Rosabelle Boswell
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 448041 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rosabelle Boswell |
| PRENOMES | Rosabelle |
| SOBRENOME | Boswell |
| ASSINATURA | BOSWELL R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Nelson Mandela University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7099-7713 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Integrating Asafo Companies for Sustainable Ocean and Coastal Heritage Management in Ghana
African intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is a rich resource for identity, community and sociality. Heritage institutions such as the Asafocompanies in Ghana, are traditional warrior groups that historically defended the state. Today, they are critical to coastal heritage management processes. This article reveals their contribution and argues that, while Asafo groups desire greater inclusion in heritage management, the national government of Gh…
Prioritizing the culture metric for transformative ocean management in South Africa
The Ecosystems Services (ES) approach to ocean management forms part of global initiatives to achieve sustainability. In a time of climate change and ocean depletion, ES is critical to an inclusive global ocean accounting and marine spatial planning (MSP). The ES approach proposes that nature offers a range of services to human populations which can be measured for integrated ocean management. The services identified in ES are thought to be usefu…
Ocean and Human Health in the Blue Era, Indian Ocean and African Perspectives
In this article, I discuss the fact that human-ocean relations are increasingly being scrutinized, as scholars seek to frame, understand and mitigate the impacts of climate change on Earth. I propose that for the southwest Indian Ocean that scholars follow Chimamanda Adichie’s directive to critique ‘single stories’ by considering locally produced, embodied, sensorial relations of indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) to the sea and coa…
Changing heritage, changing the world? The case of a South African University
This article considers how a particular university’s openness to uncertainty and pursuit of change is helping it to transform its landscape and cultural heritage during a period of significant socio-political change. Using the conceptual lens of critical heritage studies and potential uncertainty, the article discusses the university’s efforts to achieve a representative heritage landscape in an increasingly complex social space. The article fina…
Salted Identities
In this article, I discuss coastal and oceanic biocultural heritage and its relevance to a transformed perception of the ocean and coast in South Africa. An anthropology of biocultural heritage at the coast reveals the multidimensional nature of personhoods-specifically transspecies, trans-material forms of personhood-and the rich dialogical engagement of "humans" with nature and marine species. Through sensory ethnography on coastal biocultural …
Art and the Senses for Ocean Conservation
This paper considers the role of art in ocean conservation. Drawing on the presentations and work of two artists featured in the One Ocean Hub Art and Emotions webinar hosted during the UN World Ocean Week, the paper focuses specifically on the sensorial nature of art and of human beings and the role that art can play in advancing ocean conservation. The main argument offered is that ocean conservation plans and policies should consider the impor…
Including the Khoisan for a more inclusive Blue Economy in South Africa
This article proposes that including the Khoisan will produce a more inclusive Blue Economy in South Africa. Presently, economistic perspectives of the ocean, low regard for knowledge pluralism and historical stereotyping of Khoisan peoples, risk their further exclusion from ocean management in South Africa. Drawing on secondary data on Khoisan history and ethnography in South Africa, the article indicates the potential contribution of the Khoisa…
Is Covid-19 Transforming Speech in Mauritius
This article considers the impact of COVID-19 on speech in the island of Mauritius. In particular, I discuss the socially embedded nature of speech prior to COVID-19 and its transformation during the early months of pandemic lockdown. I propose that, in Mauritius, speech plays a key role in interethnic interaction and tension, sociality, and in the experiences of Creoles living in Mauritius. Following the government imposition of social distancin…
Desensitized pasts and sensational futures in Mauritius and Zanzibar
This paper seeks to assert the relevance of ‘sensing’ identity in social analyses of the Southwest Indian Ocean islands. It is proposed that for some time, a broad concept of social change (specifically creolization) has been the reference point for understanding identity in the region. However, authors have tended to ignore the sensorial nature of human identity and the sensory experience of slavery and colonization. As a result, they have advan…
Heritage’ and ‘cultural practice’ in a globalized disaster
The Ebola crisis of 2013–2015 highlighted the relationship between cultural heritage, neoliberal globalization and public health. It also raised the problem of cultural compatibility between organizations within the global ‘epidemic space’, which intruded on the pre-existing ‘heritage space’. In this paper, we discuss the differences and disjunctures between ‘heritage’ as it was explicitly and implicitly defined by two organizations positioned ve…
Sega as voice-work in the Indian Ocean region
