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        Ordering Africa
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Ordering Africa

        Anthropology, European imperialism and the politics of knowledge

        by Helen Tilley, Robert Gordon

        African research played a major role in transforming the discipline of anthropology in the twentieth century. Ethnographic studies, in turn, had significant effects on the way imperial powers in Africa approached subject peoples. Ordering Africa provides the first comparative history of these processes. With essays exploring metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers, the transnational features of knowledge production, and the relationship between anthropology and colonial administration, this volume both consolidates and extends a range of new research questions focusing on the politics of imperial knowledge. Specific chapters examine French West Africa, the Belgian and French Congo, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Italian Northeast Africa, Kenya, and Equatorial Africa (Gabon) as well as developments in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. A major collection of essays that will be welcomed by scholars interested in imperial history and the history of Africa.

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        Die Namibia-Deutschen
        January 1993

        Die Namibia-Deutschen

        Geschichte einer Nationalität im Werden

        by Rüdiger, Klaus H.

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        Chetaah Summer
        Children's & YA

        Chetaah Summer

        by Katja Brandis

        When a travel adventure becomes a journey to yourself! For all readers who long to follow the wide world’s call to freedom. Especially for all the WOODWALKERS fans who have grown up. An unforgettable experience is waiting for Lily: she is off to work on a farm in Namibia where they work to protect endangered cheetahs. The German vet’s daughter will help care for injured big cats, raise orphaned young animals and assist with field research in the bush. A dream comes true for her! Lily’s trip goes well until she falls in love with Eric, the son of a neighbouring farmer. His strange family and their secrets plunge her life into chaos. Katja Brandis, whose WOODWALKERS series regularly conquers the bestseller lists by storm, is back with an environmental novel about the protection of cheetahs in Namibia. Authentic, sympathetic and completely devoid of kitsch sunset pathos.

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        The adventure
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2025

        The adventure

        Violent borders, illegal migration and the uncertain quest for life in Morocco

        by Sébastien Bachelet

        This ethnographic exploration of irregular migration from Western and Central Africa in Morocco deconstructs dehumanising narratives of a "migration crisis" and a "sub-Saharan problem" in politics of migration. The book provides an original focus on how migrants understood and experienced their entrapped mobility. The emic notion of "the adventure" at the heart of this study sheds light on a transformative, epic quest to carve out a better life and future. The book traces how young men from Western and Central Africa sought to assert themselves as agents of their own destinies, despite uncertain, illegalising processes. In steering away from aesthetics of despair and fearmongering narratives, the book brings new insights into inter-disciplinary debates (e.g. illegality, uncertainty, immobility, violence, suffering, transit, etc.). Such focus is essential to draw out the complexity and existential depth of (irregular) migrants' lives, journeys, and stories.

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        Living politics after war
        Teaching, Language & Reference
        December 2020

        Living politics after war

        by Johanna Söderström, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet

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        Travellers in Africa
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Travellers in Africa

        British travelogues, 1850-1900

        by Timothy Youngs

        Works of travel have been the subject of increasingly sophisticated studies in recent years. This book undermines the conviction with which nineteenth-century British writers talked about darkest Africa. It places the works of travel within the rapidly developing dynamic of Victorian imperialism. Images of Abyssinia and the means of communicating those images changed in response to social developments in Britain. As bourgeois values became increasingly important in the nineteenth century and technology advanced, the distance between the consumer and the product were justified by the scorn of African ways of eating. The book argues that the ambiguities and ambivalence of the travellers are revealed in their relation to a range of objects and commodities mentioned in narratives. For instance, beads occupy the dual role of currency and commodity. The book deals with Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, and attempts to prove that racial representations are in large part determined by the cultural conditions of the traveller's society. By looking at Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it argues that the text is best read as what it purports to be: a kind of travel narrative. Only when it is seen as such and is regarded in the context of the fin de siecle can one begin to appreciate both the extent and the limitations of Conrad's innovativeness.

