Daniel Hammett
Biographic Data
| ID | 81927 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Hammett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Hammett |
| SIGNATURE | HAMMETT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9607-6901 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 66 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 251 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Peace as governmentality: Systemic violence in the urban governance of migration
This paper investigates the complex, contested nature of order-making in rapidly expanding African cities, focusing on the intersection of hybrid governance and everyday peace. Extending the urban turn in peace studies we examine how peace is sought and realised amidst rapid urbanization and social tensions in ‘everyday’ Nigerian cities. Drawing on qualitative and ethnographic data from a cross-section of cities – Lagos, Lokoja/Obajana, and Jos –…
Forum: Joking, laughter and play in International Relations: A forum of emerging research in humour and global politics
This forum critically examines humour’s rising significance in International Relations (IR). It blends interdisciplinary insights to explore how humour shapes political realities, mediates conflict and engages audiences in a mediatised era. Four key themes emerge: humour’s impact on political identities and ontological security, evident, for instance, in the Danish Cartoon Crisis and far-right memes; its strategic deployment in digital diplomacy …
Co-opting and devaluing the sustainable development goals
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Woodstock was a ‘lekka’ place”: Neighbourhood gentrification and generic-ification in a South African city
Past, present, future: The RGS‐IBG political geography research group within British political geography
This paper critically examines the history of the Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS‐IBG) within the shifting landscape of political geography as a sub‐discipline within British academic geography. While the sub‐discipline has evolved almost beyond recognition in the past 50 years, from the rehabilitation of political geography and geopolitics in the 1960s t…
Responding to the growing issue of ‘journal hijacking’
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-nd/4.0
Development beyond 2030: More collaboration, less competition
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/ The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represented a key landmark in collaboration and shared agenda-setting to address global challenges across scales and geographies. However, despite initial optimism that measurable goals would support accountability and transparency in development, progress towards realising goals has been mixed. Globa…
The new tyranny of student participation? Student voice and the paradox of strategic-active student-citizens
Student voice in governance and decision-making has become ubiquitous in higher education, evolving from buzzword to orthodoxy. Student engagement measures have become instruments of quality control, with students expected to take an active role in shaping institutional policy and practice. In this paper, we argue that this ubiquity of demands for student engagement has served to hollow-out and depoliticise student voice practices – drawing upon …
Whispered in corridors’: Intra‐national politics and practices of knowledge production in South African Human Geography
Reflections on the state of Geography around the globe have noted multiple challenges and opportunities—including a call for the reconfiguring of the discipline as a critical space of care and praxis (Daya, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 47, 9, 2022). Such a call is indelibly connected to broader conversations on the politics of knowledge production and critical engagements with cultures of knowledge production. In order to…
Our citizenship is being prostituted’: The everyday geographies of economic citizenship regimes
There is much interest in economic citizenship schemes, yet little attention has been paid to the quotidian impacts of such schemes on local communities, environments and notions of citizenship. This paper responds to this lacuna by reviewing the existing literature on economic citizenship and considering what an ‘everyday geographical’ lens would add to existing theorisations. ‘Everyday geographies’ are integral to thinking about how economic ci…
Beyond ‘do no harm’? On the need for a dynamic approach to research ethics
Despite ongoing critical engagements with the remit and functioning of research ethics boards and review processes – not least in the limitations of transposing medico‐scientific ethics approaches to the social sciences – the need for ethical practice in research is well established and accepted. Consequently, we see the ubiquitous requirement for academic social science research – whether by an undergraduate student, a PhD candidate, or an estab…
Governmentality and comic propaganda: Mighty Man, the black superhero of apartheid
Recent years have seen growing academic interest in the proliferation of a distinct genre of African superheroes. There is, however, a much longer – and at times, problematic – history of superheroes in and from Africa, a history often heavily infused with colonial and imperial ideology. Using the 1970s South African Mighty Man comic book series, this article highlights how popular culture and media can be used as covert and mundane tool of gover…
