L Green
Biographic Data
| ID | 4173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Green |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Green |
| SIGNATURE | GREEN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2941-1378 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
District 9 , disgust and the insect apocalypse
Fragments from the History of Loss: The Nature Industry and the Postcolony
The Anthropocene's urgent message about imminent disaster invites us to forget about history and to focus on the present as it careens into an unthinkable future. To counter this, Louise Green engages with the theoretical framing of nature in concepts such as the "Anthropocene," "the great acceleration," and "rewilding" in order to explore what the philosophy of nature in the era of climate change might look like from postcolonial Africa.Utilizin…
Thinking Outside the Body: New Materialism and the Challenge of the Fetish
Fetishism has become such a key concept within Western thought, largely as a result of the work of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud, that it is easy to forget its origins. But the notion of fetishism originates in a very different context, and in many ways, an incommensurable system of thought—animism. Returning to this submerged backstory, I deploy the concept of the fetish to confront the recent enthusiasm for materiality that has emerged in respons…
Modernity's dirt: Carbon Emissions and the Technique of Life
Under colonialism, the concept of dirt was frequently employed ideologically to make judgements about relative worth. In Africa, a particular European cultural idiom or “technique of life” was presented as superior because of its “cleanliness.” This paper is concerned with modernity’s “technique of life” at a particular historical moment when, as a result of environmental crisis, it is suddenly called upon to give an account of itself. I undercut…
Dirt redeployed: The Cultural Politics of Dirt Continued
Putting dirt in its place: The cultural politics of dirt in Africa
On January 12 2018, US President Donald Trump made headlines once again, this time with a statement about immigration. In a meeting in the Oval Office the previous day, he had asked the by now noto
Apartheid’s wolves: Political animals and animal politics
This paper explores the particular complexity of thinking about nature and animals in post-liberation South Africa through focusing on one group of animals, the wolves housed in the Tsitsikamma Wolf Sanctuary. Wolves are not indigenous to South Africa and the presence of the sanctuary raises questions about the place of alien species in the symbolic configuration of the emerging South African nation. Although the Wolf Sanctuary is anomalous in th…
A density of texture: Reading photography from South, North and West Africa
The second part of this special issue brings together five scholarly articles and four essays which continue the discussion about photography in Africa begun by the articles and interviews included
Stereoscopic visions: Reading colonial and contemporary African photography
This piece argues for the importance of critical engagements with photographs in order to explore and rethink the past, to reflect on the present and to imagine the future. It provides a brief overview of the articles that constitute the first part of the Social Dynamics special issue on photography in Africa, a collection that contributes to the growing body of scholarship that deepens our understandings of the significance of photography on the…
The Plague Act
Private property and the problem of the miraculous: The kramats and the city of Cape Town
This paper seeks to explore the place of kramats the graves of Muslim saints or Auliyah – in the landscape of contemporary Cape Town. The kramat sites have been proclaimed as heritage sites because of their importance as tangible signs of Islam at the Cape. At the same time, the process of the kramats becoming heritage sites has contained moments of intense, often sensational, public contestation. Offering a reading of the discourses surrounding …
The university in question
Small differences
How should we define health?
The WHO definition of health as complete wellbeing is no longer fit for purpose given the rise of chronic disease. Machteld Huber and colleagues propose changing the emphasis towards the ability to adapt and self manage in the face of social, physical, and emotional challenges
Housing Cape Town’s Forgotten Dead: Conflict in the Post-apartheid Public Sphere
On 28 May 2008, the Cape Town Partnership Company Executive Officers’s newsletter reported on an ‘Interfaith ceremony at Prestwich Place [sic]’ to ‘consecrate’ a new ossuary building recently completed in Cape Town’s central business district. The announcement placed the Ossuary alongside other Partnership initiates and events such as the Harvest Festival, the Creative Cape Town initiative, and the upgrading of the Cape Town Station and the Grand…
Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America
A landscape with objects: Private game reserves, game lodges and the 'New Safari
This paper investigates the proliferation of high‐end private game reserves in Africa as the manifestation of an emerging economic but also symbolic and emotional investment in the value of nature. Increasing concern for ‘the environment’ along with anxiety about the future of individual species has given the game reserve a special place in the contemporary global imagination. Through analysis of some of the ephemeral texts through which these fa…
Notes for a Guide to the Ossuary
This essay considers the awkward ‘life of the corpse’ outside of the official spaces of the designated cemetery or burial ground in post-apartheid South Africa. We reflect on a new memorial building in Cape Town, an Ossuary named the New Prestwich Memorial. The memorial was built following a city-wide dispute over the ‘accidental discovery’ of the bones of thousands of people who were buried in Prestwich Street, close to Cape Town's harbour, but …
