Christopher Merrett
Biographic Data
| ID | 333179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Merrett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Merrett |
| SIGNATURE | MERRETT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7240-8484 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Non-racialism, relationality and no-relation
This article examines the rearticulation of meanings appropriated out of historical and ideological phases of the anti-Apartheid struggle, specifically with regard to race (non-racialism) and Black Consciousness. It compares examples of democrats in contexts radically different from South Africa, deploying “South African-made” meaning into discursive and political-economic contexts for which they had not been designed. The example of Steve Biko’s…
Marx, labour economics and the academy
Never mind the current level of business confidence: capitalism is in deep crisis. The 2008 financial collapse was caused by greedy bankers who failed to observe the traditional rules of their trade. Scathing critics of nationalisation and advocates of spectacular salaries and inexplicable bonuses, they happily accepted government bailouts, but continued to reward themselves generously. Their opposition to regulation is as great as ever, but they…
Identity and the geography of physical recreation
The history of the South African city of Pietermaritzburg is considered through the lens of sport to assess the changing political, economic, cultural and social relations between its four ethnic communities: African, Asian, Coloured and White. The background ideologies were imperialism, segregation and apartheid, anchored in custom, hegemony and law. For Whites, sport meant world-class facilities and a sense of security and superiority in a perc…
Organised forgetting in South Africa
The Literature Police by Peter McDonald is the first account of apartheid‐era censorship to make use of the archives of the Publications Control Board. McDonald's book is a selective history of modern South African literature and the impact of government attempts at post‐publication control. He analyses the role of censors, writers, publishers and booksellers; and presents a number of case studies. This review article places McDonald's research o…
Race, Gender and Political Dissent in the Comrades Marathon, 1921–1981
While not the oldest, the Comrades Marathon is South Africa's best-known athletic event. It has been run between Pietermaritzburg and Durban, or vice versa, each year since 1921, with the exception of the Second World War years
Sport, Segregation and Space
Using the city of Pietermaritzburg as a case study, sport is treated as a lens through which to view aspects of the political, social and economic history of Natal and South Africa. Successive, reinforcing ideologies of imperialism, segregation and apartheid created a system of inclusion and exclusion through which the cohesion of White society was promoted by regarding sport as a social service; while Black communities were largely ignored. The …
The expropriation of intellectual capital and the political economy of international academic publishing
International commercial publishers derive massive profit from knowledge and expertise donated to them by higher education and research institutions, although little value is added in the publication process. Third World scholarship in particular is consequently at great risk, since access to published work is increasingly beyond its reach in terms of cost. Commercial practice and government bureaucracy (in South Africa the SAPSE system, for inst…
Sport and apartheid
Sport of the apartheid era was based on customary segregation reinforced by general discriminatory legislation, challenged by an increasingly forceful non‐racial movement that raised the crucial question: who is a South African? The government responded to the non‐racial movement in a number of ways that included accusations of treason and regular threats of draconian legislation specifically targeted at sport. The authorities consistently failed…
From the outside lane
In this article Merrett first places the marginalized position of Blacks in South African athletics in the context of racism and the social control exercised by municipalities and mining companies over a rapidly urbanizing inter-war African working class. With the introduction of apartheid, segregation and subordination of Blacks were entrenched, although there was significant non-racial opposition. International exclusion encouraged reform in th…
Aurora
A tale of two paradoxes
Prior to liberation from apartheid, South Africa's information system laboured under a draconian system of censorship that could have crippled the media. Yet the tradition of defiance and the rise of a strong civil rights movement challenged censorship and nurtured a surprisingly wide-ranging documentary record of the national condition. The advent of democracy in 1994 heralded an era of constitutional rights and liberal legislation. But the clim…
Community profiling
In nothing else are the deprivers so deprived’
Sports Historians Are a Motley Bunch
Universities and the New Censorship
Comparing Human Rights
Until recently it was rare to bring South Africa and Latin America into a shared focus for any purpose at all. Both regions habitually looked towards the United States of America and Western Europe and showed no interest in each other. With a few exceptions there was scant intellectual concern aroused by their common southern location. In the last few years, however, a number of academics have begun to show interest in comparisons and contrasts d…
In nothing else are the deprivers so deprived’
The expropriation of intellectual capital and the political economy of international academic publishing
International commercial publishers derive massive profit from knowledge and expertise donated to them by higher education and research institutions, although little value is added in the publication process. Third World scholarship in particular is consequently at great risk, since access to published work is increasingly beyond its reach in terms of cost. Commercial practice and government bureaucracy (in South Africa the SAPSE system, for inst…
A tale of two paradoxes
Prior to liberation from apartheid, South Africa's information system laboured under a draconian system of censorship that could have crippled the media. Yet the tradition of defiance and the rise of a strong civil rights movement challenged censorship and nurtured a surprisingly wide-ranging documentary record of the national condition. The advent of democracy in 1994 heralded an era of constitutional rights and liberal legislation. But the clim…
From the outside lane
