Philosophiae Doctor - PhD (History)http://hdl.handle.net/11394/642024-03-28T16:08:37Z2024-03-28T16:08:37ZThe un/timely death(s) of Chris Hani: discipline, spectrality, and the haunting possibility of returnLongford, Samuelhttp://hdl.handle.net/11394/98072023-04-19T00:02:38Z2021-01-01T00:00:00ZThe un/timely death(s) of Chris Hani: discipline, spectrality, and the haunting possibility of return
Longford, Samuel
This dissertation takes Chris Hani beyond the conventionally biographic by thinking through his multiple lives and deaths and engaging with his legacy in ways that cannot be contained by singular, linear narratives. By doing so, I offer alternative routes through which to understand historical change, political struggle and subjectivity, as well as biographical and historical production as a conflicted and contested terrain. I attend to these conflicting narratives not as a means through which to reconcile the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ sides of history, struggle, or the political subject. Nor to sacrifice either to what Frederick Jameson has referred to as a dialectical impasse: a “conventional opposition, in which one turns out to be more defective than the other”, and through “which only one genuine opposite exists… [therefore sharing] the sorry fate of evil… reduced to mere reflection.”1 Instead I place contested narratives about Hani and the anti-apartheid struggle into conversation with one another, and treat them as “equally integral component[s]”2 of the life and legacy of Hani.
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2021-01-01T00:00:00ZA Space for Genocide: Local Authorities, Local Population and Local Histories in Gishamvu and Kibayi (RwandaMulinda, Charles Kabwetehttp://hdl.handle.net/11394/96862023-03-07T00:02:17Z2010-01-01T00:00:00ZA Space for Genocide: Local Authorities, Local Population and Local Histories in Gishamvu and Kibayi (Rwanda
Mulinda, Charles Kabwete
Soon after the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, in 1994, research around this horrific event flourished. Although a variety of authors of different expertise (journalists, human rights activists, witnesses, academics, both Rwandans and foreigners) produced a great deal of literature, it is mostly scholars who had conducted research in Rwanda prior to 1994 who after 1994 took the lead in the endeavour to write about this genocide. Certain of these scholars produced serious work that has advanced our knowledge about it. These include anthropologists, political scientists, historians, sociologists and economists. As their prior research had brought them close to Rwanda, they felt the need and the moral obligation to contribute to the understanding of this genocide. This serious literature has increased our understanding with regard to a number of problems. It has for instance challenged the view that the genocide was the result of popular anger following the death of President Habyarimana in the plane crash of April 6h,lgg4.It has rejected the western journalistic view of the war and genocide in Rwanda
as a result of innate and secular "tribal" conflict and confrontation between the Hutu and the Tutsi. Most importantly, it has advanced knowledge about the causes,2 the making of the genocide at the national level,3 and at some local levels. In this respect, it has to some extent analysed the contexts of the genocide from the politicals economic,and social T and culturals perspectives. ln establishing the context of the genocide, many authors have turned to the whole history of Rwanda in order to understand the genocide. some extent analysed the contexts of the genocide from the political,s economic,6 social and culturals perspectives.e ln establishing the context of the genocide, many authorshave tumed to the whole history of Rwanda in order to understand the genocide.
Philosophiae Doctor - PhD
2010-01-01T00:00:00ZBaswahili and Bato ya Mangala: Regionalism and Congolese diasporic identity in cape town, 1997-2017Vuninga, Rosette Sifahttp://hdl.handle.net/11394/91492022-07-06T00:01:21Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZBaswahili and Bato ya Mangala: Regionalism and Congolese diasporic identity in cape town, 1997-2017
Vuninga, Rosette Sifa
My research is on regionalism among Congolese migrants of South Africa with the focus on
the tensions between Baswahili (Kivu inhabitants) and Bato ya mangala (Kinshasa
inhabitants) in the city of Cape Town. The two groups incarnate the geopolitical East and
West of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), respectively. I locate the tensions
between these two regional groups in Cape Town in the DRC’s politics as well as that of the
host country, South Africa. In the DRC, the tensions between Baswahili and Bato ya mangala
are rooted in the identity politics and discourse of the post-Mobutu era, mainly that which
emerged from the major events that have shaped the dynamics of the DRC’s crisis since the
late 1990s.
Philosophiae Doctor - PhD
2022-01-01T00:00:00ZSouthern African human remains as property: Physical anthropology and the production of racial capital in AustriaSchasiepen, Hella Sophie Charlottehttp://hdl.handle.net/11394/86382022-01-22T00:00:47Z2021-01-01T00:00:00ZSouthern African human remains as property: Physical anthropology and the production of racial capital in Austria
Schasiepen, Hella Sophie Charlotte
From 1907 to 1909, the Austrian anthropologist, Dr Rudolf Pöch (1870-1921), conducted an
expedition in southern Africa that was financed by the Imperial Academy of Sciences in
Vienna. Pöch enjoyed administrative and logistical support from Austria-Hungary as well as
the respective colonial governments and local authorities in the southern African region.
During this expedition, he appropriated the bodily remains of more than one hundred people
and shipped them to Vienna. When Pöch started teaching anthropology and ethnography in
1910, the remains became an essential part of the first ‘anthropological teaching and research
collection’ at the University of Vienna.
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