The social lives of handmade things: Configuring value in post-apartheid South Africa
Taking Arjun Appadurai's suggestive argument about the 'social lives' of things as its starting point, this paper traces the pathways of two commodities for sale in South Africa: a pottery bowl and a resin spoon. Both these objects acquire their value in part from the quality of being handmade. The aim of this paper is not to demystify the claim to value made by either the pottery bowl or the resin spoon, nor to judge one or the other as the more…
The necessary conjunction: Science and The Humanities
Current discussion of Science and the Humanities in the South African academy tends to pose these two fields of study in oppositional and exclusionary terms: Science or the Humanities. In this paper we argue that the proper and necessary conjunction for discussion of science and the humanities should be an “and” rather than an “or” and suggest that the question of this conjunction has now become of critical importance for all those involved in th…
The language of dogs: Intermediate forms in global culture
Jean‐Jacques Rousseau, drawing on accounts of the Cape, shaped arguments and discourses about animal and human nature in the nascent disciplines of ethology and anthropology. This paper examines how the discourses of ethology and anthropology mesh and separate in South Africa by looking at two of the most important early South African writers on primates: late eighteenth century French explorer François Levaillant and early twentieth century Afri…
Introduction: Life Space and Burial Space in the Post-Apartheid City
Landscapes of the dead are always, simultaneously, landscapes of the living. It is this coterminousness of life and death that gives the burial site its salience and emotional power. Different societies, at different times, renegotiate the relationship between what anthropologists call ‘life space\' and ‘burial space\', depending on settlement patterns and the nature of livelihood.1 Journal for Islamic Studies Vol. 24&25 2004/5: pp. 1-16
Definición mundial de consenso para el síndrome metabólico
Theorizing Sexuality, Sexual Abuse and Residential Children's Homes: Adding Gender to the Equation
This article is primarily concerned with emphasizing the importance of gender in relation to understanding and responding to sexuality and sexual abuse/exploitation issues within residential children’s homes. Initially, past research and inquiry reports are analysed and evaluated, not only in relation to their overall conclusions and recommendations, but also with regard to their consideration, misrepresentation or omission of gender issues. A th…
Oregon v. Ashcroft: Physician-Assisted Suicide with Federally Controlled Substances
The legal battle Oregon is facing over physician-assisted suicide affects a patient terminally ill with liver cancer who has expressed desire to end her own life. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Theorizing Sexuality, Sexual Abuse and Residential Children's Homes: Adding Gender to the Equation
This article is primarily concerned with emphasizing the importance of gender in relation to understanding and responding to sexuality and sexual abuse/exploitation issues within residential children’s homes. Initially, past research and inquiry reports are analysed and evaluated, not only in relation to their overall conclusions and recommendations, but also with regard to their consideration, misrepresentation or omission of gender issues. A th…
Stereoscopic visions: Reading colonial and contemporary African photography
This piece argues for the importance of critical engagements with photographs in order to explore and rethink the past, to reflect on the present and to imagine the future. It provides a brief overview of the articles that constitute the first part of the Social Dynamics special issue on photography in Africa, a collection that contributes to the growing body of scholarship that deepens our understandings of the significance of photography on the…
Pornographies
To be radical about pornography used to mean that one favored less censorship; now it often means that one favors more. That political change reflects a shift in the dominant paradigm of pornography and its putative evils. Until quite recently, most people who believed pornography wrong thought that it offended against decency and propriety and was therefore obscene . That was certainly the view of the law. English judges first created the crime …
A density of texture: Reading photography from South, North and West Africa
The second part of this special issue brings together five scholarly articles and four essays which continue the discussion about photography in Africa begun by the articles and interviews included
Building momentum: An ethnographic study of inner-city redevelopment
OBJECTIVES: One factor contributing to the decay of inner-city areas, and to consequent excess mortality, is the massive loss of housing. This report studied the effects of a redevelopment project on social functioning in an inner-city community. METHODS: This ethnographic study included the following elements: a longitudinal study of 10 families living in renovated housing, repeated observations and photographing of the street scene, focus group…
A Behavioral Economic Analysis of Fat Appetite in Rats
Thinking Outside the Body: New Materialism and the Challenge of the Fetish
Fetishism has become such a key concept within Western thought, largely as a result of the work of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud, that it is easy to forget its origins. But the notion of fetishism originates in a very different context, and in many ways, an incommensurable system of thought—animism. Returning to this submerged backstory, I deploy the concept of the fetish to confront the recent enthusiasm for materiality that has emerged in respons…
Private property and the problem of the miraculous: The kramats and the city of Cape Town
