Andries Du Toit
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 81670 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Andries Du Toit |
| PRENOMES | Andries |
| SOBRENOME | Du Toit |
| ASSINATURA | DU TOIT A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5845-0774 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 261 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
The Land and its People
Why is it that South Africa’s ‘land question’ is so stubbornly resistant to resolution? This think piece re-examines 30 years of debate, concentrating on the disjuncture between the discourses of policy deliberation and those of contentious politics in debates about land in South Africa. It argues that the South African land debate as it unfolds in the public realm is best understood as a displaced discourse indirectly addressing the terms of pol…
The Mountain in the Sea
For six years of my life, I lived in Camps Bay. That’s a bit like saying I lived in Beverley Hills, or Knightsbridge, or on The Peak in Hong Kong. Every city has a suburb that is the local byword for conspicuous consumption, for interstellar property values, for self-indulgent wealth. In Cape Town to say you live in Camps Bay is to say your other car is a Range Rover; that your Pilates instructor comes to your house every morning; that your daugh…
The Vampire Squid
Over the last five decades the power and global reach of financial institutions and finance capital to organize economic, social and political life has grown seemingly unchecked. This is manifested in the ability of international markets to limit the economic sovereignty of states; the power of activist shareholders to dictate policy to company management, often at the expense of long‐term strategy and employment creation; and the advantages offe…
Without the blanket of the land
This paper connects Marxist approaches to the agrarian political economy of South Africa with post-Marshallian and Foucauldian analyses of distributional regimes and late capitalist governmentality. Looking at South Africa's stalled agrarian transition through the lens of biopolitics as well as class analysis can make visible otherwise disregarded connections between processes of agrarian change and broader contests about the terms of social and …
Post-Agrarian Biopolitics
How does one make sense of the incorporation of millions of South Africa’spoor and landless black people into a political and economic order thatcannot deliver on its promises — and what are the implications?The path of economic and political change that South Africa has followedin the last 70 years has led to an alarming and fateful state of affairs. Here, asin other parts of what we can perhaps no longer call the ‘developing world’,millions of …
The government of poverty and the arts of survival
The paper is concerned with marginal populations affected by the 'truncated agrarian transitions' of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: people displaced out of land-based employment without reasonable prospects for accumulation in the non-farm economy. It analyses the forms of economic agency of people living in the migrant routes and networks connecting the shantytowns of Cape Town and the rural Eastern Cape in South Africa. It describes …
Rural Livelihoods inSouthAfrica
The livelihoods ofSouthAfrica's ruralAfrican poor have long been characterized by diverse activities, and intertwined with urban opportunities. This paper examines the interlinked nature of land, employment and rural livelihoods within contemporarySouthAfrica, in order to examine aspects of how the rural poor survive. Drawing on a body of livelihood and poverty-oriented enquiry, several vignettes from South Africa's former 'homeland' communal are…
Real Acts, Imagined Landscapes
This paper discusses the discourses by which land reform policies in South Africa have been justified and criticized. Critical thought is needed about the underlying assumptions and frameworks informing policy and critique. While key aspects of populist, 'Left' and liberal ideologies helped mobilize support for land reform after 1994, they framed questions of equitable transformation and justice in ways that obscured the terrain of struggle rathe…
Money and Sociality in South Africa's Informal Economy
This article examines the interplay of agency, culture and context in order to consider the social embeddedness of money and trade at the margins of South Africa's economy. Focusing on small-scale, survivalist informal enterprise operators, it draws on socio-cultural analysis to explore the social dynamics involved in generating and managing wealth. After describing the informal sector in South Africa, the article elucidates the relationship betw…
Integrating Poverty and Environmental Concerns into Value‐Chain Analysis
Many policy prescriptions emphasise poverty reduction through closer integration of poor people or areas with global markets. Global value chain (GVC) studies reveal how firms and farms in developing countries are upgraded by being integrated in global markets, but few explicitly document the impact on poverty, gender and the environment, or conversely, how value chain restructuring is in turn mediated by local history, social relations and envir…
Integrating Poverty and Environmental Concerns into Value‐Chain Analysis
