Shireen Ally
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 106845 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Shireen Ally |
| PRENOMES | Shireen |
| SOBRENOME | Ally |
| ASSINATURA | ALLY S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Bantustan States”
New Histories of South Africa’s Apartheid-Era Bantustans
Material Remains
If Bantustans were artifices of the apartheid state – ‘puppet’ regimes ruling through the despotism of ‘tradition’, rather than through modern bureaucratic techniques – what are we to make of their archives, the remains of their government? This paper – a chronicle of the reclamation of the KaNgwane archive – considers this question in relation to scholarly critiques of the archive as well as that of the Bantustans. As a pile of rotting, random (…
‘Ooh, eh eh … Just One Small Cap is Enough!’ Servants, Detergents, and their Prosthetic Significance
This article explores the potent entanglements of race and servitude in the historical drama of dirt and domesticity. I focus on a recent advert in South Africa for the laundry detergent Omo, in which a black 'fairy godmother' maid magically materialises in an on-screen suburban domestic scene, whacking her white madam on the hand, while humorously admonishing her: 'Ooh eh eh ... just one small cap is enough!' I argue that the iconographic assemb…
Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens
Book Review| May 01 2013 Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865 – 1960 Unprotected Labor: Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870 – 1940 Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865 – 1960. Sharpless, Rebecca. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011xxix + 273 pp., $35.00 (cloth)Unprotected Labor: Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Ref…
At Home with Apartheid
Rebecca Ginsburg's At Home with Apartheid: The Hidden Landscapes of Domestic Service in Johannesburg is a refreshing addition to the recently renewed scholarly interest in South African domestic service. Tracing cycles of African women's mobility across the racialized spatial geographies of apartheid South Africa, from rural homestead to the backyard and back again, Ginsburg reconstructs African women's service in and servicing of white homes in …
The disappointment of nostalgia
Departing from a consideration of Jacob Dlamini’s book, Native Nostalgia, this essay critically reviews the conceptual terrain implied by “nostalgia,” re-situating it in relation to memory, especially where it intersects with debates over the status of “truth” in relation to “history.” We explore nostalgia through three dualities that underpin a burgeoning literature: remembering and forgetting, witnessing and testimony, and mourning and melancho…
Let's Talk About Bantustans’
‘Politically, the bantustans are the greatest single fraud ever invented by white politicians’, wrote Stephen Bantu Biko in a 1972 essay titled Let's Talk About Bantustans. 1 In it, Biko advanced a
Domestics, ‘Dirty Work’ and the Affects of Domination
(2011). Domestics, ‘Dirty Work’ and the Affects of Domination. South African Review of Sociology: Vol. 42, DEBATING THE DOMESTIC, pp. 1-7
Conversations
Beer, Sociability, and Masculinity in South Africa
By ANNE KELK MAGER. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2010. 232pp. ISBN: 978-0-253-22180-3
If you are hungry, and a man promises you mealies, will you not follow him?’ South African Swazi Ethnic Nationalism, 1931–1986
On a cold winter's day in June 1986, David Lukhele (a cabinet minister in the former KaNgwane) was gunned down mercilessly in his home by members of Umkhonto we Sizwe's elite ‘elimination’ unit. He was assassinated for his fervent defence of the apartheid government's 1982 plan to cede KaNgwane (and Ingwavuma) to Swaziland, and for mobilising – against the ANC's broader African nationalism – an unrepentantly chauvinistic Swazi ethnic nationalism …
Peaceful Memories
Despite its manifest, if largely undocumented, histories of menacing violence and perilous politics, the thrust of popular memory in the former apartheid bantustan of KaNgwane insists that it was a peaceful, even apolitical, place. In a contemporary South African memorial culture that idealizes memories of victimization by (and resistance to) apartheid and its political violence, why would some in KaNgwane persistently narrate the past through tr…
From Servants to Workers
In the past decade, hundreds of thousands of women from poorer countries have braved treacherous journeys to richer countries to work as poorly paid domestic workers. Scholars and activists denounce compromised forms of citizenship that expose these women to at times shocking exploitation and abuse. In From Servants to Workers, Shireen Ally asks whether the low wages and poor working conditions so characteristic of migrant domestic work can truly…
The New Sars
Introduction
Domestic Worker Unionisation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
