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Poverty, war, and violence in South Africa
\"Poverty and violence are issues of global importance. In Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa, Clifton Crais explores the relationship between colonial conquest and the making of South Africa's rural poor. Based on a wealth of archival sources, this detailed history changes our understanding of the origins of the gut-wrenching poverty that characterizes rural areas today. Crais shifts attention away from general models of economic change and focuses on the enduring implications of violence in shaping South Africa's past and present. Crais details the devastation wrought by European forces and their African auxiliaries. Their violence led to wanton bloodshed, large-scale destruction of property, and famine. Crais explores how the survivors struggled to remake their lives, including the adoption of new crops, and the world of inequality and vulnerability colonial violence bequeathed. He concludes with a discussion of contemporary challenges and the threats to democracy in South Africa. Written for general readers and specialists alike, this book overturns conventional wisdom and offers new ways of understanding violence and poverty in the modern world\"--Provided by publisher.
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Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa
Poverty and violence are issues of global importance. In Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa, Clifton Crais explores the relationship between colonial conquest and the making of South Africa's rural poor. Based on a wealth of archival sources, this detailed history changes our understanding of the origins of the gut-wrenching poverty that characterizes rural areas today. Crais shifts attention away from general models of economic change and focuses on the enduring implications of violence in shaping South Africa's past and present. Crais details the devastation wrought by European forces and their African auxiliaries. Their violence led to wanton bloodshed, large-scale destruction of property, and famine. Crais explores how the survivors struggled to remake their lives, including the adoption of new crops, and the world of inequality and vulnerability colonial violence bequeathed. He concludes with a discussion of contemporary challenges and the threats to democracy in South Africa.
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Custom and the Politics of Sovereignty in South Africa
How do we write the social history of state formation in a world after the \"linguistic turn\"? Focusing on South Africa from the nineteenth century to the present, the article explores one facet of state formation as it relates to the issue of sovereignty. The article is especially interested in state formation as a negotiated process, and in the legacies of state formation for the productions of knowledge and in the formation and reformation of ethnic politics. More generally, the article argues for a phenomenologically grounded approach that rethinks the study of power in colonial Africa.
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The Vacant Land: The Mythology of British Expansion in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
\"The Vacant Land\" explores the changing image of the African in nineteenth-century South Africa. British travellers, officials and settlers originally viewed Africans with a cautious optimism. By the third decade of the nineteenth century, however, the emergent colonial elite had assembled a series of negative images which they considered were intrinsic characteristics in the soul of the African. The article argues that the social and cultural construction of a negative image of the black critically informed early South African historical writing and particularly the narrative of European expansion and the argument that blacks and whites arrived in the country at roughly the same time. The author suggests the ways in which history became nature and myth, and the role of culture and identity in South Africa's colonial past.
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Representation and the Politics of Identity in South Africa: An Eastern Cape Example
Representation and the \"ideological work\" of identity are discussed, and the multiple and frequently overlapping invention of social boundaries as important terrains of signification and contestation are examined using South Africa as a model.
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