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Traders and Trade in Colonial Ovamboland

Author : Gregor Dobler
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN 13 : 3905758407
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Traders and Trade in Colonial Ovamboland written by Gregor Dobler and published by BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Traders and Trade in Colonial Ovamboland, 1925-1990

Author : Gregor Dobler
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 3905758563
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Traders and Trade in Colonial Ovamboland, 1925-1990 written by Gregor Dobler and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Namibias 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.

Infrastructures of Migrant Labour in Colonial Ovamboland, 1915 to 1954

Author : Lovisa Tegelela Nampala
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN 13 : 3906927474
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Infrastructures of Migrant Labour in Colonial Ovamboland, 1915 to 1954 written by Lovisa Tegelela Nampala and published by BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most research on the migrant labour system in Namibia under South African colonial rule emphasises its dehumanising aspects. In a complete contrast, this study highlights the social and ritual resources that contract workers and their families in colonial Ovamboland mobilised to provide forms of support and connection across great distances and absences. Based on extensive oral research, this study peels back the layers of intangible infrastructure that sustained migrant workers through all the stages of their contract, including observances around workplace deaths. This thesis vividly demonstrates the persistence of older practices that sustained the bonds of life, fellowship and family under stress, as well as adaptation to new colonial system such as the postal system.

Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900444307X
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial Adventures:Commercial Law and Practice in the Making proposes a lung run exploration of the influence of colonisation and overseas trade on commercial law and the adaptation of transplanted law to colonial constraints in a comparative perspective.

Forged in Genocide

Author : William Blakemore Lyon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111374912
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Forged in Genocide written by William Blakemore Lyon and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-07-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forged in Genocide traces the early history of colonial capitalism in Namibia with a central focus on migrants who came to be key to the economy during and as a result of the German genocide of the Herero and Nama (1904-1908). It posits that Namibia, far from being a colonial backwater of the early 20th century, became highly integrated into the labor flows and economies of West and Southern Africa, and even for a time was one of the most sought-after regions for African migrants because of relatively high wages and numerous opportunities resulting from the war’s demographic devastation paired with an economic frenzy following the discovery of diamonds. In highlighting the life stories of migrants in Namibia from regions as diverse as the Kru coast of Liberia, the Eastern Cape of South Africa, and the Ovambo polities of Northern Namibia, this work integrates micro-history into larger African continental trends. Building off of written sources from migrants themselves and utilising the Namibian Worker Database constructed for this project, this book explores the lives of workers in early colonial Namibia in a way that has hereto not been attempted.

Crisis Under Critique

Author : Didier Fassin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231555482
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Crisis Under Critique written by Didier Fassin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-13 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word “crisis” denotes a break, a discontinuity, a rupture—a moment after which the normal order can continue no longer. Yet our political vocabulary today is suffused with the rhetoric of crisis, to the point that supposed abnormalities have been normalized. How can the notion of crisis be rethought in order to take stock of—and challenge—our understanding of the many predicaments in which we find ourselves? Instead of diagnosing emergencies, Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and an assembly of leading thinkers examine how people experience, interpret, and contribute to the making of and the response to critical situations. Contributors inquire into the social production of crisis, evaluating a wide range of cases on five continents through the lenses of philosophy, sociology, anthropology, political science, history, and economics. Considering social movements, intellectual engagements, affected communities, and reflexive perspectives, the book foregrounds the perspectives of those most closely involved, bringing out the immediacy of crisis. Featuring analysis from below as well as above, from the inside as well as the outside, Crisis Under Critique is a singular intervention that utterly recasts one of today’s most crucial—yet most ambiguous—concepts.

