Timothy Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613639 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0598-5454 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A formalist in the trenches
Not More, But More Assured
Surviving the African Anthropocene
Matthew Omelsky has recently coined the term "African Anthropocene" to describe how the intertwined crises wrought by global capitalism and man-made ecological disaster have disproportionately affected the African continent. This paper discusses a short story collection by the Ugandan writer Dilman Dila, A Killing in the Sun (2014), as one instance of an African aesthetics that uniquely registers and responds to this dual crisis. I focus in parti…
Ruined time and post-revolutionary allegory in Nthikeng Mohlele's Small Things
This paper reads Nthikeng Mohlele’s 2013 novel Small Things with a view to understanding a qualitative shift in South Africa’s post-apartheid historical consciousness: an emergent sense of being in “exile from history.” This is not simply a relationship to history of being “post,” but rather a melancholic attachment that cannot be fully relinquished. I use this lens to understand the dark satire of Mohlele’s novel of Johannesburg flânerie and unr…
Harnessing multiple technologies to combat deforestation – A case study in the Alto Mayo Protected Forest in San Martin, Peru
Ethnographic reflections on communicative inequities, global health relationships, and two decades of HIV in the Bolivian press
This article draws on two decades of media representations of HIV, ethnographic research among people living with HIV, and an analysis of global health programms in Bolivia. In doing so, we chart the evolution of media representations in relation to the global health context and the implications of these representations for people living with HIV. Our overarching argument is that media discourses on HIV in Bolivia have consistently been produced …
A new black pantheon
A recent special issue of Journal of African Cultural Studies focusing on the African superhero attests to a continent-wide desire for new imaginings of African identity. As Duncan Omanga notes in that collection, these superheroes are not merely appropriations of American pop culture, but rather syncretic adaptations of the genre for local cultures. This paper examines the South African superhero comic strip Kwezi in this context. Kwezi, I argue…
Temperature
Temperature determines, influences, or limits most geographic processes. Temperature within the Earth–atmosphere system is most closely related to elevation and variables that influence solar radiation, such as latitude, cloud cover, aerosols, and surface albedo. The rate of change of air temperature with latitude has large seasonal swings. In North America, January air temperatures decrease at the rate of about 1.0 to 1.5°C per degree of latitud…
Justice, silence, complexity
This review essay situates itself within the broad body of scholarship that has returned to South Africa’s apartheid years in order to critique the assumptions of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and raise once more the issue of justice. It surveys three studies from 2014 that examine apartheid-era experiences not dealt with in their full complexity by the TRC. These studies all emerge from different disciplines: Pamela Reynolds’ War in Wo…
Ecologies of blood in Johannesburg vampire fiction
This essay reads two contemporary Johannesburg vampire narratives, the film Eternity (2010) and the graphic novel Rebirth (2012), as part of a body of fiction that sees post-apartheid Johannesburg as a laboratory for new forms of life. While recent Johannesburg science fiction has imagined the emergence of new and more fluid forms of being in Johannesburg, the vampire narrative employs a far older and more restrictive type of monster. By virtue o…
Conservation Trust Funds, Protected Area Management Effectiveness, and Conservation Outcomes
The Global Conservation Fund (GCF) is a global programme intended to address the problems associated with protected areas that lack sufficient resources to function effectively. In operation since 2001, GCF has built a global portfolio of over 65 protected area investments linked to a comprehensive integrated data set on protected area management effectiveness and conservation outcomes. With data collected over the last six years (2008)(2009)(201…
The Art of Evasion
This article focuses on J.M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K (1983) in light of current theoretical concerns with issues of sovereignty and the state (raised by, among others, Hardt and Negri and Agamben), issues which Coetzee explicitly addresses in his recent Diary of a Bad Year. I analyse the novel's engagement with several of the narrative formations of political modernity, both generally and in the South African context, and focus in par…
Gay Organizations, NGOs, and the Globalization of Sexual Identity
This paper combines an ethnography of sexual activities, personal identities and social relations of men‐who‐have‐sex‐with‐men in Bolivia with an analysis of attempts by government and international development agencies to create a demographically identifiable population of "gay" Bolivians. A first person account of attempts to establish gay identity through a gay community center in Santa Cruz reveals failure to attract all but a select group of…
Gay Organizations, NGOs, and the Globalization of Sexual Identity
Ruined time and post-revolutionary allegory in Nthikeng Mohlele's Small Things
This paper reads Nthikeng Mohlele’s 2013 novel Small Things with a view to understanding a qualitative shift in South Africa’s post-apartheid historical consciousness: an emergent sense of being in “exile from history.” This is not simply a relationship to history of being “post,” but rather a melancholic attachment that cannot be fully relinquished. I use this lens to understand the dark satire of Mohlele’s novel of Johannesburg flânerie and unr…
Ecologies of blood in Johannesburg vampire fiction
