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1986Apartheid
Südafrika und die deutschen Interessen am Kap
by Verheugen, Günter / Vorwort von Tutu
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June 2023Die unbequeme Vergangenheit
Vom Umgang mit Staatsverbrechen in Russland und anderswo
by Nikolai Epplée, Anselm Bühling
Wie umgehen mit einer Geschichte, die von Phasen exzessiven Terrors geprägt war? Kann es eine Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit geben, wenn als einzige Institution der Geheimdienst den Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion überdauert hat? Nikolai Epplée umreißt in seinem fesselnden Buch die Unterdrückungsmethoden der Sowjetherrschaft von der Oktoberrevolution bis zu Stalins Tod und die anschließenden Versuche, ihre Opfer zu rehabilitieren. Eine »Versöhnung« von oben spricht die Bürger von Schuld und Verantwortung frei, während Initiativen von unten, wie die im Dezember 2021 verbotene Menschenrechtsgesellschaft Memorial, Millionen von Toten ihre Namen zurückgeben. Vergleichend blickt er auf Länder wie Argentinien, Deutschland, Japan, Polen, Spanien und Südafrika. Ob Schlussstrich, juristische Aufarbeitung oder Wahrheitskommissionen – was lässt sich daraus lernen? Welche Folgen das Ausbleiben der Vergangenheitsbearbeitung für die russische Gesellschaft hatte, zeigt sich heute dramatischer als je zuvor. Wie dennoch zu einem produktiven Umgang mit der Vergangenheit gefunden werden könnte – das ist Thema dieser eindringlichen Studie, die seit Kriegsbeginn ein Bestseller ist.
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1986Frauen gegen Apartheid
Zur Geschichte des politischen Widerstandes von Frauen
by Herausgegeben von Weiss, Ruth
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February 1997Niemand, der mit mir geht
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by Nadine Gordimer, Friederike Kuhn
»Die Zukunft«, sagt die weiße Juristin und aktive Gegnerin der Apartheid Vera Stark zu ihrem Mann Ben, »besteht darin, die Vergangenheit rückgängig zu machen.« Sie meint es politisch und weiß, es gilt auch für ihr Leben. Sie zieht die Konsequenzen, trennt sich von ihrem Mann, verkauft das ihr durch die Scheidung zugefallene Haus und geht den dornigen Weg der Politik allein weiter.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2024Settlers at the end of empire
Race and the politics of migration in South Africa, Rhodesia and the United Kingdom
by Jean Smith
Settlers at the end of empire traces the development of racialised migration regimes in South Africa, Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) and the United Kingdom from the Second World War to the end of apartheid in 1994. While South Africa and Rhodesia, like other settler colonies, had a long history of restricting the entry of migrants of colour, in the 1960s under existential threat and after abandoning formal ties with the Commonwealth they began to actively recruit white migrants, the majority of whom were British. At the same time, with the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act, the British government began to implement restrictions aimed at slowing the migration of British subjects of colour. In all three nations, these policies were aimed at the preservation of nations imagined as white, revealing the persistence of the racial ideologies of empire across the era of decolonisation.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2020A global history of white nationalism
by Daniel Geary, Camilla Schofield, Jennifer Sutton, John Solomos, Satnam Virdee, Aaron Winter
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2023Socialist republic
Remaking the British left in 1980s Sheffield
by Daisy Payling
Socialist republic is a timely account of 1980s left-wing politics in South Yorkshire. It explores how Sheffield City Council set out to renew the British Left. Through careful analysis of the Council's agenda and how it interacted with trade unions, women's groups, lesbian and gay rights groups and acted on issues such as peace, environmentalism, anti-apartheid and anti-racism, the book draws out the complexities involved in building a broad-based politics which aimed unite class and identity politics. Running counter to 1980s narratives dominated by Thatcherism, the book examines the persistence of social democracy locally, demonstrating how grassroots local histories can enrich our understanding of political developments on a national and international level. The book is essential reading for students, scholars, and activists with an interest in left-wing politics and history.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2013The African presence
Representations of Africa in the construction of Britishness
by Graham Harrison
This book considers the ways that representations of Africa have contributed to the changing nature of British national identity. Using interviews, photo archives, media coverage, advertisements, and web material, the book focuses on major Africa campaigns: the abolition of slavery, anti-apartheid, 'Drop the Debt', and 'Make Poverty History'. Using a hybrid theoretical framework, the book argues that the representation of Africa has been mainly about imagining virtuous Britishness rather than generating detailed understandings of Africa. The book develops this argument through a historical review of 200 years of Africa campaigning. It also looks more closely at recent and contemporary campaigning, opening up new issues and possibilities for campaigning: the increasing use of consumer identities, electronic media, and aspects of globalisation. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in postcolonial politics, relations between Britain and Africa, and development studies. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017The South African War reappraised
by Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie
The South African War was a catalyst in the creation of modern South Africa and was a major international event which had profound implications for British rule in other parts of their colonial empire. This was South Africa's own 'Great War' - the largest conflict waged by the British in the century between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War. It shaped political discourse among South Africa's various communities and moulded the outlook of a generation of imperial administrators, soldiers and anti-colonial activists. The war launched South Africa as a moral issue of global significance, involving leading humanitarians, foreign 'pro-Boer' volunteers as well as pro-imperial contingents from various dominions and colonies of settlement, and would later find echoes in the campaign against apartheid. This volume includes a historiographical review of a century of writing on the war. It examines South Africa's place in the imperial structure and reappraises its impact on imperial defence and the political identities of Africans, Asians, Boer commandos and Cape Afrikaners. An analysis of the role of the media and the effects of the war on nationalists in India, Ireland and the Dominions is also included. The South African War reappraised will be of particular interest to students of imperialism, modern South Africa, nationalism and the media.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Science and society in southern Africa
by Saul Dubow
This collection, dealing with case studies drawn from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Mauritius, examines the relationship between scientific claims and practices, and the exercise of colonial power. It challenges conventional views that portray science as a detached mode of reasoning with the capacity to confer benefits in a more or less even-handed manner. That science has the potential to further the collective good is not fundamentally at issue, but science can also be seen as complicit in processes of colonial domination. Not only did science assist in bolstering aspects of colonial power and exploitation, it also possessed a significant ideological component: it offered a means of legitimating colonial authority by counter-poising Western rationality to native superstition and it served to enhance the self-image of colonial or settler elites in important respects. This innovative volume ranges broadly through topics such as statistics, medicine, eugenics, agriculture, entomology and botany.
