Ernst Van Der Wal
Biographic Data
| ID | 804589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ernst Van Der Wal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ernst |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Der Wal |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DER WAL E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2362-8381 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Drawing as Intimation (or Infatuations with Lines, Contours and Shades)
This article focuses on drawing as gesture and bodily intervention - in specific moments where the process of drawing closer, drawing out, or drawing in has significance. While specific attention is paid to drawing as scopic-somatic practice (that is, as a visual tool for illustrating, marking and mapping out, plotting and delineating), this article also nurtures other etymological roots, such as drawing as that which impels someone or something …
Skewing the nation
This article is interested in the national imaging and imagining of non-heteronormative genders and sexual orientations – that is, the way in which citizenship, as a form of belonging, is visually negotiated from an LGBTI (that is lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex) perspective. Technologies for framing gender and sexuality (such as photography and film) are central for the visual negotiation of LGBTI citizenship within the South African …
LGBT Refugees and the Visual Representation of Transnational Mobility
This article examines how photographic interviews can be used to represent the life stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender refugees. Transnational and cross-border movements have a significant impact on the photographic and narrative self-representation of such refugees. By focusing on the example of a photographic interview project, The Story That Travelled , this article demonstrates how ideas surrounding community, citizenship, and…
Masculinities at War
This article takes as its point of departure the discursive representation of the moffie (or “faggot”) in border literature (or grensliteratuur) that was produced after the fall of apartheid in South Africa. By investigating the textual representation of sexuality and gender during South Africa’s Border War, this article shows how autobiographical and non-fiction texts that are produced by former army conscripts still conform to ideals surroundin…
Killing Rhodes
This article investigates the conflicted relationship that exists between practices of memorial commemoration and contemporary calls for the decolonization of public space. Drawing on the example of the Rhodes Must Fall movement that originated in Cape Town, South Africa, this article demonstrates how the spatiality of commemoration is affected by decolonizing interrogations of memorial structures. Within a postcolonial context, commemorations of…
Crossing over, coming out, blending in
This paper investigates the discursive and material impact of ‘coming out’ on trans (sexual/gendered) identities and bodies. By drawing on the lived experiences of local trans subjects, the centrality of disclosure within larger lbgti discourses on liberation is troubled. Trans lives often run against the grain of a clear demarcation of a public inside and outside and, as this paper demonstrates at the hand of autobiographic narratives and photog…
Killing Rhodes
This article investigates the conflicted relationship that exists between practices of memorial commemoration and contemporary calls for the decolonization of public space. Drawing on the example of the Rhodes Must Fall movement that originated in Cape Town, South Africa, this article demonstrates how the spatiality of commemoration is affected by decolonizing interrogations of memorial structures. Within a postcolonial context, commemorations of…
Crossing over, coming out, blending in
This paper investigates the discursive and material impact of ‘coming out’ on trans (sexual/gendered) identities and bodies. By drawing on the lived experiences of local trans subjects, the centrality of disclosure within larger lbgti discourses on liberation is troubled. Trans lives often run against the grain of a clear demarcation of a public inside and outside and, as this paper demonstrates at the hand of autobiographic narratives and photog…
Killing Rhodes
This article investigates the conflicted relationship that exists between practices of memorial commemoration and contemporary calls for the decolonization of public space. Drawing on the example of the Rhodes Must Fall movement that originated in Cape Town, South Africa, this article demonstrates how the spatiality of commemoration is affected by decolonizing interrogations of memorial structures. Within a postcolonial context, commemorations of…
Masculinities at War
This article takes as its point of departure the discursive representation of the moffie (or “faggot”) in border literature (or grensliteratuur) that was produced after the fall of apartheid in South Africa. By investigating the textual representation of sexuality and gender during South Africa’s Border War, this article shows how autobiographical and non-fiction texts that are produced by former army conscripts still conform to ideals surroundin…
LGBT Refugees and the Visual Representation of Transnational Mobility
This article examines how photographic interviews can be used to represent the life stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender refugees. Transnational and cross-border movements have a significant impact on the photographic and narrative self-representation of such refugees. By focusing on the example of a photographic interview project, The Story That Travelled , this article demonstrates how ideas surrounding community, citizenship, and…
Skewing the nation
This article is interested in the national imaging and imagining of non-heteronormative genders and sexual orientations – that is, the way in which citizenship, as a form of belonging, is visually negotiated from an LGBTI (that is lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex) perspective. Technologies for framing gender and sexuality (such as photography and film) are central for the visual negotiation of LGBTI citizenship within the South African …
Drawing as Intimation (or Infatuations with Lines, Contours and Shades)
This article focuses on drawing as gesture and bodily intervention - in specific moments where the process of drawing closer, drawing out, or drawing in has significance. While specific attention is paid to drawing as scopic-somatic practice (that is, as a visual tool for illustrating, marking and mapping out, plotting and delineating), this article also nurtures other etymological roots, such as drawing as that which impels someone or something …
Art (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Human sexuality (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Literature (3 works)