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Discipline of the Screen: Cinema and public order in South Africa
This project departs from the emergence of cinema in early 20th century South Africa, and its role in constituting a new public sphere around this form of leisure.
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The State versus Neville Alexander and ten others: The causes and consequences of a political trial
This book project concerns the 1963-64 trial of Neville Alexander and ten other members of the National Liberation Front (NLF).
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The Boxing Economy of the Eastern Cape
What is the link between the national formal economy on the one hand, and on the other, local community based economic and leisure cultures, which may have been largely self-sustaining but interminably precarious?
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Wine, Temperance and South African Connectivity c.1900 to the Present
Although wine is often conceived of within bounded national histories, it is a commodity that is best understood within a global framework – especially since the transformations necessitated by the spread of phylloxera in the later nineteenth century.
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Nelson Mandela – About Tolerance and Leadership (a biography)
The project will involve the final editing and fine-tuning of the main body of the book Nelson Mandela – Tolerance and Leadership.
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Gandhi’s Printing Press: Global Trajectories of Print Culture in the Indian Ocean
During his South African years (1893-1914), Mohandas Gandhi began fashioning his world-changing ideas on satyagraha/‘passive resistance’.
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Moments of awakening: Apartheid and the making of a psychologist
Moments of Awakening, is the last project that will bring to completion the trilogy of life writing projects initiated in 2005.
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Interpreting the life of Chief Albert Luthuli
This is a study of the legacies and meanings of Chief Luthuli’s life in history and today.
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Dealing with the Past (Historical memory)
Why do some individuals or societies transcend a divisive past and why do some remain prisoners of their own past?
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Book review — A Seed of a Dream: Morris Isaacson High School and the Struggle for Education in Soweto, 1956–2012
Batra, Kanika. 2024. A Seed of a Dream: Morris Isaacson High School and the Struggle for Education in Soweto, 1956–2012. South African...
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“S'obashaya Ngamatye”: Women and Sixty Years of the Armed Struggle in South Africa
This project brings together chapters written by 17 women former guerrillas from uMkhonto we Sizwe, the African National Congress military wing and the Azanian Peoples Liberation Army (APLA) and the Azanian National Liberation Army, the military wing of the Azanian Peoples Organisation (AZAPO).
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Jan Bouws and the Instituut vir Volksmusiek (1960-1972) at Stellenbosch University
The proposed project looks into the activities of the Instituut vir Volksmusiek at Stellenbosch University.
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Jan Smuts and the Atomic Bomb
van Wyk, J0-Ansie. 2024. 13. Jan Smuts and the Atomic Bomb. In Reappraising the Life and Legacy of Jan C. Smuts (pp. 397–416). UJ Press. htt...
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A Seed of a Dream: Morris Isaacson High School and the Struggle for Education in Soweto, 1956–2012
Glaser, Clive. 2024. A Seed of a Dream: Morris Isaacson High School and the Struggle for Education in Soweto, 1956–2012. Jacana Media. https...
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Crossing Boundaries in South Africa’s Divided Cities: how conviviality, creativity and co-operation helped undermine apartheid
Within global urban historiography there has been no detailed exploration of the nature and consequences of mingling across ethnic, racial or national boundaries in cities strongly socially and spatially divided along such as Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem or Johannesburg.
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Losing the Lustre: The End of Gold in South Africa
Gold dominated South Africa for a century.
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Echoes: A Collection of Historical Short Stories (working title)
This project looks back at history via the short story genre.
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The Khoekhoe, Vasco da Gama and the Limits of Written History
Recommended Citation Nethersole, S. (2024). The Khoekhoe, Vasco da Gama and the Limits of Written History. In Contested Heritage in Europe a...
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KROTOA IS PRESENT: A 17th Century story that refuses to die
The story of Krotoa !Goa /gõas
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Queer Transitions: Biographical Space and Black Visuality in the Remains of Apartheid
A quarter century into democratic South Africa, it is a truism that Apartheid’s forms remain present in various ways.
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The “Big Hole”, Kimberley South Africa, 1870-1920
The chance find of a diamond on a small hillock in South Africa one hundred and fifty years ago initiated an industrial mining revolution, the effects of which continue to reverberate far into the future.
