Derick Fay
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 630192 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Derick Fay |
| PRENOMES | Derick |
| SOBRENOME | Fay |
| ASSINATURA | FAY D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Riverside |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1396-2842 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Participation and litigation
Policy processes in contemporary South Africa draw attention to a phenomenon that is both common in policymaking and under-theorised in the anthropology of policy: the tendency for policy to be made both through legislative and administrative fora, and through litigation and the threat of litigation, often concurrently. Given South Africa’s robust legal frameworks mandating public participation in policymaking, there is an unexpectedly productive…
Land Complaints’ in Bizana, c .1940–1963
The ‘land complaints’ files of the Transkei magistrates from the mid 20th century provide an under-recognised and important source regarding living customary law in South Africa. Land complaints were treated as ‘purely administrative’ rather than legal matters and hence not subject to appeals outside the Native Affairs Department, creating disincentives and obstacles to bringing claims grounded in living practice into fora where they might challe…
Deactivation of field cultivation in communal areas of South Africa
Studying up after studying down
‘Studying up’ after one has ‘studied down’ poses a unique set of challenges, heightened by contexts of unequal power relations between different sets of informants. These are illustrated with the author’s experience moving from ethnographic fieldwork in a community adjoining a protected area to preliminary explorations of fieldwork among conservation professionals. Because of the intrinsically personal nature of ethnographic research, aspects of …
After restitution
This article considers the fracturing of “community” and the turn to litigation in the wake of nominally settled land restitution claims in South Africa. We describe emergent incongruence between groups of claimants, the projects of restitution, and the new legal entities that represent the claimants. As a result, discontented South African land claimants are challenging the new legal entities created in the restitution process, rather than the s…
Keeping Land for Their Children
Even as they cultivate less land, residents of Hobeni, in the former Transkei homeland, describe increasing concerns over land shortage, explaining that disused land has its owners who ‘are keeping that land for their children’. This paper examines the social practices that shape rural land tenure, in a setting where traditional authorities bear little relevance to customary tenure. Land in this context holds value not only for agricultural and r…
Neoliberal conservation and the potential for lawfare
Apartheid and the Erosion or Preservation of Medicinal Plant Knowledge
The Trust is Over! We Want to Plough
Migrants, Forests and Houses
Examining architectural continuity and change over a century in two communities in South Africa's Eastern Cape, this paper reassesses the assertion that migration, wage labor, and capitalism lead to major architectural changes and the adoption of extra-local purchased building materials. Labor migration was widespread here by the early 20th century, but houses were built from local materials until the 21st century. The pace and trajectories of ar…
Introduction
The introduction to this set of papers highlights four challenges to the large-scale analysis of population growth at protected area edges in Africa and Latin America undertaken by George Wittemyer and colleagues in their 2008 paper published in Science. First, it raises questions about their sampling procedures, given national-level variation in systems of protected area designation and protected area estates. Second, it challenges the largely e…
In Response to Kepe et al
In this article, Kepe and his colleagues ask why land reform in South Africa has failed to produce a ‘fair deal’; in answering, they argue that the combination of neoliberalization (in particular
Land and Agrarian Reform in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province
Investigating continuities and discontinuities is useful for an analysis of changes over time. Continuity is not just a simple, unbroken line of events, but involves a set of institutional and discursive linkages. The paper explores continuities in that relate to the agricultural expert system that has gradually taken shape in South Africa and that plays a prominent role in the design of land reform. The persistence of continuities indicates the …
Landmarked
Landmarked: land claims and restitution in South Africa, by Cherryl Walker, Athens, OH and Auckland Park, Ohio University Press and Jacana Media, 2008, xii + 292 pp., $26.95, ISBN 9780821418703 Wal
Crossing the Zambezi
The rights and wrongs of land restitution
Land Tenure, Land Use, and Land Reform at Dwesa-Cwebe, South Africa
