Selective Memory: British Perceptions of the Herero–Nama Genocide, 1904–1908 and 1918

Nielsen, Mads Bomholt

doi:10.1080/03057070.2017.1286843

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“…The Boseto and Zone 5 copper mines that displaced farmers from 2011–2015 are adjacent to a group of villages located in the Ngamiland District in Botswana—Toteng, Sehitwa, and Bothathogo (Figure 1). The BaHerero and Ovambanderu farmers that make up much of the population in this area arrived as refugees of the Herero and Namaqua genocide waged by Germany in the early 20 th century (Hitchcock, 2017; Nielsen, 2017). Their languages (mHerero and mBanderu) are not nationally recognized—in school, parliament, or on the radio.…”

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Relational Displacement and the Colonial Legacies of Copper Mining in the Kalahari Copperbelt Region of Botswana

Huckleberry

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Displacements are understood as having wide-ranging impacts on livelihoods and community access to resources. Using interviews and oral histories of farmers displaced by a copper mine in Botswana, the research described here demonstrates that displacement not only changes lived experiences of those who are displaced, but also has broad relational impacts by dispersing displaced people's family members and neighbors, disenfranchising farmers from their cattle and land, shifting the ways that human-wildlife conflict plays out, and creating a new and disruptive relationship between cattle farmers and the mining industry. Postcolonial and Indigenous scholars have long written about human-animal kinship and ongoing colonial and capitalist relations that weave (sometimes disparate) communities closer together or further apart. The work described here demonstrates that this knowledge allows for a clearer understanding of how displacement impacts the material and relational worlds of people and nonhumans displaced by the disruptive forces of resource development.

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Relational Displacement and the Colonial Legacies of Copper Mining in the Kalahari Copperbelt Region of Botswana

Huckleberry

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…During the Herero and Nama genocide, for instance, many British observes commented and denounced the savagery of the Germans. More importantly, German requests for British cooperation was frequently rejected and the Cape Colony border was closed for trade on several accounts (Bomholt Nielsen, 2017). Therefore, while it is important to challenge notions of exceptionalism whether German or British—which tend to indicate Britain was a ‘soft’ colonial power (Wagner, 2018)—it is important that we maintain the distinctions and demarcations that also made up the colonial world.…”

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Contextualising colonial violence: Causality, continuity and the Holocaust

Nielsen

2021

History Compass

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This article considers the problems that arises in linking colonialism and colonial violence to the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust. Links between colonialism and the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust, have again become popular with the increased focus on colonial violence. In German colonial history, a dominant tendency has been the ‘colonial sonderweg’ where continuities are drawn from colonial Africa to the Holocaust. Recently, British colonial violence too has been contextualised with the Holocaust, thus expanding the continuity thesis. Furthermore, Germany's confrontation with the Holocaust after 1945, some argue, serves as a model for how Britain should confront its past as a colonial power. This article argues that the invocation of the Holocaust as a benchmark for violence and a way to gauge colonial violence is generally unproductive and problematic. While intended to promote the historical significance of colonial violence, it does the opposite: it reduces it to a precursor and flattens the historical complexities that explained colonialism and colonial violence. Colonial violence, it is argued, is in itself significant and should therefore be separated from the Holocaust if we are to maintain its colonial context and historical specificity.

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Different pathways of accumulation in mining and conservation displacements in Botswana

Huckleberry

2024

The Extractive Industries and Society

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Selective Memory: British Perceptions of the Herero–Nama Genocide, 1904–1908 and 1918

Cited by 5 publications

References 7 publications

Relational Displacement and the Colonial Legacies of Copper Mining in the Kalahari Copperbelt Region of Botswana

Relational Displacement and the Colonial Legacies of Copper Mining in the Kalahari Copperbelt Region of Botswana

Contextualising colonial violence: Causality, continuity and the Holocaust

Different pathways of accumulation in mining and conservation displacements in Botswana

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