Christmas Time' and the Struggles for the Household in the Countryside

Rethinking the Cultural Geography of Migrant Labour in South Africa

Bibliographic Data

ID4603607
AuthorsZolani Ngwane (Haverford College, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume29
Issue3
Pages681-699
Publication date2003-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Southern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-7070 • E-ISSN: 1465-3893
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0305707032000094974
OpenAlexW2036464454
LanguageEN
Citations received28

In this paper, I take advantage of a space of interdisciplinary research that has emerged at the intersection of human and social sciences since the advent of radical revisionist scholarship in South African Studies in the 1980s. Within this space, I argue for a rethinking of the geography of cultures of migrancy. By focusing attention on rural (rather than urban) contexts of the cultures of mobility that accrue with migrancy, I argue that we can look at migrant labour as a constellation of cultural arguments in much the same way that recent scholarship has analysed media such as radio, newspapers and schooling, all of which similarly connect the 'local' with the national and the global. In particular, I look at how a gendered culture of migrancy, reflected discursively, materially and performatively, orchestrates struggles over the household

Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Human geography · Media studies · Migrant workers · Newspaper · Political science · Rural area · Scholarship · Socioeconomics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Legal Issues in South Africa · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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