Project
Landscaping the Cape: “improvement”, the politics of visibility & the heritage e/affects of socio-ecological commoning, 1872 – 1948
This project builds on scholarship about landscape and memory in Cape Town by looking at how “nature” historically structured the material making of the cityscape, and the racially-heterogenous socio-natural commons that emerged in the city during the 20th century.
Project
Echoes: A Collection of Historical Short Stories (working title)
This project looks back at history via the short story genre.
Publication
Afterlives
Gurnah, Abdulrazak . 2020. Afterlives (1st ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/afterlives-9781526615879/
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South Africa’s Dreams. Ethnologists and Apartheid in Namibia
Gordon, Robert J. 2021. South Africa’s Dreams. Ethnologists and Apartheid in Namibia. Berghahn Books. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Go...
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Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park
Dlamini, Jacob S. T. 2020. Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park. Ohio University Press. https://www.scribd.com/book/4...
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The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa
Robert Ross. 2014. The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, xvii + 340 pp). ISBN: 978-1-107-0424...
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From German South West Africa to the Third Reich. Testing the continuity thesis
Bachmann, Klaus. 2018. From German South West Africa to the Third Reich. Testing the continuity thesis. Journal of Namibian Studies, 23, 29–...
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From Sovereignty to Property (and back): The spatial transition of colonial and developmentalist claims over land
Central to the question of land grabs around the world is a tension between the sovereignty of States - and its internal manifestation in the form of eminent domain - and the property rights of individuals and communities.
