Yvette Abrahams
Biographic Data
| ID | 4117138 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yvette Abrahams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yvette |
| FAMILY NAME | Abrahams |
| SIGNATURE | ABRAHAMS Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town San and Khoi Centre Cape Town South Africa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Becoming Food
This paper takes a novel perspective on food studies by looking at the role humans play in being food. It encourages us to take a broader view of natural cycles by looking beyond life and death to imagine cycles of birth, life, death, decomposition and nourishment. Every life form feeds another life form; that is the way of Creation. This paper encourages people to think of food as sacrament, and of ourselves as part of a sacred ecology. What doe…
Bringing Water to Krotoa’s Gardens
How Must I Explain to the Dolphins
The story of change and growth, i.e., evolution, in the traditional manner, involves an epistemology of indigenous knowledge systems that admits both evolution and the divine—and therefore the human capacity for free choice—that tells us that fossil fuels are a bad choice. Steven Biko’s message of “Black Consciousness” responds to the dilemma of how we belong to the species that is damaging the planetary ecosystem, amd yet how we can deny complic…
Moving forward to go back
This article deals with how one moves from global catastrophe to local implementation from the perspective of one individual. It asks how one can live with the consciousness that system change is necessary and inevitable for species survival, while translating that consciousness into the necessity for immediate and personal action. It emanates from a history of oppression on the basis of race, gender and indigeneity, but argues that victimhood is…
True Beauty
A gendered analysis of water and sanitation services policies and programmes in South Africa
The Policy Review reports on a gendered analysis by the Commission on Gender Equality (CGE) of water and sanitation services policies and programmes in South Africa, covering the period 2006 – 2010, in line with the National Implementation Strategy and Action Plan for mainstreaming water into the Water Services Sector (DWAF, 2006) which will take place in May. The CGE has a constitutional obligation to monitor and evaluate all laws and policies t…
The Great Long National Insult
Yvette Abrahams, The Great Long National Insult: 'Science', Sexuality and the Khoisan in the 18th and Early 19th Century, Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, No. 32, Race, Identity and Change (1997), pp. 34-48
Disempowered to Consent
(1996). Disempowered to Consent: Sara Bartman and Khoisan Slavery in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony and Britain. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 89-114
The Great Long National Insult
Yvette Abrahams, The Great Long National Insult: 'Science', Sexuality and the Khoisan in the 18th and Early 19th Century, Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, No. 32, Race, Identity and Change (1997), pp. 34-48
Disempowered to Consent
(1996). Disempowered to Consent: Sara Bartman and Khoisan Slavery in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony and Britain. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 89-114
Moving forward to go back
This article deals with how one moves from global catastrophe to local implementation from the perspective of one individual. It asks how one can live with the consciousness that system change is necessary and inevitable for species survival, while translating that consciousness into the necessity for immediate and personal action. It emanates from a history of oppression on the basis of race, gender and indigeneity, but argues that victimhood is…
A gendered analysis of water and sanitation services policies and programmes in South Africa
The Policy Review reports on a gendered analysis by the Commission on Gender Equality (CGE) of water and sanitation services policies and programmes in South Africa, covering the period 2006 – 2010, in line with the National Implementation Strategy and Action Plan for mainstreaming water into the Water Services Sector (DWAF, 2006) which will take place in May. The CGE has a constitutional obligation to monitor and evaluate all laws and policies t…
Disempowered to Consent
(1996). Disempowered to Consent: Sara Bartman and Khoisan Slavery in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony and Britain. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 89-114
The Great Long National Insult
Yvette Abrahams, The Great Long National Insult: 'Science', Sexuality and the Khoisan in the 18th and Early 19th Century, Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, No. 32, Race, Identity and Change (1997), pp. 34-48
A gendered analysis of water and sanitation services policies and programmes in South Africa
The Policy Review reports on a gendered analysis by the Commission on Gender Equality (CGE) of water and sanitation services policies and programmes in South Africa, covering the period 2006 – 2010, in line with the National Implementation Strategy and Action Plan for mainstreaming water into the Water Services Sector (DWAF, 2006) which will take place in May. The CGE has a constitutional obligation to monitor and evaluate all laws and policies t…
True Beauty
Moving forward to go back
This article deals with how one moves from global catastrophe to local implementation from the perspective of one individual. It asks how one can live with the consciousness that system change is necessary and inevitable for species survival, while translating that consciousness into the necessity for immediate and personal action. It emanates from a history of oppression on the basis of race, gender and indigeneity, but argues that victimhood is…
How Must I Explain to the Dolphins
The story of change and growth, i.e., evolution, in the traditional manner, involves an epistemology of indigenous knowledge systems that admits both evolution and the divine—and therefore the human capacity for free choice—that tells us that fossil fuels are a bad choice. Steven Biko’s message of “Black Consciousness” responds to the dilemma of how we belong to the species that is damaging the planetary ecosystem, amd yet how we can deny complic…
Bringing Water to Krotoa’s Gardens
Becoming Food
This paper takes a novel perspective on food studies by looking at the role humans play in being food. It encourages us to take a broader view of natural cycles by looking beyond life and death to imagine cycles of birth, life, death, decomposition and nourishment. Every life form feeds another life form; that is the way of Creation. This paper encourages people to think of food as sacrament, and of ourselves as part of a sacred ecology. What doe…
Sociology (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Consciousness (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)