Allison K Shutt
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 128552 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Allison K Shutt |
| NOMBRES | Allison K |
| APELLIDO | Shutt |
| FIRMA | SHUTT A K |
| AFILIACIONES | Hendrix College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9574-033X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
L uise W hite . Fighting and Writing
As is her style, White “did not begin with questions about a specific past or place but with [her] nearly obsessive interest in a body of evidence, oral or written, that [she] sought to write with and about” (v). Her evidence forms the basis for wide-ranging chapters about the interpretation of memoirs, pseudogangs, copyright litigation, guns, chemical and biological warfare, mercenaries, and the limits of counterinsurgency. The cumulative effect…
Community building and belonging in Southern Rhodesia's purchase areas
The study of small, atypical places can yield big insights. Such is the case with Joseph Mujere’s book on the community of Basotho farmers in the Dewure purchase area (now called small-scale commer
George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane. The Struggle over State Power in Zimbabwe
In his important book The Struggle over State Power in Zimbabwe: Law and Politics since 1950, George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane situates the law firmly in the history of Rhodesian settler rule, African nationalism, and state making in Zimbabwe. Karekwaivanane’s singular contribution is to meticulously chart the shifting tensions between using the law as a means of legitimization and as a tool of coercion over a half century of state building (7). …
Writing Jasper Savanhu's biography from his awkward self-narratives
Sometime in the mid-1970s Jasper Savanhu (1917–1984), a former MP and parliamentary secretary in the Central Africa Federation government (1953–1963), sketched out a 'prospectus' for his memoirs. Savanhu had been living in political obscurity since the end of Federation, but he was inspired by an interview conducted in 1973 to write his memoirs. He wanted to emphasise his 'behind the scenes' work that helped Africans rather than his public action…
Litigating Honor, Defamation, and Shame in Southern Rhodesia
This article reviews the history of defamation cases involving Africans in Southern Rhodesia. Two precedent-setting cases, one in 1938 and the other in 1946, provided a legal rationale for finding defamation that rested on the ability of litigants to prove they had been shamed. The testimony and evidence of these cases, both of which involved government employees, tracks how colonial rule was altering hierarchy and changing definitions of honor, …
Manners Make a Nation
Manners Make a Nation
Shortlisted for the inaugural award of the ASAUK Fage & Oliver Prize Tells the story of how people struggled to define, refine, reform, and ultimately overturn racial etiquette as a social guide for Southern Rhodesian politics
I Told Him I Was Lennox Njokweni’
This article focuses on a single episode of racial interaction in 1931 in order to highlight competing notions of honor and respectability in a shared colonial society. This story elucidates how Africans and whites unraveled and rebuilt ‘racial etiquette’, the tacit code that guided individual encounters between blacks and whites and that were so vital to the expression of colonial power. In moments of transition, such as the early 1930s in South…
The Natives Are Getting Out of Hand
In Southern Rhodesia, as elsewhere in colonial Africa, insolent Africans disrupted the image of natural and just domination that settlers and their government projected. Indeed, Native Commissioners (NCs) argued that they needed judicial power to prosecute insolent Africans, who, if left unpunished, would undermine state and settler authority. The Southern Rhodesia Native Regulations, 1910 (Native Regulations) and the Native Affairs Act, 1927 (NA…
Imperial Rhodesians
Reviewing the Rhodes Centenary Exhibition (RCE) of 1953, this article focuses on three interrelated themes in post-war Southern Rhodesia. First, significant post-war immigration challenged the state to educate new white Rhodesians on the founding myths of the colony, especially that of Cecil John Rhodes. Secondly, Southern Rhodesians were anxious to emphasise their status as British subjects in contrast to Afrikaner nationalism in South Africa. A…
Colonial Lessons
Introduction I Struggles & Stalemates Educational controversies: African school activism, 1920-1934 Demanding schools: The Umchingwe Project, 1928-1934 II Reconstructing Authority Walking alone in front?: African teachers in rural schools Giving orders: controversies over Africans' authority in rural development programs, 1928-1934 III Cultural Innovations Tickets, concerts & school fees: money & new Christian communities, 1900-1940 Mission boys,…
Squatters, Land Sales and Intensification in Marirangwe Purchase Area, Colonial Zimbabwe, 1931–65
This article considers the different ways that Marirangwe purchase area farmers understood and used their farmland, resources and opportunities. In the pioneer period from 1931 to the 1940s, Marirangwe farmers favored extensive use of their land and its resources. However, as labor and capital opportunities changed, land became for some an expendable commodity. By the 1950s, the farmers' ability to generate capital through land sales paralleled t…
The Settlers' Cattle Complex