From banal to everyday nationalism: Narrations of nationhood
We encounter the nation on a daily basis, often in unnoticed ways, but ways that nonetheless communicate ideas and ideals of nationhood to us. Nationalism remains an incredibly powerful force, not only in ‘hot’ moments of conflict or crisis, but also in the pervasive daily communication of identity, history and values. These communications are often understood as taking the form of banal or everyday nationalism. This article reflects on how such …
The new age of the nation state
Despite concerns during the 1990s and 2000s to the contrary, the nation-state remains at the core of the world’s political system. Recent popular geography texts have connected the longevity of states to physical geography (that we are Prisoners of Geography (Marshall, 2015)) and to inherent divisions shaping conflict politics at all levels (that we are Divided (Marshall, 2018)). This article takes a different position, cautioning that such start…
Resident tourists and the local 'other
Recent years have witnessed growing numbers of residents exploring their own cities as tourist destinations. This phenomenon challenges academic understandings and definitions of who is defined as a tourist, and what differentiates tourists from residents when both display the same behaviours linked with spectacle and consumption. Of particular interest in these developments are situations where the emergence of 'resident tourists' involves resid…
The ethics of (not) giving back
Recent concerns with academic research ‘giving back’ and ‘having impact’ are encouraging the adoption of various practices through which academics are able to share research findings with host communities. While we support the laudable principles behind these efforts, in this contribution we reflect on the viability of such practices in relation to overseas, undergraduate fieldclasses. Drawing on our experiences of leading and teaching on a range…
Introduction: Technology and development: optimism, pessimism or potential
Engaging citizens, depoliticizing society? Training citizens as agents for good governance
Discourses of citizenship are profoundly powerful tools both for defining membership of a national community and for establishing the expected dispositions of citizens. Governments and non-governmental organizations utilize formal and informal education to promote specific understandings of citizenship. However, efforts to promote citizenship are often marked by tensions and paradoxes in terms of content, delivery and reception of these ideals, n…
Developing a 'civil' society in partial democracies: In/civility and a critical public sphere in Uganda and Singapore
Introduction: Exploring the contested terrain of urban citizenship
Building peaceful citizens? Nation-building in divided societies
Interventions aimed at citizenship formation and nation-building in divided and post-conflict societies place great emphasis on promoting and entrenching peace as a cornerstone of economic development and statehood. Such efforts are multi-scalar, encompassing interventions to build democratic institutions and responsible citizens with the pursuit and maintenance of peace at the heart of these ideals. Dominant international pedagogies and policies…
The Palgrave Handbook of International Development
This chapter analyses the intuitively compelling assumption that violence is inimical to development. Ever since Marx argued that the development of Europe proceeded through "primitive accumulation", many writers from a wide range of theoretical perspectives have in fact regarded development as inherently reliant on coercion and force. The chapter provides a brief survey of arguments that violence is linked with development before outlining three…
Attitudinal change and emotional security: Informing maternal health policies in rural Tanzania
Maternal mortality and health are key development concerns, particularly in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Policy interventions aimed at realising Millennium Development Goals and improving maternal health have had mixed results, indicating the need for contextually sensitive policy interventions. This article explores attitudes and behaviours relating to obstetric care in Moshi Rural District, Tanzania, with a focus on the importance of both…
IDPR in 2016 and beyond
Negotiating identities and emotional belonging: Shan in northern Thailand
Political Cartoons, Post-Colonialism and Critical African Studies
Political cartoons function as a key indicator of the democratic health of a polity. These images provide individual, momentary insights into the expressions and experiences of power and the creative ways in which these are responded to. Through an exploration of the potential for analysis of political cartoons to contribute to the post-colonializing of knowledge, key questions of power, resistance and representation are addressed. This introduct…
For the future of the nation: Citizenship, nation, and education in South Africa
Educating the new national citizen: Education, Political Subjectivity and Divided Societies
