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Haiom in the Etosha Region. A History of Colonial Settlement, Ethnicity and Nature Conservation
AvUte Dieckmann
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
852 kr
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In the Twilight of the Revolution
The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (South Africa) 1959-1994
AvKwandiwe Kondlo
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
712 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Negotiating the Freedom of Namibia
The Diplomatic Achievement of the Western Contact Group
AvHans-Joachim Vergau
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
192 kr
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Gender and Colonialism
A History of Kaoko in North-Western Namibia 1870s - 1950s
AvLorena Rizzo
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
728 kr
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Del 12 - Basel Namibia Studies Series
Naming the Land
San Identity and Community Conservation in Namibia's West Caprivi
AvJulie J. Taylor
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
712 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Bruchstücke. Forschungsreisen in Deutsch-Südwestafrika
AvHans Schinz
Häftad, Tyska, 2014
603 kr
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Erika Sutter: Seen with other eyes
Memories of a Swiss eye doctor in rural South Africa
AvGertrud Stiehle
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
658 kr
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Path Through Hard Grass
A Journalist's Memories of Exile and Apartheid
AvRuth Weiss
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
622 kr
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National Culture in Post-Apartheid Namibia. State-sponsored Cultural Festivals and their Histories
AvMichael Akuupa
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
499 kr
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Tvedten: As Long as They Don't Bury Me Here
Social Relations of Poverty in a Namibian Shantytown
AvInge Tvedten
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2011
850 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
An increasing number of poor Southern Africans live in poverty-stricken urban slums or shantytowns. Focusing on four shantytowns in the northern Namibian town of Oshakati, this book analyses the coping strategies of the poorest sections of such populations. The study is based on fieldwork conducted intermittently during a period of ten years. It combines theories of political, economic and cultural structuration, and of the material and cultural basis for social relations of inclusion and exclusion as practise. The poorest shanty dwellers are marginalised or excluded from vital urban and rural relationships and forced into social relations of poverty amongst themselves. Having experienced long-term processes of impoverishment, the very poorest and most destitute in the shantytowns tend to give up improving their lives and act in ways that further undermine their position.
Goldblatt: Building Bridges
Namibian Nationalists Clemens Kapuuo, Hosea Kutako, Brendan Simbwaye, Samuel Witbooi
AvIsrael Goldblatt
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2010
825 kr
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Windhoek in the early 1960s: the 34-year-old politician Clemens Kapuuo knocks at the door of the senior advocate Israel Goldblatt to solicit advice regarding the myriad of difficulties encountered by Africans daily under the apartheid regime. An unusual relationship and friendship develops, one that transcends the racial divide in this South African-governed Territory and will last for nearly 10 years. Meeting in Goldblatt''s chambers, at his home and in the Old Location, other participants in the consultations included the veteran politician Chief Hosea Kutako and a group of younger nationalists, among them Rev. Bartholomews Karuaera and Levy Nganjone. Through Kapuuo, Goldblatt also met Kaptein Samuel Witbooi and counselled the long-term prisoner from Caprivi, Brendan Simbwaye. Israel Goldblatt''s notes on these meetings were discovered after his death and form the core of this book. They are complemented by additional biographical information about his interlocutors, and annotations that place his notes in their historical and political context. Illustrated with many photographs, this publication pays tribute to Israel Goldblatt and the Namibian nationalists who attempted to build bridges where apartheid entrenched racism and suspicion.
Kangumu: Contesting Caprivi
A History of Colonial Isolation and Regional Nationalism in Namibia
AvBennett Kangumu
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2011
850 kr
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Caprivi, the remote and narrow Namibian strip of land encapsulated by neighbouring Angola, Zambia and Botswana, has a contested colonial and postcolonial history. Bennett Kangumu traces the politics of its people in this complex borderlands since the late 19th century. Neglected by German and South African colonial administrations, its inhabitants were often pushed towards neighbouring territories though not being an integral part of them. At the same time, South African apartheid and homeland politics emphasised the ethnization of local identities. Becoming a strategic location in the ensuing liberation wars of the late 20th century, its history is often one of conquest and resistance, plunder, betrayal and rivalry. Kangumu shows how the inhabitants of Caprivi responded in various ways, notably in the form of regional nationalism when the Caprivi African National Union (CANU) was formed in the early 1960s. The Union�s merger with the dominant Namibian liberation movement, SWAPO, was a claim to end seperation and isolation, which, however, flarred up again in post-colonial Namibia.