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        Die zweite Heimat der Störche

        Die zweite Heimat der Störche

        by Habeck, Robert & Paluch, Andrea

        Neuausgabe des erstmals 2004 erschienenen Romans »Der Schrei der Hyänen« Vier Frauen zwischen Deutschland und Namibia – ein großer Roman über die Vergangenheit, die nicht vergeht Eine Familiengeschichte voller Geheimnisse und Verrat. Ein Blick zurück in die deutsche Kolonialgeschichte. Und vier Frauenschicksale, die eng miteinander verwoben sind. Cosima lebt mit ihrem Mann und ihrer Tochter in Frankfurt, als eines Tages ihre bislang unbekannte Großmutter vor der Tür steht. Nele von Kavea eröffnet ihrer Enkeltochter, dass sie die rechtmäßige Erbin eines Anwesens in Namibia ist. Cosima wehrt sich gegen dieses Erbe aus Kolonialzeiten und gegen die Wahrheit, die sich ihr bei ihren Nachforschungen vor Ort eröffnet. Denn ihre Urgroßmutter Arabella, die 1899 in der deutschen Kolonie Südwest-Afrika ankommt, ist nicht das einzige Familienmitglied, das jahrzehntelang Geheimnisse gehütet hat … Konfrontiert mit ihrer Herkunft und der Gewalt und Schuld aus einer anderen Zeit, stellt sich Cosima der Verantwortung ihrer Vorfahren und der Frage: Woran kann man sich in der Gegenwart festhalten, wenn nicht an der eigenen Vergangenheit?

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        Where is Russia Heading?
        2024

        Where is Russia Heading?

        by Jens Siegert

        Vladimir Putin has been ruling Russia for 25 years. There is no end in sight to his dictatorship. He relies on repression at home and is waging a war of destruction against a neighbouring country. The conflict with the West has long become a systemic conflict between an illiberal-autocratic ideology and liberal-democratic principles. Nothing will change as long as Putin remains in power. Nevertheless, as far as can be ascertained under unfree conditions, the majority of the population seems to be supporting Putin. Does this mean that too many people in Russia do not want democracy or peace? Will everything remain the same after Putin? Or is there a chance that Russia will eventually take a different, more democratic path? Whatever the outcome of the war in Ukraine, Russia is not going to disappear. We will still have to deal with our big neighbour in the east. This makes it all the more important to focus on longer-term developments. As a recognised expert on Russian history and society, the author outlines what the post-Putin era might look like. His in-depth analysis makes it clear that Russia is partly Putin, but Putin is not everything about Russia.

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        Eclipsing the West
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2025

        Eclipsing the West

        China, India and the forging of a new world

        by Vince Cable

        As the international order begins to crumble, this incisive book asks what the rise of the Asian superstates means for the future. The Western-dominated world we have known for the past three hundred years is coming to an end. As America withdraws from its role as enforcer of the international order, other countries are moving in to fill the void. Among them are two rising Asian 'superstates'. Accounting for almost half of the world's population, China and India have the potential to wield enormous economic and political power. China is already vying with the US for the top spot in the global economy, and on some measures has surpassed it. By the middle of the century India may be number two. How will these countries navigate their growing roles on the world stage? What are the implications for commerce, international law and the fight against climate change? Vince Cable has followed China and India for decades, first as a professional economist and later as a senior government minister. In Eclipsing the West he draws on the latest data and a lifetime of political and economic experience to offer a compelling account of what the rise of the Asian superstates means for the future.

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        Southern interregnum
        Business, Economics & Law
        June 2025

        Southern interregnum

        Remaking hegemony in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa

        by Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Karl von Holdt, Ruy Braga, Ching Kwan Lee, Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos

        How do governing elites in the global South attempt to remake hegemony in a conjuncture of durable crisis? This is the question at the core of Southern interregnum, a comparative conjunctural analysis of hegemonic projects in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa. Working with a Gramscian notion of crisis, centred on the interregnum as an enduring period of instability and uncertainty, in which hegemonic authority erodes and competing projects for crisis resolution emerge, the book proposes a novel critical reading of the convulsions that are currently reshaping the political economy of the global South and the world-system. Mapping the variegated trajectories of elite projects to reconcile accumulation and legitimation - and probing the limits of these projects - the book breaks new ground in the study of the contemporary global South.

