Infrastructures of Migrant Labour in Colonial Ovamboland, 1915 to 1954 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Infrastructures of Migrant Labour in Colonial Ovamboland, 1915 to 1954 write by Lovisa Nampala. This book was released on 2023-09-23. Infrastructures of Migrant Labour in Colonial Ovamboland, 1915 to 1954 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Infrastructures of Migrant Labour in Colonial Ovamboland, 1915 to 1954
Infrastructures of Migrant Labour in Colonial Ovamboland, 1915 to 1954 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Infrastructures of Migrant Labour in Colonial Ovamboland, 1915 to 1954 write by Lovisa Tegelela Nampala. This book was released on 2023-08-12. Infrastructures of Migrant Labour in Colonial Ovamboland, 1915 to 1954 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Forged in Genocide
Forged in Genocide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forged in Genocide write by William Blakemore Lyon. This book was released on 2024-07-22. Forged in Genocide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Sites of Contestation
Sites of Contestation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sites of Contestation write by Julia Rensing. This book was released on 2021-06-08. Sites of Contestation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a collection of essays written by emerging scholars at the University of Basel on the basis of their subjective encounters with a specific archival collection housed in the Basler Afrika Bibliographien in Basel. The Ernst and Ruth Dammann collection consists of around 8100 images, 750 audio recordings and numerous manuscripts, diaries and notes. The German couple conducted research on Namibian oral literatures and languages as they were spoken and performed across the country in the early 1950s. Based on in-depth engagement with the textual, visual and audio records assembled in this intricate collection, the authors of this book critically interrogated the implications of opening a colonial archive, exploring alternative ways of reading and understanding the historical material. As unique examples of close reading and listening, the essays propose creative ways of attending to the politics of race, gender, famine, ethnography, biography and fiction in colonial knowledge production.
Shaping the African Savannah
Shaping the African Savannah - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shaping the African Savannah write by Michael Bollig. This book was released on 2020-07-02. Shaping the African Savannah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of 150 years of social-ecological transformations in the arid savannah landscape of Namibia.