Stiehle: Erika Sutter: Seen with Other Eyes
Memories of a Swiss Eye Doctor in Rural South Africa
AvGertrud Stiehle
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2014
746 kr
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The Swiss ophthalmologist Erika Sutter was born in Basel in 1917. She spent 32 years working in Elim Hospital, founded by the Swiss Mission in an impoverished rural area in North-Eastern South Africa. Together with her African colleague and friend, Selina Maphorogo, she founded the Care Groups, village self-help groups working for better health in their communities. The movement is still active after more than 30 years, and now has around 2,000 members, mostly women, in over 200 villages. Erika Sutter has received numerous international honours and awards for her pioneering work, including the award �Woman of the Year� in 1984 from the South African newspaper �The Star�, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel. For the creation of this biography, Erika Sutter spent many hours with the author, her friend Gertrud Stiehle, telling the story of her long life � vividly, with a sharp eye for social issues, a hint of self-irony, and dry wit. Her account does not ignore events in the wider world. She experienced life on the Swiss-German border during the Second World War, and her years of working in South Africa were those when the apartheid policies of the South African Government were becoming more and more repressive, affecting many aspects of life in the country.
Schinz: Bruchstucke
Forschungsreisen in Deutsch-S�dwestafrika
AvHans Schinz
E-bok
PDF, Tyska, 2014
714 kr
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As one of the foremost scientists of the time, the Zurich-born botanist Hans Schinz travelled throughout the colony of German South-West Africa, now known as Namibia, from 1884 to 1886. During his expeditions, which covered the length and breadth of the country, he was an enthusiastic collector of many botanical, ethnographical, zoological and mineral samples. He described his experiences in vivid detail in letters to his family and colleagues in Zurich and Berlin. The extensive collections, with which he returned to Switzerland, and his subsequent research fostered his rapid career progression: in 1893 Hans Schinz became the director of the Zurich Botanical Gardens and in 1895 the Professor of Systematic Botany at the University of Zurich.
Rizzo: Gender and Colonialism
A History of Kaoko in north-western Namibia 1870s�1950s
AvLorena Rizzo
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2012
823 kr
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This book deals with colonialism on a Namibian periphery and considers both the German colonial period as well as South African rule in the country. The marginality of the Kaoko region within this colonial topography of power is analysed as a dynamic and fractured feature where power relations and constellations remained highly contested. The dynamics of gender within a regional society constituted of men and women, African and European, receive special attention within frameworks engaging with colonial photography, oral histories and gendered visions.
Akawa: The Gender Politics of the Namibian Libe
AvMartha Akawa
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2014
724 kr
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Women�s contributions against apartheid under the auspices of the Namibian liberation movement SWAPO and their personal experiences in exile take center stage in this study. Male and female leadership structures in exile are analysed whilst the sexual politics in the refugee camps and the public imagery of female representation in SWAPO�s nationalism receive special attention. The party�s public pronouncements of women empowerment and gender equality are compared to the actual implementations of gender politics during and after the liberation struggle.
Kondlo: In the Twilight of the Revolution
The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (South Africa) 1959�1994
AvKwandiwe Kondlo
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2009
850 kr
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This book is a long-overdue history of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) and the rise of the Africanist ideology in South Africa. From its formation in 1959, the PAC underground inside South Africa and in exile shaped the dynamics of the anti-apartheid movement and liberation struggle by framing alternative ideologies. Kwandiwe Kondlo analyses the radical traditions, the structural contradictions and the internal conflicts of this rival to the African National Congress (ANC), South Africa�s dominant liberation organisation. The contributions of some of the PAC leaders, including Robert Sobukhwe, Potlake Kitchener Leballo, Vusumzi Make and John Nyathi Pokela, are reconstructed as are the PAC�s experiences in exile and the strategies pursued by its military wing, the Azanian People�s Liberation Party (APLA). The role of the PAC in the power-sharing negotiations leading to the historic 1994 elections in South Africa round off the narrative. The PAC story is a highly controversial one, as the perspectives are wide and various. This book seeks to present a balanced picture which includes diverse views in a comprehensive narrative.
Muller: The Inevitable Pipeline into Exile
Botswana�s Role in the Namibian Liberation Struggle
AvAlexander M,ller
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2012
823 kr
