Shari Daya
Biographic Data
| ID | 88432 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shari Daya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shari |
| FAMILY NAME | Daya |
| SIGNATURE | DAYA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4030-045X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Changing cultures of critique: Towards context, creativity and care in academic practice
In this Point for Departure, I argue that ideas and practices of ‘criticality’ in the western-influenced academy should explicitly and intentionally include: sensitivity to context, a spirit of creativity, and an ethic of care. Grounding this short piece in my own academic experience and in the etymology of the term ‘critique’ and its related concepts, I identify the dominant characteristics of criticality in the academy and explore alternative m…
The meanings of food in Africa: Introduction to a special issue of Critical African Studies
Food, memory, and changing framings of sustainable consumption in Johannesburg
This paper addresses how food, tradition, and memories intersect with how sustainable food consumption is conceived, practiced, and mobilised. Using ethnographic research, the paper examines articulations and practices of ‘good food’ among food system actors and middle-class consumers in Johannesburg, South Africa. It argues that a nuanced and contextualised understanding of foodways and food consumption is required to capture the relationships b…
Meat in black and white
Food and identity have much to do with each other. In the African context, however, food is studied through developmentalist lenses far more than through cultural ones. Therefore, we know little about the ways in which food and contemporary, particularly urban, African identities shape each other. I explore this relationship through an analysis of personal food narratives gathered as part of a four-year research project exploring food memories, v…
Memory Justice in Ordinary Urban Spaces: The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting in a Post‐Apartheid Neighbourhood
From 1950 onwards, under the apartheid regime’s Group Areas Act, hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes across South Africa’s cities. While the removals from some areas, notably District Six in Cape Town, are well documented and memorialised, many others have largely been erased from public memory. In a context of burgeoning research into issues of spatial justice in Southern cities, this paper puts forward the argument …
Moving from crisis to critical praxis: Geography in South Africa
In this short commentary, I explore some recent shifts in the landscape of South African higher education, from the vantage point of my particular location within Geography at the University of Cape Town. Although those of us working in this context have experienced multiple challenges in recent years, I argue here that we could usefully re‐frame the ongoing state of crisis as a moment of opportunity in which we might both revitalise critical geo…
Words and worlds: Textual Representation and New Materialism
In recent years, academic disciplines across the social sciences and humanities have witnessed a surge of interest around questions of materiality. One strand of this work has been ambitious in its attempts to theorise 'things-in-themselves', or the nature and potential of matter, constituting what has come to be called a 'new materialism'. Geographers have been particularly influential in these debates, especially through research conducted in t…
Some thoughts on the broader context: Neighbourhoods and Peers
Ordinary ethics and craft consumption: A Southern perspective
Saving the Other: Exploring the social in social enterprise
Beyond exploitation/empowerment: Re-imagining Southern producers in commodity stories
One of the most dominant strands of research within cultural geography's 'materialist turn' is that of commodity stories. Through everything from phones to flowers, geographers have attempted to reveal the myriad connections between (Northern) consumers and (Southern) producers. Following commodities and tracing their networks, this research tends to privilege consumption as the primary site of social and cultural meaning within the global econom…
A response to Hammett, 2012. W(h)ither South African human geography? Geoforum 43, 937–947
Neighbourhood risk factors for Common Mental Disorders among young people aged 10–20 years: A structured review of quantitative research
The body, the shelter, and the shebeen: An affective geography of homelessness in South Africa
Geographies of homelessness mainly address issues of social exclusion, especially in contexts of urban public space. Recent research focuses on spatial regulation and surveillance, and strategies used by homeless people to resist these forms of control and create spaces for themselves in the city. Relatively little attention is paid, however, to the embodied, affective, emotional and relational geographies of homelessness. We address this absence…
Changing Adolescence: Social Trends and Mental Health
Self, others and objects in an ‘alternative economy’: Personal narratives from the Heiveld Rooibos Cooperative
Performing place, mobility and identity in South Africa: Performing place, mobility, and identity in South Africa
Cultural geography, as a label for a sub-discipline or a mode of enquiry, has little purchase in South Africa. Studies of the cultural production of place are, however, undertaken in multiple fields, usefully if loosely grouped under the banner of ‘cultural studies’. I argue that geographers have much of value to contribute to this field, particularly through engaging in debates that currently enliven cultural geography elsewhere. In particular, …
Eating, serving, and self-realisation: Food and modern identities in contemporary Indian women's writing
The ‘new Indian woman’ is often invoked in popular and academic discourse as the embodiment of a modern nation—the ‘new India’. Feminist studies of this figure typically focus on the body of the imagined ‘new woman’ as a site upon which modernity is inscribed, allowing little room for the agency of women who actively contest imposed identities and roles in the quintessentially modern project of self-determination. In this article I argue that nar…
