Pralini Naidoo
Biographic Data
| ID | 4117292 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pralini Naidoo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pralini |
| FAMILY NAME | Naidoo |
| SIGNATURE | NAIDOO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Twitter (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8684-4279 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Greener on the other side
My research, with its focus on women and food seed through the lens of indenture, has led me into the world of leafy green vegetables and their intimate connection to women who had been brought to South Africa to service colonial plantations. Leafy greens are currently buzzwords in the fitness, health, vegan, and vegetarian vocabulary. Occasionally, another leaf is discovered by the doyens of fancy cuisine, researchers or experts, elevating an un…
Ghosts of the Indian Ocean
Once I dreamt about the ghosts of whales and dolphin sand unknown people deep in the underbelly of the harbour, ,just South of Durban’s promenade. Skeletal and blurry they whirled and murmured messages of murder and cruelty Bloated bodies hauled to whaling stations \nStarving bodies hauled to plantations. Long ago hauntings Sometimes I dream of alive whales breaching, warning of an oceanic vomit \nWaves retching onto land, the sins of generations…
The Unwritten
For many years, having searched for the foods with which I had grown up within the pages of published recipe books, I realised that there was a lack of written representation around what I had understood as ancestral foods. Neither could I find the voices of the mothers and grandmothers who had fed our bodies and spirits. Through the lens of Indian indenture, a colonial system of servitude that had introduced my ancestors to South Africa, I attem…
Joy in the Dirt
I was born in South Africa, as were my parents and grandparents. We have descended from people who had been brought to South Africa through indenture, a colonial labour system that introduced alien agricultural methods and an alien workforce from India, to optimise monocultures like sugarcane. My very presence here is, therefore, entangled with colonialism’s domestication and mastery over land, plant, and people (Indigenous and indentured). I hav…
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Joy in the Dirt
I was born in South Africa, as were my parents and grandparents. We have descended from people who had been brought to South Africa through indenture, a colonial labour system that introduced alien agricultural methods and an alien workforce from India, to optimise monocultures like sugarcane. My very presence here is, therefore, entangled with colonialism’s domestication and mastery over land, plant, and people (Indigenous and indentured). I hav…
Greener on the other side
My research, with its focus on women and food seed through the lens of indenture, has led me into the world of leafy green vegetables and their intimate connection to women who had been brought to South Africa to service colonial plantations. Leafy greens are currently buzzwords in the fitness, health, vegan, and vegetarian vocabulary. Occasionally, another leaf is discovered by the doyens of fancy cuisine, researchers or experts, elevating an un…
Ghosts of the Indian Ocean
Once I dreamt about the ghosts of whales and dolphin sand unknown people deep in the underbelly of the harbour, ,just South of Durban’s promenade. Skeletal and blurry they whirled and murmured messages of murder and cruelty Bloated bodies hauled to whaling stations \nStarving bodies hauled to plantations. Long ago hauntings Sometimes I dream of alive whales breaching, warning of an oceanic vomit \nWaves retching onto land, the sins of generations…
The Unwritten
For many years, having searched for the foods with which I had grown up within the pages of published recipe books, I realised that there was a lack of written representation around what I had understood as ancestral foods. Neither could I find the voices of the mothers and grandmothers who had fed our bodies and spirits. Through the lens of Indian indenture, a colonial system of servitude that had introduced my ancestors to South Africa, I attem…
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