National Citizens, Global Economies
Sarah Gertrude Millin and the Professionalization of Envy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12786808 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Eatough (0000-0003-2661-3844, Baruch College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 395-424 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Safundi (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1543-1304 • E-ISSN: 1753-3171 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17533171.2013.839260 |
| OpenAlex | W1993878768 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 45 |
This article examines the South African novelist Sarah Gertrude Millin’s writings on economics. Though Millin has most commonly been treated as a theorist of race and miscegenation, her novels and nonfiction writings demonstrate an equally strong interest in how global economic institutions affect South African life. Eatough proposes that Millin’s fascination with such diverse economic practices as currency speculation, actuarial accounting, and stock broking stems from the way in which these practices dramatize a seemingly insuperable tension between Anglo professionalism and South African nationalism. As the article shows, Millin’s efforts to overcome Anglo-Afrikaner rivalry and fashion a unified white nationalism entailed a radical rethinking of what global professional networks were in their innermost essence. Central to this nationalist project, Eatough argues, was Millin’s tendency to regard such networks less as rooted national institutions than as distant speculative devices capable of inflating the value of South African nationality. Over the course of the article, Eatough investigates how Millin uses this definition to finesse complaints by (primarily Afrikaner) nationalists against British control of the professions by suggesting that such articulations of envy drive speculative enterprise—and, thus, provide a means for transforming national abjection into national value
Currency · Economic nationalism · Economics · Immigration · Nationalism · Nationality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rivalry · Sociology · Speculation · Value (mathematics · African history and culture studies · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture
The general theory of employment, interest, and money
The Afrikaners
Scientific racism in modern South Africa
Geopolitics and the Anglophone Novel, 1890–2011
An Empire of Indifference
Before European Hegemony
ReOrient
Globalization and History
Specters of the Atlantic
What Is World Literature?
La Tierra Es Plana
The long twentieth century
The Great Divergence
Upward Mobility and the Common Good
Cruel Optimism
Christian-Nationalism and the Rise of the Afrikaner Broederbond, in South Africa, 1918–48
The End of Globalization
The Political Nature of a Ruling Class
A Commonwealth of Knowledge
Britain, South Africa and the sterling area
The Education of the South African Native
The Rise of Professional Society
Postcolonial theory and the crisis of European man
The South Africans
Race, Science, and the Legitimization of White Supremacy in South Africa, 1902-1940
Christian-Nationalism and the Rise of the Afrikaner Broederbond in South Africa, 1910-1948
Capital, state and white labour in South Africa
The Political Unconscious
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |