Nancy Murray
Biographic Data
| ID | 77945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Murray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Murray |
| SIGNATURE | MURRAY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2016-3651 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1933 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
“An African View”: The photography of Denise Scott Brown
This article develops on the plenary paper we presented for the second Modern Heritage in the Anthropocene Symposium (MoHoA), held at the Bartlett School of Architecture(UCL) October 26–28, 2022. At the first MOHoA Symposium in Cape Town in 2021 titled Learning from Steinkopf , we invoked Learning from Las Vegas (by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izneour, published in 1972) to consider South African architect Roelof Uytenbogaardt's…
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world By Antony Loewenstein and The Tale of a Wall: reflections on the meaning of hope and freedom By Nasser Abu Sr…
Crossing a Line: Laws, violence and roadblocks to Palestinian political expression By Amahl Bishara and Palestine Hijacked: how Zionism forged an apartheid state from river to sea By Thomas Suárez
Learning from Steinkopf
This paper contributes to the deliberations around the future of modernist architecture in the Modern Heritage of Africa (MoHoA) initiative. As creative practitioners and academics, our work has focused on considerations of architecture and urbanism, variously designing, theorizing, and photographing cities and structures. Our work is very much a critique of architectural photography, an approach to visualizing and thinking about cities that is a…
Unsilencing Gaza: Reflections on resistance by Sara Roy
Addressing quadruple aims through primary care and public health collaboration: Ten Canadian case studies
Primary care and public health collaborations can strengthen community-based primary health care while addressing the Quadruple Aims with an emphasis on reducing health inequities but requires attention to collaboration barriers and enablers
Urban archives and Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project
This is a special issue of Critical African Studies, entitled ‘Urban archives and Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project’. It is followed by an individual article, authored by Julia Viebach. The special issue, guest edited by Noëleen Murray and Jill Weintroub, emerged through their involvement in the scholarly meeting Secret Affinities, a workshop in critical reading and an interrogation of the city in Africa via Walter Benjamin’s Das Passagen-Wer…
Urban secrets? Affinities and anthropologies of South African cities
This paper reflects on the discussions of a collective of academics in and around Johannesburg, Africa's iconic city built on the extractive capital of gold mining. Captured aptly in William Kentridge's art film Johannesburg: Second Greatest City after Paris (1989), the city is brought into an imaginary relationship with a romanticised Parisian experience. This comparison is taken up through an endeavour to read, re-read, imagine and re-imagine J…
Collaboration between Local Public Health Units and Regional Health Authorities in Canada for Integrated Health System Planning Using a Population Health Approach: Research
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Dying to Forget: Oil, power, Palestine & the foundations of U.S. policy in the Middle East, War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and global pacification and Shell-shocked: on the ground un…
Johannesburg: Colonial anchor, African performer
This journal article reflects on the conceptualization of a three-day meeting convened to open space for thinking differently about the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, and to begin to explore the possibility of working beyond the constraints of standard urban studies and regimes of spatial planning through which the city is conventionally viewed and researched. The incentive underpinning the 2015 Performative Urbanisms workshop was the desire…
Street Smarts ↔ Book Smarts: Three Neighborhoods and One University School of Nursing Partnering for Health
This article describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of an interdisciplinary undergraduate course embedded within a campus–community partnership initiative involving McMaster University School of Nursing, and three urban priority neighborhoods in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Students worked together with community residents and faculty to address selected priority community issues identified by neighborhood members. Using the qual…
Moving towards a new vision: Implementation of a public health policy intervention
Multiple factors influenced public health policy implementation. Results provide empirical support for components of Greenhalgh et al's framework and suggest two additional components - the role of external organizational collaborations and partnerships as well as planning processes in influencing implementation. These are important to consider by government and public health organizations when promoting new or revised public health policies as t…
Remembering Naseer Aruri
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the making of American capitalism, Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption
Goliath: Life and loathing in Greater Israel and Shattered Hopes: Obama's failure to broker Israeli-Palestinian peace
Camp Lwandle: Rehabilitating a migrant labour hostel at the seaside
In southern African narratives of migrant labour, hostels and compounds are represented as typical examples of colonial and apartheid planning. Visual and spatial comparisons are consistently made between the regulatory power of hostels and those of concentration camps. Several of these sites of violence and repression are today being reconfigured as sites of conscience, their artefactual presence on the landscape being constructed as places of r…