This essay reads two contemporary Johannesburg vampire narratives, the film Eternity (2010) and the graphic novel Rebirth (2012), as part of a body of fiction that sees post-apartheid Johannesburg as a laboratory for new forms of life. While recent Johannesburg science fiction has imagined the emergence of new and more fluid forms of being in Johannesburg, the vampire narrative employs a far older and more restrictive type of monster. By virtue o…
A new black pantheon
A recent special issue of Journal of African Cultural Studies focusing on the African superhero attests to a continent-wide desire for new imaginings of African identity. As Duncan Omanga notes in that collection, these superheroes are not merely appropriations of American pop culture, but rather syncretic adaptations of the genre for local cultures. This paper examines the South African superhero comic strip Kwezi in this context. Kwezi, I argue…
Gay Organizations, NGOs, and the Globalization of Sexual Identity
This paper combines an ethnography of sexual activities, personal identities and social relations of men‐who‐have‐sex‐with‐men in Bolivia with an analysis of attempts by government and international development agencies to create a demographically identifiable population of "gay" Bolivians. A first person account of attempts to establish gay identity through a gay community center in Santa Cruz reveals failure to attract all but a select group of…
Gay Organizations, NGOs, and the Globalization of Sexual Identity
The Art of Evasion
This article focuses on J.M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K (1983) in light of current theoretical concerns with issues of sovereignty and the state (raised by, among others, Hardt and Negri and Agamben), issues which Coetzee explicitly addresses in his recent Diary of a Bad Year. I analyse the novel's engagement with several of the narrative formations of political modernity, both generally and in the South African context, and focus in par…
Conservation Trust Funds, Protected Area Management Effectiveness, and Conservation Outcomes
The Global Conservation Fund (GCF) is a global programme intended to address the problems associated with protected areas that lack sufficient resources to function effectively. In operation since 2001, GCF has built a global portfolio of over 65 protected area investments linked to a comprehensive integrated data set on protected area management effectiveness and conservation outcomes. With data collected over the last six years (2008)(2009)(201…
Ecologies of blood in Johannesburg vampire fiction
This essay reads two contemporary Johannesburg vampire narratives, the film Eternity (2010) and the graphic novel Rebirth (2012), as part of a body of fiction that sees post-apartheid Johannesburg as a laboratory for new forms of life. While recent Johannesburg science fiction has imagined the emergence of new and more fluid forms of being in Johannesburg, the vampire narrative employs a far older and more restrictive type of monster. By virtue o…
Temperature
Temperature determines, influences, or limits most geographic processes. Temperature within the Earth–atmosphere system is most closely related to elevation and variables that influence solar radiation, such as latitude, cloud cover, aerosols, and surface albedo. The rate of change of air temperature with latitude has large seasonal swings. In North America, January air temperatures decrease at the rate of about 1.0 to 1.5°C per degree of latitud…
Justice, silence, complexity
This review essay situates itself within the broad body of scholarship that has returned to South Africa’s apartheid years in order to critique the assumptions of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and raise once more the issue of justice. It surveys three studies from 2014 that examine apartheid-era experiences not dealt with in their full complexity by the TRC. These studies all emerge from different disciplines: Pamela Reynolds’ War in Wo…
Harnessing multiple technologies to combat deforestation – A case study in the Alto Mayo Protected Forest in San Martin, Peru
Ethnographic reflections on communicative inequities, global health relationships, and two decades of HIV in the Bolivian press
This article draws on two decades of media representations of HIV, ethnographic research among people living with HIV, and an analysis of global health programms in Bolivia. In doing so, we chart the evolution of media representations in relation to the global health context and the implications of these representations for people living with HIV. Our overarching argument is that media discourses on HIV in Bolivia have consistently been produced …
A new black pantheon
A recent special issue of Journal of African Cultural Studies focusing on the African superhero attests to a continent-wide desire for new imaginings of African identity. As Duncan Omanga notes in that collection, these superheroes are not merely appropriations of American pop culture, but rather syncretic adaptations of the genre for local cultures. This paper examines the South African superhero comic strip Kwezi in this context. Kwezi, I argue…
Surviving the African Anthropocene
Matthew Omelsky has recently coined the term "African Anthropocene" to describe how the intertwined crises wrought by global capitalism and man-made ecological disaster have disproportionately affected the African continent. This paper discusses a short story collection by the Ugandan writer Dilman Dila, A Killing in the Sun (2014), as one instance of an African aesthetics that uniquely registers and responds to this dual crisis. I focus in parti…
Ruined time and post-revolutionary allegory in Nthikeng Mohlele's Small Things
This paper reads Nthikeng Mohlele’s 2013 novel Small Things with a view to understanding a qualitative shift in South Africa’s post-apartheid historical consciousness: an emergent sense of being in “exile from history.” This is not simply a relationship to history of being “post,” but rather a melancholic attachment that cannot be fully relinquished. I use this lens to understand the dark satire of Mohlele’s novel of Johannesburg flânerie and unr…
A formalist in the trenches
Not More, But More Assured
Aesthetics (8 works) · Art (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Narrative (4 works)