David A Mcdonald
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 90527 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David A Mcdonald |
| PRENOMES | David A |
| SOBRENOME | Mcdonald |
| ASSINATURA | MCDONALD D A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1971-0427 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 286 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Making water ‘public’ in Bordeaux
In 2023, water services in the metropolitan region of Bordeaux became public again for the first time in 70 years, part of a growing remunicipalisation trend in France. It is a relatively fragile example of remunicipalisation, however, insofar as its creation was somewhat accidental and largely top-down, with limited political and grassroots support. The transition has also been very technocratic, raising questions about its political sustainabil…
(De)Financing remunicipalisation
One of the primary impediments to the realisation and success of remunicipalisation can be financing. Not all remunicipalisations require additional funding, but the costs of bringing services back in-house can be enormous, preventing remunicipalisation efforts from getting off the ground and constraining what is possible once in place. This article discusses the conditions under which financing is necessary for remunicipalisation and examines a …
Experiences of LGBTQ+ graduate students in research-focused doctoral programs
Students of sexual and gender minority (SGM) identities have long been underserved in higher education, and the limited research thus far has focused on undergraduates. There is a large gap in understanding the outcomes and experiences of LGBTQ+ graduate students, particularly in STEM. We undertook the first scoping review to examine the available literature on LGBTQ+ student experiences in research-focused doctoral programs. A scoping review met…
Landscapes of Remunicipalization
After four decades of privatization, remunicipalization has begun to reverse the trend. This policy phenomenon has been accompanied by a concomitant growth in academic writing on the topic, documenting a wide range of dynamics from different conceptual and methodological viewpoints, resulting in what many see to be a highly polarized debate. This article provides the first comprehensive review of this remunicipalization literature, providing crit…
Meanings of Public and the Future of Public Services
Critically assessing meanings of the term "public", this book situates the emergence and expansion of "public services" within market-based forms of production and consumption. It highlights the potential for making public services more progressive within market societies, but underscores their ongoing capture by private interests and emphasises the inherent limits of reform within a "bourgeois public sphere". The author explores opportunities fo…
From pragmatic to politicized? The future of water remunicipalization in the United States
"Critical Folkloristics, Free Speech, and the "War on Terror
In 2008, five affiliates of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) were convicted of conspiring to supply "material support" to the terrorist organization Hamas. One of the convicted was a folksinger, included in the indictment due to a series of music performances given at HLF fundraisers. In this article, I critically interrogate the history and development of the HLF trial, arguing for the development of an activist-oriented…
Building a pro-public movement in Canada
The global “antiprivatization” movement has been remarkably successful at challenging, and even reversing, the threat of privatization, but it has not yet established an equally effective “pro-public” counterpart. In many cases, the default position has been to protect the status quo rather than propose new models of public service delivery. This article discusses the potential for building such a pro-public movement in Canada, exploring opportun…
Remunicipalization
To corporatize or not to corporatize (and if so, how?)
Icon(oclastic)
John Shannon Saul has described himself as a ‘revolutionary traveller’. Over the past five decades (and counting!) he has been involved in profound social, political and economic change in Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa. These decades saw active building of the left in Canada as well, with Saul working as an activist in the Southern African solidarity movement, challenging Canadian government and corporate collusion with white dictatorship…
Cairo Pop
Book Review| October 01 2016 Cairo Pop: Youth Music in Contemporary Egypt Cairo Pop: Youth Music in Contemporary Egypt. Daniel J. Gilman. 2014. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. xi, 256 pp., photographs, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Cloth $75.00; paper, $25.00. David A. McDonald David A. McDonald Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2016) 60 (3): 513–517. https://doi…
Social Change in Mongolia and South Africa
My Voice Is My Weapon
al-Riif, Firqat al-Ajiil, Firqat al-Hanouneh, Firqat el-Funoun, Firqat al-Ibda, Karloma, Nawazen, and Firqat al-Zaytuna.Above all else, however, I offer my sincerest gratitude to one musician in particular
Imaginaries of Exile and Emergence in Israeli Jewish and Palestinian Hip Hop
