Kira Erwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3734520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kira Erwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kira |
| FAMILY NAME | Erwin |
| SIGNATURE | ERWIN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durban University of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Surfacing solidarity praxis in transdisciplinary research for blue justice
In this article, we centre the knowledge and contributions of environmental justice social movements towards transformations for sustainability in Transdisciplinary Research. Scholar activists within research teams can help bridge networks of scholars with social movement networks to build strongly engaged and relational transdisciplinary research. We draw on reflections and learnings from the Coastal Justice Network, a scholar activist network w…
Working with Waste
Informal waste pickers in cities across the Global South divert significant amounts of tonnage from landfills. This diversion contributes towards a sustainable environment and better public health practices. Informal workers globally derive livelihoods from collecting, sorting, and selling recyclable waste. In South Africa, there is growing recognition of the valuable work that waste pickers carry out. Despite this, however, these informal worker…
Race, Place and Identity in Kenneth Gardens
Dangerous others, insecure societies
Europe today faces economic instability and austerity as well as flows of people into, and the movement of jobs outside of, the continent. This edited collection analyses how the structural project
Theorising Race
This special issue emerges from a concern with academic practice around researching and theorising race, racialism and racism; particularly within the current theoretical climate in which race is, in the majority, accepted as a social construct. In public thinking and discourse, however, acceptance of the biological existence of races continues to dominate in many societies. Racial classification also continues in many state practices in South Af…
The Possibilities of Researching Non-Racialism
Using as a starting point the research conducted by the Gauteng City-Region Observatory for the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation in 2011 to explore the status of non-racialism in South Africa, we conclude that in nearly all of the focus groups the participants and moderators find it impossible to define the notion of non-racialism—at least, not in a way that distinguishes it from non-racism, multi-racialism or ‘good/better race relations’. We initiate t…
Dangerous others, insecure societies
Europe today faces economic instability and austerity as well as flows of people into, and the movement of jobs outside of, the continent. This edited collection analyses how the structural project
The Possibilities of Researching Non-Racialism
Using as a starting point the research conducted by the Gauteng City-Region Observatory for the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation in 2011 to explore the status of non-racialism in South Africa, we conclude that in nearly all of the focus groups the participants and moderators find it impossible to define the notion of non-racialism—at least, not in a way that distinguishes it from non-racism, multi-racialism or ‘good/better race relations’. We initiate t…
The Possibilities of Researching Non-Racialism
Using as a starting point the research conducted by the Gauteng City-Region Observatory for the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation in 2011 to explore the status of non-racialism in South Africa, we conclude that in nearly all of the focus groups the participants and moderators find it impossible to define the notion of non-racialism—at least, not in a way that distinguishes it from non-racism, multi-racialism or ‘good/better race relations’. We initiate t…
Theorising Race
This special issue emerges from a concern with academic practice around researching and theorising race, racialism and racism; particularly within the current theoretical climate in which race is, in the majority, accepted as a social construct. In public thinking and discourse, however, acceptance of the biological existence of races continues to dominate in many societies. Racial classification also continues in many state practices in South Af…
Race, Place and Identity in Kenneth Gardens
Dangerous others, insecure societies
Europe today faces economic instability and austerity as well as flows of people into, and the movement of jobs outside of, the continent. This edited collection analyses how the structural project
Working with Waste
Informal waste pickers in cities across the Global South divert significant amounts of tonnage from landfills. This diversion contributes towards a sustainable environment and better public health practices. Informal workers globally derive livelihoods from collecting, sorting, and selling recyclable waste. In South Africa, there is growing recognition of the valuable work that waste pickers carry out. Despite this, however, these informal worker…
Surfacing solidarity praxis in transdisciplinary research for blue justice
In this article, we centre the knowledge and contributions of environmental justice social movements towards transformations for sustainability in Transdisciplinary Research. Scholar activists within research teams can help bridge networks of scholars with social movement networks to build strongly engaged and relational transdisciplinary research. We draw on reflections and learnings from the Coastal Justice Network, a scholar activist network w…
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Legal Issues in South Africa (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Race (biology (2 works) · Racism (2 works)