Rethinking Resistance

by Abbink, Jon; De Bruijn, Mirjam; Van Walraven, Klaas; Bruijn, Mirjam De

• ISBN13: 9789004126244
• ISBN10: 9004126244
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Turpin Dist Serviced Ltd

Summary

"Rethinking Resistance" analyzes revolts from the nineteenth century and early colonial Africa, post-colonial rebellions and recent conflicts in African history by reinterpreting resistance studies in the light of current scholarly thought and linking them to new conceptual perspectives on the changing nature of violence.

Table of Contents

Maps, figures, tables and photographs	vii
Preface	ix
Rethinking resistance in African history: An introduction	1	(42)
Klaas van Walraven
Jon Abbink
PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
Resistance to Fulbe hegemony in nineteenth-century West Africa	43	(26)
Mirjam de Bruijn
Han van Dijk
Colonial conquest in central Madagascar: Who resisted what?	69	(18)
Stephen Ellis
Revisiting resistance in Italian-occupied Ethiopia: The Patriots' Movement (1936-1941) and the redefinition of post-war Ethiopia	87	(30)
Aregawi Berhe
PART II: SOCIAL INEQUALITIES AND COLONIAL HIERARCHIES
Ambiguities of resistance and collaboration on the Eastern Cape Frontier: The Kat River Settlement 1829-1856	117	(24)
Robert Ross
African mutinies in the Netherlands East Indies: A nineteenth-century colonial paradox	141	(29)
Ineke van Kessel
Absence of evidence is no proof: Slave resistance under German colonial rule in East Africa	170	(21)
Jan-Georg Deutsch
PART III: VIOLENCE, MEANING AND IDEOLOGY IN RESISTANCE
The Kawousan War reconsidered	191	(27)
Kimba Idrissa
Sawaba's rebellion in Niger (1964-1965): Narrative and meaning	218	(35)
Klaas van Walraven
The vagaries of violence and power in post-colonial Mozambique	253	(26)
Gerhard Seibert
PART IV: RESISTANCE AS HERITAGE AND MEMORY
Herero genocide in the twentieth century: Politics and memory	279	(26)
Jan-Bart Gewald
`Namibia, land of the brave': Selective memories on war and violence within nation building	305	(23)
Henning Melber
Dervishes, moryaan and freedom fighters: Cycles of rebellion and the fragmentation of Somali society, 1900-2000	328	(39)
Jon Abbink
List of authors	367