This article aims to guide the design and implementation of action‐research projects in value‐chain analysis by presenting a strategic framework focused on small producers and trading and processing firms in developing countries. Its stepwise approach – building on the conceptual framework set out in a companion article – covers in detail what to do, questions to be asked and issues to be considered, and integrates poverty, gender, labour and env…
Stuffed and Starved
Ambiguities of Witnessing
As a contribution to the burgeoning literature on transitional justice and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Ambiguities of Witnessing is an idiosyncratic production. The uninitiated reader should not be put off by the deconstructionist theoretical indulgences of the opening chapters, as perseverance is rewarded with perceptive interpretations of such key issues as the TRC's discourse of forgiveness and its unresolved p…
Deracializing Exploitation? 'Black Economic Empowerment' in the South African Wine Industry
This paper considers the discourse and practice of 'Black Economic Empowerment' (BEE) in the South African wine industry. It argues that far from representing a decisive break with an inequitable past, BEE allows the South African wine industry to avoid potentially more uncomfortable options to redress current and past race-based imbalances - such as land redistribution, import boycotts and better working conditions for grape pickers. An essentia…
Adverse Incorporation, Social Exclusion and Chronic Poverty
The Political Economy of Social Capital
This paper uses two case studies drawn from in-depth ethnographic research in South Africa's Eastern Cape to interrogate and problematise the often simplistic or reductive ways in which the concept of social capital is used in debates about development and poverty alleviation. It argues that if the concept is to be useful at all, it needs to be used in ways that are sensitive to the fact that social capital inheres in social relations; that these…
Urban poverty in Cape Town
This paper describes key findings of a household livelihood survey conducted in impoverished African settlements in Cape Town, one of Africa’s wealthiest cities. Poverty in these areas is strongly shaped by the history of the Eastern Cape’s adverse spatial incorporation into the South African economy. Migrants from the rural areas are highly dependent on and integrated into the increasingly monetized economy - but are simultaneously marginalized …
A Deepening Divide in the Countryside
The article reviews research on change in the South African wine industry, and links the sociology of farming styles and paternalism in Western Cape farm labour relations to work on globalisation and international agro-food restructuring. It argues that livelihoods on wine farms in the Western Cape have been shaped by a ‘triple transition’ involving local industry deregulation, international agro-food integration and the politics of democratisati…
Social Exclusion' Discourse and Chronic Poverty
This article questions the export of 'social exclusion' discourse to the field of development and poverty studies. It considers the findings of ongoing research into chronic poverty in the Western Cape district of Ceres, one of the centres of the South African deciduous fruit export industry. It explores the links between the livelihood options of poor people and processes of global integration, agro-food restructuring and the modernization of pa…
Globalizing Ethics
This paper discusses of some key issues arising from South African experience of the UK-based Ethical Trading Initiative's (ETI) pilot project in the monitoring of compliance codes of conduct for product sourcing. The paper argues that the experience of 'local stakeholder participation' in the ETI's pilot project in the South African wine industry raises serious questions about the appropriateness and efficacy of 'ethical sourcing' as a vehicle f…
Farm workers and the ‘Agrarian question’
The poorest, most insecure and the least visible of South Africa's black workers are those who live and work on its white‐owned farms. They have been oddly peripheral to the current land debate, partly due to the technocratic nature of the discourse of ‘development’ which has foreclosed consideration of the irreducibly political nature of local power relations. Farms are not mere units of production: they are structured by paternalist discourses …
The micro-politics of paternalism
An analysis of the discourse of wine‐farm workers and owners in the Western Cape shows how paternalist discourse marginalises and excludes workers’ voices —but it also shows how workers can challenge the employers’ power. Traditional paternalism is distinguished by an ‘organic’ conception of the farm as a family, with the farmer occupying, a central position of unchallengeable authority. Today, however, a movement for rural reform is bringing abo…
Race, Taste and the Grape
Wine, as Paul Nugent remarks in this meticulously researched and ambitious history of South African viticulture in the twentieth century, is unlike other imperial commodities. The production of sug
Social Exclusion' Discourse and Chronic Poverty
This article questions the export of 'social exclusion' discourse to the field of development and poverty studies. It considers the findings of ongoing research into chronic poverty in the Western Cape district of Ceres, one of the centres of the South African deciduous fruit export industry. It explores the links between the livelihood options of poor people and processes of global integration, agro-food restructuring and the modernization of pa…
The micro-politics of paternalism