In this article Merrett first places the marginalized position of Blacks in South African athletics in the context of racism and the social control exercised by municipalities and mining companies over a rapidly urbanizing inter-war African working class. With the introduction of apartheid, segregation and subordination of Blacks were entrenched, although there was significant non-racial opposition. International exclusion encouraged reform in th…
Non-racialism, relationality and no-relation
This article examines the rearticulation of meanings appropriated out of historical and ideological phases of the anti-Apartheid struggle, specifically with regard to race (non-racialism) and Black Consciousness. It compares examples of democrats in contexts radically different from South Africa, deploying “South African-made” meaning into discursive and political-economic contexts for which they had not been designed. The example of Steve Biko’s…
Sport and apartheid
Sport of the apartheid era was based on customary segregation reinforced by general discriminatory legislation, challenged by an increasingly forceful non‐racial movement that raised the crucial question: who is a South African? The government responded to the non‐racial movement in a number of ways that included accusations of treason and regular threats of draconian legislation specifically targeted at sport. The authorities consistently failed…
Aurora
Universities and the New Censorship
Comparing Human Rights
Until recently it was rare to bring South Africa and Latin America into a shared focus for any purpose at all. Both regions habitually looked towards the United States of America and Western Europe and showed no interest in each other. With a few exceptions there was scant intellectual concern aroused by their common southern location. In the last few years, however, a number of academics have begun to show interest in comparisons and contrasts d…
Sports Historians Are a Motley Bunch
Community profiling
In nothing else are the deprivers so deprived’
Aurora
A tale of two paradoxes
Prior to liberation from apartheid, South Africa's information system laboured under a draconian system of censorship that could have crippled the media. Yet the tradition of defiance and the rise of a strong civil rights movement challenged censorship and nurtured a surprisingly wide-ranging documentary record of the national condition. The advent of democracy in 1994 heralded an era of constitutional rights and liberal legislation. But the clim…
From the outside lane
In this article Merrett first places the marginalized position of Blacks in South African athletics in the context of racism and the social control exercised by municipalities and mining companies over a rapidly urbanizing inter-war African working class. With the introduction of apartheid, segregation and subordination of Blacks were entrenched, although there was significant non-racial opposition. International exclusion encouraged reform in th…
Sport and apartheid
Sport of the apartheid era was based on customary segregation reinforced by general discriminatory legislation, challenged by an increasingly forceful non‐racial movement that raised the crucial question: who is a South African? The government responded to the non‐racial movement in a number of ways that included accusations of treason and regular threats of draconian legislation specifically targeted at sport. The authorities consistently failed…
Sport, Segregation and Space
Using the city of Pietermaritzburg as a case study, sport is treated as a lens through which to view aspects of the political, social and economic history of Natal and South Africa. Successive, reinforcing ideologies of imperialism, segregation and apartheid created a system of inclusion and exclusion through which the cohesion of White society was promoted by regarding sport as a social service; while Black communities were largely ignored. The …
The expropriation of intellectual capital and the political economy of international academic publishing
International commercial publishers derive massive profit from knowledge and expertise donated to them by higher education and research institutions, although little value is added in the publication process. Third World scholarship in particular is consequently at great risk, since access to published work is increasingly beyond its reach in terms of cost. Commercial practice and government bureaucracy (in South Africa the SAPSE system, for inst…
Race, Gender and Political Dissent in the Comrades Marathon, 1921–1981
While not the oldest, the Comrades Marathon is South Africa's best-known athletic event. It has been run between Pietermaritzburg and Durban, or vice versa, each year since 1921, with the exception of the Second World War years
Organised forgetting in South Africa
The Literature Police by Peter McDonald is the first account of apartheid‐era censorship to make use of the archives of the Publications Control Board. McDonald's book is a selective history of modern South African literature and the impact of government attempts at post‐publication control. He analyses the role of censors, writers, publishers and booksellers; and presents a number of case studies. This review article places McDonald's research o…
Identity and the geography of physical recreation
The history of the South African city of Pietermaritzburg is considered through the lens of sport to assess the changing political, economic, cultural and social relations between its four ethnic communities: African, Asian, Coloured and White. The background ideologies were imperialism, segregation and apartheid, anchored in custom, hegemony and law. For Whites, sport meant world-class facilities and a sense of security and superiority in a perc…
Marx, labour economics and the academy
Never mind the current level of business confidence: capitalism is in deep crisis. The 2008 financial collapse was caused by greedy bankers who failed to observe the traditional rules of their trade. Scathing critics of nationalisation and advocates of spectacular salaries and inexplicable bonuses, they happily accepted government bailouts, but continued to reward themselves generously. Their opposition to regulation is as great as ever, but they…
Non-racialism, relationality and no-relation
This article examines the rearticulation of meanings appropriated out of historical and ideological phases of the anti-Apartheid struggle, specifically with regard to race (non-racialism) and Black Consciousness. It compares examples of democrats in contexts radically different from South Africa, deploying “South African-made” meaning into discursive and political-economic contexts for which they had not been designed. The example of Steve Biko’s…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)