‘Restoring what was ours’
Land dispossession is seen by some as the central political-economic issue of colonialism and as central to the creation of modern capitalism. It has rested not only on force but also on new forms of property and discipline; it has instantiated and affirmed Lockean notions of property and civilization and constructions of racial and ethnic difference. If land bridges material and symbolic concerns, as both a factor of production and a site of bel…
Douglas L. Johnson and Laurence A. Lewis
Constituting Democracy
Mutual Gains and Distributive Ideologies in South Africa
Association for Africanist Anthropology
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Anthropology and Environment Section
Kinship and Access to Land in the Eastern Cape
A focus on institutional norms and rules gives an incomplete picture of rural land tenure; building an account of local practice from specific cases reveals nuances and variations that are otherwise elusive. Following the latter approach, the paper describes so-called ‘communal’ tenure in southern Hobeni, a community in Xhora District, in the Transkei region of the Eastern Cape Province. A practice-based approach reveals significant variations in…
Land Tenure, Land Use, and Land Reform at Dwesa-Cwebe, South Africa
Neoliberal conservation and the potential for lawfare
Deactivation of field cultivation in communal areas of South Africa
Land and Agrarian Reform in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province
Investigating continuities and discontinuities is useful for an analysis of changes over time. Continuity is not just a simple, unbroken line of events, but involves a set of institutional and discursive linkages. The paper explores continuities in that relate to the agricultural expert system that has gradually taken shape in South Africa and that plays a prominent role in the design of land reform. The persistence of continuities indicates the …
Kinship and Access to Land in the Eastern Cape
A focus on institutional norms and rules gives an incomplete picture of rural land tenure; building an account of local practice from specific cases reveals nuances and variations that are otherwise elusive. Following the latter approach, the paper describes so-called ‘communal’ tenure in southern Hobeni, a community in Xhora District, in the Transkei region of the Eastern Cape Province. A practice-based approach reveals significant variations in…
After restitution
This article considers the fracturing of “community” and the turn to litigation in the wake of nominally settled land restitution claims in South Africa. We describe emergent incongruence between groups of claimants, the projects of restitution, and the new legal entities that represent the claimants. As a result, discontented South African land claimants are challenging the new legal entities created in the restitution process, rather than the s…
Keeping Land for Their Children
Even as they cultivate less land, residents of Hobeni, in the former Transkei homeland, describe increasing concerns over land shortage, explaining that disused land has its owners who ‘are keeping that land for their children’. This paper examines the social practices that shape rural land tenure, in a setting where traditional authorities bear little relevance to customary tenure. Land in this context holds value not only for agricultural and r…
Participation and litigation
Policy processes in contemporary South Africa draw attention to a phenomenon that is both common in policymaking and under-theorised in the anthropology of policy: the tendency for policy to be made both through legislative and administrative fora, and through litigation and the threat of litigation, often concurrently. Given South Africa’s robust legal frameworks mandating public participation in policymaking, there is an unexpectedly productive…
The Trust is Over! We Want to Plough
Mutual Gains and Distributive Ideologies in South Africa
In the Company of Diamonds
In the Company of Diamonds: De Beers, Kleinzee, and the Control of. Town. Peter Carstens. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001. 258 pp
Disabling Globalization
Combining richly detailed empirical research on transnational connections with bold and imaginative theoretical argument, this innovative study offers fresh critical understandings of globalization and unique insights into post-apartheid South Africa. Based on research conducted between 1994 and 2001, Gillian Hart traces political dynamics in two former white towns and adjacent black townships in the province of KwaZulu-Natal that are major sites…
In the Company of Diamonds
In the Company of Diamonds: De Beers, Kleinzee, and the Control of. Town. Peter Carstens. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001. 258 pp
Kinship and Access to Land in the Eastern Cape
