Hynd
Biographic Data
| ID | 40521 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hynd |
| FAMILY NAME | Hynd |
| SIGNATURE | HYND |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2212-7294 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Commonalities and change in childhoods and conflicts
African Women, Colonial Justice and White Man’s Mercy
This article offers the first comparative analysis of the treatment of African women in British and French criminal law. Using evidence from 115 trial records involving female accused from French West Africa and Kenya, the Gold Coast and Nyasaland, it explores the processes through which ideas of race, status and public order intertwined with European and local African gender norms, both within courtrooms and political offices, to determine the o…
Imperial Gallows
Not just a method of crime control or individual punishment in Britain’s African territories, the death penalty was an integral aspect of colonial networks of power and violence. Imperial Gallows analyses capital trials from Kenya, Nyasaland and the Gold Coast to explore the social tensions that fueled murder among colonised populations, and how colonial legal cultures and landscapes of political authority shaped sentencing and mercy. It demonstr…
Clare Anderson. Convicts
Journal Article Clare Anderson. Convicts: A Global History. Get access Clare Anderson. Convicts: A Global History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xv, 476. Paper $34.99. Stacey Hynd Stacey Hynd University of Exeter, England Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 1535, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/r…
Introduction
Uncircumcised boys’ and ‘girl Spartans’
Both male and female youth were significant actors in anti‐colonial insurgencies, but their involvement has been neglected in existing historiographies due to the marginalisation of youth voices in colonial archives. This article analyses the causes of youth insurgency and colonial counterinsurgency responses in two British colonies, Kenya and Cyprus, in 1954‐59, providing a gendered and relational study of youth as cohort, as liberation generati…
Trauma, Violence, and Memory in African Child Soldier Memoirs
Child soldiers have been heavily involved in contemporary African warfare. Since the 1990s, the 'child soldier crisis' has become a major humanitarian and human rights project. The figure of the child soldier has often been taken as evidence of the 'barbarism', dehumanization and trauma generated by modern warfare, but such images can obscure the complex reality of children's experiences of being part of armed groups during conflict. This article…
Small Warriors? Children and Youth in Colonial Insurgencies and Counterinsurgency, ca. 1945–1960
Child soldiers are often viewed as a contemporary, “new war” phenomenon, but international concern about their use first emerged in response to anti-colonial liberation struggles. Youth were important actors in anti-colonial insurgencies, but their involvement has been neglected in existing historiographies of decolonization and counterinsurgency due to the absence and marginalization of youth voices in colonial archives. This article analyses th…
Pickpockets, Pilot Boys, and Prostitutes
In twentieth-century Gold Coast, youth offending became a metonymy for wider concerns about the impact of urbanization and colonial modernity. Urbanization, migration, unemployment, poverty, the disintegration of family and “tribal” structures, and Western culture were all blamed for the emergence of delinquency. This article analyzes changing constructions and treatment of delinquency from c.1929 to 1957, drawing on contemporary sociological res…
An Uncertain Age
Reviewed by: An Uncertain Age: The politics of manhood in Kenya by Paul Ocobock Stacey Hynd An Uncertain Age: The politics of manhood in Kenya By Paul Ocobock. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2017. Paul Ocobock's An Uncertain Age provides a much-needed and highly engaging investigation of youth and masculinity in Kenya that gives boys their voices and prioritizes their experiences of colonial rule, and of the Mau Mau rebellion that contested that …
“To Be Taken as a Wife Is a Form of Death”
R. v. Mrs Utam Singh
On the afternoon of 20 February 1949 police were called to an Indian household in Kijabe, Nairobi, following reports that four African robbers had attacked the house and shot dead an elderly Sikh man, Mankaran Singh. Upon arrival how ever, it quickly became apparent that the story of African robbers was ‘a cock and bull tale’. 3 Instead it appeared that the daughter-in-law of the household, a 23-year old woman called Harjit Kaur, had attempted to…
“… A Weapon of Immense Value”? Convict labour in British Colonial Africa, c. 1850–1950s
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Brill via the DOI in this record
Dismembering and Remembering the Body
There are a number of tensions which have shaped the evolution of capital punishment and the treatment of executed bodies in Africa from the nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. First, there are the differences between African and colonial or Western attitudes to death and the body.1 The human body is not a historically static entity.2 In many African cultures, the human body is not conceptualised as a single biological entity but as a ‘mu…
Law, Violence and Penal Reform
The historical analysis of state punishment in colonial Africa has been dominated by studies of individual arenas and practices of judicial authority: prisons, detention, flogging, and the death penalty. This article on Malawi adopts a more holistic approach, focusing on ‘penality’ – the broader nexus of criminal justice infrastructure and discourses – rather than ‘punishment’, to explore the shifts and tensions within colonial judicial and penal…
