Jennifer Wallace
Biographic Data
| ID | 3833062 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Wallace |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallace |
| SIGNATURE | WALLACE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3342-4849 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Costs and benefits
Cultural capital in the wrong currency’
This article investigates the awarding of scholarships to students from historically disadvantaged communities to attend elite schools in South Africa. Specifically, the article analyses the narrated accounts of former scholarship recipients who reflect on their experiences of entering an elite secondary school as scholarship students. Using Bourdieu’s notion of cultural capital to explain the interviewees’ experiences in the elite school space, …
The rise and fall of set design
Already by the end of the 19th century, Lumière had begun sending his cameramen all over the world to gather new moving images and fix them on film. But as Henri Langlois has elsewhere lucidly demonstrated, they failed to realize how accustomed they were to filming everything through impressionist eyes. They sought out images of people in motion, sailed on a gliding gondola to capture Venetian palaces, or took to an express train to film the land…
Wellbeing and Devolution
It has been over twenty years since the people of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland voted for devolution. Over that time, the devolved legislatures have established themselves and matured their approach to governance. At different times and for different reasons, each has put wellbeing at the heart of their approach – codifying their values and goals within wellbeing frameworks. This open access book explores, for the first time, why each set …
Tragic Remembrance in the Era of Fake News
Photography, tragedy and O sama bin L aden
The production of Antigone, directed by Polly Findlay, in London's National Theatre in the summer of 2012, placed the play in an oblique relationship with the ongoing war in Afghanistan. As the play opened with the sound of a helicopter whirring overhead, the ensemble appeared to be anxiously master-minding a battle in an underground war room, checking screen monitors, collecting and delivering paper messages issuing from fax machines, criss-cros…
Copying Shelley's Letters”
Environment and Peacebuilding in War-torn Societies
Environmental challenges create high-stakes choices in war-torn societies. Handled well, they may create a solid foundation for peace and sustainable development; handled poorly, they risk undercutting an already tenuous peace. In this article, we identify patterns and lessons from the work of the UN Environment Programme's Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch, which has conducted postconflict assessments in several war-torn societies ove…
From Stonehenge to Las Vegas
Social support and children affected by parental HIV
While HIV and AIDS continue to decimate the population of sub-Saharan Africa, HIV remains an issue of major concern for those working with children and families throughout Europe. The combined impact of intravenous drug use by young adults and heterosexual transmission means that increasing numbers of children and young people in many countries in Europe are growing up in families where one or both parents is HIV positive (EuroHIV Report Citation…
Confined and Exposed
This essay discusses the renowned classicist of eighteenth-century England, Elizabeth Carter, and argues for a consideration of Carter’s work, in contrast to prior critics, as ambiguous and problematic. Because women were generally proscribed from a classical education and the few rarefied women who managed such an education against the odds were proclaimed marvels, Carter struggled with the dilemmas of her unusual, sometimes troubling position. …
Shelley and Greece
Shelley and Greece
Traditionally Hellenism is seen as the uncontroversial and beneficial influence of Greece upon later culture. Drawing upon new ideas from culture and gender theory, Jennifer Wallace rethinks the natur
‘Hope beyond Ourselves’
One of the most arresting moments in Euripides’ play The Bacchae is the first entry of the chorus of Bacchic women. Whooping their way across the stage, the women appear wild and uncontrollable. Smelling of wine and the untamed countryside outside the city walls, they are liberated from formal constraints. More crucially, they have been orientalised, overwhelmed by the god Dionysus who has returned from Asia where he introduced his dances and rit…
‘Grecian Grandeur’
Henry Fuseli’s sketch, drawn in the 1770s, entitled ‘An artist in despair over the magnitude of ancient fragments’, is one of the most moving images of Romantic hellenism.1 The drawing depicts a man huddled over and clutching his head in bewilderment and despondency. Beside him are an enormous marble foot and a huge hand, with index finger raised as if issuing a command. The fragmented state of the marble remains is powerful. If this is only the …
Tyranny and Translation
Shelley, Plato and the political imagination
Shelley (1792–1822) has traditionally been considered the most ‘Platonist’ of all the Romantic poets. Indeed, James Notopoulos devoted a whole book to Platonism in Shelley, arguing for a natural affinity between the ancient philosopher and the Romantic poet and claiming that ‘Shelley is the most outstanding Platonist in the Platonic renascence of the Romantic period’. And Edward Dowden, the poet's first authorised biographer, spoke for many later…
Shelley and Greece
Environment and Peacebuilding in War-torn Societies
Environmental challenges create high-stakes choices in war-torn societies. Handled well, they may create a solid foundation for peace and sustainable development; handled poorly, they risk undercutting an already tenuous peace. In this article, we identify patterns and lessons from the work of the UN Environment Programme's Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch, which has conducted postconflict assessments in several war-torn societies ove…
Cultural capital in the wrong currency’
