Traders and Trade in Colonial Ovamboland, 1925-1990

Traders and Trade in Colonial Ovamboland, 1925-1990
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Publisher : African Books Collective
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 9783905758566
ISBN-13 : 3905758563
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Traders and Trade in Colonial Ovamboland, 1925-1990 by : Gregor Dobler

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

Infrastructures of Migrant Labour in Colonial Ovamboland, 1915 to 1954
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Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Total Pages : 145
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ISBN-10 : 9783906927473
ISBN-13 : 3906927474
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Infrastructures of Migrant Labour in Colonial Ovamboland, 1915 to 1954 by : Lovisa Tegelela Nampala

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

Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : 9789004443075
ISBN-13 : 900444307X
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making by :

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

Forged in Genocide
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : 9783111374918
ISBN-13 : 3111374912
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Forged in Genocide by : William Blakemore Lyon

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

Crisis Under Critique
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 711
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ISBN-10 : 9780231555487
ISBN-13 : 0231555482
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Crisis Under Critique by : Didier Fassin

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

The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 418
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ISBN-10 : 9781000508772
ISBN-13 : 1000508773
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling by : Max Gallien

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

Diamond Warriors in Colonial Namibia
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Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9783906927459
ISBN-13 : 3906927458
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Diamond Warriors in Colonial Namibia by : Job Shipululo Amupanda

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

Breweries, Politics and Identity: The History Behind Namibian Beer
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Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Total Pages : 129
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ISBN-10 : 9783906927121
ISBN-13 : 3906927121
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Breweries, Politics and Identity: The History Behind Namibian Beer by : Tycho van der Hoog

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

Transforming Innovations in Africa
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : 9789004245235
ISBN-13 : 9004245235
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Transforming Innovations in Africa by : Jan-Bart Gewald

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.