An analysis of the discourse of wine‐farm workers and owners in the Western Cape shows how paternalist discourse marginalises and excludes workers’ voices —but it also shows how workers can challenge the employers’ power. Traditional paternalism is distinguished by an ‘organic’ conception of the farm as a family, with the farmer occupying, a central position of unchallengeable authority. Today, however, a movement for rural reform is bringing abo…
The government of poverty and the arts of survival
The paper is concerned with marginal populations affected by the 'truncated agrarian transitions' of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: people displaced out of land-based employment without reasonable prospects for accumulation in the non-farm economy. It analyses the forms of economic agency of people living in the migrant routes and networks connecting the shantytowns of Cape Town and the rural Eastern Cape in South Africa. It describes …
A Deepening Divide in the Countryside
The article reviews research on change in the South African wine industry, and links the sociology of farming styles and paternalism in Western Cape farm labour relations to work on globalisation and international agro-food restructuring. It argues that livelihoods on wine farms in the Western Cape have been shaped by a ‘triple transition’ involving local industry deregulation, international agro-food integration and the politics of democratisati…
Rural Livelihoods inSouthAfrica
The livelihoods ofSouthAfrica's ruralAfrican poor have long been characterized by diverse activities, and intertwined with urban opportunities. This paper examines the interlinked nature of land, employment and rural livelihoods within contemporarySouthAfrica, in order to examine aspects of how the rural poor survive. Drawing on a body of livelihood and poverty-oriented enquiry, several vignettes from South Africa's former 'homeland' communal are…
Money and Sociality in South Africa's Informal Economy
This article examines the interplay of agency, culture and context in order to consider the social embeddedness of money and trade at the margins of South Africa's economy. Focusing on small-scale, survivalist informal enterprise operators, it draws on socio-cultural analysis to explore the social dynamics involved in generating and managing wealth. After describing the informal sector in South Africa, the article elucidates the relationship betw…
Urban poverty in Cape Town
This paper describes key findings of a household livelihood survey conducted in impoverished African settlements in Cape Town, one of Africa’s wealthiest cities. Poverty in these areas is strongly shaped by the history of the Eastern Cape’s adverse spatial incorporation into the South African economy. Migrants from the rural areas are highly dependent on and integrated into the increasingly monetized economy - but are simultaneously marginalized …
Deracializing Exploitation? 'Black Economic Empowerment' in the South African Wine Industry
This paper considers the discourse and practice of 'Black Economic Empowerment' (BEE) in the South African wine industry. It argues that far from representing a decisive break with an inequitable past, BEE allows the South African wine industry to avoid potentially more uncomfortable options to redress current and past race-based imbalances - such as land redistribution, import boycotts and better working conditions for grape pickers. An essentia…
Globalizing Ethics
This paper discusses of some key issues arising from South African experience of the UK-based Ethical Trading Initiative's (ETI) pilot project in the monitoring of compliance codes of conduct for product sourcing. The paper argues that the experience of 'local stakeholder participation' in the ETI's pilot project in the South African wine industry raises serious questions about the appropriateness and efficacy of 'ethical sourcing' as a vehicle f…
Farm workers and the ‘Agrarian question’
The poorest, most insecure and the least visible of South Africa's black workers are those who live and work on its white‐owned farms. They have been oddly peripheral to the current land debate, partly due to the technocratic nature of the discourse of ‘development’ which has foreclosed consideration of the irreducibly political nature of local power relations. Farms are not mere units of production: they are structured by paternalist discourses …
Without the blanket of the land
This paper connects Marxist approaches to the agrarian political economy of South Africa with post-Marshallian and Foucauldian analyses of distributional regimes and late capitalist governmentality. Looking at South Africa's stalled agrarian transition through the lens of biopolitics as well as class analysis can make visible otherwise disregarded connections between processes of agrarian change and broader contests about the terms of social and …
The Political Economy of Social Capital
This paper uses two case studies drawn from in-depth ethnographic research in South Africa's Eastern Cape to interrogate and problematise the often simplistic or reductive ways in which the concept of social capital is used in debates about development and poverty alleviation. It argues that if the concept is to be useful at all, it needs to be used in ways that are sensitive to the fact that social capital inheres in social relations; that these…
Post-Agrarian Biopolitics
