Julia Martin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5424912 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Martin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Martin |
| SIGNATURE | MARTIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1010-8560 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Earth is Grateful: David, Goliath, Cassava, the Imbokodo , and Some Women’s Seed Banks Near Mtubatuba
Hit by the Machine: Reading a Local Protest Poem on the Island of Symi, 120 Years Later
The poem 'Χειμερινός όνειρος,' or 'Winter Dream,' by Metrophanes I Kalafatas, was written in 1903 in the hope of influencing the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid Han II to ban the new deep-sea diving suits which had recently started to be used in the Aegean sponge industry at a devastating cost to both individuals and the social body. 120 years later, the poem's bold rage against modernity and the Machine seems poignantly ineffectual and nostalgic. Yet…
Life Goes on: Hard Bread and Lyricism on the Island of the Sponge Divers
On the Aegean island of Kalymnos they make hard bread. The koulouria baked each morning on Symi are rings of white dough coated with sesame seeds, crisp on the outside, soft in the middle, and stale by midday. But the distinctive bread of Kalymnos, krithini kouloura or paximadia, is a rusk made of tough barley flour fermented with anise and mastic, and slow- baked to an unrelenting hardness to last six months at sea. The people too have a reputat…
Perpetual Past: Psychoanalytic Effects on the Temporal Logic in a Case of Psychosis
In this paper, our aim is to study a specific clinical case taking the temporal dimension as the main angle of analysis. We explore the effects of psychoanalysis on time’s representation of a patient showing psychotic symptoms. We analyze the different moments of the therapy that made possible an original integration of the temporal dimension by working on the local coordinates of the therapeutic setting. The “subjective effects” that guided the …
Rocks and Streams and Love and Liberation – Dialogues with Ecology and Buddhist Practice in Gary Snyder’s Love Poems
After 1990, and increasingly in recent years, it became possible in South Africa to extend our focus in teaching and writing about literature to consider how the project of social liberation might relate to ecological awareness, or even spiritual experience. This essay is about some of the poetry by the North American writer Gary Snyder that I’ve found inspirational in this regard. His work embodies a lifetime’s lively conversation between ecolog…
Un poeta / Un poète
Salmon Waters
Duelo y ficción jurídica: El caso de la desaparición forzada de personas en Argentina
L’article éclaire la problématique du deuil et l’invention juridique de la disparition forcée de personnes liées aux disparus durant la dictature militaire argentine des années soixante-dix. Dans cette perspective sont évoqués des antécédents remarquables en jurisprudence et certains des effets subjectifs produits par l’intervention du champ légal concernant la condition de possibilité du « droit au deuil »
The Oak Tree was Huge: Reading Koppie's Story at the Hoek
Koppie's Story is the unpublished manuscript of a novel written by Frances Cope, a colonial farmer's wife, in the early 1880s. It begins in 1879, a pivotal year in terms of the catastrophic socio-environmental impact of the colonial government's invasion of Zululand, and ends in 1880 when the railway from Durban reached Pietermaritzburg on its way into the Interior. By this time the imperialists had effectively won a decisive round against the lo…
Institutional mapping as a tool for resource consultation
This article explores how mapping is currently being used in social services research as well as practice, and discusses the potential for mapping to be a useful tool for resource consultants in the field. This article will review different mapping techniques, including community mapping, eco-mapping, journey mapping and institutional mapping, and discuss their purpose within research and professional practice. Using examples from the Inclusive E…
The Path Which Goes Beyond: Danger on Peaks Responds to Suffering
Now well into his eighties, Gary Snyder continues to pursue lifetime habits of engagement and detachment in which the activities of literary work, spiritual practice, environmental activism, and family life are mutually informing. This leads, in the poetry, to an instructive response to personal suffering and to the suffering embodied in our present eco-social dilemmas. When asked in the 1996 Paris Review interview why, for all his environmental …
Understanding Female Condom Use and Negotiation Among Young Women in Cape Town, South Africa