Embodying modernity: Reading narratives of Indian women's sexual autonomy and violation
References are often made in contemporary Indian discourse, both popular and academic, to the ‘new Indian woman’, a subject position that is seen as coterminous with the emerging identity of the Indian nation as modern – the ‘new India’. This article unpacks key discourses that construct the ‘new woman’ in the public imagination and suggests that the modernity of this imagined figure is founded upon a notion of autonomy that is deeply embodied. W…
Introduction: Power and narrative
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Words and worlds: Textual Representation and New Materialism
In recent years, academic disciplines across the social sciences and humanities have witnessed a surge of interest around questions of materiality. One strand of this work has been ambitious in its attempts to theorise 'things-in-themselves', or the nature and potential of matter, constituting what has come to be called a 'new materialism'. Geographers have been particularly influential in these debates, especially through research conducted in t…
The body, the shelter, and the shebeen: An affective geography of homelessness in South Africa
Geographies of homelessness mainly address issues of social exclusion, especially in contexts of urban public space. Recent research focuses on spatial regulation and surveillance, and strategies used by homeless people to resist these forms of control and create spaces for themselves in the city. Relatively little attention is paid, however, to the embodied, affective, emotional and relational geographies of homelessness. We address this absence…
Embodying modernity: Reading narratives of Indian women's sexual autonomy and violation
References are often made in contemporary Indian discourse, both popular and academic, to the ‘new Indian woman’, a subject position that is seen as coterminous with the emerging identity of the Indian nation as modern – the ‘new India’. This article unpacks key discourses that construct the ‘new woman’ in the public imagination and suggests that the modernity of this imagined figure is founded upon a notion of autonomy that is deeply embodied. W…
Saving the Other: Exploring the social in social enterprise
Eating, serving, and self-realisation: Food and modern identities in contemporary Indian women's writing
The ‘new Indian woman’ is often invoked in popular and academic discourse as the embodiment of a modern nation—the ‘new India’. Feminist studies of this figure typically focus on the body of the imagined ‘new woman’ as a site upon which modernity is inscribed, allowing little room for the agency of women who actively contest imposed identities and roles in the quintessentially modern project of self-determination. In this article I argue that nar…
Ordinary ethics and craft consumption: A Southern perspective
Self, others and objects in an ‘alternative economy’: Personal narratives from the Heiveld Rooibos Cooperative
Moving from crisis to critical praxis: Geography in South Africa
In this short commentary, I explore some recent shifts in the landscape of South African higher education, from the vantage point of my particular location within Geography at the University of Cape Town. Although those of us working in this context have experienced multiple challenges in recent years, I argue here that we could usefully re‐frame the ongoing state of crisis as a moment of opportunity in which we might both revitalise critical geo…
Beyond exploitation/empowerment: Re-imagining Southern producers in commodity stories
One of the most dominant strands of research within cultural geography's 'materialist turn' is that of commodity stories. Through everything from phones to flowers, geographers have attempted to reveal the myriad connections between (Northern) consumers and (Southern) producers. Following commodities and tracing their networks, this research tends to privilege consumption as the primary site of social and cultural meaning within the global econom…
Performing place, mobility and identity in South Africa: Performing place, mobility, and identity in South Africa
Cultural geography, as a label for a sub-discipline or a mode of enquiry, has little purchase in South Africa. Studies of the cultural production of place are, however, undertaken in multiple fields, usefully if loosely grouped under the banner of ‘cultural studies’. I argue that geographers have much of value to contribute to this field, particularly through engaging in debates that currently enliven cultural geography elsewhere. In particular, …
Meat in black and white
Food and identity have much to do with each other. In the African context, however, food is studied through developmentalist lenses far more than through cultural ones. Therefore, we know little about the ways in which food and contemporary, particularly urban, African identities shape each other. I explore this relationship through an analysis of personal food narratives gathered as part of a four-year research project exploring food memories, v…
Introduction: Power and narrative
Preview this article: Introduction: Power and narrative, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/ni.17.1.03day-1.gif
Memory Justice in Ordinary Urban Spaces: The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting in a Post‐Apartheid Neighbourhood
From 1950 onwards, under the apartheid regime’s Group Areas Act, hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes across South Africa’s cities. While the removals from some areas, notably District Six in Cape Town, are well documented and memorialised, many others have largely been erased from public memory. In a context of burgeoning research into issues of spatial justice in Southern cities, this paper puts forward the argument …
Introduction: Power and narrative
Preview this article: Introduction: Power and narrative, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/ni.17.1.03day-1.gif
Embodying modernity: Reading narratives of Indian women's sexual autonomy and violation