This paper examines the 1938 cattle culling and sales in Gutu and Victoria reserves, colonial Zimbabwe. What began as a routine culling very quickly became a crisis of authority for the Native Affairs Department since critics of the Department forced an inquiry into the sales. The criticism and defence of the culling facilitated a debate on state and personal justice, as well as a dialogue about the proper behaviour towards Africans, settlers and…
Producing Women and Progress in Zimbabwe
Pioneer Farmers and Family Dynasties in Marirangwe Purchase Area, Colonial Zimbabwe, 1931-1947
This article analyzes the historical ambiguity of the in colonial Zimbabwe. Established under the 1931 Land Apportionment Act that seg- regated land in the colony along racial lines, the purchase areas were discrete areas of freehold tenure dotted throughout the country. African elites who settled in the area and Europeans who administered them held distinct notions about the value and proper use of purchase area farms. For the African landholder…
Purchase Area Farmers and the Middle Class of Southern Rhodesia, c. 1931-1952
Colonial Lessons
Introduction I Struggles & Stalemates Educational controversies: African school activism, 1920-1934 Demanding schools: The Umchingwe Project, 1928-1934 II Reconstructing Authority Walking alone in front?: African teachers in rural schools Giving orders: controversies over Africans' authority in rural development programs, 1928-1934 III Cultural Innovations Tickets, concerts & school fees: money & new Christian communities, 1900-1940 Mission boys,…
The Natives Are Getting Out of Hand
In Southern Rhodesia, as elsewhere in colonial Africa, insolent Africans disrupted the image of natural and just domination that settlers and their government projected. Indeed, Native Commissioners (NCs) argued that they needed judicial power to prosecute insolent Africans, who, if left unpunished, would undermine state and settler authority. The Southern Rhodesia Native Regulations, 1910 (Native Regulations) and the Native Affairs Act, 1927 (NA…
Squatters, Land Sales and Intensification in Marirangwe Purchase Area, Colonial Zimbabwe, 1931–65
This article considers the different ways that Marirangwe purchase area farmers understood and used their farmland, resources and opportunities. In the pioneer period from 1931 to the 1940s, Marirangwe farmers favored extensive use of their land and its resources. However, as labor and capital opportunities changed, land became for some an expendable commodity. By the 1950s, the farmers' ability to generate capital through land sales paralleled t…
Imperial Rhodesians
Reviewing the Rhodes Centenary Exhibition (RCE) of 1953, this article focuses on three interrelated themes in post-war Southern Rhodesia. First, significant post-war immigration challenged the state to educate new white Rhodesians on the founding myths of the colony, especially that of Cecil John Rhodes. Secondly, Southern Rhodesians were anxious to emphasise their status as British subjects in contrast to Afrikaner nationalism in South Africa. A…
Purchase Area Farmers and the Middle Class of Southern Rhodesia, c. 1931-1952
Writing Jasper Savanhu's biography from his awkward self-narratives
Sometime in the mid-1970s Jasper Savanhu (1917–1984), a former MP and parliamentary secretary in the Central Africa Federation government (1953–1963), sketched out a 'prospectus' for his memoirs. Savanhu had been living in political obscurity since the end of Federation, but he was inspired by an interview conducted in 1973 to write his memoirs. He wanted to emphasise his 'behind the scenes' work that helped Africans rather than his public action…
The Settlers' Cattle Complex
This paper examines the 1938 cattle culling and sales in Gutu and Victoria reserves, colonial Zimbabwe. What began as a routine culling very quickly became a crisis of authority for the Native Affairs Department since critics of the Department forced an inquiry into the sales. The criticism and defence of the culling facilitated a debate on state and personal justice, as well as a dialogue about the proper behaviour towards Africans, settlers and…
Pioneer Farmers and Family Dynasties in Marirangwe Purchase Area, Colonial Zimbabwe, 1931-1947
This article analyzes the historical ambiguity of the in colonial Zimbabwe. Established under the 1931 Land Apportionment Act that seg- regated land in the colony along racial lines, the purchase areas were discrete areas of freehold tenure dotted throughout the country. African elites who settled in the area and Europeans who administered them held distinct notions about the value and proper use of purchase area farms. For the African landholder…
Purchase Area Farmers and the Middle Class of Southern Rhodesia, c. 1931-1952
Pioneer Farmers and Family Dynasties in Marirangwe Purchase Area, Colonial Zimbabwe, 1931-1947
This article analyzes the historical ambiguity of the in colonial Zimbabwe. Established under the 1931 Land Apportionment Act that seg- regated land in the colony along racial lines, the purchase areas were discrete areas of freehold tenure dotted throughout the country. African elites who settled in the area and Europeans who administered them held distinct notions about the value and proper use of purchase area farms. For the African landholder…
Producing Women and Progress in Zimbabwe
Squatters, Land Sales and Intensification in Marirangwe Purchase Area, Colonial Zimbabwe, 1931–65
