Doreen Atkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640362 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Doreen Atkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Doreen |
| FAMILY NAME | Atkinson |
| SIGNATURE | ATKINSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Free State |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2129-2738 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Preparing for the worst
Overlooked by history
When Stars Collide
Since the early 2000s, the roll-out of the MeerKAT astronomy project and the subsequent Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project in the Carnarvon area of the northern Karoo has been remarkably rapid and well managed. This article argues that the project, and the Department of Science and Technology in South Africa, have taken on the characteristics of a ‘developmental state’. This is remarkable, particularly in the context of the general problem of h…
Big fish in small ponds
Fracking in a fractured environment
Zimbabwe’s migrants and South Africa’s border farms
2017). Zimbabwe’s migrants and South Africa’s border farms: the roots of impermanence. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 40, Becoming and unbecoming farm workers in Southern Africa. Guest Editors: Maxim Bolt and Tarminder Kaur, pp. 317-319
The new National Development Plan (2011) and the need to create jobs through agriculture
This paper provides a scan of the South Africa commercial olive industry between 2008 and 2012 and argues the case for greater industry cohesion in this small agricultural sector. The National Planning Commission's National Development Plan (NDP, 2011) has identified the olive industry as one of the country's many small-scale, labour- intensive agricultural sectors with strong growth potential, and which must be supported to enable it to create n…
Demographic and Economic Changes in Small Towns in South Africa’s Karoo
Political opposition in patriarchal East London, 1950-1960
This paper describes the growing level of politicization in East London in the 1950s, and the way this affected the patriarchal normative system, which prevailed in urban adminis tration. Patriarchal ism, as a sys tem, was susceptible of different interpretations by white municipal officials, and their response to black political opposition ranged from liberal forbearance to rigid and uncompromising intolerance. Black leaders' attitudes to the pa…
Contradictions of community within local government in the 1950s with reference to municipal beer trading
Hierdie artikel beskryf die etiese dilemmas waarin munisipale amptenare in die 1950s hulleself bevind het, veral rakende die munisipale bierbrouery in die swart woongebiede. Hierdie ervarings illustreer die patriargale verhoudings tussen swart en blanke gemeenskappe, en die paternalistiese politieke denke van hierdie era. Die onderliggende probleem was dat blanke amptenare probeer het om swart inwoners se reg om bier te gebruik binne ’n konteks v…
Complex negotiations in local governance
Gedurende die 1930s, het die Stadsraad van Oos-Londen herhaaldelik probeer om die bierbrouery in die swart woonbuurt van Duncan Village te beheer. Telkens het hierdie pogings gefaal, en teen 1947 moes die Stadsraad die verbod op tuisbrouery ophef. In 1956 het die plaaslike amptenare met hernude entoesiasme probeer om ’n munisipale monopolie op bierproduksie te bewerkstellig. In die proses moes hulle ’n skeptiese swart Adviesraad probeer oortuig a…
Is There a Case for Support for Smallholder Agriculture? A Response to Palmer and Sender
The limits and possibilities of local initiatives for change
This article explores three possible avenues at the local level for political restructuring towards non‐racialism in South Africa. These are: government‐created multi‐racial bodies (like regional services councils), locally‐initiated negotiations between representative white local authorities and popular township organisations (like the East London case in 1986), and locally‐initiated participatory planning exercises (such as Pieter‐maritzburg 20…
From Control to Confusion
When Stars Collide
Since the early 2000s, the roll-out of the MeerKAT astronomy project and the subsequent Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project in the Carnarvon area of the northern Karoo has been remarkably rapid and well managed. This article argues that the project, and the Department of Science and Technology in South Africa, have taken on the characteristics of a ‘developmental state’. This is remarkable, particularly in the context of the general problem of h…
Fracking in a fractured environment
Zimbabwe’s migrants and South Africa’s border farms
2017). Zimbabwe’s migrants and South Africa’s border farms: the roots of impermanence. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 40, Becoming and unbecoming farm workers in Southern Africa. Guest Editors: Maxim Bolt and Tarminder Kaur, pp. 317-319
From Control to Confusion
The limits and possibilities of local initiatives for change
This article explores three possible avenues at the local level for political restructuring towards non‐racialism in South Africa. These are: government‐created multi‐racial bodies (like regional services councils), locally‐initiated negotiations between representative white local authorities and popular township organisations (like the East London case in 1986), and locally‐initiated participatory planning exercises (such as Pieter‐maritzburg 20…
Is There a Case for Support for Smallholder Agriculture? A Response to Palmer and Sender
Complex negotiations in local governance
Gedurende die 1930s, het die Stadsraad van Oos-Londen herhaaldelik probeer om die bierbrouery in die swart woonbuurt van Duncan Village te beheer. Telkens het hierdie pogings gefaal, en teen 1947 moes die Stadsraad die verbod op tuisbrouery ophef. In 1956 het die plaaslike amptenare met hernude entoesiasme probeer om ’n munisipale monopolie op bierproduksie te bewerkstellig. In die proses moes hulle ’n skeptiese swart Adviesraad probeer oortuig a…
Contradictions of community within local government in the 1950s with reference to municipal beer trading
Hierdie artikel beskryf die etiese dilemmas waarin munisipale amptenare in die 1950s hulleself bevind het, veral rakende die munisipale bierbrouery in die swart woongebiede. Hierdie ervarings illustreer die patriargale verhoudings tussen swart en blanke gemeenskappe, en die paternalistiese politieke denke van hierdie era. Die onderliggende probleem was dat blanke amptenare probeer het om swart inwoners se reg om bier te gebruik binne ’n konteks v…
Political opposition in patriarchal East London, 1950-1960
This paper describes the growing level of politicization in East London in the 1950s, and the way this affected the patriarchal normative system, which prevailed in urban adminis tration. Patriarchal ism, as a sys tem, was susceptible of different interpretations by white municipal officials, and their response to black political opposition ranged from liberal forbearance to rigid and uncompromising intolerance. Black leaders' attitudes to the pa…
Demographic and Economic Changes in Small Towns in South Africa’s Karoo
The new National Development Plan (2011) and the need to create jobs through agriculture
This paper provides a scan of the South Africa commercial olive industry between 2008 and 2012 and argues the case for greater industry cohesion in this small agricultural sector. The National Planning Commission's National Development Plan (NDP, 2011) has identified the olive industry as one of the country's many small-scale, labour- intensive agricultural sectors with strong growth potential, and which must be supported to enable it to create n…
Zimbabwe’s migrants and South Africa’s border farms
2017). Zimbabwe’s migrants and South Africa’s border farms: the roots of impermanence. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 40, Becoming and unbecoming farm workers in Southern Africa. Guest Editors: Maxim Bolt and Tarminder Kaur, pp. 317-319
Big fish in small ponds
Fracking in a fractured environment
When Stars Collide
Since the early 2000s, the roll-out of the MeerKAT astronomy project and the subsequent Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project in the Carnarvon area of the northern Karoo has been remarkably rapid and well managed. This article argues that the project, and the Department of Science and Technology in South Africa, have taken on the characteristics of a ‘developmental state’. This is remarkable, particularly in the context of the general problem of h…
Preparing for the worst
Overlooked by history
Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Local government (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works)