References are often made in contemporary Indian discourse, both popular and academic, to the ‘new Indian woman’, a subject position that is seen as coterminous with the emerging identity of the Indian nation as modern – the ‘new India’. This article unpacks key discourses that construct the ‘new woman’ in the public imagination and suggests that the modernity of this imagined figure is founded upon a notion of autonomy that is deeply embodied. W…
Eating, serving, and self-realisation: Food and modern identities in contemporary Indian women's writing
The ‘new Indian woman’ is often invoked in popular and academic discourse as the embodiment of a modern nation—the ‘new India’. Feminist studies of this figure typically focus on the body of the imagined ‘new woman’ as a site upon which modernity is inscribed, allowing little room for the agency of women who actively contest imposed identities and roles in the quintessentially modern project of self-determination. In this article I argue that nar…
Performing place, mobility and identity in South Africa: Performing place, mobility, and identity in South Africa
Cultural geography, as a label for a sub-discipline or a mode of enquiry, has little purchase in South Africa. Studies of the cultural production of place are, however, undertaken in multiple fields, usefully if loosely grouped under the banner of ‘cultural studies’. I argue that geographers have much of value to contribute to this field, particularly through engaging in debates that currently enliven cultural geography elsewhere. In particular, …
Changing Adolescence: Social Trends and Mental Health
Self, others and objects in an ‘alternative economy’: Personal narratives from the Heiveld Rooibos Cooperative
A response to Hammett, 2012. W(h)ither South African human geography? Geoforum 43, 937–947
Neighbourhood risk factors for Common Mental Disorders among young people aged 10–20 years: A structured review of quantitative research
The body, the shelter, and the shebeen: An affective geography of homelessness in South Africa
Geographies of homelessness mainly address issues of social exclusion, especially in contexts of urban public space. Recent research focuses on spatial regulation and surveillance, and strategies used by homeless people to resist these forms of control and create spaces for themselves in the city. Relatively little attention is paid, however, to the embodied, affective, emotional and relational geographies of homelessness. We address this absence…
Saving the Other: Exploring the social in social enterprise
Beyond exploitation/empowerment: Re-imagining Southern producers in commodity stories
One of the most dominant strands of research within cultural geography's 'materialist turn' is that of commodity stories. Through everything from phones to flowers, geographers have attempted to reveal the myriad connections between (Northern) consumers and (Southern) producers. Following commodities and tracing their networks, this research tends to privilege consumption as the primary site of social and cultural meaning within the global econom…
Ordinary ethics and craft consumption: A Southern perspective
Some thoughts on the broader context: Neighbourhoods and Peers
Words and worlds: Textual Representation and New Materialism
In recent years, academic disciplines across the social sciences and humanities have witnessed a surge of interest around questions of materiality. One strand of this work has been ambitious in its attempts to theorise 'things-in-themselves', or the nature and potential of matter, constituting what has come to be called a 'new materialism'. Geographers have been particularly influential in these debates, especially through research conducted in t…
Moving from crisis to critical praxis: Geography in South Africa
In this short commentary, I explore some recent shifts in the landscape of South African higher education, from the vantage point of my particular location within Geography at the University of Cape Town. Although those of us working in this context have experienced multiple challenges in recent years, I argue here that we could usefully re‐frame the ongoing state of crisis as a moment of opportunity in which we might both revitalise critical geo…
Meat in black and white
Food and identity have much to do with each other. In the African context, however, food is studied through developmentalist lenses far more than through cultural ones. Therefore, we know little about the ways in which food and contemporary, particularly urban, African identities shape each other. I explore this relationship through an analysis of personal food narratives gathered as part of a four-year research project exploring food memories, v…
Memory Justice in Ordinary Urban Spaces: The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting in a Post‐Apartheid Neighbourhood
From 1950 onwards, under the apartheid regime’s Group Areas Act, hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes across South Africa’s cities. While the removals from some areas, notably District Six in Cape Town, are well documented and memorialised, many others have largely been erased from public memory. In a context of burgeoning research into issues of spatial justice in Southern cities, this paper puts forward the argument …
Changing cultures of critique: Towards context, creativity and care in academic practice
In this Point for Departure, I argue that ideas and practices of ‘criticality’ in the western-influenced academy should explicitly and intentionally include: sensitivity to context, a spirit of creativity, and an ethic of care. Grounding this short piece in my own academic experience and in the etymology of the term ‘critique’ and its related concepts, I identify the dominant characteristics of criticality in the academy and explore alternative m…
The meanings of food in Africa: Introduction to a special issue of Critical African Studies
Food, memory, and changing framings of sustainable consumption in Johannesburg
This paper addresses how food, tradition, and memories intersect with how sustainable food consumption is conceived, practiced, and mobilised. Using ethnographic research, the paper examines articulations and practices of ‘good food’ among food system actors and middle-class consumers in Johannesburg, South Africa. It argues that a nuanced and contextualised understanding of foodways and food consumption is required to capture the relationships b…
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