The landscape of hip hop among Jewish and Palestinian communities in Israel may be understood as the performative interplay of two discursive strategies: exile and emergence. The shift from exile to emergence, embodied in the work of several contemporary hip hop artists, offers a unique reimagining of the Israeli nation-state and provides opportunities for interrogating the dynamics of power and performance in Israel/Palestine
My Voice Is My Weapon
al-Riif, Firqat al-Ajiil, Firqat al-Hanouneh, Firqat el-Funoun, Firqat al-Ibdaʿ, Karloma, Nawazen, and Firqat al-Zaytuna.Above all else, however, I offer my sincerest gratitude to one musician in particular
Electric Capitalism
Although Africa is the most under-supplied region of the world for electricity, its economies are utterly dependent on it. There are enormous inequalities in electricity access, with industry receiving abundant supplies of cheap power while more than 80 per cent of the continent's population remain off the power grid. Africa is not unique in this respect, but levels of inequality are particularly pronounced here due to the inherent unevenness of …
Municipal Socialism Then and Now
Given the large and growing literature opposed to the privatisation of services such as water and electricity, it is peculiar that so little has been written about the experience of ‘municipal socialism’—a set of roughly analogous historical movements that used local governments to challenge private service delivery and advance ‘socialist’ agendas from the late 1800s to the 1940s. Although primarily a European and American phenomenon, and emergin…
Electricity and the Minerals-Energy Complex in South Africa
(2011). Electricity and the Minerals-Energy Complex South Africa. Africa Review: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 65-87
Geographies of the Body
In this article I examine the dialogic relationship between violence, performance and the attainment and enactment of masculinity among Palestinian male youths in Jordan and the West Bank. Focusing specifically on the poetics of masculinity embodied in and articulated through wedding celebrations, I explore the various ways in which repertories of indigenous wedding song and dance have been operationalised in the nationalist movement as a means o…
Ubuntu bashing
Broadly defined as an ‘African worldview’ that places communal interests above those of the individual, and where human existence is dependent upon interaction with others, ubuntu has a long tradition on the continent. This paper explores the ways in which the philosophy and language of ubuntu have been taken up and appropriated by market ideologies in post-apartheid South Africa. The literature on ‘ ubuntu capitalism’ offers the most obvious ill…
Minding the Undertow
The privatization and commercialization of water has proven to be one of the most controversial policy developments of the past 20 years. Largely associated with the neoliberalization of the world economy, it comes as a surprise to many that the socialist government of Cuba signed a 25‐year contract with a Spanish multinational in 2000 to manage the supply of water in Havana. This paper provides an historical context for water reforms in the coun…
Poetics and the Performance of Violence in Israel/Palestine
Research Article| January 01 2009 Poetics and the Performance of Violence in Israel/Palestine David A. McDonald David A. McDonald Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2009) 53 (1): 58–85. https://doi.org/10.2307/25653047 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David A. McDonald; Poetics and the Performance of Violence in Israel/Palestine. Ethnomusicol…
Disposable Cities
The Print Media in South Africa
Since the end of apartheid, national and local governments in South Africa have been involved in the commercialisation and marketisation of a wide range of public services. This article examines the responses of the mainstream media to these neo-liberal initiatives, looking specifically at English-language newspapers and their coverage of water, electricity and waste management services. We explore the extent to which the print media can be deeme…
Remunicipalization
Writing Xenophobia
This paper discusses the print media’s coverage of cross-border migration in South Africa and how it may affect both public opinion and policymaking on the topic. The paper argues that coverage of international migration by the South African press has been largely anti-immigrant and unanalytical. Not all reportage is negative, and newspaper coverage would appear to be improving over time, but the overwhelming majority of the comprehensive collect…
My Voice Is My Weapon
al-Riif, Firqat al-Ajiil, Firqat al-Hanouneh, Firqat el-Funoun, Firqat al-Ibdaʿ, Karloma, Nawazen, and Firqat al-Zaytuna.Above all else, however, I offer my sincerest gratitude to one musician in particular
The relative deprivation-gratification continuum and the attitudes of South Africans toward immigrants
It has long been established that there is a linear and positive relationship between relative deprivation and prejudice. However, a recent experiment suggests that the converse of relative deprivation, relative gratification, may also be associated with prejudice (S. Guimond & M. Dambrun, 2002). Specifically, the evidence suggests that the usual test for a linear relationship between relative deprivation-gratification and prejudice might conceal…
To corporatize or not to corporatize (and if so, how?)
