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Locating itself generally within the recent revival of traditionalism in South Africa and developments in colonial and imperial history, and particularly in work on the history of the eastern Cape and Natal in the nineteenth century, this paper examines some of the conclusions drawn about the ide

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The paper concentrates on the spaces in which cross-cultural trade encounters happen and the negotiations involved in those meetings.

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For much of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the image of baby-farming as an opportunistic and deceitful way to dispose of an unwanted child was a typecast that prevailed in many parts of the world.

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New  immigrants  and  the  recently  urbanised  increasingly  co-occupy  estuarial  zones
loosely  structured  by  state  social  policy  and  hegemonic  cultural  norms.  In  these
zones,  hyperdiversity,  transience  and  transgressions  are  becoming  the  norm.  Amid

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The fight against counterfeit medication has precipitated a shift from ‘drug safety’ to ‘drug security’. In examining that shift, this project inquires into the unfolding of a logic that aims at ‘securing’ health.

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Political division within Afrikanerdom in the early 1980s hit the Broederbond as hard as it hit all other Afrikaner institutions.  The establishment of the Tricameral Parliament was a turning-point not only because it precipitated uprisings in the African townships, but also because the establish

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In a world populated by so many acronyms, GFIP makes a good example of a ‘technical’ name given to a megaproject with potentially wide social effects that remained submerged for most of its life.

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The primary focus of  this chapter is to illustrate the impact that the daily writing practice of  keeping a diary had on the development of  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's philosophical and political practices.

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