Jane Carruthers
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3586182 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jane Carruthers |
| NOMBRES | Jane |
| APELLIDO | Carruthers |
| FIRMA | CARRUTHERS J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8210-4599 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Mount Anderson
Major localities that first attracted gold seekers from many parts of the world to the Transvaal in the 1870s and 1880s were along the river valleys that intersect the great eastern escarpment that rises high above the lowveld. The history of alluvial gold mining in the eastern region of South Africa has received attention from scholars of mining engineering, mine management and economics, as well as from academics in the fields of geology, minin…
Notes from the Icehouse - Academics in Action
Reflections
Energy, Environment, and Equity in South Africa
This article outlines the history of electricity supply in South Africa and provides details of current production. It presents the argument that because electricity production and distribution has been utilized as a tool for government policy, those who have opposed that state have targeted it for acts of sabotage from the 1940s into the present. Although South Africa emerged from apartheid to democracy in 1994, electricity supply and distributi…
Obituary
National Park Science
South Africa is renowned for its wildlife and environmental conservation in iconic national parks such as the Kruger, one of the world's first formal protected areas. However, this is the first book to thoroughly analyse and explain the interesting and changing scientific research that has been accomplished in South Africa's national parks during the twentieth century. Providing a fascinating and thorough historical narrative based on an extensiv…
Hunting and Belonging in South Africa
To Rescue the Past From the Nation
AcknowledgementsI am very grateful to Tilman Dedering for his, as always, perceptive and helpful comments on a draft of this address and for alerting me to important relevant references, and to Christopher Saunders and Nicholas Southey for ascertaining the date of 2005 as the name-change of the Southern African Historical Society
Books
John Fitzgerald reviews the book 'Australia's Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century', edited by David Walker and Agnieszka Sobocinska, published by UWA Publishing, Perth, 2012
The Royal Natal National Park, Kwazulu-Natal
The Royal Natal National Park (RNNP) has been overlooked in the history of nature conservation and the origins of national parks in South Africa. It is the purpose of this article to unearth the history of this area as the country's first, formal, national park and to introduce it into mainstream national park literature and into the broader sweep of the region's environmental history. The material discussed here raises questions about why certai…
Civilizing Nature
The Changing Shape and Scope of Southern African Historical Studies
This article considers the trajectory of the discipline of history from the inception of the Southern African Historical Society in 1965 up to the present time. The Society has arranged regular biennial conferences at which the Society's President has generally addressed the gathering on an aspect of history that not only reflects the position of the President, but also summarises the state of the profession as a whole. Using these addresses as b…
Entries
The Elephant in South Africa
Dainfern And Diepsloot
South Africa has one of the largest gaps between rich and poor in the world. This disparity is displayed particularly in urban areas where suburbs of the wealthy adjoin informal settlements of the poor. The townships of Dainfern and Diepsloot are examples of such unequal residential arrangements and they provide appropriate case studies through which to investigate the connections between environmental justice and environmental history in an urba…
Tsuneo Yoshikuni, African Urban Experiences in Colonial Zimbabwe
Special Forum
Influences on Wildlife Management and Conservation Biology in South Africa c.1900 to c.1940
(2007). Influences on Wildlife Management and Conservation Biology in South Africa c.1900 to c.1940. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 65-90
Tracking in Game Trails
This essay identifies the major trends and theoretical underpinnings of South African environmental history, and places them within the context of recent political, social, and economic developments in the post-apartheid era. Skeptical about Western conservation models, attentive both to the concerns of local communities and to transnational themes, and alert to issues of power, space, agency, and identity, this new historiography has reconfigure…
Changing Perspectives on Wildlife in Southern Africa, C.1840 to C.1914
This article analyzes how a number of writers in English articulated their attitudes toward southern Africa's indigenous mammal megafauna from c.1840 to just before the First World War. In changing contexts of declining wild animal numbers, it examines how attitudes and the expression of those attitudes—together with developments in biology—altered with the modernization of government and the economy. To some extent, it also explores the human an…
Divyabhanusinh, The Story of Asia's Lions
Africa
A survey of African environmental history during in the period 1994 to 2004 is is provided and distinctions between the environmental history of Africa and that of other geo-regions are identified. It is argued that the promises of the earlier environmental historiography have not been realised and that an emerging trend embeds Africa's environmental history within the framework of social history and issues around science and changing societies. …
Tense, Orality and Narration
