Courses & supervision

I write from where I stand. My scholarship proceeds from the conviction that careful description and close reading are political acts — that taking an image, a building, or a performance seriously is a way of taking seriously the lives entangled with it. I am suspicious of the view from nowhere. Auto-ethnography, for me, is not a departure from rigour but a way of naming the situated knowledge every scholar already brings. Whether the object is a photograph by Athi-Patra Ruga or a police station in central Johannesburg, the aim is the same: an account that is honest about its position, patient with its material, and willing to unsettle the stories we prefer to tell.