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Books > Humanities > History > African history > General
Van al die gebeure in die Kaapkolonie gedurende die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog het die teregstelling van Hans Lötter, asook dié van kmdt. Gideon Scheepers, die meeste emosie onder Afrikaners ontketen. Lötter en sy mederebelle in die Kolonie het die verbeelding van die plaaslike bevolking aangegryp en die Britte maande lank hoofbrekens besorg. Sy gevangeneming, verhoor en teregstelling deur ’n Britse vuurpeloton op Middelburg, Kaap, het groot woede en verontwaardiging veroorsaak en hom verewig as Boeremartelaar in die Afrikaner-volksoorleweringe. Nou word sy boeiende verhaal vir die eerste keer volledig vertel.
The concept of 'hybridity' is often still poorly theorized and
problematically applied by peace and development scholars and
researchers of resource governance. This book turns to a particular
ethnographic reading of Michel Foucault's Governmentality and
investigates its usefulness to study precisely those mechanisms,
processes and practices that hybridity once promised to clarify.
Claim-making to land and authority in a post-conflict environment
is the empirical grist supporting this exploration of
governmentality. Specifically in the periphery of Bukavu. This
focus is relevant as urban land is increasingly becoming scarce in
rapidly expanding cities of eastern Congo, primarily due to
internal rural-to-urban migration as a result of regional
insecurity. The governance of urban land is also important
analytically as land governance and state authority in Africa are
believed to be closely linked and co-evolve. An ethnographic
reading of governmentality enables researchers to study
hybridization without biasing analysis towards hierarchical
dualities. Additionally, a better understanding of hybridization in
the claim-making practices may contribute to improved government
intervention and development assistance in Bukavu and elsewhere.
The socio-political context of Egypt is full of the affectual
burdens of history. The revolutions of both 1952 and 2011
proclaimed that the oppressive, colonial past had been overthrown
decisively. So why has the oppression perpetrated by previous
regimes been repeated? What impact has this had on the lives of
'ordinary' citizens? Egyptian Revolutions looks at the impact of
the current events in Egypt on citizens in relation to matters of
belonging, identification and repetition. It contests the tendency
within postcolonial theory to understand these events as resistance
to Western imperialism and the positioning of activists as agents
of sustainable change. Instead, it pays close attention to the
continuities from the past and the contradictions at work in
relation to identification, repetition and conflict. Combining
postcolonial theory with a psychosocial studies framework it
explores the complexities of inhabiting a society in a state of
conflict and offers a careful analysis of current theories of
gender, religion and secularism, agency, resistance and compliance,
in a society riven with divisions and conflicts.
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