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The role played by Botswana in various southern African liberation struggles has previously been neglected in historical studies. The country�s politics of support and mobilisation early on in Namibia�s struggle for independence from South Africa proved crucial for the formative period of both nation states. Botswana�s difficult and contradictory position as neighbour of the South African apartheid state and colonial power in Namibia are carefully dealt with, as are the challenges faced by the fragile Namibian refugee networks and liberation movements, SWANU and SWAPO, operating in Botswana for decades. �The Inevitable Pipeline into Exile� deals with a crucial phase of nationalism and transnational politics during the period of southern African decolonisation at the height of South Africa�s diplomatic and military aggression throughout the region.
Taylor: Naming the Land
San Identity and Community Conservation in Namibia�s West Caprivi
AvJ. Taylor
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2012
850 kr
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This book encompasses a history of identity-building amongst Khwe San people, and of contestations for authority over land and natural resources in Namibia�s West Caprivi. The politics of authority in this contested borderland area were significantly shaped by state and NGO interventions into local institutions and land use between the late 1930s and 2006. Julie J. Taylor pays close attention to the role of NGOs in these processes. She shows that, in their relationship with West Caprivi�s residents, NGOs unintentionally contributed towards the hardening and politicising of ethnic difference, including through the implementation of land mapping projects. At the same time, in their relationship with the state, NGOs often worked to �depoliticise� struggles over authority, thus inadvertently reinforcing the state�s authority in the area.
Weiss: A Path Through Hard Grass
A Journalist�s Memories of Exile and Apartheid
AvRuth Weiss
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2014
714 kr
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A child of a Jewish family fleeing Nazi-Germany and settling in apartheid South Africa in the 1930s, Ruth Weiss� journalistic career starts in Johannesburg of the 1950s. In 1968 banned from her home country, and then also from Rhodesia for her critical investigative journalism, she starts reporting from Lusaka, London and Cologne on virtually all issues which affect the newly independent African countries. Peasants and national leaders in southern Africa � Ruth Weiss met them all, travelling through Africa at a time when it was neither usual for a woman to do so, nor to report for economic media as she did. Her writing gained her the friendship of diverse and interesting people. In this book she offers us glimpses into some of her many long-nurtured friendships, with Kenneth Kaunda or Nadine Gordimer and many others. Her life-long quest for tolerance and understanding of different cultures shines through the many personalized stories which her astute eye and pen reveals in this book. As she put it, one never sheds the cultural vest donned at birth, but this should never stop one learning about and accepting other cultures.
Legassick: The Politics of a South African Frontie
The Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the Missionaries, 1780�1840
AvChatfield Legassick
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2010
944 kr
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This book publishes Martin Legassick''s influential doctoral thesis on the preindustrial South African frontier zone of Transorangia. The impressive formation of the Griqua states in the first half of the nineteenth century outside the borders of the Cape Colony and their relations with Sotho-Tswana polities, frontiersmen, missionaries and the British administration of the Cape take centre stage in the analysis. The Griqua, of mixed settler and indigenous descent, secured hegemony in a frontier of complex partnerships and power struggles. The author''s subsequent critique of the "frontier tradition" in South African historiography drew on the insights he had gained in writing this dissertation. It served to initiate the debate about the importance of the precolonial frontier situation in South Africa for the establishment of ideas of race, the development of racial prejudice and, implicitly, the creation of segregationist and apartheid systems. Today, the constructed histories of "Griqua" and other categories of indigeneity have re emerged in South Africa as influential tools of political mobilisation and claims on resources.
Dobler: Traders and Trade in Colonial Ovamboland
Elite Formation and the Politics of Consumption under Indirect Rule and
AvGregor Dobler
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2014
693 kr
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Taking the history of trade and of traders as its subject matter, this book offers the first economic history of northern Namibia during the twentieth century. It traces Namibia�s way from a rural, largely self-relying society into a globalised economy of consumption. This transformation built on colonial economic activities, but it was crucially shaped by local traders, a new social elite emerging during the 1950s and 1960s. Becoming a trader was one of the few possibilities for black Namibians to gain monetary income at home. It was a pathway out of migrant labour, to new status in the local society and often to prosperity. Politically, most traders occupied a middle ground: content of their own social position, but intent on political emancipation from colonial rule. Economically, their energy and business acumen transformed northern Namibia into an increasingly urban consumer society. The development path they chose, however, depended too much on the colonial reserve economy to remain sustainable after 1990. Their legacy still shapes spatial and social structures in northern Namibia, but most traders� businesses have today closed down. By telling the history of the rise and decline of traders and trade in northern Namibia, this book is thus also a reflection on the conundrums of economic development under conditions of structural inequality.