How does one make sense of the incorporation of millions of South Africa’spoor and landless black people into a political and economic order thatcannot deliver on its promises — and what are the implications?The path of economic and political change that South Africa has followedin the last 70 years has led to an alarming and fateful state of affairs. Here, asin other parts of what we can perhaps no longer call the ‘developing world’,millions of …
Real Acts, Imagined Landscapes
This paper discusses the discourses by which land reform policies in South Africa have been justified and criticized. Critical thought is needed about the underlying assumptions and frameworks informing policy and critique. While key aspects of populist, 'Left' and liberal ideologies helped mobilize support for land reform after 1994, they framed questions of equitable transformation and justice in ways that obscured the terrain of struggle rathe…
The micro-politics of paternalism
An analysis of the discourse of wine‐farm workers and owners in the Western Cape shows how paternalist discourse marginalises and excludes workers’ voices —but it also shows how workers can challenge the employers’ power. Traditional paternalism is distinguished by an ‘organic’ conception of the farm as a family, with the farmer occupying, a central position of unchallengeable authority. Today, however, a movement for rural reform is bringing abo…
Farm workers and the ‘Agrarian question’
The poorest, most insecure and the least visible of South Africa's black workers are those who live and work on its white‐owned farms. They have been oddly peripheral to the current land debate, partly due to the technocratic nature of the discourse of ‘development’ which has foreclosed consideration of the irreducibly political nature of local power relations. Farms are not mere units of production: they are structured by paternalist discourses …
Globalizing Ethics
This paper discusses of some key issues arising from South African experience of the UK-based Ethical Trading Initiative's (ETI) pilot project in the monitoring of compliance codes of conduct for product sourcing. The paper argues that the experience of 'local stakeholder participation' in the ETI's pilot project in the South African wine industry raises serious questions about the appropriateness and efficacy of 'ethical sourcing' as a vehicle f…
Social Exclusion' Discourse and Chronic Poverty
This article questions the export of 'social exclusion' discourse to the field of development and poverty studies. It considers the findings of ongoing research into chronic poverty in the Western Cape district of Ceres, one of the centres of the South African deciduous fruit export industry. It explores the links between the livelihood options of poor people and processes of global integration, agro-food restructuring and the modernization of pa…
Urban poverty in Cape Town
This paper describes key findings of a household livelihood survey conducted in impoverished African settlements in Cape Town, one of Africa’s wealthiest cities. Poverty in these areas is strongly shaped by the history of the Eastern Cape’s adverse spatial incorporation into the South African economy. Migrants from the rural areas are highly dependent on and integrated into the increasingly monetized economy - but are simultaneously marginalized …
A Deepening Divide in the Countryside
The article reviews research on change in the South African wine industry, and links the sociology of farming styles and paternalism in Western Cape farm labour relations to work on globalisation and international agro-food restructuring. It argues that livelihoods on wine farms in the Western Cape have been shaped by a ‘triple transition’ involving local industry deregulation, international agro-food integration and the politics of democratisati…
Adverse Incorporation, Social Exclusion and Chronic Poverty
The Political Economy of Social Capital
This paper uses two case studies drawn from in-depth ethnographic research in South Africa's Eastern Cape to interrogate and problematise the often simplistic or reductive ways in which the concept of social capital is used in debates about development and poverty alleviation. It argues that if the concept is to be useful at all, it needs to be used in ways that are sensitive to the fact that social capital inheres in social relations; that these…
Ambiguities of Witnessing
As a contribution to the burgeoning literature on transitional justice and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Ambiguities of Witnessing is an idiosyncratic production. The uninitiated reader should not be put off by the deconstructionist theoretical indulgences of the opening chapters, as perseverance is rewarded with perceptive interpretations of such key issues as the TRC's discourse of forgiveness and its unresolved p…
Deracializing Exploitation? 'Black Economic Empowerment' in the South African Wine Industry
This paper considers the discourse and practice of 'Black Economic Empowerment' (BEE) in the South African wine industry. It argues that far from representing a decisive break with an inequitable past, BEE allows the South African wine industry to avoid potentially more uncomfortable options to redress current and past race-based imbalances - such as land redistribution, import boycotts and better working conditions for grape pickers. An essentia…
Stuffed and Starved
Integrating Poverty and Environmental Concerns into Value‐Chain Analysis
