Survival in the 'Dumping Grounds'

Laura Evans (PhD, University of Sheffield, 2011) is a Senior Lecturer in History at Sheffield Hallam University and Research Associate of the International Studies Group, University of the Free State. She teaches modern South African, colonial and postcolonial history and has published articles on various aspects of the history of apartheid and the bantustan scheme.

[...] 'Das mit viel Empathie für die Bewohnerinnen und Bewohner der Ciskei geschriebene Buch hat seine Stärke in der Empirie. Es zeigtdifferenziert deren Handlungsmöglichkeiten und -grenzen unter den vorgegebenen Verwaltungsstrukturen auf, so trägt es zur Sozialgeschichtedes früheren Homelands bei.' [...]Rita Schäfer in Dhau - Yearbook for Extra-European History 5/2020, pp. 235-240.[...] Survival in the ‘Dumping Grounds is a brilliant work of social history. Evans effortlessly provides a clear and concise account of the tragedy of apartheid in South Africa, expertly executes a nuanced historical analysis with insight into the imperial foundation in which apartheid anchored its segregationist policies, and meticulously presents the stories of Black South Africans who experienced relocation to the bantustans. It is well-researched and masterfully written. Therefore, this book would be ideal for both novice students and expert scholars of Africa. Moreover, it accomplishes the duality of capturing the complexities of segregationist policies while remaining comprehensible.Constance Pruitt, Howard University, in African Studies Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 1, 2022, pp. 75-77

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of Illustrations and TablesList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Rethinking Relocation in Apartheid South AfricaPart 1: Regimes of Relocation1Apartheid, the Bantustans and the End of Empire 1Peace, Population and Colonial Development, c.1920–19452The ‘late colonial’ Apartheid State3Cold War in Southern Africa: Villagisation and Counter-insurgency2Regimes of Relocation in the Ciskei 1The Cape as Apartheid Test Case2The Relocation Regime3Villagisation and Repression4Decolonisation, Repatriation and Resettlement5The Expansion of Sada and Ilinge6White Farmers and RelocationPart 2: Repertoires of Relocation3Dislocation and Disrupted Livelihoods: Removals, Evictions and Banishments 1The Coercive Relocation Regime2The Biopolitics of Neglect3Displacement and Marginal Livelihoods4Farm Evictions: Enclosure and Dispossession5Urban Removals: Dislocation and Deprivation6Political Banishment: Surveillance and Isolation7‘We were starving. And we survived’: Gender, Domesticity and Displacement4Farm Dwellers and Relocation: Gender, Generation and Agrarian Change 1Farm Labour and Agrarian Change2Gender, Generation and Changing Men3Changing Livelihoods and the Transformation of Aspirations4Migration, Male Breadwinners and Masculinity5Gender, Autonomy and Impoverishment: The Paradoxical Impacts of RelocationPart 3 Place, Space and Power5‘We Came from Different Places’: Displacement and Place-Making 1Forced Removals and ‘communities of memory’2The Emergence of Underground Networks in Sada and Ilinge3Churches, Spirituality and Sociability4Poverty, Survival and Reciprocity6Relocation and the State: Relations of Rule 1Territoriality and the Gendered Disciplinary Project of the BAD, c. 1963–712Ethnic Politics, Clientelism and Coercion under Ciskei, c.1971–80ConclusionBibliographyIndex