The relationship between tense and orality has been of major interest to linguists working on tense, aspect and discourse in a number of languages, and illuminating, if highly controversial, parallels have been drawn between the patterns found in various different types of oral narration. In the case of French, much research has been done on conversational narration, and connections have been made between contemporary temporal patterning (notably…
Friedrich Jeppe
This article is an attempt to identify and discuss some of the maps and mapmakers in the late nineteenth-century Transvaal at a time when nascent colonial ‘nationalities’ and sub-imperialisms were in the process of delineation. In the historical circumstances of the region in that era, with the uncertain hegemony of the Transvaal Boers and other polities, both local and international, over the geographical space between the Vaal and Limpopo river…
Intimacies of sound
Creating a National Park, 1910 to 1926
Popular histories of nature protection in southern Africa usually portray the prelude to the passing of the National Parks Act in 1926 as a contest between the forces of 'good' (those in favour of national parks) and 'evil' (those antagonistic or apathetic to the idea). 1 In southern Africa the development of national parks has not been dispassionately evaluated and dedicated modern conservationists have constructed what might be described as an …
Dissecting the myth
South‐Africans generally assume that the Kruger National Park was called after Paul Kruger, the president of the Transvaal Republic, in order to commemorate his personal interest in nature conservation, and in particular his struggle against considerable opposition to found the national park which now bears his name. This version of conservation history is officially accepted by the National Parks Board and presented also in the available popular…
Tracking in Game Trails
This essay identifies the major trends and theoretical underpinnings of South African environmental history, and places them within the context of recent political, social, and economic developments in the post-apartheid era. Skeptical about Western conservation models, attentive both to the concerns of local communities and to transnational themes, and alert to issues of power, space, agency, and identity, this new historiography has reconfigure…
The Dongola Wild Life Sanctuary
(1992). The Dongola Wild Life Sanctuary: ‘psychological blunder, economic folly and political monstrosity’ or ‘more valuable than rubies and gold’? Kleio: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 82-100
Africa
A survey of African environmental history during in the period 1994 to 2004 is is provided and distinctions between the environmental history of Africa and that of other geo-regions are identified. It is argued that the promises of the earlier environmental historiography have not been realised and that an emerging trend embeds Africa's environmental history within the framework of social history and issues around science and changing societies. …
Lessons from South Africa
For a few years at the end of the First World War, James Stevenson-Hamilton, warden of the Kruger National Park in South Africa, was employed in the Sudan civil service, Despite the dissimilar human history and natural environments of South Africa and the Southern Sudan, Stevenson-Hamilton's experiences in Mongalla province were informed by his professional life in South Africa and his comments on the game protection initiatives in the Sudan at t…
Reflections
Friedrich Jeppe
This article is an attempt to identify and discuss some of the maps and mapmakers in the late nineteenth-century Transvaal at a time when nascent colonial ‘nationalities’ and sub-imperialisms were in the process of delineation. In the historical circumstances of the region in that era, with the uncertain hegemony of the Transvaal Boers and other polities, both local and international, over the geographical space between the Vaal and Limpopo river…
Wildlife and Warfare
The Changing Shape and Scope of Southern African Historical Studies
This article considers the trajectory of the discipline of history from the inception of the Southern African Historical Society in 1965 up to the present time. The Society has arranged regular biennial conferences at which the Society's President has generally addressed the gathering on an aspect of history that not only reflects the position of the President, but also summarises the state of the profession as a whole. Using these addresses as b…
Special Forum
Influences on Wildlife Management and Conservation Biology in South Africa c.1900 to c.1940
(2007). Influences on Wildlife Management and Conservation Biology in South Africa c.1900 to c.1940. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 65-90
Tense, Orality and Narration
The relationship between tense and orality has been of major interest to linguists working on tense, aspect and discourse in a number of languages, and illuminating, if highly controversial, parallels have been drawn between the patterns found in various different types of oral narration. In the case of French, much research has been done on conversational narration, and connections have been made between contemporary temporal patterning (notably…
Game Protectionism in the Transvaal, 1900–1910
Game Protectionism in the Transvaal, 1900–1910
Creating a National Park, 1910 to 1926
Popular histories of nature protection in southern Africa usually portray the prelude to the passing of the National Parks Act in 1926 as a contest between the forces of 'good' (those in favour of national parks) and 'evil' (those antagonistic or apathetic to the idea). 1 In southern Africa the development of national parks has not been dispassionately evaluated and dedicated modern conservationists have constructed what might be described as an …
Towards an Environmental History of Southern Africa
(1990). Towards an Environmental History of Southern Africa: Some Perspectives. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 184-195
The Dongola Wild Life Sanctuary