Nghidinwa: Women Journalists in Namibia's Liberati
AvMboono Nghidinwa
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2008
756 kr
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This study investigates the experiences of women journalists during the last phase of Namibia''s liberation struggle against South African rule. Black or white, women journalists in Namibia made significant contribu-tions to the liberation cause -including the founding of a high-profiled newspaper -whilst others worked for media sympathetic to the apart-heid government. Based on interviews and deploying feminist media theory, Maria Mboono Nghidinwa pays close attention to the gendered power relationships in the newsrooms of newspapers and radio stations at the time. She looks at the intense political intimidations which tar-geted women and, in particular, the constraints experienced by black women journalists.
Transformation from Below?
White Suburbia in the Transformation of Apartheid South Africa to Democracy
AvUrsula Scheidegger
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
478 kr
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Explorations in African History
Reading Patrick Harries
AvVeit Arlt,Stephanie Bishopm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
496 kr
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Akuupa: National Culture in Post-Apartheid Namib
State-sponsored Cultural Festivals and their Histories
AvMichael Akuupa
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2015
566 kr
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�National Culture in Post-Apartheid Namibia� addresses the challenges of creating a �national� culture in the context of a historical legacy that has emphasised ethnic diversity. The state-sponsored Annual National Culture Festival (ANCF) focuses on the Kavango region in north-eastern Namibia. Akuupa critically examines the notion of Kavango-ness as a colonial construct and its subsequent reconstitution and appropriation. He analyses the way in which cultural representations are produced by local people in the postcolonial African context of nation building and national reconciliation by bringing visions of cosmopolitanism and modernity into critical dialogue with the colonial past. Competing cultural festivals are used as celebratory social spaces in which performers and local people participate whilst negotiating a sense of national belonging in an ongoing tension between the need to celebrate diversity, yet strive for unity. This is the first study to discuss the comprehensive role played by those cultural festivals, which were organised in the ethnic homelands during the time Namibia fell under South African control.
Arlt: Explorations in African History: Reading
Reading Patrick Harries
AvStephanie Bishop,Veit Arlt
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2015
551 kr
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This collection of essays documents the growth of African history as a discipline at the University of Basel since 2001. It thus pays tribute to fourteen years of research and teaching by Patrick Harries at the Department of History and the Centre for African Studies Basel. The Festschrift covers a broad range of topics from mine labour to missionary endeavour and the production of knowledge, reflecting some of his core research interests. The contributions engage with Patrick Harries� oeuvre with reference to the authors� own scholarship or vice-versa. Some directly address his publications while others take his teaching, correspondence, remarks or intellectual life more broadly as a point of reference. They all pay tribute to a brilliant and inspiring scholar, a great teacher and a kind person.
Scheidegger: Transformation from Below White Subu
AvUrsula Scheidegger
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2015
553 kr
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South Africa is an example of a relatively successful political transition. Nevertheless, the first democratic elections in 1994 did not change the systemic and structural inequalities, the socioeconomic legacies of discrimination or the alienation of the different population groups. At the centre of this study is the transformation potential of two formerly white neighbourhoods in Johannesburg � Norwood and Orange Grove. Both neighbourhoods have experienced considerable demographic changes and the various population groups differ in terms of their expectations and their willingness to adjust to the changes provoked by the transition. At the local level, patterns of discrimination and oppression continue. Spaces, opportunities and leverage of social networks engaged in the community are influenced by the resources people are able to access. Moreover, cooperation is contested in a context of pervasive inequality because there is no incentive for privileged groups to change arrangements that benefit them. In this context of conflicting interests and unequal access to power and resources, decentralisation and the promotion of participatory structures in local communities are a problem and the reliance on local networks as agents of development is questionable.
Geschichte des Tourismus in Namibia
Eine heterotopische Topologie der Technik
AvLukas Breitwieser
Häftad, Tyska, 2016
625 kr
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Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa
AvMaano Ramutsindela,Giorgio Miescherm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
620 kr
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Basler Afrika Bibliographien – förlag

