The Subject as Migrant

Refiguring the Migrant Image in the Eastern Cape

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11423634
AutoresCandice Steele (0000-0001-6854-2904, Stellenbosch University), Gary Minkley (0000-0001-6912-6224, University of Fort Hare)
Año2021
Volumen47
Número1
Páginas1-25
Fecha de publicación2021-12-31
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaKronos (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0259-0190 • E-ISSN: 2309-9585
EditorialAcademy of Science of South Africa (PUBLISHER • ZA)
DOI10.17159/2309-9585/2021/v47a8
OpenAlexW4226242239
SCIELO_PIDS0259-01902021000100009
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas6

This paper engages with the concept of the migrant subject, as framed through contemporary literature on migrancy, and read through the Pauline Ingle photographic collection, located in the Eastern Cape. As against gendered historiographies of labour migrancy and the associated meanings attributed to the rural as a site of social reproduction, Ingle's photographs invite a series of atypical readings that unsettle these subjectivities. Rather, they suggest social and political acts that presage and constitute a migrant citizenship, one that undermines the dichotomy of the rural (traditional) and urban (modern) and projects the possibility of reading the history of the subject in the Eastern Cape differently

Archaeology · Cape · Citizenship · Ethnology · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Reading (process) · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · South African History and Culture