CONTEXT: In most countries, female condoms are not widely available and uptake has been slow. More information is needed on how women and men successfully negotiate female condom use. METHODS: In-depth interviews were conducted at two sites in Cape Town, South Africa, with 14 women and 13 men who had used female condoms. A structured interview guide was used to elicit information on how women negotiate female condom use, and how male partners neg…
Un secreto a voces: Lo verdadero en la perspectiva de la ficción
L’auteur propose une approche du vrai à partir de l’apport du concept de fiction . Pour cela elle dialogue avec l’étude de Saer sur ce concept, en mettant en relief les aspects qu’il dégage de l’œuvre de Borges à cet égard. On observe que le travail qu’effectue la fiction sur la vérité permet un traitement du monde non moins véritable pour lui, dimension selon laquelle on peut élucider le secret de la fiction et, à la fois, la fonction qu’il y ex…
The Temple and the Trees
This essay uses the genre of creative nonfiction to reflect on a visit to Göbekli Tepe in South-East Turkey. I tell a story about travelling from Cape Town to Sanliurfa that situates this pivotal site (and its excavation) in relation both to imperial history and to contemporary eco-social priorities in the region. What connection might there be between the T-shaped limestone pillars on Belly Mountain and the Hagia Sophia, or an Ottoman mausoleum,…
Minute Particulars and Global Flows: Place and Interconnectedness in a Creative Nonfiction Class
This essay uses an account of working with a particular MA Creative Writing class at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) to reflect on the experience of the module, “Writing on Place and Places.” In this course, the focus is on teaching eco-literacy through reading and writing creative nonfiction, and it explores the supposition that paying close attention to the minute particularities of place(s) may be a tool for revealing rather than obsc…
Mountains, Waters, Walking: Gary Snyder’s reticulate meshwork of trails
Walking on walking under foot earth turnsStreams and mountains never stay the same.1,2The inhabited world is a reticulate meshwork of trails, which is continually being woven as life goes on along
Recipes, love, and forgetting: A sparse domestic archive from colonial Natal
This essay uses the genre of creative nonfiction to tell the story of two particular women, and to explore the inextricable relations between femininity, food and love as experienced in one family who lived in a neighbourhood of colonial Natal at the beginning of the twentieth century. Beginning as a conversation with the speaker’s ageing and forgetful mother, the narrative becomes an attempt to discover more about her mother, Madge Smallie. In t…
Crepúsculo/Crépuscule
Secretos. Un enigma en el terrorismo de Estado
Le secret dans ses relations avec l’enigme trouve un paradigme dans la situation du terrorisme d’Etat ; tel est le cas de ce qui se produisit pendant la dictature au cours des annees 1970 en Argentine. Le roman Maneges de Laura Alcoba et le film Dans ses yeux de Campanella, bases l’un et l’autre sur cette epoque sinistre, constituent le point de depart d’un expose sur la fonction et la structure du secret et de l’enigme. Il s’agit de fictions a v…
Grandfather's suitcase
Developing a Conceptual Framework for Life Skills Interventions
The purpose of the article is to outline a comprehensive conceptual framework for life skills interventions by integrating aspects of Basic Needs Theory (BNT) and Life Development Intervention (LDI). In particular, we advocate the integration of (a) the three basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness and (b) the needs-supportive motivationalclimate from BNT with the LDI framework. When these basic psychological needs are …
The Politics of Childbirth: A Changing Paradigm
Evaluation of a commercial web-based weight loss and weight loss maintenance program in overweight and obese adults: A randomized controlled trial
Importantly, this paper describes how an RCT of a currently available commercial online program in Australia addresses some of the short falls in the current literature pertaining to the efficacy of web-based weight loss programs.Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR) number: ACTRN12610000197033
A social marketing approach to improving the nutrition of low-income women and children: An initial focus group study
Objective To identify approaches for interventions to improve the nutrition of low-income women and children. Design Seven focus groups were conducted with low-income women caring for young children in their households. They discussed shopping, eating at home, eating out and healthy eating. The discussions were recorded and subjected to qualitative thematic analysis. Setting A semi-rural community in Oregon, USA. Subjects There were seventy-four …
Springbok, farmers, places and shards: Reading and writing the Bleek‐Lloyd archive
