Namibia S Red Line

Author : G. Miescher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137118318

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Namibia's Red Line by G. Miescher Pdf

Based on archival sources and oral history, this book reconstructs a border-building process in Namibia that spanned more than sixty years. The process commenced with the establishment of a temporary veterinary defence line against rinderpest by the German colonial authorities in the late nineteenth century and ended with the construction of a continuous two-metre-high fence by the South African colonial government sixty years later. This 1250-kilometre fence divides northern from central Namibia even today. The book combines a macro and a micro-perspective and differentiates between cartographic and physical reality. The analysis explores both the colonial state's agency with regard to veterinary and settlement policies and the strategies of Africans and Europeans living close to the border. The analysis also includes the varying perceptions of individuals and populations who lived further north and south of the border and describes their experiences crossing the border as migrant workers, African traders, European settlers and colonial officials. The Red Line's history is understood as a gradual process of segregating livestock and people, and of constructing dichotomies of modern and traditional, healthy and sick, European and African.

Author : Gottfried Wellmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Beef industry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112842104

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Implications of the "red Line" for the Namibian Economy by Gottfried Wellmer Pdf

Author : Z.A. Konczacki,Jane L. Parpart,Timothy M. Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135183820

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Studies in the Economic History of Southern Africa by Z.A. Konczacki,Jane L. Parpart,Timothy M. Shaw Pdf

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jeremiah Allen
Publisher : Other Places Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780982261965

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Namibia (Other Places Travel Guide) by Jeremiah Allen Pdf

Namibia is a vast, open space home to incredible wildlife, ancient cultures, and a landscape that offers scenery unlike anywhere else. Jeremiah spent over two years experiencing this southern African country while a Peace Corps volunteer. He lived with a local family in a rural homestead, giving him the opportunity to experience Namibia like few outsiders have before. With the help from a national network of locals who contributed to this travel guide, let him show you the country he now calls a second home. This book allows visitors to feel like locals while enjoying the indisputable beauty of Namibia. - Gain insight into the people and culture while sleeping in a village campsite. Or splurge at one of Namibia's world-class game lodges. - Partake in the adrenaline activities amongst the world's tallest sand dunes. - Admire the wildlife at Etosha National Park, or explore the less visited parks in the northeast. - From short hikes around Sossusvlei to the daunting 8-day trek through Namib-Naukluft, Namibia is a hiker's paradise. - Step back in time while exploring the colonial city of Luderitz. - Above all, rub elbows and share a laugh with the Namibian people in the many open markets, local eateries, small shebeens, or while travelling on a combie minibus.

Author : Marion Wallace
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197513866

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History of Namibia by Marion Wallace Pdf

In 1990 Namibia gained its independence after a decades-long struggle against South African rule--and, before that, against German colonialism. This book, the first new scholarly general history of Namibia in two decades, provides a fresh synthesis of these events, and of the much longer pre-colonial period. A History of Namibia opens with a chapter by John Kinahan covering the evidence of human activity in Namibia from the earliest times to the nineteenth century, and for the first time making a synthesis of current archaeological research widely available to non-specialists. In subsequent chapters, Marion Wallace weaves together the most up-to-date academic research (in English and German) on Namibian history, from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. She explores histories of migration, production and power in the pre-colonial period, the changes triggered by European expansion, and the dynamics of the period of formal colonialism. The coverage of German rule includes a full chapter on the genocide of 1904-8. Here, Wallace outlines the history and historiography of the wars fought in central and southern Namibia, and the subsequent mass imprisonment of defeated Africans in concentration camps. The final two chapters analyse the period of African nationalism, apartheid and war between 1946 and 1990. The book's conclusion looks briefly at the development of Namibia in the two decades since independence. A History of Namibia provides an invaluable introduction and reference source to the past of a country that is often neglected, despite its significance in the history of the region and, indeed, for that of European colonialism and international relations. It makes accessible the latest research on the country, illuminates current controversies, puts forward new insights, and suggests future directions for research. The book's extensive bibliography adds to its usefulness for scholar and general reader alike.

Author : Victor L. Tonchi,William A. Lindeke,John J. Grotpeter
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810879904

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Historical Dictionary of Namibia by Victor L. Tonchi,William A. Lindeke,John J. Grotpeter Pdf

On March 21, 1990, Sam Nujoma was sworn in as the first president of independent Namibia. This ceremony marked the end of a struggle that lasted more than two decades and a period of colonialism that lasted more than a century. Finally, after decades long wars over grazing in the 19th century, genocidal colonial suppression by Germany at the beginning of the 20th century, repressive apartheid racialism throughout the 20th century, and a prolonged armed liberation struggle, Namibians had the chance to choose their own leaders, develop a democratic political process in a free society, and to bring economic development and greater equity to their country. The Historical Dictionary of Namibia covers the history of Namibia through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has several hundred cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Namibia.