Many policy prescriptions emphasise poverty reduction through closer integration of poor people or areas with global markets. Global value chain (GVC) studies reveal how firms and farms in developing countries are upgraded by being integrated in global markets, but few explicitly document the impact on poverty, gender and the environment, or conversely, how value chain restructuring is in turn mediated by local history, social relations and envir…
Integrating Poverty and Environmental Concerns into Value‐Chain Analysis
This article aims to guide the design and implementation of action‐research projects in value‐chain analysis by presenting a strategic framework focused on small producers and trading and processing firms in developing countries. Its stepwise approach – building on the conceptual framework set out in a companion article – covers in detail what to do, questions to be asked and issues to be considered, and integrates poverty, gender, labour and env…
Money and Sociality in South Africa's Informal Economy
This article examines the interplay of agency, culture and context in order to consider the social embeddedness of money and trade at the margins of South Africa's economy. Focusing on small-scale, survivalist informal enterprise operators, it draws on socio-cultural analysis to explore the social dynamics involved in generating and managing wealth. After describing the informal sector in South Africa, the article elucidates the relationship betw…
Rural Livelihoods inSouthAfrica
The livelihoods ofSouthAfrica's ruralAfrican poor have long been characterized by diverse activities, and intertwined with urban opportunities. This paper examines the interlinked nature of land, employment and rural livelihoods within contemporarySouthAfrica, in order to examine aspects of how the rural poor survive. Drawing on a body of livelihood and poverty-oriented enquiry, several vignettes from South Africa's former 'homeland' communal are…
Real Acts, Imagined Landscapes
This paper discusses the discourses by which land reform policies in South Africa have been justified and criticized. Critical thought is needed about the underlying assumptions and frameworks informing policy and critique. While key aspects of populist, 'Left' and liberal ideologies helped mobilize support for land reform after 1994, they framed questions of equitable transformation and justice in ways that obscured the terrain of struggle rathe…
The government of poverty and the arts of survival
The paper is concerned with marginal populations affected by the 'truncated agrarian transitions' of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: people displaced out of land-based employment without reasonable prospects for accumulation in the non-farm economy. It analyses the forms of economic agency of people living in the migrant routes and networks connecting the shantytowns of Cape Town and the rural Eastern Cape in South Africa. It describes …
Post-Agrarian Biopolitics
How does one make sense of the incorporation of millions of South Africa’spoor and landless black people into a political and economic order thatcannot deliver on its promises — and what are the implications?The path of economic and political change that South Africa has followedin the last 70 years has led to an alarming and fateful state of affairs. Here, asin other parts of what we can perhaps no longer call the ‘developing world’,millions of …
Without the blanket of the land
This paper connects Marxist approaches to the agrarian political economy of South Africa with post-Marshallian and Foucauldian analyses of distributional regimes and late capitalist governmentality. Looking at South Africa's stalled agrarian transition through the lens of biopolitics as well as class analysis can make visible otherwise disregarded connections between processes of agrarian change and broader contests about the terms of social and …
The Vampire Squid
Over the last five decades the power and global reach of financial institutions and finance capital to organize economic, social and political life has grown seemingly unchecked. This is manifested in the ability of international markets to limit the economic sovereignty of states; the power of activist shareholders to dictate policy to company management, often at the expense of long‐term strategy and employment creation; and the advantages offe…
The Mountain in the Sea
For six years of my life, I lived in Camps Bay. That’s a bit like saying I lived in Beverley Hills, or Knightsbridge, or on The Peak in Hong Kong. Every city has a suburb that is the local byword for conspicuous consumption, for interstellar property values, for self-indulgent wealth. In Cape Town to say you live in Camps Bay is to say your other car is a Range Rover; that your Pilates instructor comes to your house every morning; that your daugh…
Race, Taste and the Grape
Wine, as Paul Nugent remarks in this meticulously researched and ambitious history of South African viticulture in the twentieth century, is unlike other imperial commodities. The production of sug
The Land and its People
Why is it that South Africa’s ‘land question’ is so stubbornly resistant to resolution? This think piece re-examines 30 years of debate, concentrating on the disjuncture between the discourses of policy deliberation and those of contentious politics in debates about land in South Africa. It argues that the South African land debate as it unfolds in the public realm is best understood as a displaced discourse indirectly addressing the terms of pol…
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