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Nielsen, Mads Bomholt

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-94561-9_1

Britain, Germany and Colonial Violence in South-West Africa, 1884-1919

2022

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-94561-9_1

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Mads Bomholt Nielsen

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“… 5 For orientation, see Bomholt Nielsen (2022: 25–35), Hartmann (2019), Häussler (2021), Kössler (2012), Kreienbaum (2015; 2022) and Zimmerer and Zeller (2016). …”

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Intimacy, comradeship and everyday police violence: the rape of Sophie M. in German South West Africa in 1910

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2024

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This article asks whether and how gendered violence was part of the quotidian activity of state building in German South West Africa. Investigating the intimate space of a police compound, it gives a micro-historical account of how interracial sexual relations unfolded there, and how policemen’s private, intimate affairs were subject to close scrutiny by the colonial state. Rape – as distinctively masculine violence – posed a notably delicate problem to the legitimacy of the colonial state. The white masculine prerogative needed to be affirmed as the raison d’être of the colonial regime, but disorderly, unprofessional violence had to be controlled for the same reason. The case examined in this article was a rare moment in which an African woman attempted to take part in the discussion over the meaning of sex and violence. Ultimately, her articulation of what intimate, physical interactions meant to her was ignored. Instead, policemen articulated what masculine honour and comradeship meant to them. These discussions over what individual ‘honourable’ (including violent) behaviour implied were also always negotiations over the nature of colonial power and its programme.

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“… 5 For orientation, see Bomholt Nielsen (2022: 25–35), Hartmann (2019), Häussler (2021), Kössler (2012), Kreienbaum (2015; 2022) and Zimmerer and Zeller (2016). …”

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Intimacy, comradeship and everyday police violence: the rape of Sophie M. in German South West Africa in 1910

Muschalek

2024

Africa

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