Noor Nieftagodien
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 80560 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Noor Nieftagodien |
| PRENOMES | Noor |
| SOBRENOME | Nieftagodien |
| ASSINATURA | NIEFTAGODIEN N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3509-6420 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
We Don’t Operate from a Blueprint”
L’historien Noor Nieftagodien est co-directeur du History Workshop de l’université de Witswatersrand (Johannesburg). Dans cet entretien, Nieftagodien analyse la trajectoire du History Workshop depuis sa création dans les années 1970 jusqu’à nos jours. Le History Workshop met au centre de sa pratique l’idée de « co-production » de l’histoire, une vision de l’histoire comprise comme un projet collectif dépendant de la collaboration active des membr…
Making Public the History of Non-Racial Sport in South Africa
The article examines the creation of a community-based public history project – the Non-Racial Sports History Project (NRSHP) – by former players and administrators of the South African Council on Sport (SACOS), the premier movement of non-racial sport in South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s. Despite its leading role in organising grassroots sports and acknowledged as the sports wing of the liberation movement, the history of SACOS has receive…
History Workshop Around the World
In its nearly 50 years of existence, the History Workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) has played an influential role in the development of social history and public history in South Africa. This article provides an overview of the collective's contributions to the production of new, counter-hegemonic histories from the mid-1970s, when popular resistance against apartheid gained momentum, to the early years of the transit…
Public History and Emancipatory Politics in Transition
The expansion of public history in the context of the ‘decolonial turn’ has generated conversations about the potential productive and mutually constitutive relations between the two. While recognizing that there is no predetermined connection between public history and emancipatory politics, this paper focuses on the strand in public history associated with movements of anti-colonization and decolonialization. In particular contexts, the ideas a…
Congress Militant
The article considers the pivotal organizing role of the revolutionary paper Congress Militant for the Marxist Workers' Tendency of the African National Congress from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, a period characterized by mass popular struggles against apartheid, violence, and political negotiations. Congress Militant was instrumental in shaping the internal life of the Tendency, from being a space of reportage of local struggles and politica…
Teresa Barnes. Uprooting University Apartheid in South Africa
The Fees Must Fall movement of 2015–2017 brought sharply into focus the myriad challenges faced by South African universities, especially in their uneven commitments to transformation and decolonization. Although the most visible aspect of this movement was the demand for free education, its politics were also constantly animated by debates about the meanings of decolonization as well as the position of universities in relation to the status quo.…
Reconstituting and re-imagining the left after Marikana
Life in South Africa’s Hostels
Research Article| December 01 2017 Life in South Africa’s Hostels: Carceral Spaces and Places of Refuge Noor Nieftagodien Noor Nieftagodien Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 427–436. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4279128 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Noor Nieftagodien; Life in…
Comrade Professor’ – Phil Bonner
Phil Bonner joined the History Department at Wits University in 1971 and played a leading role in the development of African History in South Africa and internationally. He was part of a cohort of
Students Must Rise
The Soweto Student Uprising of 1976 was a decisive moment in the struggle against apartheid. It marked the expansion of political activism to a new generation of young activists, but beyond that it inscribed the role that young people of subsequent generations could play in their country’s future. Since that momentous time students have held a special place in the collective imaginary of South African history. Drawing on research and writing by l…
Martin Legassick (1940-2016)
The first article in the first issue of JSAS was by Martin Legassick.1 This choice by the editors accurately reflected Legassick’s standing in South African studies at the time. He was, judged Chri
The Economic Freedom Fighters and the Politics of Memory and Forgetting
This article critically examines the first year in the existence of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), the newest left-wing party in South Africa. It argues that the EFF is a product of the post-Marikana massacre political landscape, characterized by serious questioning of the African National Congress's (ANC) hegemony and a reconfiguration of left forces. The new party is arguably best comprehended as a paradox, reflecting the fragmented and f…
The Soweto Uprising
