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Ruling Nature, Controlling People
Nature Conservation, Development and War in North-Eastern Namibia since the 1920s
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Volume 19
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Luregn Lenggenhager
Recent nature conservation initiatives in Southern Africa such as communal conservancies and peace parks are often embedded in narratives of economic development and ecological research. They are also increasingly marked by militarisation and violen…
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Fictioning Namibia as a space of desire
an excursion into the literary space of Namibia during colonialism, apartheid and the liberation struggle
Renzo Baas
Renzo Baas is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, where he is working on African-American and African speculative fictions as a response to exclusionary and alienating politics. He has conducted research on (post)colon…
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Digitalization and the field of African studies
Mirjam de Bruijn
Mirjam de Bruijn is Professor of Contemporary History and Anthropology of Africa, at Leiden University (The Netherlands). As an anthropologist she has done much interdisciplinary research on the interrelationship between agency, marginality, mobilit…
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Developmentalism, dependency, and the state
Industrial development and economic change in Namibia since 1900
Christopher Hope
Why does Namibia's economy look the way it does today? Was the reliance on raw materials for exports and on the service sector for employment an inevitability? And for what reasons has the manufacturing sector - the vehicle for economic development …
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Land is life, conservancy is life
the San and the Na Jaqna Conservancy, Tsumkwe District West, Namibia
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Volume 20
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Cameron Welch
Thesis (doctoral) - McGill University. Cameron Welch obtained his PhD from McGill University in Montreal. He is currently a policy analyst with the Lands and Resources Department at the Anishinabek Nation, an advocacy organization for 40 First Natio…
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Breweries, politics and identity
The history behind Namibia's beer
Tycho van der Hoog
Namibian beer is celebrated as an inextricable part of Namibian nationalism, both within domestic borders and across global markets. But for decades on end, the same brew was not available to the black population as a consequence of colonial politic…
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Voices from the Kavango
A study of the contract labour system in Namibia, 1925 - 1972
Kletus Likuwa
Voices from the Kavango explores the contribution that the life histories and the voices of the contract labourers make to our understanding of the contract labour system in Namibia. In particular it asks: is it possible to view the migration of the…
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Growing wild
The correspondence of a pioneering woman naturalist from the Cape
Mary Elizabeth Barber
Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818-1899), born in Britain, arrived in the Cape Colony in 1820 where she spent the rest of her life as a rolling stone, as she lived in and near Grahamstown, the diamond and gold fields, Pietermaritzburg, Malvern near Durban …
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Have your yellowcake and eat it
Men, relatedness and intimacy in Swakopmund
Jack Boulton
Have Your Yellowcake and Eat It is a story of men, monsters and uranium in Swakopmund, a small coastal city in the west of Namibia. Founded by German settlers in the late nineteenth century, Swakopmund remains a popular holiday destination for Namib…
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The black psychiatrist. Flying home
Texts, perspectives, homage
Lewis Nkosi
This rich volume is dedicated to the astounding South African writer and literary critic Lewis Nkosi (1936–2010). In this book, Nkosi’s celebrated one-act play “The Black Psychiatrist” is published together with its unpublished sequel “Flying Home,”…
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God`s feet or the mission`s pack donkey. Evangelists of Namibia
Hans-Martin Milk
The title of this book originates from the self-description of Namibian Evangelists in their own words. African evangelists of the Rhenish Mission Society (RMS) played a crucial but mostly overlooked role in shaping the spiritual and social networks…
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An ethnography of faith
Personal conceptions of religiosity in the Soutpansberg, South Africa, in the early 20th century
Caroline Jeannerat
Research into the history of Christian missions in the context of colonialism has focused primarily on missions as institutions and on the ways in which people were integrated into the economic, political and ideological spheres of imperial powers. …
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Sorry, I am what I am
The life and letters of South African pianist and opera coach Gordon Jephtas (1943 - 92)
Hilde Roos (ed.)
Gordon Jephtas (1943–92) was born into an impoverished, coloured, single-parent family in South Africa. He began piano lessons after being intrigued by the harmonium player at the local church. In his teens he worked as an accompanist with the amate…
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Postkoloniale Gegenbilder
Künstlerische Reflexionen des Erinnerns an den deutschen Kolonialismus in Namibia
Fabian Lehmann
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Digitalization and the field of African Studies
Mirjam de Bruijn
Urbanization in Africa also means rapid technological change. At the turn of the 21st century, mobile telephony appeared in urban Africa. Ten years later, it covered large parts of rural Africa and – thanks to the smartphone – became the main access…
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West Germany and Namibia`s path to independence, 1969 -1990
Foreign policy and rivalry with East Germany
Thorsten Kern
Namibia’s main liberation movement, the South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO), relied heavily on outside support for its armed struggle against South Africa’s occupation of what it called South West Africa. While East Germany’s solidarity …
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Breweries, politics and identity
The history behind Namibia's beer
Tycho van der Hoog
Namibian beer is celebrated as an inextricable part of Namibian nationalism, both within domestic borders and across global markets. But for decades on end, the same brew was not available to the black population as a consequence of colonial politic…
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Building trust, situating repair
An ecology of action in a South African Nature Reserve
James Merron
Nature conservation is often framed as an ecological problem in need of repair. With both material and discursive dimensions, repairing things involves repairing people's orientation to those things. As such, nature conservation can be understood as…
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Decolonizing African history
Toyin Falola
Decolonizing African history involves efforts toward ending European intellectual hegemony over Africa's political, economic, historical, and cultural ways, the reverse of its effects, and the pursuit of absolute liberation and self-determination fo…
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African history between Ghana and Switzerland
Essays honouring Paul Jenkins
E. Sasu Kwame Sewordor (ed.)
This collection of essays documents the formative decades of African history across two countries by following the career of the British historian-cum-archivist Paul Jenkins (born 1938 in Sutherland) from West Africa to Central Europe. It retraces h…
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“Beggars on our own land ...”
Tsumib v Government of the Republic of Namibia and its Implications for Ancestral Land Claims in Namibia
Willem Odendaal
In 1954, the Haillom people were evicted from Etosha by the South African-con-trolled South West African Administration. In 2015, the Haillom filed the case of Tsumib v Government of the Republic of Namibia in the High Court of Namibia. "Beggars on …
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