This article considers the different ways that Marirangwe purchase area farmers understood and used their farmland, resources and opportunities. In the pioneer period from 1931 to the 1940s, Marirangwe farmers favored extensive use of their land and its resources. However, as labor and capital opportunities changed, land became for some an expendable commodity. By the 1950s, the farmers' ability to generate capital through land sales paralleled t…
The Settlers' Cattle Complex
This paper examines the 1938 cattle culling and sales in Gutu and Victoria reserves, colonial Zimbabwe. What began as a routine culling very quickly became a crisis of authority for the Native Affairs Department since critics of the Department forced an inquiry into the sales. The criticism and defence of the culling facilitated a debate on state and personal justice, as well as a dialogue about the proper behaviour towards Africans, settlers and…
Colonial Lessons
Introduction I Struggles & Stalemates Educational controversies: African school activism, 1920-1934 Demanding schools: The Umchingwe Project, 1928-1934 II Reconstructing Authority Walking alone in front?: African teachers in rural schools Giving orders: controversies over Africans' authority in rural development programs, 1928-1934 III Cultural Innovations Tickets, concerts & school fees: money & new Christian communities, 1900-1940 Mission boys,…
Imperial Rhodesians
Reviewing the Rhodes Centenary Exhibition (RCE) of 1953, this article focuses on three interrelated themes in post-war Southern Rhodesia. First, significant post-war immigration challenged the state to educate new white Rhodesians on the founding myths of the colony, especially that of Cecil John Rhodes. Secondly, Southern Rhodesians were anxious to emphasise their status as British subjects in contrast to Afrikaner nationalism in South Africa. A…
The Natives Are Getting Out of Hand
In Southern Rhodesia, as elsewhere in colonial Africa, insolent Africans disrupted the image of natural and just domination that settlers and their government projected. Indeed, Native Commissioners (NCs) argued that they needed judicial power to prosecute insolent Africans, who, if left unpunished, would undermine state and settler authority. The Southern Rhodesia Native Regulations, 1910 (Native Regulations) and the Native Affairs Act, 1927 (NA…
I Told Him I Was Lennox Njokweni’
This article focuses on a single episode of racial interaction in 1931 in order to highlight competing notions of honor and respectability in a shared colonial society. This story elucidates how Africans and whites unraveled and rebuilt ‘racial etiquette’, the tacit code that guided individual encounters between blacks and whites and that were so vital to the expression of colonial power. In moments of transition, such as the early 1930s in South…
Manners Make a Nation
Manners Make a Nation
Shortlisted for the inaugural award of the ASAUK Fage & Oliver Prize Tells the story of how people struggled to define, refine, reform, and ultimately overturn racial etiquette as a social guide for Southern Rhodesian politics
Litigating Honor, Defamation, and Shame in Southern Rhodesia
This article reviews the history of defamation cases involving Africans in Southern Rhodesia. Two precedent-setting cases, one in 1938 and the other in 1946, provided a legal rationale for finding defamation that rested on the ability of litigants to prove they had been shamed. The testimony and evidence of these cases, both of which involved government employees, tracks how colonial rule was altering hierarchy and changing definitions of honor, …
George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane. The Struggle over State Power in Zimbabwe
In his important book The Struggle over State Power in Zimbabwe: Law and Politics since 1950, George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane situates the law firmly in the history of Rhodesian settler rule, African nationalism, and state making in Zimbabwe. Karekwaivanane’s singular contribution is to meticulously chart the shifting tensions between using the law as a means of legitimization and as a tool of coercion over a half century of state building (7). …
Writing Jasper Savanhu's biography from his awkward self-narratives
Sometime in the mid-1970s Jasper Savanhu (1917–1984), a former MP and parliamentary secretary in the Central Africa Federation government (1953–1963), sketched out a 'prospectus' for his memoirs. Savanhu had been living in political obscurity since the end of Federation, but he was inspired by an interview conducted in 1973 to write his memoirs. He wanted to emphasise his 'behind the scenes' work that helped Africans rather than his public action…
Community building and belonging in Southern Rhodesia's purchase areas
The study of small, atypical places can yield big insights. Such is the case with Joseph Mujere’s book on the community of Basotho farmers in the Dewure purchase area (now called small-scale commer
L uise W hite . Fighting and Writing
As is her style, White “did not begin with questions about a specific past or place but with [her] nearly obsessive interest in a body of evidence, oral or written, that [she] sought to write with and about” (v). Her evidence forms the basis for wide-ranging chapters about the interpretation of memoirs, pseudogangs, copyright litigation, guns, chemical and biological warfare, mercenaries, and the limits of counterinsurgency. The cumulative effect…
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