Privatising Cape Town
One of the most remarkable features of the post -apartheid political landscape in South Africa is the increasingly hegemonic nature of neo-liberal thought and practice. This ideological dominance is most noticeable at the national level but has trickled down to urban policy-making as well. This paper documents the new urban neo-liberalism in the city of Cape Town. Based on extensive interviews, policy analysis and a critique of the track record o…
Ubuntu bashing
Broadly defined as an ‘African worldview’ that places communal interests above those of the individual, and where human existence is dependent upon interaction with others, ubuntu has a long tradition on the continent. This paper explores the ways in which the philosophy and language of ubuntu have been taken up and appropriated by market ideologies in post-apartheid South Africa. The literature on ‘ ubuntu capitalism’ offers the most obvious ill…
(Re)writing xenophobia
Xenophobia – although difficult at times to disentangle from other psychological and structural influences such as racism, nationalism and ethnocentrism – refers specifically to “a deep dislike of foreigners” (Oxford Concise Dictionary).This definition describes a discrete set of attitudes that manifest themselves in the behaviours of governments, the general public and the media.This is certainly true in South and southern Africa where xenophobi…
Introduction to Special Issue
Apartheid-era immigration laws remain in force in South Africa. The will to change is considerable but the whole transformation process has been constantly bedeviled by the complexity of the issues and political tensions between the ruling ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party
Poetics and the Performance of Violence in Israel/Palestine
Research Article| January 01 2009 Poetics and the Performance of Violence in Israel/Palestine David A. McDonald David A. McDonald Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2009) 53 (1): 58–85. https://doi.org/10.2307/25653047 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David A. McDonald; Poetics and the Performance of Violence in Israel/Palestine. Ethnomusicol…
On Borders
Landscapes of Remunicipalization
After four decades of privatization, remunicipalization has begun to reverse the trend. This policy phenomenon has been accompanied by a concomitant growth in academic writing on the topic, documenting a wide range of dynamics from different conceptual and methodological viewpoints, resulting in what many see to be a highly polarized debate. This article provides the first comprehensive review of this remunicipalization literature, providing crit…
Environmental Justice in South Africa
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
David A. McDonald, Lovemore Zinyama, John Gay, Fion de Vletter, Robert Mattes, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Migration from Lesotho, Mozambique and Zimbabwe to South Africa, The International Migration Review, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Autumn, 2000), pp. 813-841
From pragmatic to politicized? The future of water remunicipalization in the United States
Municipal Socialism Then and Now
Given the large and growing literature opposed to the privatisation of services such as water and electricity, it is peculiar that so little has been written about the experience of ‘municipal socialism’—a set of roughly analogous historical movements that used local governments to challenge private service delivery and advance ‘socialist’ agendas from the late 1800s to the 1940s. Although primarily a European and American phenomenon, and emergin…
Three steps forward, two steps back
Environmental discourse in South Africa has undergone dramatic change in the 1990s. Since the unbanning of the ANC and other anti‐apartheid organizations there has been an important re‐conceptualization of environmental issues and a rapid politicization of environmental debates. Organizations like the Environmental Justice Networking Forum (EJNF) have made the links between poverty and ecology an environmental priority in the country and importan…
Hear no housing, see no housing
The Print Media in South Africa
Since the end of apartheid, national and local governments in South Africa have been involved in the commercialisation and marketisation of a wide range of public services. This article examines the responses of the mainstream media to these neo-liberal initiatives, looking specifically at English-language newspapers and their coverage of water, electricity and waste management services. We explore the extent to which the print media can be deeme…
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Although a more balanced debate about cross-border migration in South Africa is starting to take place, xenophobic stereotypes about migrants of African origin are still all too common. Allusions to a “flood of illegal aliens” who bring disease and crime to the country and who are seen to be a threat to the social and fiscal stability of South Africa are, unfortunately, still rife in the mainstream press in South Africa. This article is an attemp…
Transnationalism, African Immigration, and New Migrant Spaces in South Africa
(2000). Transnationalism, African Immigration, and New Migrant Spaces in South Africa: An Introduction. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 34, Transnationalism, African Immigration, and New Migrant Spaces in South Africa / La transnationalisation, l’immigration africaine, et les nouveaux espaces pour les ouvriers itinérants en Afrique du Sud, pp. 1-19
Lest the rhetoric begin
"Critical Folkloristics, Free Speech, and the "War on Terror
In 2008, five affiliates of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) were convicted of conspiring to supply "material support" to the terrorist organization Hamas. One of the convicted was a folksinger, included in the indictment due to a series of music performances given at HLF fundraisers. In this article, I critically interrogate the history and development of the HLF trial, arguing for the development of an activist-oriented…
Building a pro-public movement in Canada
The global “antiprivatization” movement has been remarkably successful at challenging, and even reversing, the threat of privatization, but it has not yet established an equally effective “pro-public” counterpart. In many cases, the default position has been to protect the status quo rather than propose new models of public service delivery. This article discusses the potential for building such a pro-public movement in Canada, exploring opportun…
Social Change in Mongolia and South Africa
The Mystification of Vietnam
The reason for the relative success of Sticks and Bones as a representation of Vietnam is that it directly addresses the problem of the mystification of Vietnam: in the sense of not knowing, of refusing to know or repressing and denying what is known; in the sense of never having been there or of having been there and no longer being there; in the sense of lack or inability to produce an adequate image or representation of the meaning of Vietnam;…