A History of Modern Africa
Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus
A History of Sub‐Saharan Africa – By Robert O. Collins and James M. Burns
The African Diaspora
The extreme penalty of the law
Capital punishment was the pinnacle of the colonial judicial system and its use of state violence, but has previously been neglected as a topic of historical research in Africa. This article is based on the case files and legal records of over 800 capital trials – predominantly for murder – dating between 1900 and 1947. It outlines the functioning of the legal system in Nyasaland and the tensions between “violence” and “humanitarianism” in the us…
Kenya
Decorum or Deterrence
This article is not the final print version. The print version is available at https://doi.org/10.2752/147800408X341640
Killing the Condemned
Capital punishment in British colonial Africa was not just a method of crime control or individual punishment, but an integral aspect of colonial networks of power and violence. The treatment of condemned criminals and the rituals of execution which brought their lives to an end illustrate the tensions within colonialism surrounding the relationship between these states and their subjects, and with their metropolitan overlords. The state may have…
Killing the Condemned
Capital punishment in British colonial Africa was not just a method of crime control or individual punishment, but an integral aspect of colonial networks of power and violence. The treatment of condemned criminals and the rituals of execution which brought their lives to an end illustrate the tensions within colonialism surrounding the relationship between these states and their subjects, and with their metropolitan overlords. The state may have…
The extreme penalty of the law
Capital punishment was the pinnacle of the colonial judicial system and its use of state violence, but has previously been neglected as a topic of historical research in Africa. This article is based on the case files and legal records of over 800 capital trials – predominantly for murder – dating between 1900 and 1947. It outlines the functioning of the legal system in Nyasaland and the tensions between “violence” and “humanitarianism” in the us…
Uncircumcised boys’ and ‘girl Spartans’
Both male and female youth were significant actors in anti‐colonial insurgencies, but their involvement has been neglected in existing historiographies due to the marginalisation of youth voices in colonial archives. This article analyses the causes of youth insurgency and colonial counterinsurgency responses in two British colonies, Kenya and Cyprus, in 1954‐59, providing a gendered and relational study of youth as cohort, as liberation generati…
Introduction
Small Warriors? Children and Youth in Colonial Insurgencies and Counterinsurgency, ca. 1945–1960
Child soldiers are often viewed as a contemporary, “new war” phenomenon, but international concern about their use first emerged in response to anti-colonial liberation struggles. Youth were important actors in anti-colonial insurgencies, but their involvement has been neglected in existing historiographies of decolonization and counterinsurgency due to the absence and marginalization of youth voices in colonial archives. This article analyses th…
Law, Violence and Penal Reform
The historical analysis of state punishment in colonial Africa has been dominated by studies of individual arenas and practices of judicial authority: prisons, detention, flogging, and the death penalty. This article on Malawi adopts a more holistic approach, focusing on ‘penality’ – the broader nexus of criminal justice infrastructure and discourses – rather than ‘punishment’, to explore the shifts and tensions within colonial judicial and penal…
Decorum or Deterrence
This article is not the final print version. The print version is available at https://doi.org/10.2752/147800408X341640
Imperial Gallows
Not just a method of crime control or individual punishment in Britain’s African territories, the death penalty was an integral aspect of colonial networks of power and violence. Imperial Gallows analyses capital trials from Kenya, Nyasaland and the Gold Coast to explore the social tensions that fueled murder among colonised populations, and how colonial legal cultures and landscapes of political authority shaped sentencing and mercy. It demonstr…
Decorum or Deterrence
This article is not the final print version. The print version is available at https://doi.org/10.2752/147800408X341640
Killing the Condemned
Capital punishment in British colonial Africa was not just a method of crime control or individual punishment, but an integral aspect of colonial networks of power and violence. The treatment of condemned criminals and the rituals of execution which brought their lives to an end illustrate the tensions within colonialism surrounding the relationship between these states and their subjects, and with their metropolitan overlords. The state may have…
Kenya
A History of Modern Africa
Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus
A History of Sub‐Saharan Africa – By Robert O. Collins and James M. Burns
The African Diaspora
The extreme penalty of the law
Capital punishment was the pinnacle of the colonial judicial system and its use of state violence, but has previously been neglected as a topic of historical research in Africa. This article is based on the case files and legal records of over 800 capital trials – predominantly for murder – dating between 1900 and 1947. It outlines the functioning of the legal system in Nyasaland and the tensions between “violence” and “humanitarianism” in the us…
Law, Violence and Penal Reform