This paper explores the ways in which citizenship education is used in an effort to create particular kinds of citizens as part of a larger effort at nation- and polity-building. This paper addresses the purpose of citizenship education and its role in creating political subjectivities for citizens. We argue that policies and programmes often attempt to heal social divisions by fostering a common linkage between citizens and nation, but in ways t…
Paying for interviews? Negotiating ethics, power and expectation
The ethical dilemma of payment or compensation for participation in research remains a core concern for many scholars. Field class teaching is not exempt from these dilemmas and can provide subtly different challenges than those faced by the lone researcher, not least for work within the global South. Through reflections on two field class visits to Kenya, this paper explores issues of reciprocity, communication, trust, power and precedent in the…
Ongoing contestations: The use of racial signifiers in post-apartheid South Africa
Despite hopes for the development of a non-racial citizenry in South Africa, race remains a salient factor in identity claims. Much of the recent literature has focused on issues of black and white identities or on discussions of the reification or erasure of racial identities. This paper addresses questions of coloured identity in South Africa to explore the ways in which these identities are formed through iterative processes and continually in…
Tourism Images and British Media Representations of South Africa
The South African government expected 500,000 international visitors for the 2010 FIFA football world cup. These numbers were significantly reduced, with reports indicating that the global recession, overpricing of tickets and hospitality packages, and increased costs within South Africa's tourist industry were contributory factors. The destination image of South Africa as presented within the British media was also identified by FIFA and the Loc…
Local beats to global rhythms: Coloured student identity and negotiations of global cultural imports in Cape Town, South Africa
High school student identities in South Africa are informed by negotiations of global cultural flows, local histories, and social expectations. Students appropriate and give new meanings to the cultural flows they use to frame their identities, informed by the local context and by globalisation. Several aspects of these practices are of interest, notably the way in which American hip-hop interpellates coloured students in South Africa, drawing th…
The challenge of a perception of 'un-entitlement' to citizenship in post-Apartheid South Africa
Our citizenship is being prostituted’: The everyday geographies of economic citizenship regimes
There is much interest in economic citizenship schemes, yet little attention has been paid to the quotidian impacts of such schemes on local communities, environments and notions of citizenship. This paper responds to this lacuna by reviewing the existing literature on economic citizenship and considering what an ‘everyday geographical’ lens would add to existing theorisations. ‘Everyday geographies’ are integral to thinking about how economic ci…
W(h)ither South African human geography
Resident tourists and the local 'other
Recent years have witnessed growing numbers of residents exploring their own cities as tourist destinations. This phenomenon challenges academic understandings and definitions of who is defined as a tourist, and what differentiates tourists from residents when both display the same behaviours linked with spectacle and consumption. Of particular interest in these developments are situations where the emergence of 'resident tourists' involves resid…
Engaging citizens, depoliticizing society? Training citizens as agents for good governance
Discourses of citizenship are profoundly powerful tools both for defining membership of a national community and for establishing the expected dispositions of citizens. Governments and non-governmental organizations utilize formal and informal education to promote specific understandings of citizenship. However, efforts to promote citizenship are often marked by tensions and paradoxes in terms of content, delivery and reception of these ideals, n…
Beyond ‘do no harm’? On the need for a dynamic approach to research ethics
Despite ongoing critical engagements with the remit and functioning of research ethics boards and review processes – not least in the limitations of transposing medico‐scientific ethics approaches to the social sciences – the need for ethical practice in research is well established and accepted. Consequently, we see the ubiquitous requirement for academic social science research – whether by an undergraduate student, a PhD candidate, or an estab…
Housing and health in an informal settlement upgrade in Cape Town, South Africa
Respect and responsibility: Teaching citizenship in South African high schools
Negotiating identities and emotional belonging: Shan in northern Thailand
Expressing 'Nationhood' under Conditions of Constrained Sovereignty: Postage Stamp Iconography of the Bantustans
States utilise a range of everyday objects to transmit ideals of nationhood and statehood. Quotidian objects such as currency and postage stamps have provided a means through which to portray to domestic and international audiences the values, ideologies, aspirations, and ideals of the state. For newly established or newly independent states, the political importance of these practices is heightened as they can provide a material embodiment of th…