Nieftagodien argues that the Soweto uprising served as both an inspiration and a template for a second wave of unrest in the 1980s, which eventually led to apartheid's demise. His assessment is both lucid and compelling. It reminds us the that the struggle against apartheid did not just revolve around the ANC or famous leaders, but gained strength from young people who worked for change at the grassroots and who fought against great odds. - Afric…
High apartheid and the erosion of “official” local politics in Daveyton in the 1960s
The paper discusses the apartheid state’s onslaught against the limited rights enjoyed by Africans in urban areas in the 1960s. It focuses attention on the “modern model township” of Daveyton, which was seen in the early years of apartheid as a space where a settled urban African working class could be assured of a permanent presence in “white” urban spaces. But, crucial changes to apartheid policies from the late 1950s saw a reversal of these in…
One Hundred Years of the ANC
Popular Politics and Resistance Movements in South Africa
Edited by WILLIAM BEINART and MARCELLE C. DAWSON. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2010. 376 pp. IBSN 978 1 186814 518 8
The Place of 'The Local' in History Workshop's Local History
This article discusses the evolution of the History Workshop (HW)'s engagement with local history from the late 1970s to the present. It reflects on the articulation between local history and social history, which collectively defined much of the HW's theory and practice. The proliferation in local histories was associated in the 1980s with the mounting anti-apartheid movement, especially in black working-class localities, which augmented the ema…
Introduction
A Tribute to Martin Legassic
The TRC
1999). The TRC: commissioning the past (June 1999) African Studies: Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 209-218
Report of the international symposium on globalisation and social sciences in Africa, university of the Witwatersrand, September 1998
Introduction
Life in South Africa’s Hostels
Research Article| December 01 2017 Life in South Africa’s Hostels: Carceral Spaces and Places of Refuge Noor Nieftagodien Noor Nieftagodien Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 427–436. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4279128 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Noor Nieftagodien; Life in…
The Place of 'The Local' in History Workshop's Local History
This article discusses the evolution of the History Workshop (HW)'s engagement with local history from the late 1970s to the present. It reflects on the articulation between local history and social history, which collectively defined much of the HW's theory and practice. The proliferation in local histories was associated in the 1980s with the mounting anti-apartheid movement, especially in black working-class localities, which augmented the ema…
Report of the international symposium on globalisation and social sciences in Africa, university of the Witwatersrand, September 1998
Congress Militant
The article considers the pivotal organizing role of the revolutionary paper Congress Militant for the Marxist Workers' Tendency of the African National Congress from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, a period characterized by mass popular struggles against apartheid, violence, and political negotiations. Congress Militant was instrumental in shaping the internal life of the Tendency, from being a space of reportage of local struggles and politica…
The TRC
1999). The TRC: commissioning the past (June 1999) African Studies: Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 209-218
Report of the international symposium on globalisation and social sciences in Africa, university of the Witwatersrand, September 1998
The TRC
1999). The TRC: commissioning the past (June 1999) African Studies: Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 209-218
A Tribute to Martin Legassic
The Place of 'The Local' in History Workshop's Local History
This article discusses the evolution of the History Workshop (HW)'s engagement with local history from the late 1970s to the present. It reflects on the articulation between local history and social history, which collectively defined much of the HW's theory and practice. The proliferation in local histories was associated in the 1980s with the mounting anti-apartheid movement, especially in black working-class localities, which augmented the ema…
Introduction
Popular Politics and Resistance Movements in South Africa
Edited by WILLIAM BEINART and MARCELLE C. DAWSON. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2010. 376 pp. IBSN 978 1 186814 518 8
One Hundred Years of the ANC
High apartheid and the erosion of “official” local politics in Daveyton in the 1960s
The paper discusses the apartheid state’s onslaught against the limited rights enjoyed by Africans in urban areas in the 1960s. It focuses attention on the “modern model township” of Daveyton, which was seen in the early years of apartheid as a space where a settled urban African working class could be assured of a permanent presence in “white” urban spaces. But, crucial changes to apartheid policies from the late 1950s saw a reversal of these in…
The Soweto Uprising