Visar alla produkter från förlaget Basler Afrika Bibliographien. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.

97 produkter

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97 produkter

Haiom in the Etosha Region. A History of Colonial Settlement, Ethnicity and Nature Conservation
AvUte Dieckmann
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
852 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In the Twilight of the Revolution
The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (South Africa) 1959-1994
AvKwandiwe Kondlo
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
712 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Negotiating the Freedom of Namibia
The Diplomatic Achievement of the Western Contact Group
AvHans-Joachim Vergau
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
192 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Gender and Colonialism
A History of Kaoko in North-Western Namibia 1870s - 1950s
AvLorena Rizzo
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
728 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Del 12 - Basel Namibia Studies Series
Naming the Land
San Identity and Community Conservation in Namibia's West Caprivi
AvJulie J. Taylor
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
712 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Bruchstücke. Forschungsreisen in Deutsch-Südwestafrika
AvHans Schinz
Häftad, Tyska, 2014
603 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Erika Sutter: Seen with other eyes
Memories of a Swiss eye doctor in rural South Africa
AvGertrud Stiehle
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
658 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Path Through Hard Grass
A Journalist's Memories of Exile and Apartheid
AvRuth Weiss
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
622 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
National Culture in Post-Apartheid Namibia. State-sponsored Cultural Festivals and their Histories
AvMichael Akuupa
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
499 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Tvedten: As Long as They Don't Bury Me Here
Social Relations of Poverty in a Namibian Shantytown
AvInge Tvedten
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2011
850 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
An increasing number of poor Southern Africans live in poverty-stricken urban slums or shantytowns. Focusing on four shantytowns in the northern Namibian town of Oshakati, this book analyses the coping strategies of the poorest sections of such populations. The study is based on fieldwork conducted intermittently during a period of ten years. It combines theories of political, economic and cultural structuration, and of the material and cultural basis for social relations of inclusion and exclusion as practise. The poorest shanty dwellers are marginalised or excluded from vital urban and rural relationships and forced into social relations of poverty amongst themselves. Having experienced long-term processes of impoverishment, the very poorest and most destitute in the shantytowns tend to give up improving their lives and act in ways that further undermine their position.
Goldblatt: Building Bridges
Namibian Nationalists Clemens Kapuuo, Hosea Kutako, Brendan Simbwaye, Samuel Witbooi
AvIsrael Goldblatt
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2010
825 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Windhoek in the early 1960s: the 34-year-old politician Clemens Kapuuo knocks at the door of the senior advocate Israel Goldblatt to solicit advice regarding the myriad of difficulties encountered by Africans daily under the apartheid regime. An unusual relationship and friendship develops, one that transcends the racial divide in this South African-governed Territory and will last for nearly 10 years. Meeting in Goldblatt''s chambers, at his home and in the Old Location, other participants in the consultations included the veteran politician Chief Hosea Kutako and a group of younger nationalists, among them Rev. Bartholomews Karuaera and Levy Nganjone. Through Kapuuo, Goldblatt also met Kaptein Samuel Witbooi and counselled the long-term prisoner from Caprivi, Brendan Simbwaye. Israel Goldblatt''s notes on these meetings were discovered after his death and form the core of this book. They are complemented by additional biographical information about his interlocutors, and annotations that place his notes in their historical and political context. Illustrated with many photographs, this publication pays tribute to Israel Goldblatt and the Namibian nationalists who attempted to build bridges where apartheid entrenched racism and suspicion.
Kangumu: Contesting Caprivi
A History of Colonial Isolation and Regional Nationalism in Namibia
AvBennett Kangumu
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2011
850 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Caprivi, the remote and narrow Namibian strip of land encapsulated by neighbouring Angola, Zambia and Botswana, has a contested colonial and postcolonial history. Bennett Kangumu traces the politics of its people in this complex borderlands since the late 19th century. Neglected by German and South African colonial administrations, its inhabitants were often pushed towards neighbouring territories though not being an integral part of them. At the same time, South African apartheid and homeland politics emphasised the ethnization of local identities. Becoming a strategic location in the ensuing liberation wars of the late 20th century, its history is often one of conquest and resistance, plunder, betrayal and rivalry. Kangumu shows how the inhabitants of Caprivi responded in various ways, notably in the form of regional nationalism when the Caprivi African National Union (CANU) was formed in the early 1960s. The Union�s merger with the dominant Namibian liberation movement, SWAPO, was a claim to end seperation and isolation, which, however, flarred up again in post-colonial Namibia.
Stiehle: Erika Sutter: Seen with Other Eyes
Memories of a Swiss Eye Doctor in Rural South Africa
AvGertrud Stiehle
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2014
746 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
The Swiss ophthalmologist Erika Sutter was born in Basel in 1917. She spent 32 years working in Elim Hospital, founded by the Swiss Mission in an impoverished rural area in North-Eastern South Africa. Together with her African colleague and friend, Selina Maphorogo, she founded the Care Groups, village self-help groups working for better health in their communities. The movement is still active after more than 30 years, and now has around 2,000 members, mostly women, in over 200 villages. Erika Sutter has received numerous international honours and awards for her pioneering work, including the award �Woman of the Year� in 1984 from the South African newspaper �The Star�, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel. For the creation of this biography, Erika Sutter spent many hours with the author, her friend Gertrud Stiehle, telling the story of her long life � vividly, with a sharp eye for social issues, a hint of self-irony, and dry wit. Her account does not ignore events in the wider world. She experienced life on the Swiss-German border during the Second World War, and her years of working in South Africa were those when the apartheid policies of the South African Government were becoming more and more repressive, affecting many aspects of life in the country.
Schinz: Bruchstucke
Forschungsreisen in Deutsch-S�dwestafrika
AvHans Schinz
E-bok
PDF, Tyska, 2014
714 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
