Archive for the ‘Southern Africa’ Category
Thomas A. Koelbe and Edward Li Puma, ‘Traditional Leaders and the Culture of Governance in South Africa’, Governance 24, 1 (2011). Abstract The global neoliberal economic and political order impregnated the emergence of democracy in South Africa. One of the hallmarks of this order is that the capacity of the state to transform society is […]
Filed under: Political developments, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
Nigel Worden, ‘After Race and Class: Recent Trends in the Historiography of Early Colonial Cape Society’, South African Historical Journal 62, 3 (2010): Abstract This article reviews the recent upsurge of writing on the history of the early colonial Cape Colony from the VOC period to the early nineteenth century. It responds to important questions […]
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David Johnson, ‘Historical and Literary Re-iterations of Dutch Settler Republicanism’, South African Historical Journal 62, 3 (2010): Abstract Historical and literary accounts of the Graaff-Reinet and Swellendam rebellions of 1795 – 1799 are analysed in relation to three consecutive myths of Afrikaner national identity. In terms of the British imperialist myth of the Afrikaner as […]
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Nicholas T. Luetzow, ‘Colonialism, Conflict, and the Religious Response’ (MSc Thesis: South Dakota State University, 2010) Abstract (Summary) Nearly every country has participated in colonization or has been threatened by colonization. Modeling the processes used by colonizers and the native reaction to colonization will further understanding of current international relationships and past conflicts. This study […]
Filed under: Asia, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
thomas mcclendon on the conflict between indirect rule and civilising colonialism in mid-19c natal
Thomas V. McClendon, White Chiefs, Black Lords: Shepstone & the Colonial State in Natal, South Africa, 1845-1878 (University of Rochester Press, 2010). White Chief, Black Lords explores the tensions and contradictions between the British colonial civilizing mission and the practice of indirect rule. While the colonial imperative was to transform colonized societies and bring them […]
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David Pimental, ‘Legal Pluralism and the Rule of Law: Can Indigenous Justice Survive?’, Harvard International Review (2010). Extract, in want of abstract: “Legal pluralism” describes the situation in which different legal systems co-exist in the same geographic area, and it is not unique to the Dakota Territory of the 1880s. We continue to see clashes […]
Filed under: Africa, law, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
Stefan Andreasson, ‘Confronting the settler legacy: Indigenisation and transformation in South Africa and Zimbabwe’, Political Geography 30 (2010) Abstract This article examines attempts to negotiate a perceived residual dominance of settler populations in South Africa and Zimbabwe by means of developmental and cultural policies deemed necessary to restore sovereignty to Africans. Indigenisation has become a […]
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J. P. Greene (ed.), Exclusionary Empire: English Liberty Overseas, 1600–1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Consisting of an introduction and ten chapters, Exclusionary Empire examines the transfer of English traditions of liberty and the rule of law overseas from 1600 to 1900. Each chapter is written by a noted specialist and focuses on a particular area […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, Empire, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
pin the racist tag on the pomo
One half of a debate in South Africa’s Mail and Guardian on white supremacy and understanding racist discourse: We are told that Cliff is not a “conscious racist”, in other words, that nothing Cliff could possibly say would persuade Mngxitama that his analysis is false. We are informed that what might appear (to someone less […]
Filed under: media, Southern Africa | Closed
Actually placing “settlers” and “colonialism” in the same analytical field required overcoming a number of conceptual blockages. It took decades. The nineteenth century – the century of the “settler revolution” (see Belich 2009) – did not think that they could be compounded. Indeed the settler revolution had cleaved the two apart: Marx, who engaged […]
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settler colonial studies blog 