and reconceptualisation of modern heritage and to contribute to improving the implementation of the World Heritage Convention across the African continent and in other areas of under‐representation and historical marginalisation. It was conceptualise…
Migration and Muslim Identities
This paper is about foreign African Muslims, particularly Malawian and Senegalese Muslim migrants in Durban, South Africa. Modern 21 st century migration processes are a global phenomenon deeply embedded in a complex interaction of social, economic and political patterns and processes, often leading to concentrations and enclaves people in large urban centres, such as Durban, along lines of religious, ethnic or national origins. Durban itself is …
The Vilakazi Prize Report
Identities, Livelihoods and Transnational Migration
Transnational approaches have led to perspectives of migrations as emblematic of globalisation, alternative modernities, and a celebration of multicultural identities and politics. Yet many of these analyses often miss the importance of religion and the religious identity of migrants. This article discusses Malawian migrants, mostly from the Yao ethnic group in the Mangochi district. As transnational migrants they have configured their identities…
The Viability of Islamic Banking and Finance in a Capitalist Economy
Muslims in post-apartheid South Africa have been seeking to introduce stricter Islamic codes in the public and private domains to redefine the kind of Muslims they want to be. An important aspect of this process is the attempt to reconcile living in a "non-Islamic" country with Islamic principles relating to finance, banking, and investment. Muslims are prohibited from engaging in interest (riba)-related economic activities. Muslim minorities wor…
Emergent Democracy and 'Resurgent' Tradition
This article explores chieftaincy in democratic South Africa and particularly in KwaZulu-Natal, where traditional leadership is vocal and politically embedded. Informed by institutional theories, we argue that tradition is more persistent than ‘resurgent’ and that the relationship between ubukhosi (chieftaincy) and wider governance structures in the province and South Africa must be seen as part of a much longer history that exhibits both continu…
Navigating tradition
Strains on democratic governance in many parts of Africa have led to a resurgence of traditional authority. In South Africa, democratisation has been accompanied by moves to guarantee a role in governance development for traditional leaders, especially at the local level. Most often associated with the administration of rural areas and small towns, traditional authorities are only occasionally part of metropolitan governance. An exception (and th…
Indian Workers and Worker Action in Durban, 1935–1945
The other anthropology
(1995). The other anthropology: a response to Gordon and Spiegel's review of Southern African anthropology. African Studies: Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 128-131
The Emerging of Islam in an African Township
IntroductionWhile Islam is a fairly dominant religion in Africa, it is verysmall and has been treated as insignificant in southern Africa. Forexample Trimingham, in his survey of the phases of Islamic expansionin Africa, makes the dismissive comment: “Islam’s penetrationinto central and south Africa is so slight that it may be ignored."The presence of Muslims in South Africa, albeit a small percentageof the total population, cannot easily be igno…
Banking, Credit and Capital in Colonial Natal, c.1850-1910
In 1843 Natal, on the south east coast of Africa, became a British colony after a contest between Boer and British forces which had culminated in the battle of Congella. The colony was not particularly wealthy; its resources being made up primarily of wild game and cattle, the latter chiefly in the possession of the yet unsubjugated Africans of the area. The Zulu state was still intact and abutted the northern borders of the colony. One of the ea…
Emergent Democracy and 'Resurgent' Tradition
This article explores chieftaincy in democratic South Africa and particularly in KwaZulu-Natal, where traditional leadership is vocal and politically embedded. Informed by institutional theories, we argue that tradition is more persistent than ‘resurgent’ and that the relationship between ubukhosi (chieftaincy) and wider governance structures in the province and South Africa must be seen as part of a much longer history that exhibits both continu…
Migration and Muslim Identities
This paper is about foreign African Muslims, particularly Malawian and Senegalese Muslim migrants in Durban, South Africa. Modern 21 st century migration processes are a global phenomenon deeply embedded in a complex interaction of social, economic and political patterns and processes, often leading to concentrations and enclaves people in large urban centres, such as Durban, along lines of religious, ethnic or national origins. Durban itself is …
Identities, Livelihoods and Transnational Migration
Transnational approaches have led to perspectives of migrations as emblematic of globalisation, alternative modernities, and a celebration of multicultural identities and politics. Yet many of these analyses often miss the importance of religion and the religious identity of migrants. This article discusses Malawian migrants, mostly from the Yao ethnic group in the Mangochi district. As transnational migrants they have configured their identities…
The other anthropology
(1995). The other anthropology: a response to Gordon and Spiegel's review of Southern African anthropology. African Studies: Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 128-131
The Emerging of Islam in an African Township
IntroductionWhile Islam is a fairly dominant religion in Africa, it is verysmall and has been treated as insignificant in southern Africa. Forexample Trimingham, in his survey of the phases of Islamic expansionin Africa, makes the dismissive comment: “Islam’s penetrationinto central and south Africa is so slight that it may be ignored."The presence of Muslims in South Africa, albeit a small percentageof the total population, cannot easily be igno…
The Viability of Islamic Banking and Finance in a Capitalist Economy
Muslims in post-apartheid South Africa have been seeking to introduce stricter Islamic codes in the public and private domains to redefine the kind of Muslims they want to be. An important aspect of this process is the attempt to reconcile living in a "non-Islamic" country with Islamic principles relating to finance, banking, and investment. Muslims are prohibited from engaging in interest (riba)-related economic activities. Muslim minorities wor…
Navigating tradition
