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View article: Profile: Dr Adewumi Damilola Adebayo
Profile: Dr Adewumi Damilola Adebayo Open
Damilola Adebayo is a historian on the rise. With a recent PhD from Cambridge, he began his scholarly journey at the University of Ibadan, followed by an MA in Geneva. And with an interest in histories of infrastructure, he stakes his plac…
View article: Contemporary African history in unusual times
Contemporary African history in unusual times Open
Initially, we envisaged that this editorial essay would focus on history-writing in the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution. In particular, we hoped to examine how that self-proclaimed moment of technological evangelism raises questions…
View article: Preface
Preface Open
Recently the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) produced a consensus report on the standing, and the editorial policies and practices of historical journals published in South Africa, including our predecessor, the Journal for Cont…
View article: Social engineering and scientific management
Social engineering and scientific management Open
This chapter examines aspects of the histories of accommodation, complicity and everyday life in race-based societies by exploring how working white people negotiated and expressed what it meant to be a white person in early apartheid Sout…
View article: Turns Turns, trends and new directions: The Southern Journal for Contemporary History
Turns Turns, trends and new directions: The Southern Journal for Contemporary History Open
Journal for Contemporary History / Southern Journal for Contemporary History Recently I have assumed editorship of the Journal for Contemporary History, housed at the University of the Free State, and this announcement is intended to intro…
View article: Saturday night at the Speedway: class, race, gender and a ‘lynching’
Saturday night at the Speedway: class, race, gender and a ‘lynching’ Open
This paper will reflect on some contemporary re- enactments of whiteness by a white subaltern crowd attending an oval track speedway meeting in central South Africa in 2017. It will also consider my role as ethnographer/observer, this latt…
View article: South African History and Subaltern Historiography: Ideas for a Radical History of White Folk
South African History and Subaltern Historiography: Ideas for a Radical History of White Folk Open
In considering how “radical” histories of ordinary whites under apartheid might be written, this essay engages with several traditions of historical scholarship “from” and “of” below. For three decades, Marxist-inspired social history domi…