Nieftagodien argues that the Soweto uprising served as both an inspiration and a template for a second wave of unrest in the 1980s, which eventually led to apartheid's demise. His assessment is both lucid and compelling. It reminds us the that the struggle against apartheid did not just revolve around the ANC or famous leaders, but gained strength from young people who worked for change at the grassroots and who fought against great odds. - Afric…
The Economic Freedom Fighters and the Politics of Memory and Forgetting
This article critically examines the first year in the existence of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), the newest left-wing party in South Africa. It argues that the EFF is a product of the post-Marikana massacre political landscape, characterized by serious questioning of the African National Congress's (ANC) hegemony and a reconfiguration of left forces. The new party is arguably best comprehended as a paradox, reflecting the fragmented and f…
Students Must Rise
The Soweto Student Uprising of 1976 was a decisive moment in the struggle against apartheid. It marked the expansion of political activism to a new generation of young activists, but beyond that it inscribed the role that young people of subsequent generations could play in their country’s future. Since that momentous time students have held a special place in the collective imaginary of South African history. Drawing on research and writing by l…
Martin Legassick (1940-2016)
The first article in the first issue of JSAS was by Martin Legassick.1 This choice by the editors accurately reflected Legassick’s standing in South African studies at the time. He was, judged Chri
Life in South Africa’s Hostels
Research Article| December 01 2017 Life in South Africa’s Hostels: Carceral Spaces and Places of Refuge Noor Nieftagodien Noor Nieftagodien Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 427–436. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4279128 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Noor Nieftagodien; Life in…
Comrade Professor’ – Phil Bonner
Phil Bonner joined the History Department at Wits University in 1971 and played a leading role in the development of African History in South Africa and internationally. He was part of a cohort of
Reconstituting and re-imagining the left after Marikana
Teresa Barnes. Uprooting University Apartheid in South Africa
The Fees Must Fall movement of 2015–2017 brought sharply into focus the myriad challenges faced by South African universities, especially in their uneven commitments to transformation and decolonization. Although the most visible aspect of this movement was the demand for free education, its politics were also constantly animated by debates about the meanings of decolonization as well as the position of universities in relation to the status quo.…
Public History and Emancipatory Politics in Transition
The expansion of public history in the context of the ‘decolonial turn’ has generated conversations about the potential productive and mutually constitutive relations between the two. While recognizing that there is no predetermined connection between public history and emancipatory politics, this paper focuses on the strand in public history associated with movements of anti-colonization and decolonialization. In particular contexts, the ideas a…
Congress Militant
The article considers the pivotal organizing role of the revolutionary paper Congress Militant for the Marxist Workers' Tendency of the African National Congress from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, a period characterized by mass popular struggles against apartheid, violence, and political negotiations. Congress Militant was instrumental in shaping the internal life of the Tendency, from being a space of reportage of local struggles and politica…
Making Public the History of Non-Racial Sport in South Africa
The article examines the creation of a community-based public history project – the Non-Racial Sports History Project (NRSHP) – by former players and administrators of the South African Council on Sport (SACOS), the premier movement of non-racial sport in South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s. Despite its leading role in organising grassroots sports and acknowledged as the sports wing of the liberation movement, the history of SACOS has receive…
History Workshop Around the World
In its nearly 50 years of existence, the History Workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) has played an influential role in the development of social history and public history in South Africa. This article provides an overview of the collective's contributions to the production of new, counter-hegemonic histories from the mid-1970s, when popular resistance against apartheid gained momentum, to the early years of the transit…
We Don’t Operate from a Blueprint”
L’historien Noor Nieftagodien est co-directeur du History Workshop de l’université de Witswatersrand (Johannesburg). Dans cet entretien, Nieftagodien analyse la trajectoire du History Workshop depuis sa création dans les années 1970 jusqu’à nos jours. Le History Workshop met au centre de sa pratique l’idée de « co-production » de l’histoire, une vision de l’histoire comprise comme un projet collectif dépendant de la collaboration active des membr…
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