Tales from the Road: Reflections on Power and Disciplining within the Academy
The postdoctoral fellowship has become an increasingly integral part of the young academic's career development and is commonly recognised as beneficial to universities' research cultures and publication profiles. However, there has been relatively little critical reflection on the postdoctoral experience. Through a self-reflexive autobiographical account of postdoctoral positionality I explore negotiations of the disciplining practices of the ac…
Envisaging the Nation: The Philatelic Iconography of Transforming South African National Narratives
South Africa has experienced two periods of contrasting nation-building, with apartheid's exclusionary ideology of separate development contrasting with the inclusive nationhood discourse of the democratic period. Throughout these periods, the South African government has utilised iconography within the cultural landscape in efforts to promote the changing national narrative to domestic and international audiences. Analysis of postage stamps issu…
Beyond Decoding: Political Cartoons in the Classroom
Geographers and other social scientists have argued that cartoons can play an effective role in enhancing the classroom experience and foster the development of critical thinking skills. We confirm the case for the use of cartoons in the classroom while arguing that recent writing underestimates the potential of this medium as a teaching resource. Our argument is that this medium can and should be used in teaching theoretical and conceptual debat…
Zapiro and Zuma: A symptom of an emerging constitutional crisis in South Africa
Understanding the Role of Communication in Promoting Active and Activist Citizenship
State and nation-building practices are central to governments around the world. The definition of citizenship - of who does and does not belong, and the rights, obligations and practices associated with being a citizen - is at the crux of these concerns. This article considers what is meant by citizenship and explores the ways in which government ideals of the 'active' citizen are negotiated and translated by citizens in everyday life, often res…
Resistance, power and geopolitics in Zimbabwe: Resistance, power and geopolitics in Zimbabwe
In 2006 two pieces of Zimbabwean political ephemera began circulating, caricaturing senior political and military officials. The anonymously produced objects – a Guide to Dangerous Snakes in Zimbabwe and a deck of playing cards – present criticisms of an authoritarian regime within a curtailed public sphere. They capture and represent context-specific power relations, politics and resistance in post-colonial Zimbabwe. Critical engagement with the…
Disrespecting teacher: The decline in social standing of teachers in Cape Town, South Africa
Whispered in corridors’: Intra‐national politics and practices of knowledge production in South African Human Geography
Reflections on the state of Geography around the globe have noted multiple challenges and opportunities—including a call for the reconfiguring of the discipline as a critical space of care and praxis (Daya, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 47, 9, 2022). Such a call is indelibly connected to broader conversations on the politics of knowledge production and critical engagements with cultures of knowledge production. In order to…
Tigers in Africa: Stalking the past at the Cape of Good Hope (review)
Carmel Schrire, Tigers in Africa: stalking the past at the Cape of Good Hope. Lansdowne, South Africa: University of Cape Town Press (pb 1 919713 63 8); Windhoek: Out of Africa (pb – 9916 2 231 4); and Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia (pb $12.50 – 0 8139 2129 5). 2002. 64 pp. - Volume 76 Issue 4
Contemporary South Africa (review)
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Education in Exile: Somafco, the ANC School in Tanzania, 1978 to 1992 (review)
Sean Morrow, Brown Maaba and Loyiso Pulumani, Education in Exile: SOMAFCO, the ANC School in Tanzania, 1978 to 1992. Cape Town: HSRC Press (pb R175.00 – 0 79 69 2051 6). 2004. 232 pp. - Volume 76 Issue 4
Rethinking the Rise and Fall of Apartheid (review)
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Making Nations, Creating Strangers: States and Citizenship in Africa
Who belongs to the nation? How is citizenship defined? And why have such identities become so politically explosive in recent years? This book explores the instrumental manipulation of citizenship and narrowing definitions of national-belonging which refract recent political struggles in Zimbabwe, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Somalia, Tanzania, and South Africa. Conflicts which have arisen over the resources of the post-colonial state are increasingl…
Making Nations, Creating Strangers: States and Citizenship in Africa
Introduction: Citizenship And Its Casualties In Africa
At the close of the twentieth century much conventional wisdom about the trajectory of Africa was finally jettisoned by policy-makers and academics alike. African states appeared to be diverging ever more profoundly from the model of the nation-state, but without it being clear what was taking its place. The discourses of nationalism and ethnicity have instead run in parallel within and across states, sometimes clashing and at other times cross-f…
