Tamlyn Monson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 222330 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tamlyn Monson |
| PRENOMES | Tamlyn |
| SOBRENOME | Monson |
| ASSINATURA | MONSON T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Coventry University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8521-597X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Conditional inclusion? Conflicting representations, configurations and encounters in East London
“It’s a Two-Way Thing”
While there is a considerable body of literature on symbolic boundaries that engages with long-established/newcomer configurations, work on conviviality has only rarely taken this angle, despite its general focus on contexts of immigration-related diversity. This article connects these works of literature by examining insider-outsider configurations between long-established residents and newcomers in two very different contexts of rapid demograph…
Everyday Politics and Collective Mobilization Against Foreigners in a South African Shack Settlement
In contrast to the tolerant and largely peaceful 'living politics' of informal settlements, as embodied by the social movement Abahlali baseMjondolo, this article considers a darker side of squatter politics: 'xenophobic' mobilization. I show how the historical stratification of citizenship in South Africa remains spatially embedded in longstanding informal settlements, where distinctive repertoires of collective action have been shaped by a (sti…
Alibis for the State? Producing Knowledge and Reproducing State Borders After the May 2008 'Xenophobic' Attacks in South Africa
This paper examines the production of knowledge about the causes of the May 2008 attacks on foreign nationals in South Africa, embodied in state actors' recourse to discursive tropes of a 'third force' or mere 'criminality' in explaining the attacks. It explores the way in which this 'knowledge' reproduced statist notions of territory and power in the wake of a cataclysm that destabilised conventional notions of the congruence of nation, state an…
Displacement, Estrangement and Sovereignty
Academic writing often portrays migrants as either passive victims of violence and aid recipients or as courageous heroes facing horrific indifference and hazards. This article recodes them and their activities as potent forces for reshaping practices of state power. In this depiction, displacement also becomes a lens for re-evaluating the nature of sovereignty in urban Africa. Through its focus on Johannesburg this article explores how migrant c…
Conserving the Cogito
Setting itself within the ongoing debate surrounding the political and aesthetic commitments of the author's work, this essay provides an alternative to broadly political readings of Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist, rereading the novel as an exploration of the disabling effects of radical alterity upon the symbolic totalities of both subjectivity and politics. Using a theoretical framework of concepts derived from Emmanuel Levinas and Julia…
An Infinite Question
As for thought, its true well-being is to be ill with the absolute. Thought is in a good state only when this "state" signals to thought its vocation, which is to think the absolute, but with the resistance that the "fundamental measure" of all representation opposes to the actuality of the absolute. 1 The authentic answer is always the question's vitality. It can close in around the question, but it does so in order to preserve the question by k…
Displacement, Estrangement and Sovereignty
Academic writing often portrays migrants as either passive victims of violence and aid recipients or as courageous heroes facing horrific indifference and hazards. This article recodes them and their activities as potent forces for reshaping practices of state power. In this depiction, displacement also becomes a lens for re-evaluating the nature of sovereignty in urban Africa. Through its focus on Johannesburg this article explores how migrant c…
Everyday Politics and Collective Mobilization Against Foreigners in a South African Shack Settlement
In contrast to the tolerant and largely peaceful 'living politics' of informal settlements, as embodied by the social movement Abahlali baseMjondolo, this article considers a darker side of squatter politics: 'xenophobic' mobilization. I show how the historical stratification of citizenship in South Africa remains spatially embedded in longstanding informal settlements, where distinctive repertoires of collective action have been shaped by a (sti…
Conditional inclusion? Conflicting representations, configurations and encounters in East London
An Infinite Question
As for thought, its true well-being is to be ill with the absolute. Thought is in a good state only when this "state" signals to thought its vocation, which is to think the absolute, but with the resistance that the "fundamental measure" of all representation opposes to the actuality of the absolute. 1 The authentic answer is always the question's vitality. It can close in around the question, but it does so in order to preserve the question by k…
Alibis for the State? Producing Knowledge and Reproducing State Borders After the May 2008 'Xenophobic' Attacks in South Africa
This paper examines the production of knowledge about the causes of the May 2008 attacks on foreign nationals in South Africa, embodied in state actors' recourse to discursive tropes of a 'third force' or mere 'criminality' in explaining the attacks. It explores the way in which this 'knowledge' reproduced statist notions of territory and power in the wake of a cataclysm that destabilised conventional notions of the congruence of nation, state an…
An Infinite Question
As for thought, its true well-being is to be ill with the absolute. Thought is in a good state only when this "state" signals to thought its vocation, which is to think the absolute, but with the resistance that the "fundamental measure" of all representation opposes to the actuality of the absolute. 1 The authentic answer is always the question's vitality. It can close in around the question, but it does so in order to preserve the question by k…
Conserving the Cogito
Setting itself within the ongoing debate surrounding the political and aesthetic commitments of the author's work, this essay provides an alternative to broadly political readings of Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist, rereading the novel as an exploration of the disabling effects of radical alterity upon the symbolic totalities of both subjectivity and politics. Using a theoretical framework of concepts derived from Emmanuel Levinas and Julia…
Displacement, Estrangement and Sovereignty
Academic writing often portrays migrants as either passive victims of violence and aid recipients or as courageous heroes facing horrific indifference and hazards. This article recodes them and their activities as potent forces for reshaping practices of state power. In this depiction, displacement also becomes a lens for re-evaluating the nature of sovereignty in urban Africa. Through its focus on Johannesburg this article explores how migrant c…
Alibis for the State? Producing Knowledge and Reproducing State Borders After the May 2008 'Xenophobic' Attacks in South Africa
This paper examines the production of knowledge about the causes of the May 2008 attacks on foreign nationals in South Africa, embodied in state actors' recourse to discursive tropes of a 'third force' or mere 'criminality' in explaining the attacks. It explores the way in which this 'knowledge' reproduced statist notions of territory and power in the wake of a cataclysm that destabilised conventional notions of the congruence of nation, state an…
Everyday Politics and Collective Mobilization Against Foreigners in a South African Shack Settlement
In contrast to the tolerant and largely peaceful 'living politics' of informal settlements, as embodied by the social movement Abahlali baseMjondolo, this article considers a darker side of squatter politics: 'xenophobic' mobilization. I show how the historical stratification of citizenship in South Africa remains spatially embedded in longstanding informal settlements, where distinctive repertoires of collective action have been shaped by a (sti…
“It’s a Two-Way Thing”
While there is a considerable body of literature on symbolic boundaries that engages with long-established/newcomer configurations, work on conviviality has only rarely taken this angle, despite its general focus on contexts of immigration-related diversity. This article connects these works of literature by examining insider-outsider configurations between long-established residents and newcomers in two very different contexts of rapid demograph…
Conditional inclusion? Conflicting representations, configurations and encounters in East London
Sociology (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 obras) · Political economy (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras) · South African History and Culture (3 obras)