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In this epic history-cum-anthology, Megan Vaughan tells the story
of the theatre blogosphere from the dawn of the carefully crafted
longform post to today's digital newsletters and social media
threads. Contextualising the key debates of fifteen years of
theatre history, and featuring the writings of over 40 theatre
bloggers, Theatre Blogging brings past and present practitioners
into conversation with one another. Starting with Encore Theatre
Magazine and Chris Goode in London, George Hunka and Laura Axelrod
in New York, Jill Dolan at Princeton University, and Alison Croggon
in Melbourne, the work of these influential early adopters is
considered alongside those who followed them. Vaughan explores
issues that have affected both arts journalism and the theatre
industry, profiling the activist bloggers arguing for broader
representation and better working conditions, highlighting the
innovative dramaturgical practices that have been developed and
piloted by bloggers, and offering powerful insights into the
precarious systems of labour and economics in which these writers
exist. She concludes by considering current threats to the theatre
blogosphere, and how the form continues to evolve in response to
them.
This account of the 1949 famine in colonial Malawi employs a wide
variety of historical sources, ranging from Colonial Office
documentation to the songs of women who lived through the tragedy.
The analysis of the causes and development of the famine takes the
reader through a detailed agricultural and social history of
Southern Malwai in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing
in particular on the nature of social and economic stratification,
changes in kinship systems and the position of women and placing
all this within the wider context of the impact of colonial rule.
In this epic history-cum-anthology, Megan Vaughan tells the story
of the theatre blogosphere from the dawn of the carefully crafted
longform post to today's digital newsletters and social media
threads. Contextualising the key debates of fifteen years of
theatre history, and featuring the writings of over 40 theatre
bloggers, Theatre Blogging brings past and present practitioners
into conversation with one another. Starting with Encore Theatre
Magazine and Chris Goode in London, George Hunka and Laura Axelrod
in New York, Jill Dolan at Princeton University, and Alison Croggon
in Melbourne, the work of these influential early adopters is
considered alongside those who followed them. Vaughan explores
issues that have affected both arts journalism and the theatre
industry, profiling the activist bloggers arguing for broader
representation and better working conditions, highlighting the
innovative dramaturgical practices that have been developed and
piloted by bloggers, and offering powerful insights into the
precarious systems of labour and economics in which these writers
exist. She concludes by considering current threats to the theatre
blogosphere, and how the form continues to evolve in response to
them.
In this set of essays Walima T. Kalusa and Megan Vaughan explore
themes in the history of death in Zambia and Malawi from the late
nineteenth century to the present day. Drawing on extensive
archival and oral historical research they examine the impact of
Christianity on spiritual beliefs, the racialised politics of death
on the colonial Copperbelt, the transformation of burial practices,
the histories of suicide and of maternal mortality, and the
political life of the corpse.
This is a lively and original book, which treats Western biomedical
discourse about illness in Africa as a cultural system that
constructed "the African" out of widely varying, and sometimes
improbable, materials. Referring mainly to British dependencies in
East and Central Africa in the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth
century, it draws on diverse sources ranging from court records and
medical journals to fund-raising posters and "jungle doctor"
cartoons. Curing Their Ills brings refreshing concreteness and
dynamism to the discussion of European attitudes toward their
others, as it traces the shifts and variations in medical discourse
on African illness. Among the topics the book covers are the
differences between missionary medicine, which emphasized
individual responsibility for sin and disease, and secular
medicine, which tended toward an ethnic model of collective
pathology; leprosy and the construction of the social role of "the
leper"; and the struggle to define insanity in a context of great
ignorance about what the "normal African" was like and a
determination to crush indigenous beliefs about bewitchment. The
underlying assumption of this discourse was that disease was
produced by the disintegration and degeneration of "tribal"
cultures, which was seen to be occurring in the process of
individualization and modernization. This was a cultural rather
than a materialist model, the argument being that Africans were
made sick not by the material changes to their lives and
environment, but by their cultural "maladaptation" to modern life.
The "scientific" discourse about the biological inferiority of "the
African," traced by one school of scientists to defects in the
frontal lobe, makes painful reading today; it persisted into the
1950s.
The island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean,
about 550 miles east of Madagascar. Uninhabited until the arrival
of colonists in the late sixteenth century, Mauritius was
subsequently populated by many different peoples as successive
waves of colonizers and slaves arrived at its shores. The French
ruled the island from the early eighteenth century until the early
nineteenth. Throughout the 1700s, ships brought men and women from
France to build the colonial population and from Africa and India
as slaves. In Creating the Creole Island, the distinguished
historian Megan Vaughan traces the complex and contradictory social
relations that developed on Mauritius under French colonial rule,
paying particular attention to questions of subjectivity and
agency. Combining archival research with an engaging literary
style, Vaughan juxtaposes extensive analysis of court records with
examinations of the logs of slave ships and of colonial
correspondence and travel accounts. The result is a close reading
of life on the island, power relations, colonialism, and the
process of cultural creolization. Vaughan brings to light
complexities of language, sexuality, and reproduction as well as
the impact of the French Revolution. Illuminating a crucial period
in the history of Mauritius, Creating the Creole Island is a major
contribution to the historiography of slavery, colonialism, and
creolization across the Indian Ocean.
"Curing their Ills" traces the history of encounters between
European medicine and African societies in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. Vaughan's detailed examination of medical
discourse of the period reveals its shifting and fragmented nature,
highlights its use in the creation of the colonial subject in
Africa, and explores the conflict between its pretensions to
scientific neutrality and its political and cultural motivations.
The book includes chapters on the history of psychiatry in
Africa, on the treatment of venereal diseases, on the memoirs of
European 'Jungle Doctors', and on mission medicine. In exploring
the representations of disease as well as medical practice, "Curing
their Ills" makes a fascinating and original contribution to both
medical history and the social history of Africa.
Herskovits Prize Winner What are the problems of rural food supply
in southern Africa today and how have they arisen historically? In
part this book is a reconstruction of an African agricultural
system over one hundred years; in part it is an examination of the
construction of knowledge about a rural African people. The first
half of the book focuses on the chitemene agricultural system of
the Bemba known as slash and burn. The authors show that chitemene
involves a great deal more than the cutting and burning of trees.
The second half addresses the question of labour migration and its
effects on the agricultural production of the area, re-visiting the
colonial debate with new evidence. The authorsprovide a critical
re-assessment of Audrey Richards' classic work, Land, Labour and
Diet: An Economic Study of the Bemba Tribe and assess the
ecological, social and political impact on a rural society
undergoing rapid change. North America: Heinemann
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