Monuments in the Desert: A Maritime Landscape in Namibia

Harris, Lynn; Jones, Jennifer; Schnitzer, Kate

doi:10.1007/s11457-012-9087-8

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“…This constituted all Herero residing at that time in Swakopmund (Harris et al. 2012:127). Ships were used to incarcerate individuals offshore from Swakopmund, the ocean conceived by the colonial authority as the ultimate frontier, beyond the realm of (terrestrially bound) law.…”

Section: The Making Of a Frontiermentioning

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“…These shipwrecks also present meanings beyond their international value including insights into marginalised histories and relations, and their role in the shaping of the marine scape (Harris et al. 2012:137).…”

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“…Alongside their coastal exclusion and erasure, these individuals' positions at sea further acted to dehumanise them. During incarceration, prisoners were "offered" to a South African mining contractor as labour for South African mines, their incarceration at sea meaning that these individuals were considered beyond the protection of the law (Harris et al 2012). Following physical and cultural genocide and genocidal imprisonment, the colonial regime enforced the use of pass tags, restricting mobility and ensuring the consolidation of German land appropriation (Kinahan 2017).…”

Section: The Making Of a Frontiermentioning

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Extraction and the Ocean “Frontier”: Dispossession, Exclusion, and Resistance in Namibia

Carver

2022

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The perceived neglect of the ocean to state and industry actors has seen frontier rhetoric emerge as it is rendered visible under the Blue Economy agenda. By framing the marine scape as underutilised, capitalist expansion is being legitimised. Drawing on the case of Namibia, I argue that the afterlives of colonialism and apartheid are being repurposed to present the ocean as a Blue Economy opportunity. The physical disconnection of citizens from the marine scape, and the dominance of fishing and mining industries, has been used by state and development actors to present it as empty of socio‐cultural relations. However, to declare Namibia’s coasts and ocean as forgotten unless articulated through capital is to conceal that they have been labelled “no‐go” zones. I argue that, by considering exclusions and looking beyond proximity in discussions of equity and representation, the marine scape is articulated by civil society, to elucidate forms of resistance.

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