History, Knowledge and Power in Southern Africa
Essays in Honour of William Beinart
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Beschreibung
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.
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.
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.
Explores half a century of evolution in African studies Assesses the global debate on the challenges of decolonisation at universities worldwide Includes a chapter by William Beinart on Cecil Rhodes’ impact on the Cape Colony and Zimbabwe
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Rebekah Lee
Themen in »History, Knowledge and Power in Southern Africa«
South Africa Rural Politics Academic activism Environmental History Race Relations