Meredith Mckittrick
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 144425 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Meredith Mckittrick |
| NOMBRES | Meredith |
| APELLIDO | Mckittrick |
| FIRMA | MCKITTRICK M |
| AFILIACIONES | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-0836-8002 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Imagining infrastructure, Encountering friction
Naturalizing Inequality
M arie M uschalek . Violence as Usual
In the wake of the twentieth century’s first genocide, the German colonial government of South West Africa (modern-day Namibia) established a police force known as the Landespolizei. As Marie Muschalek explains in Violence as Usual, the Landespolizei included both German officers and African assistants, and it had expansive responsibilities and equally expansive powers. In addition to preventing and investigating crime—a relatively minor part of …
Talking about the Weather
This article reconstructs popular ideas about climate and climate change among early twentieth-century white southern Africans. The environmental history literature on South Africa and other settler societies has focused on the global connections formed by scientific elites as well as indigenous resistance to colonial policies. In assuming a largely homogeneous white intellectual world, this literature has overlooked the variety and longevity of …
Making Rain, Making Maps
This article explores the alchemy whereby ritual and political worlds invisible to Europeans were rendered visible on European maps. It begins with a puzzle: representations of southwestern Africa's rivers on those maps bear little resemblance to physical reality as the cartographers would have understood it. Using GIS technology to georeference a series of maps and highlight the placement of rivers on them illustrates the convergence of cartogra…
An Empire of Rivers
In 1919, a geology professor named Ernest Schwarz argued that the diversion of the Chobe and Kunene Rivers into the Kalahari was necessary to avoid catastrophic desertification, which threatened to force South African whites from the land. Despite being deemed impractical by government scientists, his proposed ‘Kalahari Redemption Scheme’ was supported by a broad spectrum of white farmers, academics, parliamentarians, and even industrialists into…
Landscapes of Power
This article examines traditions of origin among riparian communities living in a semi-arid environment as a means of exploring how the environment and socio-political identities are mutually constituted. Within Namibian Kavango communities over the past half century, such traditions have fallen into two general categories: those of the royal clans (accepted by most residents) which state that they were the first to settle this section of the riv…
Capricious Tyrants and Persecuted Subjects
Sources and Methods in African History
An overview of the ongoing methods used to understand African history. Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing. This book is…
The Kavango Peoples in the past
Living on the Land
Faithful Daughter, Murdering Mother
In 1938 or 1939, an uninitiated and unwed girl named Nangombe living in the Uukwaluudhi district of Ovamboland, northern Namibia, became pregnant. If mission and colonial accounts are to be believed, it was not an unusual occurrence at this time, but it had profound consequences for Nangombe and those close to her. By the 1930s, the belief that pre-initiation pregnancies boded ill fortune for clan, chief and community was highly contested, but it…
Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 2
Reinventing the Family
Reinventing the Family
In October 1952, during a famine in northern Namibia, an Ovambo woman named Helvi Kondombolo filed a complaint with colonial officials, stating that her son, a contract laborer, had been living in the southern part of the colony for eight years and that she wanted him either sent back to the Ovamboland reserve or persuaded to send her money to buy food. Her complaint is unique in that the laborer in question was Sam Nujoma, now president of Namib…
The 'Burden' of Young Men
Faithful Daughter, Murdering Mother
In 1938 or 1939, an uninitiated and unwed girl named Nangombe living in the Uukwaluudhi district of Ovamboland, northern Namibia, became pregnant. If mission and colonial accounts are to be believed, it was not an unusual occurrence at this time, but it had profound consequences for Nangombe and those close to her. By the 1930s, the belief that pre-initiation pregnancies boded ill fortune for clan, chief and community was highly contested, but it…
Talking about the Weather
This article reconstructs popular ideas about climate and climate change among early twentieth-century white southern Africans. The environmental history literature on South Africa and other settler societies has focused on the global connections formed by scientific elites as well as indigenous resistance to colonial policies. In assuming a largely homogeneous white intellectual world, this literature has overlooked the variety and longevity of …