The island societies of the southwest Indian Ocean offer rich worlds that reveal shared discourses regarding the natural environment, politics and identity the region. This article draws on anthropological research and in particular, recorded video for its aesthetic analysis of voicework in Mauritius and Seychelles to discuss the role of voicework in revealing cultural regionalization and identity politics. It is proposed that the Sega (a musical…
Sensuous stories in the Indian Ocean islands
Providing examples from the islands of the Indian Ocean Region, this article focuses on the multisensory nature of storytelling and listening. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork in the region (1998-2016), the author proposes a sensuous epistemology that turns on listening to “sense”. She reveals that storytelling can be a profoundly sensuous experience that elicits emotional and physical responses in both the teller and listener. The sensuous q…
Bodybuilding as identity in South Africa
Recent studies suggest that contemporary body work involves ‘fashioning futures’ and the spectacularisation of identity to articulate multiple subjectivities in diverse world. This article investigates the situation and experiences of black male bodybuilders in a South African town ‘after’ apartheid, exploring thoughts about whether bodybuilding may be a response to the continuation of racism in post-apartheid South Africa. The proposal is that t…
Falling out of love? A response to Francis Nyamnjoh's ‘Beyond an evangelizing public anthropology
It is often said that when married couples fight, most of the time they wake up the next day to fulfil the routines they have grown used to. The routines might mask a bitter silence, and the conver
Anthropology in Southern Africa
Can justice be achieved for slave descendents in Mauritius
Challenges to Creolization in Mauritius and Madagascar
This article offers a discussion on creolization in two island societies: Mauritius and Madagascar. It suggests that in these island states there is a concerted effort to produce national identity and that this process seems to challenge creolization. The article makes three claims: creolization is a process inscribed by the historical experience of oppression; discourses of homogeneity obscure creolization; and creoles are not merely the product…
Introduction
This thematic issue on postcolonial heritage management and tourism in Africa offers a selection of case studies that reveal the significance of heritage to the construction of identity in postcolonial and post-apartheid African states. Drawing insights from the critical literature on heritage, as well as from the discussion on identity as discursive and continually rejuvenated, the authors reveal the complexities of heritage management on the co…
Managing heritage in Antananarivo, Madagascar
This paper discusses heritage management in Antananarivo, Madagascar. It is argued that in this city, which contains a significant African Diaspora, heritage is part of everyday practice. Heritage is also influenced by global processes of change which include the inscription of sites on a UNESCO World Heritage List and the advent of international tourism and commoditisation. The 2009/2010 political and economic crisis is also affecting heritage m…
Challenges to Sustaining Intangible Cultural Heritage
2011). Challenges to Sustaining Intangible Cultural Heritage. Heritage & Society: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 119-124
Lost people
Motherhood deterred
This Briefing considers women's access to maternity benefits in South Africa and its legal and social implications. Presently South African employers are not legally required to offer paid maternity leave. This and associated conditions of the present policy negatively affect mothers, families and children. It is argued that the present maternity leave policy is individualistic and materialist. It is also unconstitutional and discriminates agains…
Challenges to Identifying and Managing Intangible Cultural Heritage in Mauritius, Zanzibar and Seychelles
Africa is richly blessed with cultural and natural heritage, key resources for nation building and development. Unfortunately, heritage is not being systematically researched or recognised, denying Africans the chance to learn about and benefit from heritage initiatives. This book offers a preliminary discussion of factors challenging the management of intangible cultural heritage in the African communities of Zanzibar, Mauritius and Seychelles. …
Scents of identity
In 2000, UNESCO declared Zanzibar Stone Town a World Heritage Site. Since this time the Tanzanian government and international NGOs (based in Zanzibar) have participated in the rehabilitation of the town's buildings and other physical infrastructure. However, little attention has been paid to the rich intangible heritage of the islands and the fusion of cultural expressions in this part of the world. This paper considers the important role of fra…
Sexual practices and sensual selves in Zanzibar
This paper focuses on the sexuality and contemporary sensual behaviour among Zanzibari women and their use of scent in these domains. It is argued that scent forms an integral part of different life-cycle rituals which are embedded in gendered everyday relations. Scents are useful in courting, marriage, birth and sexual attraction. While fragrance is an essential part of the discussion it is the nature of sexuality and the use of pleasure in Zanz…
Scents of identity
In 2000, UNESCO declared Zanzibar Stone Town a World Heritage Site. Since this time the Tanzanian government and international NGOs (based in Zanzibar) have participated in the rehabilitation of the town's buildings and other physical infrastructure. However, little attention has been paid to the rich intangible heritage of the islands and the fusion of cultural expressions in this part of the world. This paper considers the important role of fra…
