Anthea Garman
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
BA (Wits), BA Hons (PMB), MA (PMB)
Anthea teaches the Introduction to the study of the media course at first year and the JMS4 writing and editing course in the Grocott’s Mail newsroom. She completed her PhD at Wits on Antjie Krog as a public intellectual in 2009.
News
Anthea has had two chapters accepted for publication for the first ever book of critical essays in English on the work of journalist-author-poet Antjie Krog. The book is edited by Andries Visagie (Unisa) and Judith Lütge Coullie (UKZN). In “Antjie Krog and the accumulation of media meta-capital” Garman explores Krog's complex and multi-faceted relationship with the news media since she became a published poet at the age of 17. Arguing that over the years Krog has acquired “media meta-capital”, Garman says this has given her a unique voice and speaking platform in post-apartheid South Africa when few white voices, and especially Afrikaner ones, get a hearing. In “Antjie Krog the journalist: Running with the Jackals”, Garman investigates how Krog brought the unique features of poetry writing into her TRC journalism and how this both landed her in hot water with other journalists and resulted in great acclaim for her book Country of My Skull.
Latest Research
Book Projects
- The Public Life of Ideas co-authored by the researchers in the Constitution of Public Intellectual Life Research Project.
- Thesis work which developed a methodology for understanding public intellectual performances in post-colonial public spheres.
Journal Articles
- “When 140 years of small-town newspapering meets journalism education.” Rhodes Journalism Review 30: 58-60. 2010
- “Global resonance, local amplification: Antjie Krog on a world stage” in Social Dynamics 36(1): 187-200. 2010
Conference presentations
- Presented “South Africa’s ‘bifurcated’ public sphere: a danger to democracy and to media freedom” at the colloquium on Media, Democracy and Transformation since 1994: an Assessment, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 16-17 October 2010.
- Presented “Media power and journalistic autonomy:Using Bourdieu’s field theory to better understand questions of power and agency in journalism” at the World Journalism Education Congress, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 5-7 July 2010.
Research Projects
- 2010. “Troubling memories: a history of identities from India, South Africa and Argentina” with Dr Anil Persaud, postdoctoral researcher at the International Institute for Social History based in Delhi, Ms Radhika Borde, Asian Development Research Institute, based in Jharkand, India and Dr Mario Rufer, Autonomic University of Mexico. Funded by Sephis.
- 2011-2012. A baseline study of youth identity, the media and the public sphere in South Africa and Holland. Joint research project with Prof Jane Duncan, Prof Larry Strelitz, Prof Lynette Steenveld, Ms Priscilla Boshoff (all from Rhodes), Mr Wadim Schreiner (Media Tenor), Dr Tanja Bosch, Dr Adam Haupt and Dr Musa Ndlovu (of UCT), Prof Irene Costera Meijer and Nico Drok (Free University of Amsterdam). Funded by Sanpad.
