History, Knowledge and Power in Southern Africa
Description
This book honours the seminal contributions of William Beinart to southern African history and African Studies, with essays written by his former students and academic and professional colleagues. The scope of the essays in this volume speaks to the breadth of Beinart's influence, bringing together a number of intellectual strands and themes that cut across disciplines, chronologies, and geographies. Key themes explored include environment and nature, rural agriculture, popular politics, political violence, land reform, and the relationship between academia and activism. Beinart's influence is highlighted in each chapter, but the essays here also represent new research and new ways of thinking about long-standing debates. The book intends to stimulate a robust interdisciplinary and intergenerational dialogue on these topics, and to highlight emergent debates and themes of interest to the study and understanding of Africa's past.
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Persons
Anne Heffernan is Associate Professor of Southern African History at the University of Durham, UK, and a Research Associate of the History Workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Rebekah Lee is Associate Professor in African Studies at the University of Oxford, UK, and an Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Geography, Environmental Studies and Tourism at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
Content
Chapter 1: William Beinart: A Brief Intellectual Biography.- Chapter 2: The Scientific Imagination in Maputaland, South Africa.- Chapter 3: Betterment and the Reordering of Rural Landscapes and Lives in Pholela.- Chapter 4: White Monopoly Capitalism in the South African Meat industry: A Century of Debate, from Imperial Cold Storage to Vleissentraal and Beyond.- Chapter 5: Ideology, Identity and Intersectionality in South African Student Resistance.- Chapter 6: 'Political and Collective Violence' Revisited.- Chapter 7: Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford: A Critical Testimony.- Chapter 8: Returning to Cecil Rhodes: Racial Segregation in the Cape Colony and Violence in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 9: Land Reform, History, and the Law: A Critical Reflection on the Role of History in Navigating South Africa's Land Disputes.- Chapter 10: The Impacts of Geothermal Development on Kenyan Communities: Issues, Challenges, and Activism.