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Trespassing as a way of being: ancestral heritage in South Africa
My study of prehistoric art in the Northern Cape, South Africa probes the quest for an authentic past in relation to the region’s complex, layered history, from ancient traces to contemporary concerns.
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The politics of blood and the memory of the martyrs: an inquiry into the political legacy of Bantu Stephen Biko
In September 1977, Bantu Stephen Biko was murdered by the South African security police.
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The Scientific Imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the Present
Beinart, William and Saul Dubow. 2021. The Scientific Imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the Present. Cambridge University Press. https://...
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Slabbert: A Man on a Mission
Grundlingh, Albert. (2021). Slabbert: A Man on a Mission. Jonathan Ball Publishers. https://booklounge.co.za/product/slabbert-a-man-on-a-mis...
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Bloody Sunday
Breier, Mignonne. 2021. Bloody Sunday. Tafelberg. http://www.nb.co.za/en/view-book/?id=9780624091141
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Documentary, Desire, Description: South Africa’s ‘Second World War’ and the mediation/materialisation of ‘witness’
This project centres on South Africa’s first illustrated magazine Libertas (1940 -1946) a vehicle of anti-Fascist advocacy and propaganda for pro-Allied engagement in WW2.
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Gandhi’s Satyagraha: Exploring Non-Violent Alternatives for Effective Political Resistance and Transformation
Challenges confronting our contemporary world like terrorism, populism, and religious pluralism recommend revisiting Gandhi’s concept of satyagraha.
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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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Land reform, rural inequality and agrarian change: the case of Isidenge, Stutterheim, Eastern Cape
Beinart, William, Sonwabile Mnwana and Luvuyo Wotshela. 2020. Land reform, rural inequality and agrarian change: the case of Isidenge, Stutt...
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Cyril’s Choices
Matisonn, John. 2019. Cyril’s Choices. Missing Ink. http://missingink.co.za/cyrils-choices/
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Black Archives and Intellectual Histories
Black Archives and Intellectual Histories brings together a range of scholars from South Africa, the continent at large and the black diaspora whose work has transformed our thinking about black intellectual histories and archives.
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Consumerism and its dissidents: a social history of white South Africa, c 1950s -1970s
In general South African historiography has been marked by constant emphasis on apartheid, black resistance and formal Afrikaner politics has.
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The story of Jabu Vilakazi – the Robin Hood of Soweto
The tension between personal experience, memory and historical fact is dynamic.
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The was, the is and the might-have-been: Political leadership in post-apartheid South Africa
Bill Nasson. 2008. The was, the is and the might-have-been: Political leadership in post-apartheid South Africa. Journal of African History,...
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Who killed Meyer Hasenfus? Organized crime, policing and informing on the Witwatersrand, 1902-8
C van Onselen. 2009. Who killed Meyer Hasenfus? Organized crime, policing and informing on the Witwatersrand, 1902-8. History Workshop Journ...
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John Buchan and the Creation of the Sprinbok Warrior
Bill Nasson. 2009. John Buchan and the Creation of the Sprinbok Warrior. In “Reassessing John Buchan: Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps”, Kate Ma...
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Piet on peat: the Irish romance of Afrikaner anti-imperialism
Bill Nasson. 2009. Piet on peat: the Irish romance of Afrikaner anti-imperialism. In “The British Empire and Its Contested Pasts”, Historica...
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Vereeniging: Die onvoltooide vrede
Leon Wessels. 2010. Vereeniging: Die onvoltooide vrede. Cape Town: Umuzi/Random House Struik. 367 pp
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Sovereign Force and Crime-focused Law at the Cape Colony
George Pavlich. 2013. Sovereign Force and Crime-focused Law at the Cape Colony. Journal of Historical Sociology, 26 (3), 318–338
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Occupied Cape Judges and Colonial Knowledge of Crime, Criminals, and Punishment
George Pavlich. 2014. Occupied Cape Judges and Colonial Knowledge of Crime, Criminals, and Punishment. Sage Open, 4, 1-11
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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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Triumphs and Heartaches: A Courageous Journey by South African Patriots
Mangena, Mosibudi. 2015. Triumphs and Heartaches: A Courageous Journey by South African Patriots. Johannesburg: Pan Macmillan. http://panmac...