This article investigates the awarding of scholarships to students from historically disadvantaged communities to attend elite schools in South Africa. Specifically, the article analyses the narrated accounts of former scholarship recipients who reflect on their experiences of entering an elite secondary school as scholarship students. Using Bourdieu’s notion of cultural capital to explain the interviewees’ experiences in the elite school space, …
Social support and children affected by parental HIV
While HIV and AIDS continue to decimate the population of sub-Saharan Africa, HIV remains an issue of major concern for those working with children and families throughout Europe. The combined impact of intravenous drug use by young adults and heterosexual transmission means that increasing numbers of children and young people in many countries in Europe are growing up in families where one or both parents is HIV positive (EuroHIV Report Citation…
Shelley, Plato and the political imagination
Shelley (1792–1822) has traditionally been considered the most ‘Platonist’ of all the Romantic poets. Indeed, James Notopoulos devoted a whole book to Platonism in Shelley, arguing for a natural affinity between the ancient philosopher and the Romantic poet and claiming that ‘Shelley is the most outstanding Platonist in the Platonic renascence of the Romantic period’. And Edward Dowden, the poet's first authorised biographer, spoke for many later…
Tyranny and Translation
Shelley and Greece
Traditionally Hellenism is seen as the uncontroversial and beneficial influence of Greece upon later culture. Drawing upon new ideas from culture and gender theory, Jennifer Wallace rethinks the natur
‘Hope beyond Ourselves’
One of the most arresting moments in Euripides’ play The Bacchae is the first entry of the chorus of Bacchic women. Whooping their way across the stage, the women appear wild and uncontrollable. Smelling of wine and the untamed countryside outside the city walls, they are liberated from formal constraints. More crucially, they have been orientalised, overwhelmed by the god Dionysus who has returned from Asia where he introduced his dances and rit…
‘Grecian Grandeur’
Henry Fuseli’s sketch, drawn in the 1770s, entitled ‘An artist in despair over the magnitude of ancient fragments’, is one of the most moving images of Romantic hellenism.1 The drawing depicts a man huddled over and clutching his head in bewilderment and despondency. Beside him are an enormous marble foot and a huge hand, with index finger raised as if issuing a command. The fragmented state of the marble remains is powerful. If this is only the …
Shelley and Greece
Confined and Exposed
This essay discusses the renowned classicist of eighteenth-century England, Elizabeth Carter, and argues for a consideration of Carter’s work, in contrast to prior critics, as ambiguous and problematic. Because women were generally proscribed from a classical education and the few rarefied women who managed such an education against the odds were proclaimed marvels, Carter struggled with the dilemmas of her unusual, sometimes troubling position. …
Social support and children affected by parental HIV
While HIV and AIDS continue to decimate the population of sub-Saharan Africa, HIV remains an issue of major concern for those working with children and families throughout Europe. The combined impact of intravenous drug use by young adults and heterosexual transmission means that increasing numbers of children and young people in many countries in Europe are growing up in families where one or both parents is HIV positive (EuroHIV Report Citation…
From Stonehenge to Las Vegas
Environment and Peacebuilding in War-torn Societies
Environmental challenges create high-stakes choices in war-torn societies. Handled well, they may create a solid foundation for peace and sustainable development; handled poorly, they risk undercutting an already tenuous peace. In this article, we identify patterns and lessons from the work of the UN Environment Programme's Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch, which has conducted postconflict assessments in several war-torn societies ove…
Copying Shelley's Letters”
Photography, tragedy and O sama bin L aden
The production of Antigone, directed by Polly Findlay, in London's National Theatre in the summer of 2012, placed the play in an oblique relationship with the ongoing war in Afghanistan. As the play opened with the sound of a helicopter whirring overhead, the ensemble appeared to be anxiously master-minding a battle in an underground war room, checking screen monitors, collecting and delivering paper messages issuing from fax machines, criss-cros…
Tragic Remembrance in the Era of Fake News
Wellbeing and Devolution
It has been over twenty years since the people of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland voted for devolution. Over that time, the devolved legislatures have established themselves and matured their approach to governance. At different times and for different reasons, each has put wellbeing at the heart of their approach – codifying their values and goals within wellbeing frameworks. This open access book explores, for the first time, why each set …
Costs and benefits
Cultural capital in the wrong currency’
This article investigates the awarding of scholarships to students from historically disadvantaged communities to attend elite schools in South Africa. Specifically, the article analyses the narrated accounts of former scholarship recipients who reflect on their experiences of entering an elite secondary school as scholarship students. Using Bourdieu’s notion of cultural capital to explain the interviewees’ experiences in the elite school space, …
The rise and fall of set design
Already by the end of the 19th century, Lumière had begun sending his cameramen all over the world to gather new moving images and fix them on film. But as Henri Langlois has elsewhere lucidly demonstrated, they failed to realize how accustomed they were to filming everything through impressionist eyes. They sought out images of people in motion, sailed on a gliding gondola to capture Venetian palaces, or took to an express train to film the land…
Art (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)