As one of the foremost scientists of the time, the Zurich-born botanist Hans Schinz travelled throughout the colony of German South-West Africa, now known as Namibia, from 1884 to 1886. During his expeditions, which covered the length and breadth of the country, he was an enthusiastic collector of many botanical, ethnographical, zoological and mineral samples. He described his experiences in vivid detail in letters to his family and colleagues in Zurich and Berlin. The extensive collections, with which he returned to Switzerland, and his subsequent research fostered his rapid career progression: in 1893 Hans Schinz became the director of the Zurich Botanical Gardens and in 1895 the Professor of Systematic Botany at the University of Zurich.
Rizzo: Gender and Colonialism
A History of Kaoko in north-western Namibia 1870s�1950s
AvLorena Rizzo
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2012
823 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
This book deals with colonialism on a Namibian periphery and considers both the German colonial period as well as South African rule in the country. The marginality of the Kaoko region within this colonial topography of power is analysed as a dynamic and fractured feature where power relations and constellations remained highly contested. The dynamics of gender within a regional society constituted of men and women, African and European, receive special attention within frameworks engaging with colonial photography, oral histories and gendered visions.
Akawa: The Gender Politics of the Namibian Libe
AvMartha Akawa
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2014
724 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Women�s contributions against apartheid under the auspices of the Namibian liberation movement SWAPO and their personal experiences in exile take center stage in this study. Male and female leadership structures in exile are analysed whilst the sexual politics in the refugee camps and the public imagery of female representation in SWAPO�s nationalism receive special attention. The party�s public pronouncements of women empowerment and gender equality are compared to the actual implementations of gender politics during and after the liberation struggle.
Kondlo: In the Twilight of the Revolution
The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (South Africa) 1959�1994
AvKwandiwe Kondlo
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2009
850 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
This book is a long-overdue history of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) and the rise of the Africanist ideology in South Africa. From its formation in 1959, the PAC underground inside South Africa and in exile shaped the dynamics of the anti-apartheid movement and liberation struggle by framing alternative ideologies. Kwandiwe Kondlo analyses the radical traditions, the structural contradictions and the internal conflicts of this rival to the African National Congress (ANC), South Africa�s dominant liberation organisation. The contributions of some of the PAC leaders, including Robert Sobukhwe, Potlake Kitchener Leballo, Vusumzi Make and John Nyathi Pokela, are reconstructed as are the PAC�s experiences in exile and the strategies pursued by its military wing, the Azanian People�s Liberation Party (APLA). The role of the PAC in the power-sharing negotiations leading to the historic 1994 elections in South Africa round off the narrative. The PAC story is a highly controversial one, as the perspectives are wide and various. This book seeks to present a balanced picture which includes diverse views in a comprehensive narrative.
Muller: The Inevitable Pipeline into Exile
Botswana�s Role in the Namibian Liberation Struggle
AvAlexander M,ller
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2012
823 kr
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The role played by Botswana in various southern African liberation struggles has previously been neglected in historical studies. The country�s politics of support and mobilisation early on in Namibia�s struggle for independence from South Africa proved crucial for the formative period of both nation states. Botswana�s difficult and contradictory position as neighbour of the South African apartheid state and colonial power in Namibia are carefully dealt with, as are the challenges faced by the fragile Namibian refugee networks and liberation movements, SWANU and SWAPO, operating in Botswana for decades. �The Inevitable Pipeline into Exile� deals with a crucial phase of nationalism and transnational politics during the period of southern African decolonisation at the height of South Africa�s diplomatic and military aggression throughout the region.
Taylor: Naming the Land
San Identity and Community Conservation in Namibia�s West Caprivi
AvJ. Taylor
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2012
850 kr
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This book encompasses a history of identity-building amongst Khwe San people, and of contestations for authority over land and natural resources in Namibia�s West Caprivi. The politics of authority in this contested borderland area were significantly shaped by state and NGO interventions into local institutions and land use between the late 1930s and 2006. Julie J. Taylor pays close attention to the role of NGOs in these processes. She shows that, in their relationship with West Caprivi�s residents, NGOs unintentionally contributed towards the hardening and politicising of ethnic difference, including through the implementation of land mapping projects. At the same time, in their relationship with the state, NGOs often worked to �depoliticise� struggles over authority, thus inadvertently reinforcing the state�s authority in the area.
Weiss: A Path Through Hard Grass
A Journalist�s Memories of Exile and Apartheid
AvRuth Weiss
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2014
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A child of a Jewish family fleeing Nazi-Germany and settling in apartheid South Africa in the 1930s, Ruth Weiss� journalistic career starts in Johannesburg of the 1950s. In 1968 banned from her home country, and then also from Rhodesia for her critical investigative journalism, she starts reporting from Lusaka, London and Cologne on virtually all issues which affect the newly independent African countries. Peasants and national leaders in southern Africa � Ruth Weiss met them all, travelling through Africa at a time when it was neither usual for a woman to do so, nor to report for economic media as she did. Her writing gained her the friendship of diverse and interesting people. In this book she offers us glimpses into some of her many long-nurtured friendships, with Kenneth Kaunda or Nadine Gordimer and many others. Her life-long quest for tolerance and understanding of different cultures shines through the many personalized stories which her astute eye and pen reveals in this book. As she put it, one never sheds the cultural vest donned at birth, but this should never stop one learning about and accepting other cultures.
Legassick: The Politics of a South African Frontie
The Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the Missionaries, 1780�1840
AvChatfield Legassick
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2010