The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling

Author : Max Gallien
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000508773
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling written by Max Gallien and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling offers a comprehensive survey of interdisciplinary research related to smuggling, reflecting on key themes, and charting current and future trends. Divided into six parts and spanning over 30 chapters, the volume covers themes such as mobility, borders, violent conflict, and state politics, as well as looks at the smuggling of specific goods – from rice and gasoline to wildlife, weapons, and cocaine. Chapters engage with some of the most contentious academic and policy debates of the twenty-first century, including the historical creation of borders, re-bordering, the criminalisation of migration, and the politics of selective toleration of smuggling. As it maps a field that contains unique methodological, ethical, and risk-related challenges, the book takes stock not only of the state of our shared knowledge, but also reflects on how this has been produced, pointing to blind spots and providing an informed vision of the future of the field. Bringing together established and emerging scholars from around the world, The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling is an indispensable resource for students and researchers of conflict studies, borderland studies, criminology, political science, global development, anthropology, sociology, and geography.

Diamond Warriors in Colonial Namibia

Author : Job Shipululo Amupanda
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN 13 : 3906927458
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Diamond Warriors in Colonial Namibia written by Job Shipululo Amupanda and published by BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN. This book was released on 2022-07-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diamond Warriors in Colonial Namibia enters into unchartered scholarly territory of illegal diamond smuggling at the largest diamond mining company in colonial Namibia—De Beers’ Consolidated Diamond Mines of South West Africa (CDM). It details the underground activities of the natives (migrant workers) employed by the CDM and how these illicit activities accounted for rapid development in Owamboland. Beyond this account, the book takes on the deterministic ‘natural resource curse’ theory that equates natural resource endowments to a curse resulting in underdevelopment and sometimes conflict. It is argued and proven herein, from a decolonial standpoint, that such an approach is an oversimplification of the political economy of natural resources in Africa in general and Namibia in particular. The text also provides a contextual account of the contract labour system and details the symbiotic relationship between CDM and the colonial state before highlighting the remaining unanswered questions and areas of further research

Breweries, Politics and Identity: The History Behind Namibian Beer

Author : Tycho van der Hoog
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN 13 : 3906927121
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Breweries, Politics and Identity: The History Behind Namibian Beer written by Tycho van der Hoog and published by BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Namibian beer is celebrated as an inextricable part of Namibian nationalism, both within its domestic borders and across global markets. But for decades on end, the same brew was not available to the black population as a consequence of colonial politics. This book aims to explain how a European style beer has been transformed from an icon of white settlers into a symbol of the independent Namibian nation. The unusual focus on beer offers valuable insight into the role companies play in identity formation and thus highlights an understudied aspect of Namibian history, namely business–state relations.

Transforming Innovations in Africa

Author : Jan-Bart Gewald
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004245235
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Innovations in Africa written by Jan-Bart Gewald and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Transforming Innovations in Africa the authors explore how external innovations (products, technologies, services, institutions and processes) that were envisaged, developed and designed elsewhere, came to be innovatively and sometimes unexpectedly appropriated and transformed within Africa.

Indigenous Social Security Systems in Southern and West Africa

Author : Ndangwa Noyoo
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1928357903
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Social Security Systems in Southern and West Africa written by Ndangwa Noyoo and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The desire exists within Governments to provide for those who are on the fringes of society. Therefore, indigenous approaches seem relevant in the redistribution of resources among citizens. This book is therefore not only essential, but also timely. Indigenous Social Security Systems in Southern and West Africa (ISSS) contributes to human service literature for Africa, Southern Africa and West Africa in particular. The richness of the book lies within the variety of contributions that encourage its origin. The book?s value is extensive and captures many essential and current topics that have an appeal to academicians, policy?makers, analysts and practitioners in the field of social welfare and social security. Ultimately, the book serves as a pragmatic and expedient tool for human service practitioners and any enthusiast of social security systems.

