International Studies Group publications, 2023-2024
Published works by ISG postdoctoral fellows, research fellows, and PhD students.
2023
Books
Gerits, F. The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945-1966. Ithaca: Cornell University, 2023.
Ncube, S. Politics, Profits and Protection: Zimbabwe’s tobacco industry since 1947. Makhanda: African Humanities Association, 2023.
Nkhoma, B. Bettering their Foods: Peasant production, nutrition and the state in Malawi, 1859 – 2005. Makhanda: African Humanities Association, 2023.
Phimister, I. & Patrick, D. (Eds). The Life and Works of Witer and Cartoonist: Ted Carrol – A Boxing Legacy. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.
Sun, J. Y. Kenya and Zambia’s Relations with China 1949-2019. London: James Currey, 2023.
Journal articles
Bishi, G. & Money, D. ‘“Daisyfield in the crucible”: Afrikaners, education and poor whites in Southern Rhodesia, 1911–1948.’ Settler Colonial Studies 13, 4 (2023): 507-521.
Dande, I. “Cooking, the crisis and cuisines: household economies and food politics in Harare’s high-density suburbs, (Zimbabwe), 1997-2020.” Journal of Southern African Studies 48, 6 (2023): 1058-1076.
De Cola, A. 2023. “Money and the Regularisation of African Soldiers in the Early Phase of Italian Colonialism in Eritrea.” War & Society 42, 2 (2023): 140-156.
Dlamini, H. P. Awasom-Fru, M.M. Dlamini, L.R. & Awasom-Fru, S. (2023). “Towards Unpacking the Origin and Development of Eswatini (Swazi) Irredentism.” CODESRIA Africa Development 48, 3, (2023): 1-27.
Dlamini, H. “Leadership and gender in Eswatini: Swati politics through the prism of Gelane Simelane Zwane, 1990– 2018.” Journal of Contemporary African Studies 41, (2023): 377-403.
Glover, M. “‘That other me, down and dreaming’: an animal perspective critique of decoloniality theory.” Social Dynamics 49, 2 (2023): 260-279.
Koke, H. “Unfulfilled Promises and Desires: The British South Africa Company (BSAC), Settler Politics and the Development of Southern Rhodesia’s Fiscal System, 1890–1922.” Enterprise & Society, Published online (2023):1-24.
Law, K. “Women's Activism in the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1986–1994.” The Historical Journal 66, 1 (2023): 258-279.
Money, D. “The Struggle for Air: Mining, Dust, and Death on the South African Rand.” Environment & Society Portal 6, (2023): Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.
Narain, V. “Constitutionalising Muslim Women’s Rights: A Perspective from India.” Journal of International Law and Islamic Law 19, 1 (2023): 39-53.
Narain, V. “Women and Constitutions in Muslim Contexts: An Introduction.” Journal of International Law and Islamic Law 19, 1 (2023): 4 – 23.
Ncube, S. & Koke, H. “The Political Economy of Postwar Southern Rhodesia: The 1949 Tobacco Tax Crisis.” African Economic History 51, 2 (2023): 79-101.
Nkhoma, B. “The Political Economy of Irrigation Development and Peasant Food Production in Colonial Malawi, 1945–1961.” African Historical Review 53, 1-2 (2023): 43-64.
Nkhoma, B. “The ‘Malnutrition Syndrome’: African Diets, Nutrition Science, and Colonial Research in Southern Africa.” African Historical Review, Published online (2023):1-13.
Phimister, I., Lendy, “Lobengula, and London: The 1893 Anglo-Ndebele War Revisited.” Global Nineteenth-Century Studies 2, 2 (2023): 101–41.
Sechele, U. “Botswana and the Bully: Apartheid South Africa and the SADCC 1978 –1986.” Southern Journal for Contemporary History 48, 1 (2023): 105-132.
Sishuwa, S & Money, D. “Defamation of the president, racial nationalism, and the Roy Clarke affair in Zambia.” African Affairs 122, 486 (2023): 33–55.