Sensuous stories in the Indian Ocean islands
Providing examples from the islands of the Indian Ocean Region, this article focuses on the multisensory nature of storytelling and listening. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork in the region (1998-2016), the author proposes a sensuous epistemology that turns on listening to “sense”. She reveals that storytelling can be a profoundly sensuous experience that elicits emotional and physical responses in both the teller and listener. The sensuous q…
Heritage Tourism and Identity in the Mauritian Villages of Chamarel and Le Morne
The island of Mauritius, situated in the southwest Indian Ocean region, is an integral part of southern Africa. A significant majority of its population, known locally as Creoles, are the descendants of African and Malagasy slaves who were forcibly relocated by European colonisers over a period of 300 years. This article discusses the situation of the Creoles living in two villages on the west coast of the island, focusing on the juncture between…
Say What You Like
The paper considers the significance of dress to identity and power among women living on the island of Zanzibar. Drawing on her own preliminary fieldwork in Zanzibar (June 2004) and on the work of Laura Fair (2001 Fair, L. 2001. Pastimes & Politics: Culture, Community, and Identity in Post‐abolition Urban Zanzibar, 1890–1945, Oxford: James Currey. [Google Scholar]), the author discusses the ways in which dress (in general), and the wearing of ka…
Sega as voice-work in the Indian Ocean region
The island societies of the southwest Indian Ocean offer rich worlds that reveal shared discourses regarding the natural environment, politics and identity the region. This article draws on anthropological research and in particular, recorded video for its aesthetic analysis of voicework in Mauritius and Seychelles to discuss the role of voicework in revealing cultural regionalization and identity politics. It is proposed that the Sega (a musical…
Salted Identities
In this article, I discuss coastal and oceanic biocultural heritage and its relevance to a transformed perception of the ocean and coast in South Africa. An anthropology of biocultural heritage at the coast reveals the multidimensional nature of personhoods-specifically transspecies, trans-material forms of personhood-and the rich dialogical engagement of "humans" with nature and marine species. Through sensory ethnography on coastal biocultural …
Including the Khoisan for a more inclusive Blue Economy in South Africa
This article proposes that including the Khoisan will produce a more inclusive Blue Economy in South Africa. Presently, economistic perspectives of the ocean, low regard for knowledge pluralism and historical stereotyping of Khoisan peoples, risk their further exclusion from ocean management in South Africa. Drawing on secondary data on Khoisan history and ethnography in South Africa, the article indicates the potential contribution of the Khoisa…
Heritage’ and ‘cultural practice’ in a globalized disaster
The Ebola crisis of 2013–2015 highlighted the relationship between cultural heritage, neoliberal globalization and public health. It also raised the problem of cultural compatibility between organizations within the global ‘epidemic space’, which intruded on the pre-existing ‘heritage space’. In this paper, we discuss the differences and disjunctures between ‘heritage’ as it was explicitly and implicitly defined by two organizations positioned ve…
Bodybuilding as identity in South Africa
Recent studies suggest that contemporary body work involves ‘fashioning futures’ and the spectacularisation of identity to articulate multiple subjectivities in diverse world. This article investigates the situation and experiences of black male bodybuilders in a South African town ‘after’ apartheid, exploring thoughts about whether bodybuilding may be a response to the continuation of racism in post-apartheid South Africa. The proposal is that t…
Introduction
This thematic issue on postcolonial heritage management and tourism in Africa offers a selection of case studies that reveal the significance of heritage to the construction of identity in postcolonial and post-apartheid African states. Drawing insights from the critical literature on heritage, as well as from the discussion on identity as discursive and continually rejuvenated, the authors reveal the complexities of heritage management on the co…
Challenges to Sustaining Intangible Cultural Heritage
2011). Challenges to Sustaining Intangible Cultural Heritage. Heritage & Society: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 119-124
Desensitized pasts and sensational futures in Mauritius and Zanzibar
This paper seeks to assert the relevance of ‘sensing’ identity in social analyses of the Southwest Indian Ocean islands. It is proposed that for some time, a broad concept of social change (specifically creolization) has been the reference point for understanding identity in the region. However, authors have tended to ignore the sensorial nature of human identity and the sensory experience of slavery and colonization. As a result, they have advan…
Falling out of love? A response to Francis Nyamnjoh's ‘Beyond an evangelizing public anthropology
It is often said that when married couples fight, most of the time they wake up the next day to fulfil the routines they have grown used to. The routines might mask a bitter silence, and the conver
Managing heritage in Antananarivo, Madagascar