The post-apartheid South African state has launched one of the most extensive efforts anywhere in the world to protect domestic workers, giving them for the first time in South African history a political status, and the right to organise into trade unions. But the implications of democratisation for domestic worker unionisation have been relatively under-explored. Through a qualitative examination of the South African Domestic Service and Allied…
The state-sponsored and centralised institutionalisation of an academic discipline
This paper is the first of a two-part article. It is an exploratory attempt to expand our understanding of the organization of sociological knowledge within both the university and extra-university sectors in South Africa and the state's key role in that process. It tracks the institutional development of the discipline within the state's universities, as well as the centralised bureaucratic mechanisms of state power through which social research…
The disappointment of nostalgia
Departing from a consideration of Jacob Dlamini’s book, Native Nostalgia, this essay critically reviews the conceptual terrain implied by “nostalgia,” re-situating it in relation to memory, especially where it intersects with debates over the status of “truth” in relation to “history.” We explore nostalgia through three dualities that underpin a burgeoning literature: remembering and forgetting, witnessing and testimony, and mourning and melancho…
Domestic Worker Unionisation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
The post-apartheid South African state has launched one of the most extensive efforts anywhere in the world to protect domestic workers, giving them for the first time in South African history a political status, and the right to organise into trade unions. But the implications of democratisation for domestic worker unionisation have been relatively under-explored. Through a qualitative examination of the South African Domestic Service and Allied…
The state-sponsored and centralised institutionalisation of an academic discipline
This paper is the first of a two-part article. It is an exploratory attempt to expand our understanding of the organization of sociological knowledge within both the university and extra-university sectors in South Africa and the state's key role in that process. It tracks the institutional development of the discipline within the state's universities, as well as the centralised bureaucratic mechanisms of state power through which social research…
Introduction
Peaceful Memories
Despite its manifest, if largely undocumented, histories of menacing violence and perilous politics, the thrust of popular memory in the former apartheid bantustan of KaNgwane insists that it was a peaceful, even apolitical, place. In a contemporary South African memorial culture that idealizes memories of victimization by (and resistance to) apartheid and its political violence, why would some in KaNgwane persistently narrate the past through tr…
Material Remains
If Bantustans were artifices of the apartheid state – ‘puppet’ regimes ruling through the despotism of ‘tradition’, rather than through modern bureaucratic techniques – what are we to make of their archives, the remains of their government? This paper – a chronicle of the reclamation of the KaNgwane archive – considers this question in relation to scholarly critiques of the archive as well as that of the Bantustans. As a pile of rotting, random (…
Let's Talk About Bantustans’
‘Politically, the bantustans are the greatest single fraud ever invented by white politicians’, wrote Stephen Bantu Biko in a 1972 essay titled Let's Talk About Bantustans. 1 In it, Biko advanced a
Bantustan States”
Conversations
If you are hungry, and a man promises you mealies, will you not follow him?’ South African Swazi Ethnic Nationalism, 1931–1986
On a cold winter's day in June 1986, David Lukhele (a cabinet minister in the former KaNgwane) was gunned down mercilessly in his home by members of Umkhonto we Sizwe's elite ‘elimination’ unit. He was assassinated for his fervent defence of the apartheid government's 1982 plan to cede KaNgwane (and Ingwavuma) to Swaziland, and for mobilising – against the ANC's broader African nationalism – an unrepentantly chauvinistic Swazi ethnic nationalism …
The state-sponsored and centralised institutionalisation of an academic discipline
This paper is the first of a two-part article. It is an exploratory attempt to expand our understanding of the organization of sociological knowledge within both the university and extra-university sectors in South Africa and the state's key role in that process. It tracks the institutional development of the discipline within the state's universities, as well as the centralised bureaucratic mechanisms of state power through which social research…
Domestic Worker Unionisation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
The post-apartheid South African state has launched one of the most extensive efforts anywhere in the world to protect domestic workers, giving them for the first time in South African history a political status, and the right to organise into trade unions. But the implications of democratisation for domestic worker unionisation have been relatively under-explored. Through a qualitative examination of the South African Domestic Service and Allied…