Making Rain, Making Maps
This article explores the alchemy whereby ritual and political worlds invisible to Europeans were rendered visible on European maps. It begins with a puzzle: representations of southwestern Africa's rivers on those maps bear little resemblance to physical reality as the cartographers would have understood it. Using GIS technology to georeference a series of maps and highlight the placement of rivers on them illustrates the convergence of cartogra…
Landscapes of Power
This article examines traditions of origin among riparian communities living in a semi-arid environment as a means of exploring how the environment and socio-political identities are mutually constituted. Within Namibian Kavango communities over the past half century, such traditions have fallen into two general categories: those of the royal clans (accepted by most residents) which state that they were the first to settle this section of the riv…
Living on the Land
Reinventing the Family
The 'Burden' of Young Men
The 'Burden' of Young Men
Reinventing the Family
Reinventing the Family
In October 1952, during a famine in northern Namibia, an Ovambo woman named Helvi Kondombolo filed a complaint with colonial officials, stating that her son, a contract laborer, had been living in the southern part of the colony for eight years and that she wanted him either sent back to the Ovamboland reserve or persuaded to send her money to buy food. Her complaint is unique in that the laborer in question was Sam Nujoma, now president of Namib…
Faithful Daughter, Murdering Mother
In 1938 or 1939, an uninitiated and unwed girl named Nangombe living in the Uukwaluudhi district of Ovamboland, northern Namibia, became pregnant. If mission and colonial accounts are to be believed, it was not an unusual occurrence at this time, but it had profound consequences for Nangombe and those close to her. By the 1930s, the belief that pre-initiation pregnancies boded ill fortune for clan, chief and community was highly contested, but it…
Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 2
Living on the Land
Capricious Tyrants and Persecuted Subjects
Sources and Methods in African History
An overview of the ongoing methods used to understand African history. Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing. This book is…
The Kavango Peoples in the past
Landscapes of Power
This article examines traditions of origin among riparian communities living in a semi-arid environment as a means of exploring how the environment and socio-political identities are mutually constituted. Within Namibian Kavango communities over the past half century, such traditions have fallen into two general categories: those of the royal clans (accepted by most residents) which state that they were the first to settle this section of the riv…
An Empire of Rivers
In 1919, a geology professor named Ernest Schwarz argued that the diversion of the Chobe and Kunene Rivers into the Kalahari was necessary to avoid catastrophic desertification, which threatened to force South African whites from the land. Despite being deemed impractical by government scientists, his proposed ‘Kalahari Redemption Scheme’ was supported by a broad spectrum of white farmers, academics, parliamentarians, and even industrialists into…
Talking about the Weather
This article reconstructs popular ideas about climate and climate change among early twentieth-century white southern Africans. The environmental history literature on South Africa and other settler societies has focused on the global connections formed by scientific elites as well as indigenous resistance to colonial policies. In assuming a largely homogeneous white intellectual world, this literature has overlooked the variety and longevity of …
Making Rain, Making Maps
This article explores the alchemy whereby ritual and political worlds invisible to Europeans were rendered visible on European maps. It begins with a puzzle: representations of southwestern Africa's rivers on those maps bear little resemblance to physical reality as the cartographers would have understood it. Using GIS technology to georeference a series of maps and highlight the placement of rivers on them illustrates the convergence of cartogra…
M arie M uschalek . Violence as Usual
In the wake of the twentieth century’s first genocide, the German colonial government of South West Africa (modern-day Namibia) established a police force known as the Landespolizei. As Marie Muschalek explains in Violence as Usual, the Landespolizei included both German officers and African assistants, and it had expansive responsibilities and equally expansive powers. In addition to preventing and investigating crime—a relatively minor part of …
Naturalizing Inequality
Imagining infrastructure, Encountering friction
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