Strains on democratic governance in many parts of Africa have led to a resurgence of traditional authority. In South Africa, democratisation has been accompanied by moves to guarantee a role in governance development for traditional leaders, especially at the local level. Most often associated with the administration of rural areas and small towns, traditional authorities are only occasionally part of metropolitan governance. An exception (and th…
Indian Workers and Worker Action in Durban, 1935–1945
Banking, Credit and Capital in Colonial Natal, c.1850-1910
In 1843 Natal, on the south east coast of Africa, became a British colony after a contest between Boer and British forces which had culminated in the battle of Congella. The colony was not particularly wealthy; its resources being made up primarily of wild game and cattle, the latter chiefly in the possession of the yet unsubjugated Africans of the area. The Zulu state was still intact and abutted the northern borders of the colony. One of the ea…
The Emerging of Islam in an African Township
IntroductionWhile Islam is a fairly dominant religion in Africa, it is verysmall and has been treated as insignificant in southern Africa. Forexample Trimingham, in his survey of the phases of Islamic expansionin Africa, makes the dismissive comment: “Islam’s penetrationinto central and south Africa is so slight that it may be ignored."The presence of Muslims in South Africa, albeit a small percentageof the total population, cannot easily be igno…
The other anthropology
(1995). The other anthropology: a response to Gordon and Spiegel's review of Southern African anthropology. African Studies: Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 128-131
Indian Workers and Worker Action in Durban, 1935–1945
Navigating tradition
Strains on democratic governance in many parts of Africa have led to a resurgence of traditional authority. In South Africa, democratisation has been accompanied by moves to guarantee a role in governance development for traditional leaders, especially at the local level. Most often associated with the administration of rural areas and small towns, traditional authorities are only occasionally part of metropolitan governance. An exception (and th…
Emergent Democracy and 'Resurgent' Tradition
This article explores chieftaincy in democratic South Africa and particularly in KwaZulu-Natal, where traditional leadership is vocal and politically embedded. Informed by institutional theories, we argue that tradition is more persistent than ‘resurgent’ and that the relationship between ubukhosi (chieftaincy) and wider governance structures in the province and South Africa must be seen as part of a much longer history that exhibits both continu…
The Viability of Islamic Banking and Finance in a Capitalist Economy
Muslims in post-apartheid South Africa have been seeking to introduce stricter Islamic codes in the public and private domains to redefine the kind of Muslims they want to be. An important aspect of this process is the attempt to reconcile living in a "non-Islamic" country with Islamic principles relating to finance, banking, and investment. Muslims are prohibited from engaging in interest (riba)-related economic activities. Muslim minorities wor…
Identities, Livelihoods and Transnational Migration
Transnational approaches have led to perspectives of migrations as emblematic of globalisation, alternative modernities, and a celebration of multicultural identities and politics. Yet many of these analyses often miss the importance of religion and the religious identity of migrants. This article discusses Malawian migrants, mostly from the Yao ethnic group in the Mangochi district. As transnational migrants they have configured their identities…
The Vilakazi Prize Report
Migration and Muslim Identities
This paper is about foreign African Muslims, particularly Malawian and Senegalese Muslim migrants in Durban, South Africa. Modern 21 st century migration processes are a global phenomenon deeply embedded in a complex interaction of social, economic and political patterns and processes, often leading to concentrations and enclaves people in large urban centres, such as Durban, along lines of religious, ethnic or national origins. Durban itself is …
Prologue
This issue of the Curator is the result of 2 years of intense discussion with colleagues mainly living and working on the African continent in the broad field of heritage studies. Colleagues from other places and institutions, co-hosted by University of Cape Town and The Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL (UK), including various UNESCO agencies, the Getty Conservation Institute, Modern Cities Network have also made immeasurable contributions …
Towards the Cape Town Document
The Modern Heritage of Africa (MoHoA) initiative was conceived at a critical confluence of existential planetary conditions and rising global inequality, exacerbated and accelerated by the Covid‐19 pandemic, the Ukraine ‐Russia war, and a resurgence of racism and extreme nationalism. These phenomena share a common root in being products of the modern age and yet, paradoxically, endanger its legacy through the pursuit of inequitable and unsustaina…
Co‐Curating the Cape Town Document on Modern Heritage
The Modern Heritage of Africa [MoHoA] programme was set up to support an equitable and sustainable heritage agenda in Africa and beyond through the research, protection, utilisation, reinterpretation and reconceptualisation of modern heritage and to contribute to improving the implementation of the World Heritage Convention across the African continent and in other areas of under‐representation and historical marginalisation. It was conceptualise…
Introduction
Modern Heritage in the Anthropocene draws from a critical selection of the 54 papers presented at the second International MoHoA conference Modern Heritage in the Anthropocene , (October 26–28, 2022), hosted by The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, in partnership with the University of Liverpool's School of Architecture. The conference expanded MoHoA's aim of encouraging equitable approaches to modern heritage as an urge…
Questioning modernity and heritage
The proposed construction of the controversial Amazon African headquarters at the River Club site in Cape Town encompasses several issues related to modern heritage, colonial practices, sustainable development, the nature‐culture divide, and the Anthropocene. Although approved by the City of Cape Town and the provincial government of the Western Cape, with plans for residential and business units, activists, researchers, environmental organizatio…
Political science (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · History (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · South African History and Culture (8 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (4 works) · Economics (4 works)