This is a narrative essay which reflects on the experience of reading the nineteenth‐century Bleek‐Lloyd archive of /Xam testimonies (both in the original collection of exercise books in which they were transcribed and in the online collection which has recently been established) in the light of a preoccupation with the contemporary local‐global crisis of environment and development
Developing a Conceptual Framework for Life Skills Interventions
The purpose of the article is to outline a comprehensive conceptual framework for life skills interventions by integrating aspects of Basic Needs Theory (BNT) and Life Development Intervention (LDI). In particular, we advocate the integration of (a) the three basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness and (b) the needs-supportive motivationalclimate from BNT with the LDI framework. When these basic psychological needs are …
Grandfather's suitcase
Essay: The Kuruman Spring
Long live the fresh air! Long live! Teaching and truth-telling about the environment in South Africa, 1986-96
Reading and Writing the Ecosocial Environment
JULIA MARTIN shares her experiences in teaching environmental literacy—something she has recently embarked on to expose students to the link between gender literacy and environmental questions, and to bridge the no-speak divide between academia and the environmental movement
The Path of the Buddha
Reading and Writing the Ecosocial Environment
JULIA MARTIN shares her experiences in teaching environmental literacy—something she has recently embarked on to expose students to the link between gender literacy and environmental questions, and to bridge the no-speak divide between academia and the environmental movement
Long live the fresh air! Long live! Teaching and truth-telling about the environment in South Africa, 1986-96
The speaking garden in William Blake's The Book of Thel: Metaphors of wisdom and compassion
Responding to the reductionist and objectifying dualisms of scientific mechanism and authoritarian Christianity, Blake's work evokes a view of being in which “everything that lives is holy”. In The Book of Thel (1789) this is exemplified in the representation of an ecologically interdependent Garden of speaking subjects. In this environment, the insubstantiality and impermanence of all subjectivity (which for Thel is a source of distress) is show…
The Smell of Home
Visiting the Temples
On the Sea Shore
This piece uses story and metaphor to explore edges, dualisms, indeterminacies and the possibility of nondual apprehension. It takes the form of a narrative essay in which the intertidal zone, that shifting region between land and sea, is represented both as a metaphor of liminality, and as a “real”, biophysical ecosystem which is an embodiment of nondualism. The speaker's perspective is informed by Buddhist theory and a sense of ecological urgen…
Gender, Religion and the Environment: A University of the Western Cape Case Study
This contribution explores the relationship between gender, religion and the environment in terms of the perceptions of a group of first-year students registered for a course on Environmental Awareness Techniques and Training at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. The empirical investigation indicates that there is a surprisingly high level of environmental awareness amongst this group, possibly reflecting their different living c…
The Tiny Skin Boat: Visiting Gary Snyder in “Amerika”
This is a narrative essay which reflects on a visit to the United States in 2005 to interview Gary Snyder and attend a conference on literature and ecology. The speaker describes teaching Snyder's poetry in South Africa as part of an attempt to develop an approach to reading and writing that conveys a sense of the urgency of environmental issues, and of their implicatedness in social and political ones. Meeting him again serves to confirm and to …
Essay: The Kuruman Spring
Springbok, farmers, places and shards: Reading and writing the Bleek‐Lloyd archive
This is a narrative essay which reflects on the experience of reading the nineteenth‐century Bleek‐Lloyd archive of /Xam testimonies (both in the original collection of exercise books in which they were transcribed and in the online collection which has recently been established) in the light of a preoccupation with the contemporary local‐global crisis of environment and development
A social marketing approach to improving the nutrition of low-income women and children: An initial focus group study
Objective To identify approaches for interventions to improve the nutrition of low-income women and children. Design Seven focus groups were conducted with low-income women caring for young children in their households. They discussed shopping, eating at home, eating out and healthy eating. The discussions were recorded and subjected to qualitative thematic analysis. Setting A semi-rural community in Oregon, USA. Subjects There were seventy-four …
Evaluation of a commercial web-based weight loss and weight loss maintenance program in overweight and obese adults: A randomized controlled trial