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 …
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…
Obama and the global war on terror
Just over two years into the Obama administration, what have been its achievements in relation to the abuses formerly committed by the Bush administration under the rubric of the 'war on terror'? On his first full day in office, Obama, a former scholar of constitutional law, signed an order to close Guantánamo within one year. However, as the record of the past two years examined here shows, that early promise has not been fulfilled. Instead, the…
Evaluating the impact of community-based interventions on schooling outcomes among orphans and vulnerable children in Lusaka, Zambia
In sub-Saharan Africa, an estimated 12 million children under the age of 18 have lost a parent to acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Despite this situation, the evidence regarding effectiveness of interventions targeting these children remains scant. This article contributes to the literature by evaluating the impact of a community-based program implemented by a Zambian non-governmental organization on educational outcomes among orphans and vul…
Parenting Predictors of Early-Adolescents’ Health Behaviors: Simultaneous Group Comparisons Across Sex and Ethnic Groups
Profiling in the age of total information awareness
In recent years, a secretive domestic surveillance apparatus has been created in the US in the name of counter-terrorism. Based on the notion of 'predictive policing', it aims to gather such detailed information about individuals - 'total information awareness' - that it is able to anticipate crimes before they are committed. Linked to the return of racial profiling in the name of the 'war on terror' and implemented by local Joint-Terrorism Task …
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 …
Reconsidering childhood undernutrition: Can birth spacing make a difference? An analysis of the 2002–2003 El Salvador National Family Health Survey
It is well understood that undernutrition underpins much of child morbidity and mortality in less developed countries, but the causes of undernutrition are complex and interrelated, requiring a multipronged approach for intervention. This paper uses a subsample of 3853 children under age 5 from the most recent family health survey in El Salvador to examine the relationship between birth spacing and childhood undernutrition (stunting and underweig…
Anti-racists and other demons: The press and ideology in Thatcher's Britain
Parenting Predictors of Early-Adolescents’ Health Behaviors: Simultaneous Group Comparisons Across Sex and Ethnic Groups
The factors influencing transactional sex among young men and women in 12 sub-Saharan African countries
Transactional sex may put young women and young men in sub-Saharan Africa at increased risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV/AIDS. This behavior may also put young women at higher risk of pregnancy and childbearing. Policymakers and program managers need to know what factors put youth at increased risk. We investigated this issue using logistic regression analyses of data from male and female modules of Demogra…
Critical Issues in Implementing a Comprehensive Violence Prevention Program for Middle Schools: Translating Theory into Practice
Evaluating the impact of community-based interventions on schooling outcomes among orphans and vulnerable children in Lusaka, Zambia
In sub-Saharan Africa, an estimated 12 million children under the age of 18 have lost a parent to acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Despite this situation, the evidence regarding effectiveness of interventions targeting these children remains scant. This article contributes to the literature by evaluating the impact of a community-based program implemented by a Zambian non-governmental organization on educational outcomes among orphans and vul…
The Role of Religion in Public Life
Urban secrets? Affinities and anthropologies of South African cities
This paper reflects on the discussions of a collective of academics in and around Johannesburg, Africa's iconic city built on the extractive capital of gold mining. Captured aptly in William Kentridge's art film Johannesburg: Second Greatest City after Paris (1989), the city is brought into an imaginary relationship with a romanticised Parisian experience. This comparison is taken up through an endeavour to read, re-read, imagine and re-imagine J…
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 …
Profiling in the age of total information awareness
In recent years, a secretive domestic surveillance apparatus has been created in the US in the name of counter-terrorism. Based on the notion of 'predictive policing', it aims to gather such detailed information about individuals - 'total information awareness' - that it is able to anticipate crimes before they are committed. Linked to the return of racial profiling in the name of the 'war on terror' and implemented by local Joint-Terrorism Task …
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 …
Columbus and the USA: From Mythology to Ideology
Skeletal Remains From Rock Shelters in Cathkin Park, Natal
Learning from Steinkopf
This paper contributes to the deliberations around the future of modernist architecture in the Modern Heritage of Africa (MoHoA) initiative. As creative practitioners and academics, our work has focused on considerations of architecture and urbanism, variously designing, theorizing, and photographing cities and structures. Our work is very much a critique of architectural photography, an approach to visualizing and thinking about cities that is a…
Obama and the global war on terror
