Koloniale Herrschaft und ihre Grenzen

Zollmann, Jakob

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“…Edmonds and Nettelbeck 2018: 2). Although existing scholarship has highlighted that the police force's capacity to control the colony of GSWA was rather limited (Zimmerer 2001;Zollmann 2010;De Juan et al 2017), in their intimate encounters with the population, policemen had ample scope to blend 'idiosyncratic bureaucratic technologies with "petty", normalized acts of violence', as Muschalek argues.…”

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Violence and intimacy in colonial and postcolonial Africa

Herzog,

Tischler

2024

Africa

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Violence and intimacy in colonial and postcolonial Africa

Herzog,

Tischler

2024

Africa

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“…The policemen of the case study were part of the Mounted Police of German South West Africa (Berittene Landespolizei für Deutsch Südwest) (Muschalek 2019;Zollmann 2010). This force was founded in 1905, in the midst of wars of annihilation that the German army waged against the indigenous populations of South West Africa who had taken up arms to fight against colonial oppression, dispossession and settler intrusion.…”

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“…Given the extent of the people and territory they sought to bring under their dominance, the number of state officials was vanishingly low. The police's possibilities to formally control German South West Africa were quite limited, and their organization has been described as dysfunctional (Juan et al 2017;Zollmann 2010). Yet, in the everyday, an informal, improvised way of proceeding emerged: in the fieldi.e.…”

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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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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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“…In most cities, only partial control over urban growth and form has been exercised (Lynch, 1960, p. 2). Windhoek is an example of near-complete realisation of colonial spatial projects of racial discrimination and control, first in an ad-hoc manner during German colonialism (Zollmann, 2010;Roland, Stevens and Simon, 2023) and later comprehensively during apartheid. Apartheid was enforced more rigidly in Namibia than South Africa (Pendleton, 1996, p. 38).…”

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Young Residents’ Perceptions of Windhoek’s Streetscapes

Roland,

Stevens,

Simon

2022

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Urban streets are public spaces that can gather residents and create vibrant and diverse experiences contributing to the positive qualities of an urban landscape. Windhoek’s suburban model, which has evolved from colonial and apartheid planning, relies heavily on private motorcars, which most residents cannot afford. The city’s various neighbourhoods have historically been segregated by race, ethnic group, and wealth. The city lacks public spaces where different residents can easily and freely interact. Windhoek presents a particularly unsettling disconnect between the formal systems governing and producing the city and residents' socio-cultural backgrounds and everyday spatial practices. Windhoek presents a particularly unsettling disconnect between the formal systems governing and producing the city and residents' socio-cultural backgrounds and everyday spatial practices. This paper develops a methodology that combines non-expert participatory methods and tools to investigate perceptions of young residents of Windhoek’s streetscape, extending beyond objective spatial descriptions and generalised socio-political critiques to address individual subjective perceptions, recollections, and experiences of specific urban spaces within Windhoek. The conceptual lens of the uncanny is employed as an organising concept to consider how the spatial and social legacies of colonialism and apartheid continue to affect Windhoek residents’ perceptions and behaviours in publicly-accessible spaces. The paper examines residents’ objective topological understandings of the city’s spatial structure, their movement through it, and their subjective, qualitative social perceptions about place, value and belonging connected to that spatial understanding.

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Koloniale Herrschaft und ihre Grenzen

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Violence and intimacy in colonial and postcolonial Africa

Violence and intimacy in colonial and postcolonial Africa

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

Young Residents’ Perceptions of Windhoek’s Streetscapes

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