Philip Aghoghovwia
Biographic Data
| ID | 941915 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Aghoghovwia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Aghoghovwia |
| SIGNATURE | AGHOGHOVWIA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Free State |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1896-7394 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Postcolonial Nature
In “Postcolonial Nature,” Philip Aghoghovwia emphasizes nature’s historicity and cultural relativity, as well as its complicity in Euro-American neocolonial activities such as land grabbing, natural resource extraction, and conservation that expels or marginalizes human populations. However, Aghoghovwia also demonstrates how African writers like the Nigerian activist-poet Nnimmo Bassey and the South African author Etienne van Heerden evoke altern…
Is the Anthropocene Conniving with Capital
This essay examines the representation of water in Karen Jayes’ debut novel For the Mercy of Water. It focuses on the alternative ontologies imagined as a means of engaging the commons when an essential resource of the commons, water, becomes scarce, privatized and commodified. The essay draws on Sarah Nuttall’s idea of “Pluvial Time”, a moment of intense rain, as a temporal marker, to plot the emergence of the dispensation in which capital exten…
Making a living as a scholar
Poetics of cartography
This paper examines the ways in which ideas and discourses generated by global phenomena (such as the Oil Encounter) travel and get reframed in local topographies. It asks how one might reposition hermeneutics appropriate to a particular context without falling into the trap of an epistemology that is purportedly global but representing other interests? The environment in which crude oil is extracted has been termed heterogeneous and internationa…
The Karoo and eco-inflections of fracking
The awareness of the “planet in peril” has never been more acute in a South African context than today, when the imminent extraction of shale gas through the process of hydraulic fracturing (known as “fracking”) in the Karoo has gained traction in the public mind. At least two broad dimensions are involved. The first, based on the logic of petro-modernity and its profligate culture, is framed within a seductive, neoliberal narrative of industrial…
Poetics of cartography
This paper examines the ways in which ideas and discourses generated by global phenomena (such as the Oil Encounter) travel and get reframed in local topographies. It asks how one might reposition hermeneutics appropriate to a particular context without falling into the trap of an epistemology that is purportedly global but representing other interests? The environment in which crude oil is extracted has been termed heterogeneous and internationa…
The Karoo and eco-inflections of fracking
The awareness of the “planet in peril” has never been more acute in a South African context than today, when the imminent extraction of shale gas through the process of hydraulic fracturing (known as “fracking”) in the Karoo has gained traction in the public mind. At least two broad dimensions are involved. The first, based on the logic of petro-modernity and its profligate culture, is framed within a seductive, neoliberal narrative of industrial…
The Karoo and eco-inflections of fracking
The awareness of the “planet in peril” has never been more acute in a South African context than today, when the imminent extraction of shale gas through the process of hydraulic fracturing (known as “fracking”) in the Karoo has gained traction in the public mind. At least two broad dimensions are involved. The first, based on the logic of petro-modernity and its profligate culture, is framed within a seductive, neoliberal narrative of industrial…
Poetics of cartography
This paper examines the ways in which ideas and discourses generated by global phenomena (such as the Oil Encounter) travel and get reframed in local topographies. It asks how one might reposition hermeneutics appropriate to a particular context without falling into the trap of an epistemology that is purportedly global but representing other interests? The environment in which crude oil is extracted has been termed heterogeneous and internationa…
Is the Anthropocene Conniving with Capital
This essay examines the representation of water in Karen Jayes’ debut novel For the Mercy of Water. It focuses on the alternative ontologies imagined as a means of engaging the commons when an essential resource of the commons, water, becomes scarce, privatized and commodified. The essay draws on Sarah Nuttall’s idea of “Pluvial Time”, a moment of intense rain, as a temporal marker, to plot the emergence of the dispensation in which capital exten…
Making a living as a scholar
Postcolonial Nature
In “Postcolonial Nature,” Philip Aghoghovwia emphasizes nature’s historicity and cultural relativity, as well as its complicity in Euro-American neocolonial activities such as land grabbing, natural resource extraction, and conservation that expels or marginalizes human populations. However, Aghoghovwia also demonstrates how African writers like the Nigerian activist-poet Nnimmo Bassey and the South African author Etienne van Heerden evoke altern…
History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · History (2 works)