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Author : Jocelyn Alexander
Release : 2017
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Book Synopsis Special JSAS Conference Issue: Southern Africa Beyond the West by : Jocelyn Alexander
Download or read book Special JSAS Conference Issue: Southern Africa Beyond the West written by Jocelyn Alexander. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lyn Schumaker
Release : 2017
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Book Synopsis Special Issue: Southern Africa Beyond the West: Political, Economic and Cultural Relationships with the BRICS Countries by : Lyn Schumaker
Download or read book Special Issue: Southern Africa Beyond the West: Political, Economic and Cultural Relationships with the BRICS Countries written by Lyn Schumaker. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lazlo Passemiers
Release : 2019-03-11
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics by : Lazlo Passemiers
Download or read book Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics written by Lazlo Passemiers. This book was released on 2019-03-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics argues that as much as the ‘Congo crisis’ (1960-1965) was a Cold War battleground, so too was it a battleground for Southern Africa’s decolonisation. This book provides a transnational history of African decolonisation, apartheid diplomacy, and Southern African nationalist movements. It answers three central questions. First, what was the nature of South African involvement in the Congo crisis? Second, what was the rationale for this involvement? Third, how did South Africans perceive the crisis? Innovatively, the book shifts the focus on the Congo crisis away from Cold War intervention and centres it around African decolonisation and regional geopolitics.
Author : Drew A. Thompson
Release : 2021-03-22
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Filtering Histories by : Drew A. Thompson
Download or read book Filtering Histories written by Drew A. Thompson. This book was released on 2021-03-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographers and their images were critical to the making of Mozambique, first as a colony of Portugal and then as independent nation at war with apartheid in South Africa. When the Mozambique Liberation Front came to power, it invested substantial human and financial resources in institutional structures involving photography, and used them to insert the nation into global debates over photography's use. The materiality of the photographs created had effects that neither the colonial nor postcolonial state could have imagined. Filtering Histories: The Photographic Bureaucracy in Mozambique, 1960 to Recent Times tells a history of photography alongside state formation to understand the process of decolonization and state development after colonial rule. At the center of analysis are an array of photographic and illustrated materials from Mozambique, South Africa, Portugal, and Italy. Thompson recreates through oral histories and archival research the procedures and regulations that engulfed the practice and circulation of photography. If photographers and media bureaucracy were proactive in placing images of Mozambique in international news, Mozambicans were agents of self-representation, especially when it came to appearing or disappearing before the camera lens. Drawing attention to the multiple images that one published photograph may conceal, Filtering Histories introduces the popular and material formations of portraiture and photojournalism that informed photography's production, circulation, and archiving in a place like Mozambique. The book reveals how the use of photography by the colonial state and the liberation movement overlapped, and the role that photography played in the transition of power from colonialism to independence.
Author : Jocelyn Alexander
Release : 2020-05-21
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Transnational Histories of Southern Africa’s Liberation Movements by : Jocelyn Alexander
Download or read book Transnational Histories of Southern Africa’s Liberation Movements written by Jocelyn Alexander. This book was released on 2020-05-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational Histories of Southern Africa’s Liberation Movements offers new perspectives on southern Africa’s wars of national liberation, drawing on extensive oral historical and archival research. Assuming neither the primacy of nationalist loyalties as they exist today nor any single path to liberation, the book unpicks any notion of a straightforward imposition of Cold War ideologies or strategic interests on liberation wars. This approach adds new dimensions to the rich literatures on the Global Cold War and on solidarity movements. The contributors trace the ways that ideas and practices were made, adopted, and circulated through time and space through a focus on African soldiers, politicians and diplomats. The book also asks what motivated the men and women who crossed borders to join liberation movements, how Cold War influences were acted upon, interpreted and used, and why certain moments, venues and relations took on exaggerated importance. The connections among liberation movements, between them and their hosts, and across an extraordinarily diverse set of external actors reveal surprising exchanges and lasting legacies that have too often been obscured by the assertion of monolithic national histories. Tracing an extraordinarily diverse set of interactions and exchanges, Transnational Histories of Southern Africa’s Liberation Movements will be of great interest to scholars of Southern Africa, Transnational History, the Cold War and African Politics. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Southern African Studies.