The historical analysis of state punishment in colonial Africa has been dominated by studies of individual arenas and practices of judicial authority: prisons, detention, flogging, and the death penalty. This article on Malawi adopts a more holistic approach, focusing on ‘penality’ – the broader nexus of criminal justice infrastructure and discourses – rather than ‘punishment’, to explore the shifts and tensions within colonial judicial and penal…
R. v. Mrs Utam Singh
On the afternoon of 20 February 1949 police were called to an Indian household in Kijabe, Nairobi, following reports that four African robbers had attacked the house and shot dead an elderly Sikh man, Mankaran Singh. Upon arrival how ever, it quickly became apparent that the story of African robbers was ‘a cock and bull tale’. 3 Instead it appeared that the daughter-in-law of the household, a 23-year old woman called Harjit Kaur, had attempted to…
“… A Weapon of Immense Value”? Convict labour in British Colonial Africa, c. 1850–1950s
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Brill via the DOI in this record
Dismembering and Remembering the Body
There are a number of tensions which have shaped the evolution of capital punishment and the treatment of executed bodies in Africa from the nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. First, there are the differences between African and colonial or Western attitudes to death and the body.1 The human body is not a historically static entity.2 In many African cultures, the human body is not conceptualised as a single biological entity but as a ‘mu…
“To Be Taken as a Wife Is a Form of Death”
Pickpockets, Pilot Boys, and Prostitutes
In twentieth-century Gold Coast, youth offending became a metonymy for wider concerns about the impact of urbanization and colonial modernity. Urbanization, migration, unemployment, poverty, the disintegration of family and “tribal” structures, and Western culture were all blamed for the emergence of delinquency. This article analyzes changing constructions and treatment of delinquency from c.1929 to 1957, drawing on contemporary sociological res…
An Uncertain Age
Reviewed by: An Uncertain Age: The politics of manhood in Kenya by Paul Ocobock Stacey Hynd An Uncertain Age: The politics of manhood in Kenya By Paul Ocobock. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2017. Paul Ocobock's An Uncertain Age provides a much-needed and highly engaging investigation of youth and masculinity in Kenya that gives boys their voices and prioritizes their experiences of colonial rule, and of the Mau Mau rebellion that contested that …
Trauma, Violence, and Memory in African Child Soldier Memoirs
Child soldiers have been heavily involved in contemporary African warfare. Since the 1990s, the 'child soldier crisis' has become a major humanitarian and human rights project. The figure of the child soldier has often been taken as evidence of the 'barbarism', dehumanization and trauma generated by modern warfare, but such images can obscure the complex reality of children's experiences of being part of armed groups during conflict. This article…
Small Warriors? Children and Youth in Colonial Insurgencies and Counterinsurgency, ca. 1945–1960
Child soldiers are often viewed as a contemporary, “new war” phenomenon, but international concern about their use first emerged in response to anti-colonial liberation struggles. Youth were important actors in anti-colonial insurgencies, but their involvement has been neglected in existing historiographies of decolonization and counterinsurgency due to the absence and marginalization of youth voices in colonial archives. This article analyses th…
Uncircumcised boys’ and ‘girl Spartans’
Both male and female youth were significant actors in anti‐colonial insurgencies, but their involvement has been neglected in existing historiographies due to the marginalisation of youth voices in colonial archives. This article analyses the causes of youth insurgency and colonial counterinsurgency responses in two British colonies, Kenya and Cyprus, in 1954‐59, providing a gendered and relational study of youth as cohort, as liberation generati…
Introduction
African Women, Colonial Justice and White Man’s Mercy
This article offers the first comparative analysis of the treatment of African women in British and French criminal law. Using evidence from 115 trial records involving female accused from French West Africa and Kenya, the Gold Coast and Nyasaland, it explores the processes through which ideas of race, status and public order intertwined with European and local African gender norms, both within courtrooms and political offices, to determine the o…
Imperial Gallows
Not just a method of crime control or individual punishment in Britain’s African territories, the death penalty was an integral aspect of colonial networks of power and violence. Imperial Gallows analyses capital trials from Kenya, Nyasaland and the Gold Coast to explore the social tensions that fueled murder among colonised populations, and how colonial legal cultures and landscapes of political authority shaped sentencing and mercy. It demonstr…
Clare Anderson. Convicts
Journal Article Clare Anderson. Convicts: A Global History. Get access Clare Anderson. Convicts: A Global History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xv, 476. Paper $34.99. Stacey Hynd Stacey Hynd University of Exeter, England Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 1535, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/r…
Commonalities and change in childhoods and conflicts
History (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · African history and culture studies (14 works) · Criminology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Colonialism (11 works) · History (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (7 works)