Researcher Profile- Linda Waldman

Linda Waldman

Knowledge, Technology and Society
Institute of Development Studies
Tel: 01273 678516
Email: l.waldman@ids.ac.uk

Biography

Linda Waldman is a social anthropologist with research experience in racial classification, ethnicity, identity, ritual and gender in South Africa. She obtained her Ph.D. at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, where her research focused on indigenous identity and nationalism amongst the Griqua of South Africa. She joined the Institute of Development Studies as a Fellow in 2004. As a member of the Knowledge, Technology and Society Team, her recent research activities include a study of asbestos environmental pollution focusing on the socio-cultural ramifications of asbestos disease in South Africa and the United Kingdom and the examination of environmental inclusions in government policy processes.

Projects

Project - Shaping asbestos policy: global connections, national contexts and local mobilisations – part of 'Local-Global Citizenship Engagements' Research Programme

Summary - This research examines mobilisation and policy processes surrounding asbestos issues in national contexts in order to elucidate how local meanings and practices engage with global processes and how global engagements are reflected back to the local level.

Latest Publications

Forthcoming: Waldman, L., (2006), ‘Klaar Gesnap as Kleurling: The Attempted Making and Remaking of the Griqua People’, African Studies

Waldman, L., (2005),   When Social Movements bypass the Poor: Asbestos Pollution, International Litigation and Griqua Cultural Identity, IDS Working Paper No. 246, Brighton: IDS

Waldman, L., (2004), ‘Griquatown Inkommers and Boorlings’, in N. Tazi (ed), Keywords: Gender. For a Different Kind of Globalization, New York: Other Books Press

Waldman, L., (2003), ‘Houses and the Ritual Construction of Gendered Homes’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 9 (4): 657 – 679.