This paper discusses heritage management in Antananarivo, Madagascar. It is argued that in this city, which contains a significant African Diaspora, heritage is part of everyday practice. Heritage is also influenced by global processes of change which include the inscription of sites on a UNESCO World Heritage List and the advent of international tourism and commoditisation. The 2009/2010 political and economic crisis is also affecting heritage m…
Sexual practices and sensual selves in Zanzibar
This paper focuses on the sexuality and contemporary sensual behaviour among Zanzibari women and their use of scent in these domains. It is argued that scent forms an integral part of different life-cycle rituals which are embedded in gendered everyday relations. Scents are useful in courting, marriage, birth and sexual attraction. While fragrance is an essential part of the discussion it is the nature of sexuality and the use of pleasure in Zanz…
Unravelling Le Malaise Créole
This article discusses the understanding of hybridity in Mauritius and the marginalisation of those considered hybrid. The author argues that Mauritius, a plural society, is influenced by essentialist interpretations of ethnicity and that dominant groups living there perceive hybridity as a threat to group integrity and identity. Among the significant minority of Creoles (the descendants of African and Malagasy slaves and those of mixed descent),…
Heritage Tourism and Identity in the Mauritian Villages of Chamarel and Le Morne
The island of Mauritius, situated in the southwest Indian Ocean region, is an integral part of southern Africa. A significant majority of its population, known locally as Creoles, are the descendants of African and Malagasy slaves who were forcibly relocated by European colonisers over a period of 300 years. This article discusses the situation of the Creoles living in two villages on the west coast of the island, focusing on the juncture between…
Say What You Like
The paper considers the significance of dress to identity and power among women living on the island of Zanzibar. Drawing on her own preliminary fieldwork in Zanzibar (June 2004) and on the work of Laura Fair (2001 Fair, L. 2001. Pastimes & Politics: Culture, Community, and Identity in Post‐abolition Urban Zanzibar, 1890–1945, Oxford: James Currey. [Google Scholar]), the author discusses the ways in which dress (in general), and the wearing of ka…
Challenges to Identifying and Managing Intangible Cultural Heritage in Mauritius, Zanzibar and Seychelles
Africa is richly blessed with cultural and natural heritage, key resources for nation building and development. Unfortunately, heritage is not being systematically researched or recognised, denying Africans the chance to learn about and benefit from heritage initiatives. This book offers a preliminary discussion of factors challenging the management of intangible cultural heritage in the African communities of Zanzibar, Mauritius and Seychelles. …
Scents of identity
In 2000, UNESCO declared Zanzibar Stone Town a World Heritage Site. Since this time the Tanzanian government and international NGOs (based in Zanzibar) have participated in the rehabilitation of the town's buildings and other physical infrastructure. However, little attention has been paid to the rich intangible heritage of the islands and the fusion of cultural expressions in this part of the world. This paper considers the important role of fra…
Sexual practices and sensual selves in Zanzibar
This paper focuses on the sexuality and contemporary sensual behaviour among Zanzibari women and their use of scent in these domains. It is argued that scent forms an integral part of different life-cycle rituals which are embedded in gendered everyday relations. Scents are useful in courting, marriage, birth and sexual attraction. While fragrance is an essential part of the discussion it is the nature of sexuality and the use of pleasure in Zanz…
Motherhood deterred
This Briefing considers women's access to maternity benefits in South Africa and its legal and social implications. Presently South African employers are not legally required to offer paid maternity leave. This and associated conditions of the present policy negatively affect mothers, families and children. It is argued that the present maternity leave policy is individualistic and materialist. It is also unconstitutional and discriminates agains…
Lost people
Introduction
This thematic issue on postcolonial heritage management and tourism in Africa offers a selection of case studies that reveal the significance of heritage to the construction of identity in postcolonial and post-apartheid African states. Drawing insights from the critical literature on heritage, as well as from the discussion on identity as discursive and continually rejuvenated, the authors reveal the complexities of heritage management on the co…
Managing heritage in Antananarivo, Madagascar
This paper discusses heritage management in Antananarivo, Madagascar. It is argued that in this city, which contains a significant African Diaspora, heritage is part of everyday practice. Heritage is also influenced by global processes of change which include the inscription of sites on a UNESCO World Heritage List and the advent of international tourism and commoditisation. The 2009/2010 political and economic crisis is also affecting heritage m…
Challenges to Sustaining Intangible Cultural Heritage
2011). Challenges to Sustaining Intangible Cultural Heritage. Heritage & Society: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 119-124
Challenges to Creolization in Mauritius and Madagascar
