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Are Trout South African? Or: A Postcolonial Fish
There has been substantial attention paid in literary and postcolonial studies to issues of environment and ecology, and especially the environmental transformations which colonial and imperial histories have wrought upon the (post)colony.
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History wars and Indigenous Rights
Indigenous rights claims remain a central, unresolved human rights issue in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States.
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Palestine Time: Temporality, Cinema, Liberation
Zionism does not only colonize space; it also colonizes time.
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Settling Nature Managing and Imagining Nature Reserves and National Parks in Palestine/Israel
Settling Nature documents the widespread ecological warfare practiced by the state of Israel.
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The whiteness of Afrikaans literary feminism
In (Black Afrikaans poet) Ronelda Kamfer’s collection Chinatown(2019), she criticises canonical Afrikaans white women poets for their implied complicity with apartheid and continued white hegemony within the Afrikaans literary sphere.
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Creating a Liberal British Empire: Histories and Legacies
This book will address the question of how liberal society attempts to reconcile empire to its values and principles.
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“Historical geography’s contributions to understanding South Africa.”
Part of a larger study evaluating the contributions of historical geographers to understanding the settler colonies of the British Empire, the work at STIAS will focus on historical geography in South Africa, beginning with the work of NC Pollock and S Agnew (1963), and focusing in particular on the contributions of AJ Christopher, Professor Emeritus at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, who published a number of atlases, books, and articles on the development of the country and its human geography during the apartheid era.
