Person
Doctoral Student
- National Graduate School of History
- Department of History
Contact information
E-mail jagger.kirkbyhist.luse
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
I am a PhD Candidate in History since September 2017 with a master's degree in History from the University of Copenhagen in 2016.
My thesis is concerned with the application of so-called "petty" apartheid legislation in South Africa from 1948 until 1990. Through a history of emotions approach, I investigate what role emotions played in maintaining, naturalising and undermining the racial logics that the legislation reflected and sought to cultivate. I am interested in the relation between emotions, space and bodies and in how emotions can both define social communities and serve as markers of difference between individuals. I am inspired theoretically by anthropologist Monique Scheer's concept of emotional practices and cultural theorist Sara Ahmed's ideas about the politics of emotion.
My general research interests include modern South African history, race and racism, the history and theory of emotions, Othering, colonialism, the British Empire, postcolonial theory and more.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
I am a PhD fellow in History since September 2017 with a master's degree in History from the University of Copenhagen in 2016. My thesis investigates the emotional practices of South African apartheid legislation from 1948 to 1990. My research interests include modern South African history, race and racism, the history and theory of emotions, Othering, colonialism, the British Empire, postcolonial theory and more.
I am supervised by Wiebke Kolbe, Professor in History at the Department of History at Lund University and co-supervised by Gunnel Cederlöf, Professor in History at the Department of Cultural Sciences at Linnaeus University.
Articles (1)
Conference contributions (3)
- Kirkby, J. (2019). Happy Places, Unhappy Faces : Reserving Separate Amenities in Mid-Twentieth-Century Cape Province.
- Kirkby, J. (2019). The Emotional Labour of Loving Thy Neighbour : Miscegenation, Emotions and the Law in Early and High Apartheid-Era South Africa.
- Andersen Kirkby, J. (2018). Segregation and Sentiment : The Emotional Practices of Apartheid, 1948-1990.
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Doctoral Student
- National Graduate School of History
- Department of History
Contact information
E-mail jagger.kirkbyhist.luse
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30