The Subject as Migrant: Refiguring the Migrant Image in the Eastern Cape

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 t...

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Vydané v:Kronos Ročník 47; číslo 1; s. 1 - 25
Hlavní autori: Steele, Candice, Minkley, Gary
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: University of the Western Cape, Centre for Humanities Research and the History Department 2021
Predmet:
citizenship
Eastern Cape
gender
homestead
migrant image
migrant labour
mobilities
Pauline Ingle
social acts
subjectivities
temporalities
the figural
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Shrnutí: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.
ISSN:0259-0190
2309-9585
DOI:10.17159/2309-9585/2021/v47a8