This paper seeks to explore the place of kramats the graves of Muslim saints or Auliyah – in the landscape of contemporary Cape Town. The kramat sites have been proclaimed as heritage sites because of their importance as tangible signs of Islam at the Cape. At the same time, the process of the kramats becoming heritage sites has contained moments of intense, often sensational, public contestation. Offering a reading of the discourses surrounding …
Notes for a Guide to the Ossuary
This essay considers the awkward ‘life of the corpse’ outside of the official spaces of the designated cemetery or burial ground in post-apartheid South Africa. We reflect on a new memorial building in Cape Town, an Ossuary named the New Prestwich Memorial. The memorial was built following a city-wide dispute over the ‘accidental discovery’ of the bones of thousands of people who were buried in Prestwich Street, close to Cape Town's harbour, but …
The social lives of handmade things: Configuring value in post-apartheid South Africa
Taking Arjun Appadurai's suggestive argument about the 'social lives' of things as its starting point, this paper traces the pathways of two commodities for sale in South Africa: a pottery bowl and a resin spoon. Both these objects acquire their value in part from the quality of being handmade. The aim of this paper is not to demystify the claim to value made by either the pottery bowl or the resin spoon, nor to judge one or the other as the more…
Putting dirt in its place: The cultural politics of dirt in Africa
On January 12 2018, US President Donald Trump made headlines once again, this time with a statement about immigration. In a meeting in the Oval Office the previous day, he had asked the by now noto
Apartheid’s wolves: Political animals and animal politics
This paper explores the particular complexity of thinking about nature and animals in post-liberation South Africa through focusing on one group of animals, the wolves housed in the Tsitsikamma Wolf Sanctuary. Wolves are not indigenous to South Africa and the presence of the sanctuary raises questions about the place of alien species in the symbolic configuration of the emerging South African nation. Although the Wolf Sanctuary is anomalous in th…
Small differences
The necessary conjunction: Science and The Humanities
Current discussion of Science and the Humanities in the South African academy tends to pose these two fields of study in oppositional and exclusionary terms: Science or the Humanities. In this paper we argue that the proper and necessary conjunction for discussion of science and the humanities should be an “and” rather than an “or” and suggest that the question of this conjunction has now become of critical importance for all those involved in th…
Children's Learning Skills at the Infant and Junior Stages: A Follow‐on Study
S ummary . This follow‐on study investigates the learning skills and scholastic attainments of about half of an original cohort of over 2,000 children. The earlier study, when the children were 5 and 6 years old, found observed learning skills to be as predictive of attainment one year later as were IQ scores (Stott et al. , 1983a). The follow‐up when the children were 9 and 10 years old adopts the earlier experimental design, comparing learning …
La prevención de las enfermedades cardiovasculares: Declaración de Cataluña (continuación)
En el ltimo nmero de esta revista se publicaron en espaol los tres primeros captulos del documento The Catalonia Declaration: investing in heart health, donde se presentan abundantes ejemplos de iniciativas para la prevencin de las enfermedades cardiovasculares que han producido beneficios de salud apreciables. En las siguientes pginas se presentan sus tres captulos restantes, que proveen ejemplos adicionales de medidas productivas para la promoc…
A Behavioral Economic Analysis of Fat Appetite in Rats
A Study of Student Teachers’ Perceptions of Teaching the Arts in Primary Schools
Recent reform of initial teacher education has changed the balance of school‐based training of students and has increased teachers’ responsibility for training them in schools. This article reports on a preliminary study of primary undergraduate student teachers’ perceptions of their experience in schools on their second year and final teaching practices. Through questionnaires and structured interviews we sought students’ views of the effectiven…
Building momentum: An ethnographic study of inner-city redevelopment
OBJECTIVES: One factor contributing to the decay of inner-city areas, and to consequent excess mortality, is the massive loss of housing. This report studied the effects of a redevelopment project on social functioning in an inner-city community. METHODS: This ethnographic study included the following elements: a longitudinal study of 10 families living in renovated housing, repeated observations and photographing of the street scene, focus group…
The relationship between unemployment, technological change and psychosocial work conditions in British Columbia sawmills
In the early 1980s, the sawmill sector in British Columbia (BC), Canada experienced economic recession which was followed by industrial restructuring in many mills. This is an investigation of the relationship between unemployment, which occurred in the recession and the new psychosocial and physical work conditions in restructured workplaces using a cohort of approximately 29,000 sawmill workers in 14 BC sawmills. The purpose of this investigati…
Pornographies
To be radical about pornography used to mean that one favored less censorship; now it often means that one favors more. That political change reflects a shift in the dominant paradigm of pornography and its putative evils. Until quite recently, most people who believed pornography wrong thought that it offended against decency and propriety and was therefore obscene . That was certainly the view of the law. English judges first created the crime …
Physical activity
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HIV multidisciplinary teams work: Support services improve access to and retention in HIV primary care
