Survival in the 'Dumping Grounds'

A Social History of Apartheid Relocation
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-38827-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: African History

Survival in the 'Dumping Grounds' examines a defining aspect of South Africa's recent past: the history of apartheid-era relocation. While scholars and activists have long recognised the suffering caused by apartheid removals to the so-called 'homelands', the experiences of those who lived through this process have been more often obscured.

Drawing on extensive archival and oral history research, this book examines the makings and the multiple meanings of relocation into two of the most notorious apartheid 'dumping grounds' established in the Ciskei bantustan during the mid-1960s: Sada and Ilinge. Evans examines the local and global dynamics of the project of bantustan relocation and develops a multi-layered analysis of the complex histories - and ramifications- of displacement and resettlement in the Ciskei.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Evans, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations and Tables

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Rethinking Relocation in Apartheid South Africa

Part 1: Regimes of Relocation

1Apartheid, the Bantustans and the End of Empire

1Peace, Population and Colonial Development, c.1920–1945

2The ‘late colonial’ Apartheid State

3Cold War in Southern Africa: Villagisation and Counter-insurgency

2Regimes of Relocation in the Ciskei

1The Cape as Apartheid Test Case

2The Relocation Regime

3Villagisation and Repression

4Decolonisation, Repatriation and Resettlement

5The Expansion of Sada and Ilinge

6White Farmers and Relocation

Part 2: Repertoires of Relocation

3Dislocation and Disrupted Livelihoods: Removals, Evictions and Banishments

1The Coercive Relocation Regime

2The Biopolitics of Neglect

3Displacement and Marginal Livelihoods

4Farm Evictions: Enclosure and Dispossession

5Urban Removals: Dislocation and Deprivation

6Political Banishment: Surveillance and Isolation

7‘We were starving. And we survived’: Gender, Domesticity and Displacement

4Farm Dwellers and Relocation: Gender, Generation and Agrarian Change

1Farm Labour and Agrarian Change

2Gender, Generation and Changing Men

3Changing Livelihoods and the Transformation of Aspirations

4Migration, Male Breadwinners and Masculinity

5Gender, Autonomy and Impoverishment: The Paradoxical Impacts of Relocation

Part 3

Place, Space and Power

5‘We Came from Different Places’: Displacement and Place-Making

1Forced Removals and ‘communities of memory’

2The Emergence of Underground Networks in Sada and Ilinge

3Churches, Spirituality and Sociability

4Poverty, Survival and Reciprocity

6Relocation and the State: Relations of Rule

1Territoriality and the Gendered Disciplinary Project of the BAD, c. 1963–71

2Ethnic Politics, Clientelism and Coercion under Ciskei, c.1971–80

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Evans (PhD, University of Sheffield, 2011) is a Senior Lecturer in History at Sheffield Hallam University and Research Associate of the International Studies Group, University of the Free State. She teaches modern South African, colonial and postcolonial history and has published articles on various aspects of the history of apartheid and the bantustan scheme.