The impact of the South African War
01 Jan 2002-
TL;DR: Omissi and Thompson as mentioned in this paper investigated the impact of the war in South Africa and found that the war had a profound effect on the South African Afrikaner consciousness and race consciousness.
Abstract: Preface List of Maps List of Tables List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Investigating the Impact of the War D.Omissi & A.Thompson PART I: THE SOUTH AFRICAN IMPACT The War in Twentieth-Century Afrikaner Consciousness A.Grundlingh Black Communities in the Cape and Natal B.Nasson Capitalism and the War I.Smith Imagining the New South Africa in the Era of Reconstruction S.Dubow PART II: THE BRITISH IMPACT Propaganda, Philanthropy and Commemoration: British Society and the War A.Thompson The Making of a War Correspondent: Lionel James of The Times : J.Beaumont The British Peace Movement and the War P.Laity Preaching Imperialism: Weslyan Methodism and the War G.Cuthbertson British Radicalism, the South African Crisis, and the Origins of the Theory of Financial Imperialism P.Cain 'National Efficiency' and the 'Lessons' of the War G.Searle PART III: THE IMPERIAL AND INTERNATIONAL IMPACT India: Some Perceptions of Race and Empire D.Omissi Canada P.Buckner Building Nations: Australia and New Zealand L.Trainor 'The World's No Bigger than a Kraal': The War and International Opinion in the First Age of 'Globalization': D.Lowry Afterword: The Imprint of the War J.Darwin
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01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: In this paper, Mager et al. discuss the origins of the 1899 South African War and the evolution of the South African population in the twenty-first century, including resistance to apartheid, 1970-c.1975 Anne Kelk Mager and Maanda Mulaudzi.
Abstract: Introduction Anne Kelk Mager, Bill Nasson and Robert Ross 1. South Africa and South Africans: nationality, belonging, citizenship Saul Dubow 2. Imperialism, settler identities, and colonial capitalism: the hundred year origins of the 1899 South African War Stanley Trapido 3. Class, culture, and consciousness in South Africa, 1880-1899 Shula Marks 4. War and union, 1899-1910 Shula Marks 5. The union years, 1910-1948: political and economic foundations Bill Freund 6. South African society and culture, 1910-1948 Philip Bonner 7. The apartheid project, 1948-1970 Deborah Posel 8. Popular responses to apartheid, 1948-c.1975 Anne Kelk Mager and Maanda Mulaudzi 9. Resistance and reform, 1973-1994 Tom Lodge 10. The evolution of the South African population in the twentieth century Charles Simkins 11. The economy and poverty in the twentieth century Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings 12. Modernity, culture, and nation Tlhalo Sam Raditlhalo 13. Environment, heritage, resistance, and health: newer historiographical directions Albert Grundlingh, Howard Philips, Christopher Saunders and Sandra Swart.
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01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History in the Graduate School of Social Sciences & Humanities of Northeastern University was submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree.
Abstract: OF DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History in the Graduate School of Social Sciences & Humanities of Northeastern University April, 2013
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30 Sep 2009
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine and explain the circumstances under which civic-state interactions can lead to structural change, and what these interactions can teach us about the potential of civic society to realise rights in general.
Abstract: In the 1950s, civic actors in South Africa mobilised against racist laws that penetrated nearly every aspect of civic life. The social justice struggle that eventually displaced white minority rule culminated in democratic elections in 1994. Following this historic transition from authoritarian rule to democracy, other issues came to the fore, including how the South African government was to receive persons claiming refugee status on the basis of persecution and war. Civic actors again mobilised around these ‘new’ human rights and social justice issues; they became engaged either in working with government to develop a refugee policy, or in confronting the government to fulfil its national and international obligations towards refugees. This book discusses the dynamics of civic-state interactions aimed at the state’s obligations to promote, protect and fulfil human rights. Through the lens of refugee rights advocacy in South Africa in the first decade of its post-1994 period of democracy, this book examines and explains the circumstances under which civic-state interactions can lead to structural change, and what these interactions can teach us about the potential of civic society to realise rights in general. In any social justice struggle, the key to civic actors being able to hold states and their governments accountable for their human rights obligations lies in civic actors making strategic choices. Making strategic choices has various implications for civic actors. First, civic actors must appreciate the social, political and legal context in which they operate; this historical appreciation reveals certain structural boundaries to realising rights that are nearly always imposed by the state. Second, civic actors must critically assess these structural boundaries that condition their behaviour, but also have the potential for structural change or ‘elaboration’, through civic actors interacting with the state in formal and also informal interventions. Third, civic actors must appreciate the social distance that always exists between themselves and the government, measured by divergences in meanings, interests and political positions. Through a critical engagement in this ‘external’ relationship, it is possible for civic actors to capitalize on these divergences in advocating a state’s accountability for realising human rights. Whether the social distance ought to be narrowed or broadened at a particular moment depends on (1) the context in which this takes place, (2) the structural boundaries that exist, and (3) the desired outcome. Three examples of refugee rights advocacy, and the corresponding social distance that existed between civic actors and the government in South Africa are examined. The first concerns the process of bringing a formal refugee policy into place. The second example focuses on the implementation of a separate policy to resolve the situation of former Mozambican refugees in the country. The third example focuses on the manner in which the rights of refugees have been litigated through the South African courts. Drawing on these three examples, the book concludes that a critical engagement with the government by civic actors, reflected in the strategic choices that they make, allows civic actors to take advantage of a narrow, but significant space for achieving structural change.
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01 Aug 2011
TL;DR: The South African economy experienced substantial growth and change over the twentieth century as discussed by the authors, with the Witwatersrand gold mine becoming one of the world's largest gold-mining sites in the early 20th century.
Abstract: The South African economy experienced substantial growth and change over the twentieth century. By the time of Union in 1910, gold mining on the Witwatersrand had already and rapidly transformed what had been a peripheral agricultural economy into one that was industrialising around mineral exports. Gold attracted British capital and immigrants from Europe (as well as from across southern Africa), and made possible secondary industrialisation and four decades of sustained economic growth in the middle of the century. Between the early 1930s and early 1970s, the South African economy grew approximately tenfold in real terms. Even taking into account the steady increase in the population, real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita tripled (see Figure 11.1). Despite faltering growth in the 1980s, South Africa accounted for almost exactly one half of the total GDP of sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the apartheid period, in 1994.
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01 Aug 2011
TL;DR: The symbolic condensation of apartheid as the global signifier of racism risks conferring an apparent and misleading transparency on the system of apartheid, as if comprehensible simply as the extremity of racism as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The idea of apartheid has long had an international currency that goes well beyond its national historical reference. Apartheid originated as a label for the system of institutionalised racism and racial social engineering inaugurated by the National Party after its election victory in 1948. But the term has since been appropriated as a global signifier of racialised separation, inhumanity and exploitation. International cross-references have the virtue of prompting a more global reading of apartheid as one among many projects of racialised discrimination and subjugation. The historiography of apartheid has tended to be rather more insular and inward looking in the past, particularly in the thick of the anti-apartheid struggle, when the specificities of the South African experience dominated both the analytical and the political agenda of debate. Yet there is also the obvious risk of caricature, essentialising and dehistoricising a system of rule that was more internally fractious and fractured, historically fluid and complex, than the formulaic reductions can possibly render. The symbolic condensation of apartheid as the global signifier of racism risks conferring an apparent – and misleading – transparency on the system of apartheid, as if comprehensible simply as the extremity of racism. This renders its historical unevenness and complexity irrelevant and/or uninteresting.
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