Takura, E. Mujere, J. & Bishi, G. “Southern Rhodesia’s adherence to the Geneva Convention and the treatment of Italian and German internees, 1939-1945.” Journal of African Military History 1, 7 (2023): 99–120.
Tembo, A. “The Second World War Memorial in Zambia: A Contested Tribute.” Journal of African Military History 7, 1-2 (2023): 19-40.
Book chapters
Chansa, J. “The ‘Politics’ of Mining Pollution in Zambia: Investigating 100 years of Environmental management on the Copperbelt” in The Environmental Humanities of Extraction in Africa: Poetics and Politics of Exploitation, edited by Ogude, J & Mushonga, T. London: Routledge, 2023.
Daimon, A. & Nyamunda, T. “Human and Commodity Smuggling across the Zimbabwe-South Africa Border, 2000-2009” in Zimbos Never Die? Negotiating Survival in a Challenged Economy, 1990s to 2015, edited by Kufakurinani, U. Makombe, E.K. Chimhete, N. & Nyambara, P (Eds). Leiden: Brill, 2023.
Daimon, A. “Malawian Encounters with the Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle and Resultant Identities, 1966-1979” in Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Zimbabwe’s Liberation Struggle: Revolutionaries and Sellouts, edited by Nyakudya, M. Mwatwara, W. & Mujere, J. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
Daimon, A. “The Rabble-Rouser: Robert Sambo’s ICU stint in Rhodesia” in Labour Struggles in Southern Africa 1919 - 1949: New Perspectives on the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU), edited by Johnson, D. Nieftagodien, N & Van der Walt, L. Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2023.
Dande, I. & Mwatwara, W. “Mupedzanhamo: Spatial Struggles and Displacements, Harare’s Flea markets c.1994-2013” in Zimbos Never Die? Negotiating Survival in a Challenged Economy, 1990s to 2015, edited by Kufakurinani, U. Makombe, E.K. Chimhete, N. & Nyambara, P. Leiden: Brill, 2023.
Jakarasi, J. & Nyakudya, M. “Reconsidering Conceptual Issues Pertaining to Zimbabwe’s Liberation Struggle: A Case Study of the Diwa Community in North Eastern Zimbabwe” in Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Zimbabwe’s Liberation Struggle: Revolutionaries and Sellouts, edited by Nyakudya, M. Mwatwara, W. & Mujere, J. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
Koorts, L. “From grand narratives to complicated subjects: biography in the postapartheid era” in History beyond Apartheid: New Approaches in South African Historiography, edited by Simpson, T. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023.
Mwatwara, W. and Dande, I. “Policing the state: The army and the preservation of ‘peace and order’ in Zimbabwe, c.1997 – 2008” in Zimbos Never Die? Negotiating Survival. In Zimbos Never Die? Negotiating Survival in a Challenged Economy, 1990s to 2015, edited by Kufakurinani, U. Makombe, E.K. Chimhete, N. & Nyambara, P. Leiden: Brill, 2023.
Stevenson, A. & Swartz, R. “Slavery and Its Meanings in the British World: Historiography, Knowledge Production, and Research Ethics” in Research as More Than Extraction: Knowledge Production and Gender-Based Violence in African Societies, edited by Bunting, A. Kiconco, A & Quirk, J. Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2023.
Stevenson, A. “Women in the Ivory Tower: Historical Memory and the Heroic Educator in Mona Lisa Smile” in Academia and Higher Learning in Popular Culture, edited by Harmes, K. & Scully, R. Cham: Palgrave Mcmillan, 2023.
Van Zyl-Hermann, D. “Bringing white workers back in : new histories of race and class in South Africa in History beyond Apartheid: New Approaches” in South African Historiography: New Approaches in South African Historiography, edited by Simpson, T. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023.
Yon, N. “Hyper-Inflation and Social Security Provision in Zimbabwe 2000-2009: An Institutional Perspective on the National Social Security Authority” in Zimbos Never Die? Negotiating Survival in a Challenged Economy, 1990s to 2015, edited by Kufakurinani, U. Makombe, E.K. Chimhete, N. & Nyambara, P. Leiden: Brill, 2023.