Author : Julia Adeney Thomas,Geoff Eley
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478004387

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Visualizing Fascism by Julia Adeney Thomas,Geoff Eley Pdf

Visualizing Fascism argues that fascism was not merely a domestic menace in a few European nations, but arose as a genuinely global phenomenon in the early twentieth century. Contributors use visual materials to explore fascism's populist appeal in settings around the world, including China, Japan, South Africa, Slovakia, and Spain. This visual strategy allows readers to see the transnational rise of the right as it fed off the agitated energies of modernity and mobilized shared political and aesthetic tropes. This volume also considers the postwar aftermath as antifascist art forms were depoliticized and repurposed in the West. More commonly, analyses of fascism focus on Italy and Germany alone and on institutions like fascist parties, but that approach truncates our understanding of the way fascism was indebted to colonialism and internationalism with all their attendant grievances and aspirations. Using photography, graphic arts, architecture, monuments, and film—rather than written documents alone—produces a portable concept of fascism, useful for grappling with the upsurge of the global right a century ago—and today. Contributors. Nadya Bair, Paul D. Barclay, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Maggie Clinton, Geoff Eley, Lutz Koepnick, Ethan Mark, Bertrand Metton, Lorena Rizzo, Julia Adeney Thomas, Claire Zimmerman

Author : Werner Zips,Manuela Zips-Mairitsch
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643910905

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Bewildering Borders by Werner Zips,Manuela Zips-Mairitsch Pdf

Transfrontier conservation challenges African borders, the "colonial scars of history". The global tourism industry has discovered the potential of African borderlands for adventure travel. Iconic animals and indigenous cultures are marketed in the same breath, often evoking stereotypical images of "Wild Africa". Can ecotourism and ethno-tourism be commended as viable panaceas for environmental protection and development? The marketing of nature and culture raises important questions on the meaningful inclusion of local communities as tourism entrepreneurs. Living museums and cultural villages are emerging as start-ups of local communities. They commodify ethnicity albeit on their own terms. This volume debates the economy of conservation, providing diverse perspectives on an issue of great contemporary relevance.

Author : Alisha Nicole Apale,Valerie Stam
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781926662541

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Generation NGO by Alisha Nicole Apale,Valerie Stam Pdf

A collection that provides glimpses to the journey begun when international development professionals touch down in foreign land

Author : V. Notkola,H. Siiskonen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780333981344

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Fertility, Mortality and Migration in SubSaharan Africa by V. Notkola,H. Siiskonen Pdf

In north Namibia the availability of continuous series of parish record data since the 1920s offer excellent possibilities to study population development on a regional level by primary sources. In this study fertility, mortality and internal migration in north Namibia among the Christian population since the mid-1920s to the 1990s is analyzed.

Author : Luregn Lenggenhager
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Caprivi (Namibia)
ISBN : 9783906927008

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Ruling Nature, Controlling People by Luregn Lenggenhager Pdf

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 Namibia’s 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.

Author : Martin Kalb
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800734579

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Environing Empire by Martin Kalb Pdf

Even leaving aside the vast death and suffering that it wrought on indigenous populations, German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the early part of the twentieth century were futile for most. For years colonists wrestled ocean waters, desert landscapes, and widespread aridity as they tried to reach inland in their effort of turning outwardly barren lands into a profitable settler colony. In his innovative environmental history, Martin Kalb outlines the development of the colony up to World War I, deconstructing the common settler narrative, all to reveal the importance of natural forces and the Kaisereich’s everyday violence.

Author : Luregn Lenggenhager,Martha Akawa,Giorgio Miescher,Romie Nghitevelekwa,Ndidzulafhi Innocent Sinthumule
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839466391

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The Lower !Garib - Orange River by Luregn Lenggenhager,Martha Akawa,Giorgio Miescher,Romie Nghitevelekwa,Ndidzulafhi Innocent Sinthumule Pdf

The Lower !Garib, or Orange River, flows through the historical Namaqualand and since 1990 has formed the international border between Namibia and South Africa. The contributors to this volume focus on this hardly discussed stretch of the Orange River to understand the region's social history, geography, and economy. This book brings together scholars from Namibia, South Africa, and overseas, as well as the knowledge and analysis from people living in the region. In concise chapters and short portraits, they discuss the region's past and present from a variety of perspectives.

Author : S. Akweenda
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004640900

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International Law and the Protection of Namibia's Territorial Integrity by S. Akweenda Pdf

International law is not static; it develops constantly. Namibia is classic case, illustrating the changing law of nations. International Law and the Protection of Namibia's Territorial Integrity: Boundaries and Territorial Claims demonstrates this with an analysis of the legal and factual elements present in the creation, boundaries and territorial claims of Namibia, and the determinations of the League of Nations and the political organs of the United Nations which developed and clarified the rules of international law. Nambia's unique international status and diplomatic history requires the consideration of a large number of different topics within public international law. Some of these issues are very complex and technical, as they involve major questions of international law and politics. Through the use of primary sources, case law, state practice and the opinions of eminent jurists, the author addresses these challenging and revealing issues. Anyone interested in public international law, international relations, political science, history, or geography will appreciate the way that this work covers the interesting and informative changes in this revealing nation.

Author : Anne Schröder
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027259677

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The Dynamics of English in Namibia by Anne Schröder Pdf

The English language as spoken in Namibia has virtually been overlooked in most textbooks, handbooks, and surveys of varieties of English around the world, or else has only been mentioned in passing. However, this variety of English has recently attracted the attention of several researchers and the present volume brings together most scholars actively involved in the research on English in Namibia from various linguistic fields to present their current research. It covers a wide range of linguistic issues, such as empirical analyses on various levels of linguistic description and use, as well as the application of diverse methodologies, from questionnaire surveys, sociolinguistic interviews and focus group discussions, to corpus linguistics, linguistic landscaping, and digital ethnography. This book represents the first comprehensive collection of articles and in-depth discussions of this emerging variety of World Englishes.