Archive for the ‘Southern Africa’ Category
Gareth Austin, POVERTY AND DEVELOPMENT IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, c1450-c1900: REFLECTIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECONOMIC HISTORIOGRAPHY’, Short position paper for The State of Economic History in the World lunchtime session, EHES Conference, Geneva, 4 September 2009. From the beginning of continuous professional study on the subject, over half a century ago, the explicit or […]
Filed under: Africa, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
What’s wrong or right about skeleton-exhuming in the name of science? Alan G. Morris, ‘A bone to pick with politics’, The Star October 23, 2008 (from the inaugural lecture in the Faculty of Health Sciences delivered by Professor of Human Biology at the University of Cape Town): There is a myth among social scientists that because […]
Filed under: Political developments, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
News from UCT press about a forthcoming book by Mohamed Adhikari, on San-trekboer relationships along the Cape frontier. Promises to be a timely offering into a neglected area of Southern African – and settler colonial – historiography.
Filed under: Genocide, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
Dominic Griffiths and Maria L.C. Prozesky, ‘The Politics of Dwelling: Being White / Being South African’, Africa Today 56, 4 (2010) Abstract This paper explores the incongruence between white South Africans’ pre- and postapartheid experiences of home and identity, of which a wave of emigration is arguably a result. Among the commonest reasons given for […]
Filed under: Africa, postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
mulaudzi, shoeman and chirikure on interdisciplinary borders and the concept of the frontier
M. Mulaudzi, M. H. Schoeman and S. Chirikure, ‘Continuing Conversations at the Frontier’ South African Historical Journal 62, 2 (2010), pp. 219 – 228 Abstract Researchers involved or interested in the 500 Year Initiative (FYI) gathered at the University of Cape Town in June 2008 to explore how different disciplines engaged in historical studies may […]
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Shelona Klatzow, ‘Interaction between Hunter-Gatherers and Bantu-Speaking Farmers in the Eastern Free State: A Case Study from De Hoop Cave’, South African Historical Journal 62, 2 2010, pp. 229 – 251 Abstract De Hoop is a large cave, located on the western slopes of the Platberg mountain, in the eastern Free State. The excavated archaeological […]
Filed under: Africa, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
Zuma’s new policy. But is it a type of indirect rule?
Filed under: Political developments, Southern Africa | Closed
Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton (eds.), Terror and the Postcolonial: A Concise Companion (Wiley-Blackwell 2009) Table of Contents: Introduction: Terror and the Postcolonial (Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton, University of Oxford and University of Southampton). Part I: Theories of Colonial and Postcolonial Terror: 1. The Colony: Its Guilty Secret and Its Accursed Share (Achille Mbembe, […]
Filed under: Africa, Asia, Empire, Israel/Palestine, Political developments, postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
Hussein Al-Rimmawi, ‘Spatial Changes in Palestine: from Colonial Project to an Apartheid System’, African and Asian Studies 8 (2009) 375-412 This paper addresses the socio-spatial impact of the Zionists’ colonial project in Palestine, including the replacement of the indigenous Palestinian people by Jewish immigrants. At present, the Palestinians, displaced or living in the remaining part […]
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Eldred V. Masununguren and Simon Badza, ‘The Internationalization of the Zimbabwe Crisis Multiple Actors, Competing Interests’, Journal of Developing Societies (2010) This essay argues that key to the longevity and protractedness of the Zimbabwe crisis was the internationalization of a problem characterized by multiple definitions and multiple actors with multiple interests and strategies. To this […]
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