Christiaan Beyers, B.A. (Trent), M.A. (York), D.Phil. (Sussex)
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of International Development Studies
Trent University
1600 West Bank Drive
Peterborough, Ontario K9J 7B8
Canada
CC K3 office
(705) 748-1011 ext. 5219 • phone
Research Interests
Citizenship, rights and identity; Forced migration; Transitional justice; Memory and memorialization; Land struggles in South Africa; Migration in the Andes; Bakhtin.
Journal Articles
2020. “Government Through Inaction: The Venezuelan Migratory Crisis in Ecuador.” Journal of Latin American Studies, 52, 3 (Co-authored with Esteban Nicholls).
2017. “Rights struggles over ‘development’: Land, shelter and citizenship in urban South Africa”. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 38, 2 (pp. 234-252).
2017. ‘Preliminary Reflections on Irregular Migration and Assistance Policy in Ecuador’, Espacios Transnacionales: Revista Latinoamericano Europeo de Pensamiento y Acción Social, 7, 4 (pp. 86-97).
2016. ‘Reconciling Competing Claims to Justice in Urban South Africa: Cato Manor and District Six’, in Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary African Studies, eds. Carolyn Bassett and Marlea Clarke, 34, 2 (pp. 203-220).
2015. ‘After Restitution: Community, Litigation, and Governance inn South African Land Reform’. African Affairs, 114, 56. (pp. 432-454) (co-authored with Derick Fay)
2015. ‘Moral Subjectivity and Affective Deficit in the Transitional State: On Claiming Land in South Africa’. Social Analysis Special Issue: Affective States – Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions, eds. Mateusz Laszczkowski and Madeleine Reeves. 59, 4 (pp. 66-82)
2015. ‘Will and communality in Bakhtin, from a Nietzschean Perspective’. Studies in East European Thought, 67, 3-4 (pp. 145-164)
2013. ‘Does Urban Land Restitution Contribute to Transformation in South Africa? Development and Social Citizenship Struggle’. Development and Change, 44, 4 (pp. 965–989).
2012. ‘Land Restitution in Port Elizabeth: Anatomy of a relative success’ Journal of Southern African Studies, 38, 4 (pp. 827-845)
2008. ‘The Contentious Politics of Integrated Urban Development in District Six’. Social Dynamics, Vol 34, 1 (pp. 86-100)
2008. ‘The Cultural Politics of “Community” and Citizenship in the District Six Museum, Cape Town’. Anthropologica Special Issue: Citizenship, Politics and Locality: Anthropological Perspectives (ed. Catherine Neveu) Vol 50, 2 (pp. 359-373)
2007. ‘Land Restitution's “Rights-Communities”: The District Six Case’. Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol 33, 2 (pp. 267-286)
2007. ‘Mobilizing “community” for justice in District Six: Stakeholder politics early in the land restitution process’. South African Historical Journal, 58. (pp. 253-276)
Book Chapters
Forthcoming. ‘The community for which the land longs: Cape Town’s District Six Museum’, Critical Topography: Word and Image Album, eds. Jonathan Bordo and Blake Fitzpatrick. McGill-Queens University Press.
2020. “La migración como encuentro”, in Desencuentros entre Disciplinas y Mundos, eds. Leticia Briseño, Johannes Kniffki, and Christian Reutlinger. Berlin: Frank & Timme. (pp. 209-228)
2016. ‘Law and Political Conflict in South African Land Reform’, in Domains of Freedom: Justice, Citizenship and Social Change in South Africa, eds. Thembela Kepe, Bettina von Lieres and Melissa Levin, University of Cape Town Press. (co-authored with Derick Fay) (pp. 41-60)
2016. ‘En los márgenes del Estado: El caso de los refugiados colombianos en Ecuador’, in El Trabajo Social desde miradas transnacionales – Experiencias empíricas y conceptuales, eds. Johannes Kniffki / Christian Reutlinger. Berlin: Frank and Timme. (pp. 249-270)
2013. ‘The “book of us”: Will and community in South African land restitution’ Evidence and Testimony in Life Story Narratives, eds. Nanci Adler and Selma Leydesdorff. Transaction Publishers-Rutgers University (pp. 177-198)
2010. ‘Acrimonious Stakeholder Politics: Reconciliation and Redevelopment in District Six’. In Land, Memory, Reconstruction and Justice: Perspectives on Land Restitution in South Africa, eds. Cherryl Walker, Anna Bohlin, Ruth Hall, Thembela Kepe. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press (pp. 143-162)
2009. ‘Identity and Forced Displacement: Community and Colouredness in District Six’. In Burdened By Race: Coloured Identities in Southern Africa, ed. Mohamed Adhikari, University of Cape Town Press (pp.79-103)
2008. ‘The Will-to-Community: Between Loss and Reclamation in Cape Town’. In 'Restoring What Was Ours': The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution, eds. Deborah James and Derick Fay, Routledge Law and Society Series / Glasshouse books (pp. 141-162)
Book
2011. Let’s Face It: Writings and Artwork from PARC, Toronto: Mosaic Press. Co-edited with Hume Cronyn. Toronto: Mosaic Press. (250 pages)
Links
Link to the Department of International Development Studies, Trent University.
Courses