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        Settlers at the end of empire
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2024

        Settlers 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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        Worrier state
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2023

        Worrier state

        Risk, anxiety and moral panic in South Africa

        by Nicky Falkof

        Risk, anxiety and moral panic are endemic to contemporary societies and media forms. How do these phenomena manifest in a place like South Africa, which features heightened insecurity, deep inequality and accelerated social change? What happens when cultures of fear intersect with pervasive systems of gender, race and class? Worrier state investigates four case studies in which fear and anxiety appear in radically different ways: the far right myth of 'white genocide'; so-called 'Satanist' murders of young women; an urban legend about township crime; and social theories about safety and goodness in the suburbs. Falkof foregrounds the significance of emotion as a socio-political force, emphasising South Africa's imbrication within globalised conditions of anxiety and thus its fundamental and often-ignored hypermodernity. The book offers a bold and creative perspective on the social roles of fear and emotion in South Africa and thus on everyday life in this complex place.

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        Peace and the politics of memory
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2024

        Peace and the politics of memory

        by Annika Björkdahl, Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Stefanie Kappler, Johanna Mannergren Selimovic, Timothy Williams

        This important book provides new understandings of how the politics of memory impacts peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. It does so by developing a theoretical approach focusing on the intersection of sites, agency, narratives, and events in memory-making. Drawing on rich empirical studies of mnemonic formations in Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, South Africa and Cambodia, the book speaks to a broad audience. The in-depth, cross-case analysis shows that inclusivity, pluralism, and dignity in memory politics are key to the construction of a just peace. The book contributes crucial and timely knowledge about societies that grapple with the painful legacies of the past and advances the study of memory and peace.

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        South African economy and policy, 1990-2000
        Business, Economics & Law
        July 2010

        South African economy and policy, 1990-2000

        An economy in transition

        by Stuart Jones, Robert W. Vivian

        The 1990s were the decade of transition from white rule to black rule in South Africa. In the political sphere the transition was dramatic. In the economic sphere less so, yet the effects were and are likely to be far more far reaching. It is the economic impacts which are likely to determine the future of the country. With the exception of the diamond-rich Botswana, all the countries of Africa which underwent the transition from white to black rule experienced economic decline. Is this to be the fate of South Africa? How was and is South Africa's historical role as the world's leading gold producer affected by the transition? Why did some economic policies succeed and others fail? This book, by leading authorities in the field, attempts to answer these and other related questions. ;

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        Intimacy and injury
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2024

        Intimacy and injury

        In the wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa

        by Nicky Falkof, Srila Roy, Shilpa Phadke

        Both India and South Africa have shared the infamy of being labelled the world's 'rape capitals', with high levels of everyday gender-based and sexual violence. At the same time, both boast long histories of resisting such violence and its location in wider cultures of patriarchy, settler colonialism and class and caste privilege. Through the lens of the #MeToo moment, the book tracks histories of feminist organising in both countries, while also revealing how newer strategies extended or limited these struggles. Intimacy and injury is a timely mapping of a shifting political field around gender-based violence in the global south. In proposing comparative, interdisciplinary, ethnographically rich and analytically astute reflections on #MeToo, it provides new and potentially transformative directions to scholarly debates this book builds transnational feminist knowledge and solidarity in and across the global south.

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        Woodwalkers – Die Rückkehr (Staffel 2, Band 2). Herr der Gestalten
        January 2023

        Woodwalkers – Die Rückkehr (Staffel 2, Band 2). Herr der Gestalten

        Ein neues Abenteuer der Bestsellerreihe ab 10 Jahren rund um den Pumajungen Carag und die Gestaltwandlerschule Clearwater High