Ruling Nature, Controlling People

Author : Luregn Lenggenhager
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 3906927016
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Ruling Nature, Controlling People written by Luregn Lenggenhager and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent nature conservation initiatives in Southern Africa such as communal conservancies and peace parks are often embedded in narratives of economic development and ecological research. They are also increasingly marked by militarisation and violence. In Ruling Nature, Controlling People, Luregn Lenggenhager shows that these features were also characteristic of South African rule over the Caprivi Strip region in North-Eastern Namibia, especially in the fields of forestry, fisheries and, ultimately, wildlife conservation. In the process, the increasingly internationalised war in the region from the late 1960s until Namibias independence in 1990 became intricately interlinked with contemporary nature conservation, ecology and economic development projects. By retracing such interdependencies, Lenggenhager provides a novel perspective from which to examine the history of a region which has until now barely entered the focus of historical research. He thereby highlights the enduring relevance of the supposedly peripheral Caprivi and its military, scientific and environmental histories for efforts to develop a deeper understanding of the ways in which apartheid South Africa exerted state power.

Securing Land Rights

Author : Romie Nghitevelekwa
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9991642641
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Securing Land Rights written by Romie Nghitevelekwa and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Securing land rights takes up themes at the centre of socio-political debates throughout the African continent. These relate to national struggles over access to land, land distribution, land rights and security of tenure. Land in much of rural Africa is communally held, a system that provides security of livelihood and a social safety net, but is not immune to appropriation by government or injustices such as the eviction of women from the land on the death of their husbands. This book contextualises Namibia within these debates, highlighting the country's stance in relation to communal land tenure reforms with a focus on the realities of people's lives in north-central Namibia. Leading questions centre on competing ways of ascribing value to land; mechanisms and monetisation of access to land; commercialisation of land use, de-agrarianization and ongoing transformation underpinned by economic and territorial restructuring. These processes have direct impacts on equity in access to land and land distribution, and engender competing visions of land rights. Communal land reform is an uneasy compromise between different processes and interests.

Namibia and Germany: Negotiating the Past

Author : Reinhard Kossler
Publisher : University of Namibia Press
ISBN 13 : 9991642099
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Namibia and Germany: Negotiating the Past written by Reinhard Kossler and published by University of Namibia Press. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 years since the end of German colonial rule in Namibia, the relationship between the former colonial power and the Namibian communities who were affected by its brutal colonial policies remains problematic, and interpretations of the past are still contested. This book examines the ongoing debates, conflicts and confrontations over the past. It scrutinises the consequences of German colonial rule, its impact on the descendants of victims of the 1904–08 genocide, Germany’s historical responsibility, and ways in which post-colonial reconciliation might be achieved.

On Durban's Docks

Author : Ralph Callebert
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580469078
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book On Durban's Docks written by Ralph Callebert and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a new approach to the study of labor on the subcontinent and globally, questioning the relevance of the predominant wage labor paradigm for Africa and the Global South.

The Decline of Marriage in Namibia

Author : Julia Pauli
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839443032
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Decline of Marriage in Namibia written by Julia Pauli and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Southern Africa, marriage used to be widespread and common. However, over the past decades marriage rates have declined significantly. Julia Pauli explores the meaning of marriage when only few marry. Although marriage rates have dropped sharply, the value of weddings and marriages has not. To marry has become an indicator of upper-class status that less affluent people aspire to. Using the appropriation of marriage by a rural Namibian elite as a case study, the book tells the entwined stories of class formation and marriage decline in post-apartheid Namibia.

Displacing and Displaying the Objects of Others

Author : Jürgen Zimmerer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111335569
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Displacing and Displaying the Objects of Others written by Jürgen Zimmerer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-11-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Displacing and Displaying the Objects of Others is a thought-provoking collection that brings together a diverse range of contributions inspired by research from the "Hamburg's (post-)colonial legacy" research center. The authors explore new perspectives in provenance research by situating it within the broader contexts of global history, colonial history, and postcolonial studies. This volume goes beyond simply tracing the origins of objects, considering the significant impact on the societies from which these objects originate. It also critically examines how these objects were used in collections and museums and how the process of musealization shaped collecting practices. With its multiperspective approach, Displacing and Displaying the Objects of Others encourages readers to reflect on the deep connections between past and present and to consider responsible ways of engaging with colonial collections.