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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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Introduction: Jeff Guy and Norman Etherington
Maré, Gerhard. 2016. Introduction: Jeff Guy and Norman Etherington. Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa 90(1):49–50. ht...
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Die Suid-Afrikaanse Staat en Ekonomie voor en na 1994: het die luiperd sy kolle verander?
Bekker, Simon. 2016. Die Suid-Afrikaanse Staat en Ekonomie voor en na 1994: het die luiperd sy kolle verander? LitNet Akademies. https://www...
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Apartheid and the Making of a Black Psychologist: A Memoir
Manganyi, N Chabani. 2016. Apartheid and the Making of a Black Psychologist: A Memoir. Johannesburg: Wits University Press. http://witspress...
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Indigeneity, Alienness and Cuisine: Are Trout South African?
Brown, Duncan. 2016. Indigeneity, Alienness and Cuisine: Are Trout South African? Pp. 21–38 in Cooking Cultures: Convergent Histories of Foo...
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Cape Town Harmonies,Memory, Humour & Resilience
Gaulier, Armelle and Denis-Constant Martin. 2017. Cape Town Harmonies,Memory, Humour & Resilience. Cape Town: African Minds. http://www.afri...
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National Park Science
Carruthers, Jane. 2017. National Park Science. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108123471
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Confronting Apartheid
Dugard, John. 2018. Confronting Apartheid. Jacana Media. http://www.jacana.co.za/book-categories/new-releases-65840/confronting-apartheid-de...
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And Still I Rise
This project is an autobiography.
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A History of the Nighttime in South Africa
This project is a book-length study of the history of the nighttime in South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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South Africa and the emergence of international human rights
South Africa has played a leading role in the development of international human rights in very different and sometime diametrically opposing capacities.
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The legacy and lessons of the Khulumani case
During its 12-year trajectory, the Khulumanicase has excited interest worldwide.
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A history of Soweto’s Morris Isaacson High School
This project involves writing a history of one of Soweto’s most historically important secondary schools, Morris Isaacson High School.
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Fear and Forgiveness – an Eastern Cape story
The killing of Irish nun and medical doctor, Sister Aidan Quinlan, in the East London riots of 1952 at the height of the ANC Defiance Campaign, is an event that has long been difficult in the telling.
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A Social History of Democratic South African Told in Nine Lives
The book I am writing is a social history of the first two decades of South African democracy.
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The African Resistance Movement: A Cultural History
This project (and the book that will follow) is a cultural history of the ARM, the African Resistance Movement, which despite the elevation of its name, was a group of no more than fifty mainly liberal , anti - communist idealists who formed an underground movement in South Africa in 1960 and embarked on a campaign of sabotage aimed at government installations (pylons and railway lines).
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Dying to forget: History, memory and the intergenerational transfer of trauma in South Africa
THIS project is about the discipline of history and the intergenerational transfer of trauma in South Africa.
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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.
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Swedish Naturalists in South Africa 1771–1851
The South African flora and fauna have been studied by a number of Swedish naturalists the last 250 years.
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Traditional leadership, democracy and development in the rural eastern Cape: a study of futures past
The problem of how to marry constitutional democracy with traditional authorities in the postcolonial context is not unique to South Africa and has been substantially explored in other contexts.
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Science in South Africa – a synoptic history
The history of science and of scientific knowledge in South Africa is a growing field of interest but it remains relatively fragmented.
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God, Spies and Lies: How journalists and politicians fought South Africa’s war of ideas, 1800-2015
In the light of the political impasse gripping the country, this study investigates the ideas that made democratic South Africa, through the largely unexplored interaction between its journalists and politicians.
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The Death Drill (a novel)
During the stay at STIAS research and writing on the historical novel ‘The Death Drill, inspired by and based on the sinking of the SS Mendi, a battle ship carrying members of the South African Native Labour Corps, will be continued.
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Historical Novel - Research and Writing
While at STIAS a novel will be researched and written.