The multidisciplinary team model of HIV care evolved out of necessity due to the diverse characteristics and needs of people living with HIV disease. Though it is now accepted as the international standard of care, it represents a significant departure from methods of care for other infectious diseases, and debate continues regarding the effectiveness of its interventions. The debate has been largely uninformed by data; for example, little is kno…
Oregon v. Ashcroft: Physician-Assisted Suicide with Federally Controlled Substances
The legal battle Oregon is facing over physician-assisted suicide affects a patient terminally ill with liver cancer who has expressed desire to end her own life. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Introduction: Life Space and Burial Space in the Post-Apartheid City
Landscapes of the dead are always, simultaneously, landscapes of the living. It is this coterminousness of life and death that gives the burial site its salience and emotional power. Different societies, at different times, renegotiate the relationship between what anthropologists call ‘life space\' and ‘burial space\', depending on settlement patterns and the nature of livelihood.1 Journal for Islamic Studies Vol. 24&25 2004/5: pp. 1-16
Definición mundial de consenso para el síndrome metabólico
Theorizing Sexuality, Sexual Abuse and Residential Children's Homes: Adding Gender to the Equation
This article is primarily concerned with emphasizing the importance of gender in relation to understanding and responding to sexuality and sexual abuse/exploitation issues within residential children’s homes. Initially, past research and inquiry reports are analysed and evaluated, not only in relation to their overall conclusions and recommendations, but also with regard to their consideration, misrepresentation or omission of gender issues. A th…
The language of dogs: Intermediate forms in global culture
Jean‐Jacques Rousseau, drawing on accounts of the Cape, shaped arguments and discourses about animal and human nature in the nascent disciplines of ethology and anthropology. This paper examines how the discourses of ethology and anthropology mesh and separate in South Africa by looking at two of the most important early South African writers on primates: late eighteenth century French explorer François Levaillant and early twentieth century Afri…
The necessary conjunction: Science and The Humanities
Current discussion of Science and the Humanities in the South African academy tends to pose these two fields of study in oppositional and exclusionary terms: Science or the Humanities. In this paper we argue that the proper and necessary conjunction for discussion of science and the humanities should be an “and” rather than an “or” and suggest that the question of this conjunction has now become of critical importance for all those involved in th…
The social lives of handmade things: Configuring value in post-apartheid South Africa
Taking Arjun Appadurai's suggestive argument about the 'social lives' of things as its starting point, this paper traces the pathways of two commodities for sale in South Africa: a pottery bowl and a resin spoon. Both these objects acquire their value in part from the quality of being handmade. The aim of this paper is not to demystify the claim to value made by either the pottery bowl or the resin spoon, nor to judge one or the other as the more…
Notes for a Guide to the Ossuary
This essay considers the awkward ‘life of the corpse’ outside of the official spaces of the designated cemetery or burial ground in post-apartheid South Africa. We reflect on a new memorial building in Cape Town, an Ossuary named the New Prestwich Memorial. The memorial was built following a city-wide dispute over the ‘accidental discovery’ of the bones of thousands of people who were buried in Prestwich Street, close to Cape Town's harbour, but …
Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America
A landscape with objects: Private game reserves, game lodges and the 'New Safari
This paper investigates the proliferation of high‐end private game reserves in Africa as the manifestation of an emerging economic but also symbolic and emotional investment in the value of nature. Increasing concern for ‘the environment’ along with anxiety about the future of individual species has given the game reserve a special place in the contemporary global imagination. Through analysis of some of the ephemeral texts through which these fa…
How should we define health?
The WHO definition of health as complete wellbeing is no longer fit for purpose given the rise of chronic disease. Machteld Huber and colleagues propose changing the emphasis towards the ability to adapt and self manage in the face of social, physical, and emotional challenges
Housing Cape Town’s Forgotten Dead: Conflict in the Post-apartheid Public Sphere
On 28 May 2008, the Cape Town Partnership Company Executive Officers’s newsletter reported on an ‘Interfaith ceremony at Prestwich Place [sic]’ to ‘consecrate’ a new ossuary building recently completed in Cape Town’s central business district. The announcement placed the Ossuary alongside other Partnership initiates and events such as the Harvest Festival, the Creative Cape Town initiative, and the upgrading of the Cape Town Station and the Grand…
Private property and the problem of the miraculous: The kramats and the city of Cape Town
This paper seeks to explore the place of kramats the graves of Muslim saints or Auliyah – in the landscape of contemporary Cape Town. The kramat sites have been proclaimed as heritage sites because of their importance as tangible signs of Islam at the Cape. At the same time, the process of the kramats becoming heritage sites has contained moments of intense, often sensational, public contestation. Offering a reading of the discourses surrounding …
The university in question
Small differences
The Plague Act
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