Project
Small Ocean History
The Small Ocean Project explores how a historical focus on the intimate and ‘everyday’ lives of mobile subjects, within their simultaneously cosmopolitan and parochial worlds and intimate networks for transnational capital accumulation, can help us understand south-south globalization and its effects on Islam, capitalism and international regimes, around the turn of the 20th century.
Publication
Humanism, embodied knowledge, and postcolonial theory
Noyes, John. 2019. Humanism, embodied knowledge, and postcolonial theory. In M. Albrecht (Ed.), Postcolonialism Cross-Examined. Multidirecti...
Publication
Unlocking Social Puzzles: Colony, Crime and Chronicle: An Interview with Charles van Onselen
Vale, Peter. 2016. Unlocking Social Puzzles: Colony, Crime and Chronicle: An Interview with Charles van Onselen. Thesis Eleven 136(1):35–48....
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'How Disposed Of': Liberated Africans and the Waiting Space of Freedom 1807-1930
This project is the fruition of twenty-seven years of research on the significance of the Liberated Africans, those rescued from the holds of slave ships and dhows in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, the Mediterranean and in the Caribbean between 1808 and 1888, with an aftermath that continued into the 1930s.
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Sex and Sexuality in Africa: A Brief History
Since at least the 1980s, historians of Africa have produced a rich and nuanced scholarship on sex and sexuality on the continent.
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Fiction Writing Project
I plan to write a novel based on the life and works of Thomas Pringle, popularly known as the Father of South African poetry.