This article offers a discussion on creolization in two island societies: Mauritius and Madagascar. It suggests that in these island states there is a concerted effort to produce national identity and that this process seems to challenge creolization. The article makes three claims: creolization is a process inscribed by the historical experience of oppression; discourses of homogeneity obscure creolization; and creoles are not merely the product…
Can justice be achieved for slave descendents in Mauritius
Falling out of love? A response to Francis Nyamnjoh's ‘Beyond an evangelizing public anthropology
It is often said that when married couples fight, most of the time they wake up the next day to fulfil the routines they have grown used to. The routines might mask a bitter silence, and the conver
Anthropology in Southern Africa
Bodybuilding as identity in South Africa
Recent studies suggest that contemporary body work involves ‘fashioning futures’ and the spectacularisation of identity to articulate multiple subjectivities in diverse world. This article investigates the situation and experiences of black male bodybuilders in a South African town ‘after’ apartheid, exploring thoughts about whether bodybuilding may be a response to the continuation of racism in post-apartheid South Africa. The proposal is that t…
Sensuous stories in the Indian Ocean islands
Providing examples from the islands of the Indian Ocean Region, this article focuses on the multisensory nature of storytelling and listening. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork in the region (1998-2016), the author proposes a sensuous epistemology that turns on listening to “sense”. She reveals that storytelling can be a profoundly sensuous experience that elicits emotional and physical responses in both the teller and listener. The sensuous q…
Heritage’ and ‘cultural practice’ in a globalized disaster
The Ebola crisis of 2013–2015 highlighted the relationship between cultural heritage, neoliberal globalization and public health. It also raised the problem of cultural compatibility between organizations within the global ‘epidemic space’, which intruded on the pre-existing ‘heritage space’. In this paper, we discuss the differences and disjunctures between ‘heritage’ as it was explicitly and implicitly defined by two organizations positioned ve…
Sega as voice-work in the Indian Ocean region
The island societies of the southwest Indian Ocean offer rich worlds that reveal shared discourses regarding the natural environment, politics and identity the region. This article draws on anthropological research and in particular, recorded video for its aesthetic analysis of voicework in Mauritius and Seychelles to discuss the role of voicework in revealing cultural regionalization and identity politics. It is proposed that the Sega (a musical…
Desensitized pasts and sensational futures in Mauritius and Zanzibar
This paper seeks to assert the relevance of ‘sensing’ identity in social analyses of the Southwest Indian Ocean islands. It is proposed that for some time, a broad concept of social change (specifically creolization) has been the reference point for understanding identity in the region. However, authors have tended to ignore the sensorial nature of human identity and the sensory experience of slavery and colonization. As a result, they have advan…
Is Covid-19 Transforming Speech in Mauritius
This article considers the impact of COVID-19 on speech in the island of Mauritius. In particular, I discuss the socially embedded nature of speech prior to COVID-19 and its transformation during the early months of pandemic lockdown. I propose that, in Mauritius, speech plays a key role in interethnic interaction and tension, sociality, and in the experiences of Creoles living in Mauritius. Following the government imposition of social distancin…
Art and the Senses for Ocean Conservation
This paper considers the role of art in ocean conservation. Drawing on the presentations and work of two artists featured in the One Ocean Hub Art and Emotions webinar hosted during the UN World Ocean Week, the paper focuses specifically on the sensorial nature of art and of human beings and the role that art can play in advancing ocean conservation. The main argument offered is that ocean conservation plans and policies should consider the impor…
Including the Khoisan for a more inclusive Blue Economy in South Africa
This article proposes that including the Khoisan will produce a more inclusive Blue Economy in South Africa. Presently, economistic perspectives of the ocean, low regard for knowledge pluralism and historical stereotyping of Khoisan peoples, risk their further exclusion from ocean management in South Africa. Drawing on secondary data on Khoisan history and ethnography in South Africa, the article indicates the potential contribution of the Khoisa…
Changing heritage, changing the world? The case of a South African University
This article considers how a particular university’s openness to uncertainty and pursuit of change is helping it to transform its landscape and cultural heritage during a period of significant socio-political change. Using the conceptual lens of critical heritage studies and potential uncertainty, the article discusses the university’s efforts to achieve a representative heritage landscape in an increasingly complex social space. The article fina…
Salted Identities
In this article, I discuss coastal and oceanic biocultural heritage and its relevance to a transformed perception of the ocean and coast in South Africa. An anthropology of biocultural heritage at the coast reveals the multidimensional nature of personhoods-specifically transspecies, trans-material forms of personhood-and the rich dialogical engagement of "humans" with nature and marine species. Through sensory ethnography on coastal biocultural …
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