From Servants to Workers
In the past decade, hundreds of thousands of women from poorer countries have braved treacherous journeys to richer countries to work as poorly paid domestic workers. Scholars and activists denounce compromised forms of citizenship that expose these women to at times shocking exploitation and abuse. In From Servants to Workers, Shireen Ally asks whether the low wages and poor working conditions so characteristic of migrant domestic work can truly…
The New Sars
Introduction
Domestics, ‘Dirty Work’ and the Affects of Domination
(2011). Domestics, ‘Dirty Work’ and the Affects of Domination. South African Review of Sociology: Vol. 42, DEBATING THE DOMESTIC, pp. 1-7
Conversations
Beer, Sociability, and Masculinity in South Africa
By ANNE KELK MAGER. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2010. 232pp. ISBN: 978-0-253-22180-3
If you are hungry, and a man promises you mealies, will you not follow him?’ South African Swazi Ethnic Nationalism, 1931–1986
On a cold winter's day in June 1986, David Lukhele (a cabinet minister in the former KaNgwane) was gunned down mercilessly in his home by members of Umkhonto we Sizwe's elite ‘elimination’ unit. He was assassinated for his fervent defence of the apartheid government's 1982 plan to cede KaNgwane (and Ingwavuma) to Swaziland, and for mobilising – against the ANC's broader African nationalism – an unrepentantly chauvinistic Swazi ethnic nationalism …
Peaceful Memories
Despite its manifest, if largely undocumented, histories of menacing violence and perilous politics, the thrust of popular memory in the former apartheid bantustan of KaNgwane insists that it was a peaceful, even apolitical, place. In a contemporary South African memorial culture that idealizes memories of victimization by (and resistance to) apartheid and its political violence, why would some in KaNgwane persistently narrate the past through tr…
Let's Talk About Bantustans’
‘Politically, the bantustans are the greatest single fraud ever invented by white politicians’, wrote Stephen Bantu Biko in a 1972 essay titled Let's Talk About Bantustans. 1 In it, Biko advanced a
‘Ooh, eh eh … Just One Small Cap is Enough!’ Servants, Detergents, and their Prosthetic Significance
This article explores the potent entanglements of race and servitude in the historical drama of dirt and domesticity. I focus on a recent advert in South Africa for the laundry detergent Omo, in which a black 'fairy godmother' maid magically materialises in an on-screen suburban domestic scene, whacking her white madam on the hand, while humorously admonishing her: 'Ooh eh eh ... just one small cap is enough!' I argue that the iconographic assemb…
Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens
Book Review| May 01 2013 Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865 – 1960 Unprotected Labor: Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870 – 1940 Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865 – 1960. Sharpless, Rebecca. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011xxix + 273 pp., $35.00 (cloth)Unprotected Labor: Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Ref…
At Home with Apartheid
Rebecca Ginsburg's At Home with Apartheid: The Hidden Landscapes of Domestic Service in Johannesburg is a refreshing addition to the recently renewed scholarly interest in South African domestic service. Tracing cycles of African women's mobility across the racialized spatial geographies of apartheid South Africa, from rural homestead to the backyard and back again, Ginsburg reconstructs African women's service in and servicing of white homes in …
The disappointment of nostalgia
Departing from a consideration of Jacob Dlamini’s book, Native Nostalgia, this essay critically reviews the conceptual terrain implied by “nostalgia,” re-situating it in relation to memory, especially where it intersects with debates over the status of “truth” in relation to “history.” We explore nostalgia through three dualities that underpin a burgeoning literature: remembering and forgetting, witnessing and testimony, and mourning and melancho…
Material Remains
If Bantustans were artifices of the apartheid state – ‘puppet’ regimes ruling through the despotism of ‘tradition’, rather than through modern bureaucratic techniques – what are we to make of their archives, the remains of their government? This paper – a chronicle of the reclamation of the KaNgwane archive – considers this question in relation to scholarly critiques of the archive as well as that of the Bantustans. As a pile of rotting, random (…
New Histories of South Africa’s Apartheid-Era Bantustans
Bantustan States”
Political science (13 obras) · History (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · South African History and Culture (7 obras) · Politics (6 obras) · History (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · African history and culture studies (3 obras) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (3 obras)