Neither from Above nor from Below
(1997). Neither from Above nor from Below: Municipal Bureaucrats and Environmental Policy in Cape Town, South Africa. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 315-340
Three steps forward, two steps back
Environmental discourse in South Africa has undergone dramatic change in the 1990s. Since the unbanning of the ANC and other anti‐apartheid organizations there has been an important re‐conceptualization of environmental issues and a rapid politicization of environmental debates. Organizations like the Environmental Justice Networking Forum (EJNF) have made the links between poverty and ecology an environmental priority in the country and importan…
Hear no housing, see no housing
Lest the rhetoric begin
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Although a more balanced debate about cross-border migration in South Africa is starting to take place, xenophobic stereotypes about migrants of African origin are still all too common. Allusions to a “flood of illegal aliens” who bring disease and crime to the country and who are seen to be a threat to the social and fiscal stability of South Africa are, unfortunately, still rife in the mainstream press in South Africa. This article is an attemp…
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
David A. McDonald, Lovemore Zinyama, John Gay, Fion de Vletter, Robert Mattes, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Migration from Lesotho, Mozambique and Zimbabwe to South Africa, The International Migration Review, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Autumn, 2000), pp. 813-841
We Have Contact
(2000). We Have Contact: Foreign Migration and Civic Participation in Marconi Beam, Cape Town. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 34, Transnationalism, African Immigration, and New Migrant Spaces in South Africa / La transnationalisation, l’immigration africaine, et les nouveaux espaces pour les ouvriers itinérants en Afrique du Sud, pp. 101-123
Transnationalism, African Immigration, and New Migrant Spaces in South Africa
(2000). Transnationalism, African Immigration, and New Migrant Spaces in South Africa: An Introduction. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 34, Transnationalism, African Immigration, and New Migrant Spaces in South Africa / La transnationalisation, l’immigration africaine, et les nouveaux espaces pour les ouvriers itinérants en Afrique du Sud, pp. 1-19
Of liquid dreams
The privatization of water and sanitation in Buenos Aires has been hailed by its neo-liberal proponents as an unprecedented success. This paper takes a deeper and more critical look than many of these accounts. It looks at political and economic changes within Argentina in order to explain the troubling findings regarding the performance of Aguas Argentinas, the private company that won the concession for most of Buenos Aires. The paper begins wi…
Of liquid dreams
The privatization of water and sanitation in Buenos Aires has been hailed by its neo-liberal proponents as an unprecedented success. This paper takes a deeper and more critical look than many of these accounts. It looks at political and economic changes within Argentina in order to explain the troubling findings regarding the performance of Aguas Argentinas, the private company that won the concession for most of Buenos Aires. The paper begins wi…
Writing Xenophobia
This paper discusses the print media’s coverage of cross-border migration in South Africa and how it may affect both public opinion and policymaking on the topic. The paper argues that coverage of international migration by the South African press has been largely anti-immigrant and unanalytical. Not all reportage is negative, and newspaper coverage would appear to be improving over time, but the overwhelming majority of the comprehensive collect…
Introduction to Special Issue
Apartheid-era immigration laws remain in force in South Africa. The will to change is considerable but the whole transformation process has been constantly bedeviled by the complexity of the issues and political tensions between the ruling ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party
On Borders
On Borders
Environmental Justice in South Africa
Transnationalism and New African Immigration to South Africa
Environmental Justice in South Africa
Transnationalism and New African Immigration to South Africa
Privatising Cape Town
One of the most remarkable features of the post -apartheid political landscape in South Africa is the increasingly hegemonic nature of neo-liberal thought and practice. This ideological dominance is most noticeable at the national level but has trickled down to urban policy-making as well. This paper documents the new urban neo-liberalism in the city of Cape Town. Based on extensive interviews, policy analysis and a critique of the track record o…
Transnationalism and New African Immigration to South Africa
Jonathan Crush and David A. McDonald(eds), Transnationalism and New African Immigration to South Africa. Toronto: Southern African Migration Project & Canadian Association of African Studies (CDN $30.00, ISBN 0 88911 926 0). 2002, 188 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 2
(Re)writing xenophobia
Xenophobia – although difficult at times to disentangle from other psychological and structural influences such as racism, nationalism and ethnocentrism – refers specifically to “a deep dislike of foreigners” (Oxford Concise Dictionary).This definition describes a discrete set of attitudes that manifest themselves in the behaviours of governments, the general public and the media.This is certainly true in South and southern Africa where xenophobi…
The relative deprivation-gratification continuum and the attitudes of South Africans toward immigrants
It has long been established that there is a linear and positive relationship between relative deprivation and prejudice. However, a recent experiment suggests that the converse of relative deprivation, relative gratification, may also be associated with prejudice (S. Guimond & M. Dambrun, 2002). Specifically, the evidence suggests that the usual test for a linear relationship between relative deprivation-gratification and prejudice might conceal…
Disposable Cities
The Print Media in South Africa
Since the end of apartheid, national and local governments in South Africa have been involved in the commercialisation and marketisation of a wide range of public services. This article examines the responses of the mainstream media to these neo-liberal initiatives, looking specifically at English-language newspapers and their coverage of water, electricity and waste management services. We explore the extent to which the print media can be deeme…
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