        by Katja Brandis, Claudia Carls

        Die „Woodwalkers“ starten in ihr nächstes großes Abenteuer! In der zweiten Staffel der Bestsellerreihe von Katja Brandis warten größere Herausforderungen als je zuvor auf Puma-Wandler Carag, Wolfsmädchen Tikaani und ihre Freundinnen und Freunde von der Clearwater High. Die Klassenfahrt nach Namibia steht kurz bevor. Doch zuerst wartet eine gefährliche Mission auf Pumawandler Carag und seine Mitschüler. Ihr Lehrer James Bridger wird tief in den Rocky Mountains gefangen gehalten. Die Rettungsaktion stellt ihren Mut auf eine harte Probe. Carag weiß, dass die Entführer hinter dem geheimen Buch der Gestaltwandler her sind. James Bridger konnte es in letzter Sekunde ins Ausland schmuggeln- nach Namibia! So wird die Klassenfahrt zu einem Wettlauf mit ihren Feinden, allen voran der Löwen-Wandlerin Rebecca Youngblood. Während des Austauschs mit der Narawandu School versucht Carag, an das wertvolle Buch heranzukommen. Dabei wären die Begegnungen mit den afrikanischen Gestaltwandlern, Kämpfe mit wilden Pavianen und Lernexpeditionen in der Wüste schon aufregend genug! Carag merkt, dass viele der afrikanischen Schüler eigene Geheimnisse haben. Das größte von ihnen: der sagenumwobene Herr der Gestalten - ein Wandler, der über unglaubliche Fähigkeiten verfügen soll. Und angeblich lebt er mitten unter ihnen. Auch im zweiten Schuljahr kommen Tierfantasy-Fans ab 10 Jahren voll auf ihre Kosten: Neue, spannende Gestaltwandler-Charaktere und mitreißende Abenteuer in der Natur machen jeden Band zum garantierten Lesespaß. Die Illustrationen im einzigartigen Stil von Claudia Carls setzen die Geschichten perfekt in Szene. Gedruckt auf Recycling-Umweltschutzpapier, zertifiziert mit dem Blauen Engel. Die Woodwalkers- und Seawalkers-Bände erscheinen halbjährlich.   Bisher erschienen sind: Woodwalkers, Staffel 1 Woodwalkers (1). Carags VerwandlungWoodwalkers (2). Gefährliche FreundschaftWoodwalkers (3). Hollys GeheimnisWoodwalkers (4). Fremde WildnisWoodwalkers (5). Feindliche SpurenWoodwalkers (6). Tag der Rache Woodwalkers, Staffel 2 Woodwalkers - Die Rückkehr (1). Das Vermächtnis der Wandler Woodwalkers Special Woodwalkers & Friends. Katzige GefährtenWoodwalkers & Friends. Zwölf GeheimnisseWoodwalkers & Friends. Wilder Kater, weite Welt Seawalkers Seawalkers (1). Gefährliche GestaltenSeawalkers (2). Rettung für ShariSeawalkers (3). Wilde WellenSeawalkers (4). Ein Riese des MeeresSeawalkers (5). Filmstars unter WasserSeawalkers (6). Im Visier der Python Alles über die Serie und viele Extras zum Buch unter www.woodwalkers.de

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        Invoking Empire
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2025

        Invoking Empire

        Imperial citizenship and Indigenous rights across the British World, 1860–1900

        by Darren Reid

        Invoking Empire examines the histories of Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand during the transitional decades between 1860-1900, when each gained some degree of self-government yet still remained within the sovereignty of the British Empire. It applies the conceptual framework of imperial citizenship to nine case studies of settlers and Indigenous peoples who lived through these decades to make two main arguments. It argues that colonial subjects adapted imperial citizenship to both support and challenge settler sovereignty, revealing the continuing importance of imperial authority in self-governing settler spaces. It also posits that imperial citizenship was rendered inoperable by a combination of factors in both Britian and the colonies, highlighting the contingency of settler colonialism on imperial governmental structures and challenging teleological assumptions that the rise of settler nation states was an inevitable result of settler self-government.

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        The French empire at War, 1940–1945
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        The French empire at War, 1940–1945

        by Martin Thomas

        The French empire at war draws on original research in France and Britain to investigate the history of the divided French empire - the Vichy and the Free French empires - during the Second World War. What emerges is a fascinating story. While it is clear that both the Vichy and Free French colonial authorities were only rarely masters of their own destiny during the war, preservation of limited imperial control served them both in different ways. The Vichy government exploited the empire in an effort to withstand German-Italian pressure for concessions in metropolitan France and it was key to its claim to be more than the mouthpiece of a defeated nation. For Free France too, the empire acquired a political and symbolic importance which far outweighed its material significance to the Gaullist war effort. As the war progressed, the Vichy empire lost ground to that of the Free French, something which has often been attributed to the attraction of the Gaullist mystique and the spirit of resistance in the colonies. In this radical new interpretation, Thomas argues that it was neither of these. The course of the war itself, and the initiatives of the major combatant powers, played the greatest part in the rise of the Gaullist empire and the demise of Vichy colonial control.

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