(1992). The Dongola Wild Life Sanctuary: ‘psychological blunder, economic folly and political monstrosity’ or ‘more valuable than rubies and gold’? Kleio: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 82-100
Dissecting the myth
South‐Africans generally assume that the Kruger National Park was called after Paul Kruger, the president of the Transvaal Republic, in order to commemorate his personal interest in nature conservation, and in particular his struggle against considerable opposition to found the national park which now bears his name. This version of conservation history is officially accepted by the National Parks Board and presented also in the available popular…
Defending Kruger's honour? A reply to professor Hennie Grobler
This paper is a response to Grobler's critique of Carruthers’ recent JSAS article about Paul Kruger's role in the establishment of Kruger National Park
Teaching the Mfecane
(1996). Teaching the Mfecane. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 211-214
Lessons from South Africa
For a few years at the end of the First World War, James Stevenson-Hamilton, warden of the Kruger National Park in South Africa, was employed in the Sudan civil service, Despite the dissimilar human history and natural environments of South Africa and the Southern Sudan, Stevenson-Hamilton's experiences in Mongalla province were informed by his professional life in South Africa and his comments on the game protection initiatives in the Sudan at t…
A Kaleidoscopic Commentary
(1999). A Kaleidoscopic Commentary: The South African War Journals of James Stevenson-Hamilton. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 196-221
Wildlife and Warfare
From Hunting to Conservation
Brefs presentation et commentaire de deux ouvrages recents abordant la question de la protection des animaux sauvages en tant que gibier, de la fin du 19 eme jusqu'au milieu du 20 eme siecle, en Afrique australe et orientale, respectivement : J. Carruthers, 2001, Wildlife and Warfare: The Life of James Stevenson-Hamilton ; T.P. Ofcansky, 2002, Paradise Lost: A History of Game Preservation in East Africa. Au-dela d'une thematique commune et de l'u…
Tense, Orality and Narration
The relationship between tense and orality has been of major interest to linguists working on tense, aspect and discourse in a number of languages, and illuminating, if highly controversial, parallels have been drawn between the patterns found in various different types of oral narration. In the case of French, much research has been done on conversational narration, and connections have been made between contemporary temporal patterning (notably…
Friedrich Jeppe
This article is an attempt to identify and discuss some of the maps and mapmakers in the late nineteenth-century Transvaal at a time when nascent colonial ‘nationalities’ and sub-imperialisms were in the process of delineation. In the historical circumstances of the region in that era, with the uncertain hegemony of the Transvaal Boers and other polities, both local and international, over the geographical space between the Vaal and Limpopo river…
Wildlife and Warfare
Africa
A survey of African environmental history during in the period 1994 to 2004 is is provided and distinctions between the environmental history of Africa and that of other geo-regions are identified. It is argued that the promises of the earlier environmental historiography have not been realised and that an emerging trend embeds Africa's environmental history within the framework of social history and issues around science and changing societies. …
Changing Perspectives on Wildlife in Southern Africa, C.1840 to C.1914
This article analyzes how a number of writers in English articulated their attitudes toward southern Africa's indigenous mammal megafauna from c.1840 to just before the First World War. In changing contexts of declining wild animal numbers, it examines how attitudes and the expression of those attitudes—together with developments in biology—altered with the modernization of government and the economy. To some extent, it also explores the human an…
Divyabhanusinh, The Story of Asia's Lions
Tracking in Game Trails
This essay identifies the major trends and theoretical underpinnings of South African environmental history, and places them within the context of recent political, social, and economic developments in the post-apartheid era. Skeptical about Western conservation models, attentive both to the concerns of local communities and to transnational themes, and alert to issues of power, space, agency, and identity, this new historiography has reconfigure…
Special Forum
Influences on Wildlife Management and Conservation Biology in South Africa c.1900 to c.1940
(2007). Influences on Wildlife Management and Conservation Biology in South Africa c.1900 to c.1940. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 65-90
The Elephant in South Africa
Dainfern And Diepsloot
South Africa has one of the largest gaps between rich and poor in the world. This disparity is displayed particularly in urban areas where suburbs of the wealthy adjoin informal settlements of the poor. The townships of Dainfern and Diepsloot are examples of such unequal residential arrangements and they provide appropriate case studies through which to investigate the connections between environmental justice and environmental history in an urba…
Tsuneo Yoshikuni, African Urban Experiences in Colonial Zimbabwe
Entries
The Changing Shape and Scope of Southern African Historical Studies
This article considers the trajectory of the discipline of history from the inception of the Southern African Historical Society in 1965 up to the present time. The Society has arranged regular biennial conferences at which the Society's President has generally addressed the gathering on an aspect of history that not only reflects the position of the President, but also summarises the state of the profession as a whole. Using these addresses as b…
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