Importantly, this paper describes how an RCT of a currently available commercial online program in Australia addresses some of the short falls in the current literature pertaining to the efficacy of web-based weight loss programs.Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR) number: ACTRN12610000197033
The Politics of Childbirth: A Changing Paradigm
Grandfather's suitcase
Developing a Conceptual Framework for Life Skills Interventions
The purpose of the article is to outline a comprehensive conceptual framework for life skills interventions by integrating aspects of Basic Needs Theory (BNT) and Life Development Intervention (LDI). In particular, we advocate the integration of (a) the three basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness and (b) the needs-supportive motivationalclimate from BNT with the LDI framework. When these basic psychological needs are …
Crepúsculo/Crépuscule
Secretos. Un enigma en el terrorismo de Estado
Le secret dans ses relations avec l’enigme trouve un paradigme dans la situation du terrorisme d’Etat ; tel est le cas de ce qui se produisit pendant la dictature au cours des annees 1970 en Argentine. Le roman Maneges de Laura Alcoba et le film Dans ses yeux de Campanella, bases l’un et l’autre sur cette epoque sinistre, constituent le point de depart d’un expose sur la fonction et la structure du secret et de l’enigme. Il s’agit de fictions a v…
The Temple and the Trees
This essay uses the genre of creative nonfiction to reflect on a visit to Göbekli Tepe in South-East Turkey. I tell a story about travelling from Cape Town to Sanliurfa that situates this pivotal site (and its excavation) in relation both to imperial history and to contemporary eco-social priorities in the region. What connection might there be between the T-shaped limestone pillars on Belly Mountain and the Hagia Sophia, or an Ottoman mausoleum,…
Minute Particulars and Global Flows: Place and Interconnectedness in a Creative Nonfiction Class
This essay uses an account of working with a particular MA Creative Writing class at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) to reflect on the experience of the module, “Writing on Place and Places.” In this course, the focus is on teaching eco-literacy through reading and writing creative nonfiction, and it explores the supposition that paying close attention to the minute particularities of place(s) may be a tool for revealing rather than obsc…
Mountains, Waters, Walking: Gary Snyder’s reticulate meshwork of trails
Walking on walking under foot earth turnsStreams and mountains never stay the same.1,2The inhabited world is a reticulate meshwork of trails, which is continually being woven as life goes on along
Recipes, love, and forgetting: A sparse domestic archive from colonial Natal
This essay uses the genre of creative nonfiction to tell the story of two particular women, and to explore the inextricable relations between femininity, food and love as experienced in one family who lived in a neighbourhood of colonial Natal at the beginning of the twentieth century. Beginning as a conversation with the speaker’s ageing and forgetful mother, the narrative becomes an attempt to discover more about her mother, Madge Smallie. In t…
Understanding Female Condom Use and Negotiation Among Young Women in Cape Town, South Africa
CONTEXT: In most countries, female condoms are not widely available and uptake has been slow. More information is needed on how women and men successfully negotiate female condom use. METHODS: In-depth interviews were conducted at two sites in Cape Town, South Africa, with 14 women and 13 men who had used female condoms. A structured interview guide was used to elicit information on how women negotiate female condom use, and how male partners neg…
Un secreto a voces: Lo verdadero en la perspectiva de la ficción
L’auteur propose une approche du vrai à partir de l’apport du concept de fiction . Pour cela elle dialogue avec l’étude de Saer sur ce concept, en mettant en relief les aspects qu’il dégage de l’œuvre de Borges à cet égard. On observe que le travail qu’effectue la fiction sur la vérité permet un traitement du monde non moins véritable pour lui, dimension selon laquelle on peut élucider le secret de la fiction et, à la fois, la fonction qu’il y ex…
The Path Which Goes Beyond: Danger on Peaks Responds to Suffering
Now well into his eighties, Gary Snyder continues to pursue lifetime habits of engagement and detachment in which the activities of literary work, spiritual practice, environmental activism, and family life are mutually informing. This leads, in the poetry, to an instructive response to personal suffering and to the suffering embodied in our present eco-social dilemmas. When asked in the 1996 Paris Review interview why, for all his environmental …
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