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This book publishes Martin Legassick''s influential doctoral thesis on the preindustrial South African frontier zone of Transorangia. The impressive formation of the Griqua states in the first half of the nineteenth century outside the borders of the Cape Colony and their relations with Sotho-Tswana polities, frontiersmen, missionaries and the British administration of the Cape take centre stage in the analysis. The Griqua, of mixed settler and indigenous descent, secured hegemony in a frontier of complex partnerships and power struggles. The author''s subsequent critique of the "frontier tradition" in South African historiography drew on the insights he had gained in writing this dissertation. It served to initiate the debate about the importance of the precolonial frontier situation in South Africa for the establishment of ideas of race, the development of racial prejudice and, implicitly, the creation of segregationist and apartheid systems. Today, the constructed histories of "Griqua" and other categories of indigeneity have re emerged in South Africa as influential tools of political mobilisation and claims on resources.
Dobler: Traders and Trade in Colonial Ovamboland
Elite Formation and the Politics of Consumption under Indirect Rule and
AvGregor Dobler
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2014
693 kr
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Taking the history of trade and of traders as its subject matter, this book offers the first economic history of northern Namibia during the twentieth century. It traces Namibia�s way from a rural, largely self-relying society into a globalised economy of consumption. This transformation built on colonial economic activities, but it was crucially shaped by local traders, a new social elite emerging during the 1950s and 1960s. Becoming a trader was one of the few possibilities for black Namibians to gain monetary income at home. It was a pathway out of migrant labour, to new status in the local society and often to prosperity. Politically, most traders occupied a middle ground: content of their own social position, but intent on political emancipation from colonial rule. Economically, their energy and business acumen transformed northern Namibia into an increasingly urban consumer society. The development path they chose, however, depended too much on the colonial reserve economy to remain sustainable after 1990. Their legacy still shapes spatial and social structures in northern Namibia, but most traders� businesses have today closed down. By telling the history of the rise and decline of traders and trade in northern Namibia, this book is thus also a reflection on the conundrums of economic development under conditions of structural inequality.
Nghidinwa: Women Journalists in Namibia's Liberati
AvMboono Nghidinwa
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2008
756 kr
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This study investigates the experiences of women journalists during the last phase of Namibia''s liberation struggle against South African rule. Black or white, women journalists in Namibia made significant contribu-tions to the liberation cause -including the founding of a high-profiled newspaper -whilst others worked for media sympathetic to the apart-heid government. Based on interviews and deploying feminist media theory, Maria Mboono Nghidinwa pays close attention to the gendered power relationships in the newsrooms of newspapers and radio stations at the time. She looks at the intense political intimidations which tar-geted women and, in particular, the constraints experienced by black women journalists.
Transformation from Below?
White Suburbia in the Transformation of Apartheid South Africa to Democracy
AvUrsula Scheidegger
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
478 kr
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Explorations in African History
Reading Patrick Harries
AvVeit Arlt,Stephanie Bishopm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
496 kr
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Akuupa: National Culture in Post-Apartheid Namib
State-sponsored Cultural Festivals and their Histories
AvMichael Akuupa
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2015
566 kr
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�National Culture in Post-Apartheid Namibia� addresses the challenges of creating a �national� culture in the context of a historical legacy that has emphasised ethnic diversity. The state-sponsored Annual National Culture Festival (ANCF) focuses on the Kavango region in north-eastern Namibia. Akuupa critically examines the notion of Kavango-ness as a colonial construct and its subsequent reconstitution and appropriation. He analyses the way in which cultural representations are produced by local people in the postcolonial African context of nation building and national reconciliation by bringing visions of cosmopolitanism and modernity into critical dialogue with the colonial past. Competing cultural festivals are used as celebratory social spaces in which performers and local people participate whilst negotiating a sense of national belonging in an ongoing tension between the need to celebrate diversity, yet strive for unity. This is the first study to discuss the comprehensive role played by those cultural festivals, which were organised in the ethnic homelands during the time Namibia fell under South African control.
Arlt: Explorations in African History: Reading
Reading Patrick Harries
AvStephanie Bishop,Veit Arlt
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2015
551 kr
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This collection of essays documents the growth of African history as a discipline at the University of Basel since 2001. It thus pays tribute to fourteen years of research and teaching by Patrick Harries at the Department of History and the Centre for African Studies Basel. The Festschrift covers a broad range of topics from mine labour to missionary endeavour and the production of knowledge, reflecting some of his core research interests. The contributions engage with Patrick Harries� oeuvre with reference to the authors� own scholarship or vice-versa. Some directly address his publications while others take his teaching, correspondence, remarks or intellectual life more broadly as a point of reference. They all pay tribute to a brilliant and inspiring scholar, a great teacher and a kind person.
Scheidegger: Transformation from Below White Subu
AvUrsula Scheidegger
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2015
553 kr
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South Africa is an example of a relatively successful political transition. Nevertheless, the first democratic elections in 1994 did not change the systemic and structural inequalities, the socioeconomic legacies of discrimination or the alienation of the different population groups. At the centre of this study is the transformation potential of two formerly white neighbourhoods in Johannesburg � Norwood and Orange Grove. Both neighbourhoods have experienced considerable demographic changes and the various population groups differ in terms of their expectations and their willingness to adjust to the changes provoked by the transition. At the local level, patterns of discrimination and oppression continue. Spaces, opportunities and leverage of social networks engaged in the community are influenced by the resources people are able to access. Moreover, cooperation is contested in a context of pervasive inequality because there is no incentive for privileged groups to change arrangements that benefit them. In this context of conflicting interests and unequal access to power and resources, decentralisation and the promotion of participatory structures in local communities are a problem and the reliance on local networks as agents of development is questionable.
Geschichte des Tourismus in Namibia
Eine heterotopische Topologie der Technik
AvLukas Breitwieser
Häftad, Tyska, 2016
625 kr
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Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa
AvMaano Ramutsindela,Giorgio Miescherm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
620 kr
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Basler Afrika Bibliographien – förlag

