International Studies Group, Publications, 2017-2018
Published works by ISG Professors, postdoctoral fellows, and PhD students for 2017 and 2018 follow
Books
Du Toit, Jaqueline, Jason Kalman, Hartley Lachter and Vanessa R. Sasson (eds). To Fix Torah in Their Hearts: Essays on Biblical Interpretation and Jewish Studies in Honor of B. Barry Levy. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2018
Grilli, Matteo. Nkrumaism and African Nationalism: Ghana’s Pan-African Foreign Policy in the Age of Decolonization. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
Patrick, David. Reporting Genocide: Media, Mass Violence and Human Rights. London: I.B. Tauris, 2018
Journal Articles
Cohen, Andrew and Rory Pilossof. “Big Business and White Insecurities at the End of Empire in Southern Africa, c.1961-1977.” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 45, no. 5 (2017): 777-799
Dlamini, Hlengiwe Portia. “Photographs as Complementary Sources of the History of Swaziland: The Case of the Visual Images of the Makers of Swaziland’s Pre-Independence Constitution.” South African Historical Journal 69, no. 3 (July 3, 2017): 377–403
Grilli, Matteo. "Nkrumah, Nationalism and Pan-Africanism: The Bureau of African Affairs Collection." History in Africa, vol. 44, 2017: 295-307
Grilli, Matteo. "Nkrumah’s Ghana and the armed struggle in Southern Africa (1961-1966)." South African Historical Journal, 70, no. 1, 2018: 56-81.
Grilli, Matteo. "Imagining, building and living Nkrumaism." African Historical Review, 50, no 1, (2018): 1-16
Gwande, Victor. "“By Whatever Means Necessary!”: Surviving in Post-2000 Zimbabwe" African Historical Review 49, no.1 (2017): 91-103
Gwande, Victor. "Solidarity Road: The Story of a Trade Union in the Ending of Apartheid." African Historical Review 49, no. 1 (2017): 104-105
Holdridge, Chris. “Worlds at War: The Local and the Global in New Histories of the South African War”. African Historical Review 50, no. 1 (2018): 1-21
Holdridge, Chris. “Ceremony, Conquest and Conciliation: An Afterword.” Royal Studies Journal 5, no. 1 (2018): 168–174
Mhike, Ivo. "Intersections of sexual delinquency and sub-normality: white female juvenile delinquency in Southern Rhodesia, 1930s–c. 1950." Settler Colonial Studies 8, no. 4 (2018): 575-593
Money, Duncan. "Trouble in Paradise: the 1958 white mineworkers’ strike on the Zambian Copperbelt." Extractive Industries and Society, 4, no. 4 (2017): 707-16
Money, Duncan. "Race and class in the post-war world: The Southern Africa Labour Conferences, 1943-47." International Labor and Working-Class History, 94 (2018)
Mseba, Admire. “Late Precolonial Struggles, European Expansion and the Making of Colonial Authority: Northeastern Zimbabwe, c.1840-1903.” The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 51, no. 2, (2018)
Mseba, Admire. “Trajectories of Land Reforms in Southern Africa’s Former Settler Colonies.” Journal of Southern African Studies, 44, no. 6, (2018)
Mseba, Admire. “Nonhumans, Narratives and Proximities: The Power of Things and the Cultural Politics of Race, Land and Water in Zimbabwe.” African Studies Quarterly, 18, no. 1, (2018)
Maringira, Godfrey, and Tinashe Nyamunda. “Duty versus Agency in the Security State of Zimbabwe: Soldiers’ Deployment in Chiadzwa Diamond Mining.” Extractive Industries and Society 4, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 172–79
Nyamunda, Tinashe. “British Sterling Imperialism, Settler Colonialism and the Political Economy of Money and Finance in Southern Rhodesia, 1945 to 1962.” African Economic History 45, no. 1 (June 16, 2017): 77–109
Nyamunda, Tinashe. “Money, Banking and Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence.” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 45, no. 5 (September 3, 2017): 746–76
Passemiers, Lazlo. "The Pan Africanist Congress and the Congo Alliance, 1963–1964." South African Historical Journal, 70, no. 1 (2018), 82-107
Phimister, Ian, and Victor Gwande. "Secondary Industry and Settler Colonialism: Southern Rhodesia before and after the Unilateral Declaration of Independence." African Economic History 45, no. 2 (2017): 85-112
Phimister, Ian and Rory Pilossof. “Wage Labor in Historical Perspective: A Study of the De-proletarianization of the African Working Class in Zimbabwe, 1960–2010.” Labour History 58, no. 2, (2017): 215-227
Pilossof, Rory. “White on White: Real and Imagined Crises in White Southern Africa.” Historia 62, no. 1 (2017): 92-106
Pilossof, Rory and Jacob Boersema. “Not all Whites are Farmers: Urban Whites and White Privilege in Post-colonial Zimbabwe.” Africa 87, no. 4 (2017): 702-719
Pilossof, Rory. “Farms, Farm Workers and New Forms of Livelihoods in Southern Africa.” Journal of Agrarian Change 18, no. 12 (2018): 473-480
Stevenson, Ana. “‘Bloomers’ and the British World: Dress Reform in Transatlantic and Antipodean Print Culture, 1851-1950.” Cultural & Social History 14, no. 5 (2017): 621-646
Stevenson, Ana. “Kenneth Florey, American Women’s Suffrage Postcards: A Study and a Catalogue.” European Journal of American Studies Book Reviews: 3 (2017): 1-2
Stevenson, Ana. “Imagining Women’s Suffrage: Frontier Landscapes and the Transnational Print Culture of Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.” Pacific Historical Review 87, no. 4 (2018): 638-666
Stevenson, Ana. “In flag-rante: Julia Gillard and the infamous ‘flag scene’ in ABC’s At Home with Julia.” The Journal of Popular Television 6, no. 3 (2018): 381-403
Stevenson, Ana. “‘Cast off the Shackles of Yesterday’: Women’s Suffrage in Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins.” Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 98, no. 2 (2018): 69-103
Stevenson, Ana. “Harriet Clisby’s ‘Sketches of Australia’: Travel Writing and Colonial Refigurations in Boston’s Woman’s Journal.” Women’s History Review 27, no. 5 (2018): 837-857
Stevenson, Ana. “The Gender-Apartheid Analogy in the Transnational Feminist Imaginary: Ms. Magazine and the Feminist Majority Foundation, 1972-2002.” Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 19, no. 1 (2018): 93-116
Stevenson, Ana and Claire Cooke. “Breaking Boundaries, Defying Borders: Transnational Networks of Gender and Race in South Africa and the United States.” Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 19, no. 1 (2018): 1-8
Stevenson, Ana. “Lori Merish, Archives of Labour: Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States.” Australasian Journal of American Studies 37, no. 2 (2017): 129-132
Van Zyl-Hermann, Danelle and Boersema, Jacob. “Introduction: the politics of whiteness in Africa.” Africa87, no. 4 (2017): 651-661
Van Zyl-Hermann, Danelle. “Make Afrikaners great again! National populism and the new white minority politics in post-apartheid South Africa.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 41, no. 15 (2018): 2673-2692.
