Archive for the ‘Southern Africa’ Category
Suren Pillay, Cape Town Guest Blogger The World Cup had just ended, and there were stories in the newspapers, telling us that foreign nationals were going to be killed as soon as the event was over. These stories immediately mobilized many of us in civil society, and it even mobilized the state into action. The […]
Filed under: Africa, media, Political developments, Southern Africa | Closed
a heartfelt dedication
From the opening pages of C. J. Uys, In the Era of Shepstone: Being a Study of British Expansion in South Africa (1842-1877) (Lovedale: Lovedale Press, South Africa, 1933).
Filed under: Quote, Southern Africa | Closed
Settlers are made by conquest, not just by immigration. Settlers are kept settlers by a form of the state that makes a distinction – particularly juridical – between conquerers and conquered, settlers and natives, and makes it the basis of other distinctions that tend to buttress the conquerers and isolate the conquered, politically. However fictitious […]
Filed under: Africa, Quote, Southern Africa | Closed
ryan irwin on the place of south africa in transnational conceptualisations of the ‘colour line’
Ryan Irwin, ‘Mapping Race: Historicizing the History of the Color-Line’, History Compass 8, 9 (2010) pp. 984–999 Abstract This study examines scholarship about the global color-line. It unfolds in two sections. The first traces how understandings of race and racism were encoded within university environments in the mid-twentieth century. The second shows how this epistemology […]
Filed under: Southern Africa, United States | Closed
In one of the most genteel families in Cape Town an Irishman is kept, for no other apparent purpose but that of improving the stock of the slaves. The children of this man are the fairest and handsomest slave children I have seen in South Africa. British Anti-Slavery propaganda, cited by Donal P. McCracken, ‘A Minority […]
Filed under: Éire, Quote, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
Martin Chatfield Legassick, The Politics of a South African Frontier: The Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the Missionaries, 1780–1840 (Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2010). This book publishes Martin Legassick’s influential doctoral thesis about the pre-industrial South African frontier zone of Transorangia. The impressive formation of the Griqua states in the first half of the 19th century outside […]
Filed under: Africa, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
Ulf Johansson Dahrea, ‘There are no such things as universal human rights – on the predicament of indigenous peoples, for example’, International Journal of Human Rights 14, 5 2010 Abstract: There is a gap between the normative ideas of universal human rights and social practice. This discrepancy in the human rights field is analysed in […]
Filed under: Africa, Asia, Australia, Éire, Canada, Israel/Palestine, law, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
adrian guelke on the comparison between afrikaner nationalists and northern ireland unionists
Adrian Guelke, ‘THE FLEXIBILITY OF NORTHERN IRELAND UNIONISTS AND AFRIKANER NATIONALISTS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE’, Working Papers in British-Irish Studies No. 99, 2010 Abstract: A common feature of comparisons of Northern Ireland and South Africa prior to South Africa’s transition and the Northern Ireland peace process was the siege mentality of the dominant communities in the […]
Filed under: Éire, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
The Canberra Times, Thursday 9 July 1953, p. 6. via Trove Newspapers
Filed under: Australia, Empire, media, Southern Africa | Closed
Andrew Dawson and Matthew Lange, ‘Dividing and Ruling the World? A Statistical Test of the Effects of Colonialism on Postcolonial Civil Violence’, Social Forces 88, 2, 2009 abstract To test claims that postcolonial civil violence is a common legacy of colonialism, we create a dataset on the colonial heritage of 160 countries and explore whether […]
Filed under: Africa, Asia, Australia, Éire, Canada, Empire, Genocide, Hawaii, Israel/Palestine, Latin America, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
settler colonial studies blog 