Just over two years into the Obama administration, what have been its achievements in relation to the abuses formerly committed by the Bush administration under the rubric of the 'war on terror'? On his first full day in office, Obama, a former scholar of constitutional law, signed an order to close Guantánamo within one year. However, as the record of the past two years examined here shows, that early promise has not been fulfilled. Instead, the…
Apprehending reality: Race & Class as an anti-imperialist journal
Somewhere over the rainbow: A journey to the new South Africa
Mozambique: The revolution and the bandits: an interview with Lina Magaia
The state against the Tamils
Skeletal Remains From Rock Shelters in Cathkin Park, Natal
Practicing Socially and Ecologically Responsible Geography in Kenya
The state against the Tamils
Reporting the 'riots
Anti-racists and other demons: The press and ideology in Thatcher's Britain
Mozambique: The revolution and the bandits: an interview with Lina Magaia
Notes and documents: Living the intifada day by day: an interview with Amal Wahdan
Columbus and the USA: From Mythology to Ideology
Critical Issues in Implementing a Comprehensive Violence Prevention Program for Middle Schools: Translating Theory into Practice
The Wheel of Fortune: Middle Ages, Not TV
Somewhere over the rainbow: A journey to the new South Africa
The Role of Religion in Public Life
Apprehending reality: Race & Class as an anti-imperialist journal
The impact of fertility intentions on behavior: The case of sterilization
In this paper, we take a new approach to the question of whether or not intentions regarding future fertility affect fertility-related behavior. Our approach has three principal features: 1) it takes sterilization as its outcome, rather than pregnancy or birth; 2) it is based on a conceptual model in which fertility-related behavior is seen as determined by a long-range planning process, modified by unanticipated life course contingencies; and 3)…
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
Cape Town's Tana Baru Burial Ground: Wasteland or Private Property
Architect and artist Rodney Place, in an interview about concepts of beauty and ugliness in the post-apartheid city of Johannesburg, suggests that the industrial modernity of the landscape of South Africa is a ‘wasteland' or friche waiting for ‘reinterpretation' and ‘occupation'. Place argues in this regard that while much of the urban and rural landscapes of South Africa may have been inherited or deliberately created, they are also readymade ‘t…
The factors influencing transactional sex among young men and women in 12 sub-Saharan African countries
Transactional sex may put young women and young men in sub-Saharan Africa at increased risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV/AIDS. This behavior may also put young women at higher risk of pregnancy and childbearing. Policymakers and program managers need to know what factors put youth at increased risk. We investigated this issue using logistic regression analyses of data from male and female modules of Demogra…
Factors Related to Induced Abortion among Young Women in Edo State, Nigeria
Sub‐Saharan Africa has the highest death rate from induced abortion in the world, and young women in southern Nigeria are particularly likely to terminate their pregnancies. This study assesses the prevalence of and factors associated with induced abortion among 601 young women aged 15–24 who were surveyed in Edo State, Nigeria, in 2002. We find that 41 percent of all pregnancies reported by the young women surveyed were terminated, and we estima…
Reconsidering childhood undernutrition: Can birth spacing make a difference? An analysis of the 2002–2003 El Salvador National Family Health Survey
It is well understood that undernutrition underpins much of child morbidity and mortality in less developed countries, but the causes of undernutrition are complex and interrelated, requiring a multipronged approach for intervention. This paper uses a subsample of 3853 children under age 5 from the most recent family health survey in El Salvador to examine the relationship between birth spacing and childhood undernutrition (stunting and underweig…
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 …
Evaluating the impact of community-based interventions on schooling outcomes among orphans and vulnerable children in Lusaka, Zambia
In sub-Saharan Africa, an estimated 12 million children under the age of 18 have lost a parent to acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Despite this situation, the evidence regarding effectiveness of interventions targeting these children remains scant. This article contributes to the literature by evaluating the impact of a community-based program implemented by a Zambian non-governmental organization on educational outcomes among orphans and vul…
Parenting Predictors of Early-Adolescents’ Health Behaviors: Simultaneous Group Comparisons Across Sex and Ethnic Groups
Profiling in the age of total information awareness
In recent years, a secretive domestic surveillance apparatus has been created in the US in the name of counter-terrorism. Based on the notion of 'predictive policing', it aims to gather such detailed information about individuals - 'total information awareness' - that it is able to anticipate crimes before they are committed. Linked to the return of racial profiling in the name of the 'war on terror' and implemented by local Joint-Terrorism Task …
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…
Obama and the global war on terror
Just over two years into the Obama administration, what have been its achievements in relation to the abuses formerly committed by the Bush administration under the rubric of the 'war on terror'? On his first full day in office, Obama, a former scholar of constitutional law, signed an order to close Guantánamo within one year. However, as the record of the past two years examined here shows, that early promise has not been fulfilled. Instead, the…
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