A focus on institutional norms and rules gives an incomplete picture of rural land tenure; building an account of local practice from specific cases reveals nuances and variations that are otherwise elusive. Following the latter approach, the paper describes so-called ‘communal’ tenure in southern Hobeni, a community in Xhora District, in the Transkei region of the Eastern Cape Province. A practice-based approach reveals significant variations in…
Association for Africanist Anthropology
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Anthropology and Environment Section
Mutual Gains and Distributive Ideologies in South Africa
‘Restoring what was ours’
Land dispossession is seen by some as the central political-economic issue of colonialism and as central to the creation of modern capitalism. It has rested not only on force but also on new forms of property and discipline; it has instantiated and affirmed Lockean notions of property and civilization and constructions of racial and ethnic difference. If land bridges material and symbolic concerns, as both a factor of production and a site of bel…
Douglas L. Johnson and Laurence A. Lewis
Constituting Democracy
The rights and wrongs of land restitution
Land Tenure, Land Use, and Land Reform at Dwesa-Cwebe, South Africa
Landmarked
Landmarked: land claims and restitution in South Africa, by Cherryl Walker, Athens, OH and Auckland Park, Ohio University Press and Jacana Media, 2008, xii + 292 pp., $26.95, ISBN 9780821418703 Wal
Crossing the Zambezi
Migrants, Forests and Houses
Examining architectural continuity and change over a century in two communities in South Africa's Eastern Cape, this paper reassesses the assertion that migration, wage labor, and capitalism lead to major architectural changes and the adoption of extra-local purchased building materials. Labor migration was widespread here by the early 20th century, but houses were built from local materials until the 21st century. The pace and trajectories of ar…
Introduction
The introduction to this set of papers highlights four challenges to the large-scale analysis of population growth at protected area edges in Africa and Latin America undertaken by George Wittemyer and colleagues in their 2008 paper published in Science. First, it raises questions about their sampling procedures, given national-level variation in systems of protected area designation and protected area estates. Second, it challenges the largely e…
In Response to Kepe et al
In this article, Kepe and his colleagues ask why land reform in South Africa has failed to produce a ‘fair deal’; in answering, they argue that the combination of neoliberalization (in particular
Land and Agrarian Reform in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province
Investigating continuities and discontinuities is useful for an analysis of changes over time. Continuity is not just a simple, unbroken line of events, but involves a set of institutional and discursive linkages. The paper explores continuities in that relate to the agricultural expert system that has gradually taken shape in South Africa and that plays a prominent role in the design of land reform. The persistence of continuities indicates the …
Neoliberal conservation and the potential for lawfare
Apartheid and the Erosion or Preservation of Medicinal Plant Knowledge
The Trust is Over! We Want to Plough
After restitution
This article considers the fracturing of “community” and the turn to litigation in the wake of nominally settled land restitution claims in South Africa. We describe emergent incongruence between groups of claimants, the projects of restitution, and the new legal entities that represent the claimants. As a result, discontented South African land claimants are challenging the new legal entities created in the restitution process, rather than the s…
Keeping Land for Their Children
Even as they cultivate less land, residents of Hobeni, in the former Transkei homeland, describe increasing concerns over land shortage, explaining that disused land has its owners who ‘are keeping that land for their children’. This paper examines the social practices that shape rural land tenure, in a setting where traditional authorities bear little relevance to customary tenure. Land in this context holds value not only for agricultural and r…
Studying up after studying down
‘Studying up’ after one has ‘studied down’ poses a unique set of challenges, heightened by contexts of unequal power relations between different sets of informants. These are illustrated with the author’s experience moving from ethnographic fieldwork in a community adjoining a protected area to preliminary explorations of fieldwork among conservation professionals. Because of the intrinsically personal nature of ethnographic research, aspects of …
Deactivation of field cultivation in communal areas of South Africa
Political science (16 obras) · Geography (13 obras) · Legal Issues in South Africa (13 obras) · Sociology (12 obras) · Land Rights and Reforms (11 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Archaeology (8 obras) · Economics (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 obras)