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Walking with Nelson Mandela
by Roger Friedman
Nelson Mandela’s journey from a rural South African herdboy, through decades of anti-apartheid struggle and imprisonment, to the head of the top table of humanity, is an epic tale of sacrifice and the triumph of principle over bitterness and anger.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2018What Gandhi Didn't See
Being Indian in South Africa
by Zainab Priya Dala
From the vantage point of her own personal history—a fourth-generation Indian South African of mixed lineage—indentured as well as trader class, part Hindu, part Muslim—Dala explores the nuts and bolts of being Indian in South Africa today. From 1684 till the present, the Indian diaspora in South Africa has had a long history. But in the country of their origin, they remain synonymous with three points of identity: indenture, apartheid and Mahatma Gandhi. In this series of essays, Zainab Priya Dala deftly lifts the veil on some of the many other facets of South African Indians, starting with the question: How relevant is Gandhi to them today? It is a question Dala answers with searing honesty, just as she tackles the questions of the ‘new racism’—between Black Africans and Indians—and the ‘new apartheid’—money; the tussle between the ‘canefields’ where she grew up, and the ‘Casbah’, or the glittering town of Durban; and what the changing patterns in the names the Indian community chooses to adopt reflect. In writing that is fluid, incisive and sensitive, she explores the new democratic South Africa that took birth long after Gandhi returned to the subcontinent, and the fight against apartheid was fought and won. In this new ‘Rainbow Nation’, the people of Indian origin are striving to keep their ties to Indian culture whilst building a stronger South African identity. Zainab Priya Dala describes some of the scenarios that result from this dichotomy.
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Social & political philosophyFebruary 2013Light On A Dark Secret
by Glynnis Hayward
Insightful, Revealing, Shocking! A glimpse of what it was truly like to live and love under the repressive regime of Apartheid. In 1982, Fran Walker was born in California and given up for adoption. Twenty years later, she is on a quest to find her biological parents and solve questions that have plagued her since childhood. Four women are the storytellers and each narrates her perspective of events that began in 1980, when two students fell in love in South Africa. In addition to Fran, the women are her birth mother, biological grandmother, and adoptive mother. 1980 was a difficult time in apartheid-era South Africa for those who opposed government policies; it was extremely dangerous to act outside the law. As a bi-racial couple in a country governed by strict laws of racial segregation, Valerie and Johan's love affair was clandestine. The consequence of their forbidden love, if discovered, would be immediate incarceration. A child from such a union was unthinkable. Discovering she is pregnant, Valerie is faced with imminent exposure. Unable to communicate with Johan, who is being closely monitored by the police, she makes decisions that will have far-reaching consequences. Her actions, as well as those of her mother, Sharon Spencer, and Grace Walker - Fran's adoptive mother, raise the question: More than biology, what does it take to be a mother? Fran despairs when, amidst prejudice and recrimination, her search discovers a family alienated and broken. But the journey to South Africa is a coming of age for her when she falls in love with a fellow student. She gains insights which help her understand and forgive the circumstances that surrounded her birth.
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Biography & True StoriesKilimanjaro and Beyond
A Life-Changing Journey
by Barry Finlay. Chris Finlay
BARRY FINLAY and his son CHRIS sit propped against a rock, struggling to draw a breath on Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain. Their destination is tantalizingly close but what happens next will be determined by their health and the weather. In their hands is a Canadian flag bearing the names of over 200 people who contributed to helping a desperate community in Tanzania. Kilimanjaro and Beyond is an award winner that is inspirational, thought provoking and entertaining. Follow along on the journey and realize that nothing is more satisfying than reaching a goal and giving others the opportunity to achieve theirs. Kilimanjaro and Beyond is a very personal account of the author's journey from a sedentary lifestyle to the peak of a mountain at age 60 with his son. It is a descriptive story of his upbringing on the prairies and how it gave him the dedication and perseverance to change his lifestyle sufficiently to be able to reach the summit. Not only is it inspirational, but it provides the reader with an insight into the preparation required and takes them step by step up and down the mountain and to a school to meet some amazing children. The book describes how the events that occurred in Africa were life-changing in two ways. The first was reaching the summit and the realization that almost anything can be accomplished if you want it badly enough. The second was meeting some children who simply make do with what they have and how that can be applied to any situation. In short, Kilimanjaro and Beyond demonstrates the satisfaction that can be achieved by reaching a previously unthinkable goal and helping others to acheive theirs.
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FictionApril 2017Hear Me
by Julia North
After yet another shameful one-night stand Lissa has to accept that her sisters are right – she is an alcoholic and it’s time for rehab. She hates the idea of therapy, doesn’t want to examine her past, but just as she begins to see reasons for her drinking, life takes a brutal turn. Who are her fellow patients? Why is one of them so damned perfect? Hear Me is a powerful story about life and death, addiction and sobriety, racism and the fight for justice – but above all it is a story about love.