The Friendly Financier: Talking Money with the Silenced Assistant
In many academic fields the researcher often financially remunerates both research assistants and participants. Literature covers the ethics involved in paying informants. Both research design and research methodology literature covers many important aspects of the research process, but neither pays much attention to the issue of research assistants. These relationships can be complicated by the dynamics of an outsider researcher working in a sou…
Disrespecting teacher: The decline in social standing of teachers in Cape Town, South Africa
Making Nations, Creating Strangers: States and Citizenship in Africa
Contributors include: Crawford Young, Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, Nevile Alexander, Will Reno, Brian Raftopolous, Ruth Marshall-Fratani, Sam Hickey, Nicodemus Fru Awasom, Ned Bertz, Blair Rutherford, and Deborah James
Intervention: Widening the ethical debate - Academia, activism, and the arms trade
Cuban Intervention in South African Health Care Service Provision
This article considers the reasons for, and implications of, Cuban development assistance being provided to the South African health care system. The provision of skilled Cuban doctors to South Africa has been a feature of post-apartheid health care services. Under a series of bilateral agreements, over 450 Cuban doctors have taken placements in South Africa and over 250 South African medical students have undergone training in Cuba. The economic…
The challenge of a perception of 'un-entitlement' to citizenship in post-Apartheid South Africa
Performing the Primitive in the Postcolony: Nyoni’s Kraal in Cape Town
Local beats to global rhythms: Coloured student identity and negotiations of global cultural imports in Cape Town, South Africa
High school student identities in South Africa are informed by negotiations of global cultural flows, local histories, and social expectations. Students appropriate and give new meanings to the cultural flows they use to frame their identities, informed by the local context and by globalisation. Several aspects of these practices are of interest, notably the way in which American hip-hop interpellates coloured students in South Africa, drawing th…
Respect and responsibility: Teaching citizenship in South African high schools
Reworking and resisting globalising influences: Cape Town hip-hop
Beyond Decoding: Political Cartoons in the Classroom
Geographers and other social scientists have argued that cartoons can play an effective role in enhancing the classroom experience and foster the development of critical thinking skills. We confirm the case for the use of cartoons in the classroom while arguing that recent writing underestimates the potential of this medium as a teaching resource. Our argument is that this medium can and should be used in teaching theoretical and conceptual debat…
Political Cartoons, Post-Colonialism and Critical African Studies
Political cartoons function as a key indicator of the democratic health of a polity. These images provide individual, momentary insights into the expressions and experiences of power and the creative ways in which these are responded to. Through an exploration of the potential for analysis of political cartoons to contribute to the post-colonializing of knowledge, key questions of power, resistance and representation are addressed. This introduct…
Zapiro and Zuma: A symptom of an emerging constitutional crisis in South Africa
Educating the new national citizen: Education, Political Subjectivity and Divided Societies
This paper explores the ways in which citizenship education is used in an effort to create particular kinds of citizens as part of a larger effort at nation- and polity-building. This paper addresses the purpose of citizenship education and its role in creating political subjectivities for citizens. We argue that policies and programmes often attempt to heal social divisions by fostering a common linkage between citizens and nation, but in ways t…
Ongoing contestations: The use of racial signifiers in post-apartheid South Africa
Despite hopes for the development of a non-racial citizenry in South Africa, race remains a salient factor in identity claims. Much of the recent literature has focused on issues of black and white identities or on discussions of the reification or erasure of racial identities. This paper addresses questions of coloured identity in South Africa to explore the ways in which these identities are formed through iterative processes and continually in…
Resistance, power and geopolitics in Zimbabwe: Resistance, power and geopolitics in Zimbabwe
In 2006 two pieces of Zimbabwean political ephemera began circulating, caricaturing senior political and military officials. The anonymously produced objects – a Guide to Dangerous Snakes in Zimbabwe and a deck of playing cards – present criticisms of an authoritarian regime within a curtailed public sphere. They capture and represent context-specific power relations, politics and resistance in post-colonial Zimbabwe. Critical engagement with the…
Reflections on the politics and practices of knowledge production beyond the A nglo‐ A merican core: An introductory note
Negotiating the academic periphery: Critical reflections on early career mobility
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