Archive for the ‘Africa’ Category
Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson (ed), Natural Experiments of History (Harvard University Press, 2010): Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can’t be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science concerned with the past. In addition, many manipulative […]
Filed under: Africa, Australia, Canada, Latin America, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
A snippet from John and Jean Comaroff’s — as always, gripping — opening essay of their edited collection, Law and Disorder in the Postcolony (Chicago 2006): …there has certainly been an explosion of law-oriented nongovernmental organizations in the postcolonial world: lawyers for human rights, both within and without frontiers; legal resourcecenters and aid clinics; voluntary […]
Filed under: Africa, law, Political developments, postcolonialism, Quote, Scholarship and insights | Closed
zunguzungu
It took me a long time to realize that the difference between settler colonialism and franchise/metropolitan/regular-old colonialism was the hinge for what I’m trying to do with the relationship between the United States and Kenya in my dissertation. In a very complicated way, of course; the problem with Kenya settlers is that they thought they […]
Filed under: Africa, postcolonialism, United States | Closed
The media frenzy over Eugene Terre’Blanche’s death has been a great source of interest over the past few weeks. It turned out to be remarkable for this blog, as I wrote a little piece on Mr. TB and the AWB over a month before his death. Sadly, no journalist (to my knowledge) thought it fit […]
Filed under: Africa, media, Political developments, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
out of what tree did i fall
(Note: I got this from an article about a year ago, which I have unfortunately lost, so can not attribute for the moment. I am happy to reference if anyone remembers)
Filed under: Africa | Closed
Jeanne M. Penvenne, Review Article: Valdemir Zamparoni. De escravo a cozinheiro: Colonialismo & racismo em Moçambique. Salvador: Editora da Universidade Federal da Bahia, 2007. Maps, illustrations, tables. 338 pp. no price listed (cloth), ISBN 978-85-232-0440-2. The book’s structure is essentially cross-chronological: four chapters, an introduction, a two-page conclusion, and a bibliography. Chapter 1 is the […]
Filed under: Africa, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
the colonizability of africa
Bartholomew, J. G. (John George), 1860-1920, Colonizability of Africa, Map from Johnson, A history of the colonization of Africa by alien races, 1899. Also held at the New York Picture Library. via yeah, victorians! my-ear-trumpet ahypertrophiedmemory
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Christopher Churchill, ‘Camus and the Theatre of Terror: Artaudian Dramaturgy and Settler Society in the Works of Albert Camus’, Modern Intellectual History 7 (2010), pp. 93-121. Abstract This essay examines Albert Camus’s considerable debt to Antonin Artaud. Camus was not only a dramatist, but he also employed dramaturgical techniques in his more famous fiction and […]
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Some highlights from the awesome blog zunguzungu, which among other things includes snippets of his research on Kenyan history, framed within a transnational perspective. On “Unsettled Labor”: Putting Africans to work — breaking and training them to use the tools of agriculture — is almost literally the same process as domesticating African oxen; note the […]
Filed under: Africa, Empire, Scholarship and insights, United States, Website | Closed
Gregory Mann, “What was the Indigénat? The ‘Empire of Law’ in French West Africa”, The Journal of African History (2009), 50:331-353 Introduction: What was the indigénat, that obscure core of the French colonial state? In approaching this deceptively simple question, this article will make three intertwined arguments. First, a study of the indigénat – the […]
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settler colonial studies blog 