Van Zyl-Hermann, Danelle. “Race, class and rumour in late and post-apartheid South Africa: The case of Arrie Paulus.” Social History 43, no. 4 (2018): 509-530
Book Chapters
Du Toit, Jaqueline. “Fixing God’s Torah in Small Caps: Children’s Bibles, Bible Scholarship, and Contemporary Judaism” in To Fix Torah in Their Hearts: Essays on Biblical Interpretation and Jewish Studies in Honor of B. Barry Levy, edited by Jaqueline S. du Toit, Jason Kalman, Hartley Lachter and Vanessa R. Sasson, 415-136. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, in press: 2018.
Du Toit, Jaqueline. “Esther, pious and brave: reading children’s Bibles as commentary on twentieth century Afrikaner culture” in Text@Contexts: The Five Scrolls, edited by Athalya Brenner-Idan, Gale A. Lee and Archie C.C. Lee, 210-220. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2018.
Du Toit, Jaqueline. “‘Imperial gospel’: the Afrikaans children’s Bible and the dawn of Afrikaner civil religion in South Africa” in The Routledge Companion to International Children’s Literature, edited by John Stephens, 145-153. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018.
Glover, Michael. “A Cattle-centred History of Southern Africa?” in Nature Conservation in Southern Africa Morality and Marginality: Towards Sentient Conservation edited by Harry Wels, Marja Spierenberg, and Jan-Bart Gewald. Leiden: Brill, 2018
Mhike, Ivo. “Youth Violence in the Zimbabwe National Youth Service, 2001 -2007” in What politics? Youth and political engagement in Africa edited by Elina Oinas, Henri Onodera, and Leena Suurpää 246-264, Leiden: Brill, 2018
Phimister, Ian. ‘Frenzied Finance: Gold Mining in the Globalizing South, c.1886-1896’, in A Global History of Gold Rushes edited by Benjamin Mountford and Stephen Tuffnell, 139-162. Oakland: University of Californian Press, 2018
Pilossof, Rory and Philippe Burger. “Migration and Mine Labour in South Africa.” In Mining and Community in South Africa From Small Town to Iron Town, edited by L Marais, P Burger, and D Van Rooyen, 15-29. London: Routledge, 2017
Book Reviews and Reviews
Gwande, Victor. Book Review: The Politics and Economics of Decolonisation in Africa: The Failed Experiment of the Central African Federation, by Andrew Cohen, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 45, 6 (2017)
Mseba, Admire. Book Review: Birders of Africa: History of A Network, by Nancy J Jacobs, New Heaven, Yale University Press, 2016, African Historical Review, (2018)
Stevenson, Ana. Book Review: Women of Ice and Fire: Gender, Game of Thrones, and Multiple Media Engagements edited by Anne Gjelsvik and Rikke Schubart, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016, VIDA: Blog of the Australian Women’s History Network, (16 July 2017)
Stevenson, Ana. Book Review: Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco, by Clare Sears, Duke University Press, 2015,” American Studies Journal 56, no. 1 (2017): 227-229
Van Zyl-Hermann, Danelle. Book Review: The end of whiteness: Satanism and family murder in late apartheid South Africa, by Falkof, N, Auckland Park: Jacana, 2016. South African Historical Journal 69, no. 3 (2017): 492-496
Encyclopaedia Entries
Ana Stevenson, “Bloomer Costume,” in The World of Antebellum America: A Daily Life Encyclopedia, Vol. I, ed. Alexandra Kindell, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. 2018
Ana Stevenson, “Elizabeth Cady Stanton,” in The World of Antebellum America: A Daily Life Encyclopedia, Vol. I, ed. Alexandra Kindell, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2018
Ana Stevenson, “Fashion, women’s,” in The World of Antebellum America: A Daily Life Encyclopedia, Vol. I, ed. Alexandra Kindell, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2018
Ana Stevenson, “Woman’s rights,” in
The World of Antebellum America: A Daily Life Encyclopedia, Vol. II, ed. Alexandra Kindell, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2018