Haiom in the Etosha Region. A History of Colonial Settlement, Ethnicity and Nature Conservation

In the Twilight of the Revolution

Negotiating the Freedom of Namibia

Gender and Colonialism

Naming the Land

Bruchstücke. Forschungsreisen in Deutsch-Südwestafrika

Erika Sutter: Seen with other eyes

Path Through Hard Grass

National Culture in Post-Apartheid Namibia. State-sponsored Cultural Festivals and their Histories

Tvedten: As Long as They Don't Bury Me Here

Goldblatt: Building Bridges

Kangumu: Contesting Caprivi

Stiehle: Erika Sutter: Seen with Other Eyes

Schinz: Bruchstucke

Rizzo: Gender and Colonialism

Akawa: The Gender Politics of the Namibian Libe

Kondlo: In the Twilight of the Revolution

Muller: The Inevitable Pipeline into Exile

Taylor: Naming the Land

Weiss: A Path Through Hard Grass

Legassick: The Politics of a South African Frontie

Dobler: Traders and Trade in Colonial Ovamboland

Nghidinwa: Women Journalists in Namibia's Liberati

Transformation from Below?

Explorations in African History

Akuupa: National Culture in Post-Apartheid Namib

Arlt: Explorations in African History: Reading

Scheidegger: Transformation from Below White Subu

Geschichte des Tourismus in Namibia

Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa

Basler Afrika Bibliographien – förlag

Haiom in the Etosha Region. A History of Colonial Settlement, Ethnicity and Nature Conservation

In the Twilight of the Revolution

Negotiating the Freedom of Namibia

Gender and Colonialism

Naming the Land

Bruchstücke. Forschungsreisen in Deutsch-Südwestafrika

Erika Sutter: Seen with other eyes

Path Through Hard Grass

National Culture in Post-Apartheid Namibia. State-sponsored Cultural Festivals and their Histories

Tvedten: As Long as They Don't Bury Me Here

Goldblatt: Building Bridges

Kangumu: Contesting Caprivi

Stiehle: Erika Sutter: Seen with Other Eyes

Schinz: Bruchstucke

Rizzo: Gender and Colonialism

Akawa: The Gender Politics of the Namibian Libe

Kondlo: In the Twilight of the Revolution

Muller: The Inevitable Pipeline into Exile

Taylor: Naming the Land

Weiss: A Path Through Hard Grass

Legassick: The Politics of a South African Frontie

Dobler: Traders and Trade in Colonial Ovamboland

Nghidinwa: Women Journalists in Namibia's Liberati

Transformation from Below?

Explorations in African History

Akuupa: National Culture in Post-Apartheid Namib

Arlt: Explorations in African History: Reading

Scheidegger: Transformation from Below White Subu

Geschichte des Tourismus in Namibia

Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa