I Brinkman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 36645 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | I Brinkman |
| NOMBRES | I |
| APELLIDO | Brinkman |
| FIRMA | BRINKMAN I |
| AFILIACIONES | Ghent University Hospital |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8087-9013 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 111 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Flip Side
In this short personal text I reflect on the ways in which to interpret the more negative experiences during visits to Africa that I had myself or that I have heard about. I have noted that such experiences tend to be interconnected in my framing of them to form a whole, as in all the things I do not like about visiting Africa. I often hesitate to talk about these experiences and wonder why this is so. The piece does not draw conclusions; it leav…
Councils and Chiefs, Monsters and Trees
In this paper, I will argue that in many histories “politics” is not restricted to processes of decision-making by human actors only in the interests of humans. Human societies may also include non-human entities in the political arena and build in limits to prevent “politics” from being reasoned solely from the perspective of human interests. During the colonial era, however, such thinking was re-evaluated through conceptual frameworks then prev…
Rainbows in Eastern African folktales
The rainbow makes for strong imagery: throughout world history, the rainbow has functioned in many ways as a tool to think with. This is no different in African contexts. Our aim in this paper is to explore the changing meanings given to relations between rainbows and snakes in narratives from the Gikuyu language in Central Kenya. We thereby remain open to the wider East African context, indicating the multiple meaning-making of rainbows in ecolo…
Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, Decolonising the Mind
On Acorns and Conviviality
Knowledge is Power
This paper takes us to the beginning of the sixteenth century in the West Central African kingdom of Kongo, some years after Portuguese navigators first established contact with the Kongo royal elite. A formal school system was introduced with the support of the Kongo king Afonso I – who ruled from 1509 to 1542 – as he used the Christian school system to integrate the districts of the kingdom more fully into political unity. Apart from this centr…
Pearls and oysters
The introduction to this special issue of the Journal of the African Literature Association indicates the relevance of the focus on autobiographical writing from Africa. As even our lives can be seen as related to our life narratives, through their textual strategies and individual perspectives autobiographical forms offer insight into public debates and societal concerns. The articles and reviews in this special issue focus on a wide range of th…
Confinement and beyond
This contribution analyzes two detention diaries, by J. M. Kariuki (Mau Mau Detainee: The Account by a Kenya African of His Experiences in the Detention Camps 1953–1960. Oxford University Press, 1963) and Gakaara wa Wanjaũ (Mwandĩki wa Mau Mau Ithaamĩrio-Inĩ. Heinemann, 1983), that interpret life in the colonial camps in Kenya in the 1950s. Focusing on aspects of movement, camp landscapes, sociability, bodily degradation, writing and the mobility…
Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to circa 1900, by Gwyn Campbell
Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to circa 1900, by Gwyn Campbell Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to circa 1900, by Gwyn Campbell (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2019; pp. . Pb. £22.99). Inge Brinkman Inge Brinkman Ghent University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 136, Issue 578, February 2021, Pages 162–163, https:…
Fugitive Modernities
Reviewed by: Fugitive Modernities: Kisama and the Politics of Freedom by Jessica A. Krug Inge Brinkman BOOK REVIEW of Krug, Jessica A. 2018. Fugitive Modernities: Kisama and the Politics of Freedom. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 260 pp. $26.95 (paper). This book begins in Brazil in 1632, when a group of Portuguese captains traveled north of Rio de Janeiro in a region far away from any town or plantation. To their surprise, they encountered a…
Space, time, and culture on African/diaspora websites
The four articles presented in this collection on the topic 'Space, time, and culture on African/diaspora websites' address African/diaspora websites and their networks in divergent ways and focus on a number of broad themes. These are: that the future is located in and shaped by the past; movement and displacement in geographical terms are re-conceptualised through website activities to produce discourses of identity; online and offline interact…
History as hidden truth
This article focuses on the relations between the Internet, religion and ‘Kongo history’. The websites under study claim an existing ‘Kongo community’ and recurrently evoke the Kongo kingdom and historical figures like Kimpa Vita and Simon Kimbangu. Texts and images on Kongo history have long been available in print media, but through the increasing accessibility to the Internet and the consequent possibilities of online activities the distributi…
War, peace and nationhood
This contribution revolves around the complexities of national belonging among Angolan immigrants in Northern Namibia. In state bureaucracies, people are meant to have just one national identity and they are not encouraged to make any changes therein. For many south-east Angolan people currently resident in Rundu, Namibia, however, such simplicity denies their personal history. They have lived in south-east Angola, western Zambia and northern Nam…
Social diary and news production
This paper offers an analysis of the politics of (self-)referentiality on the Kenyan weblog kenyanpundit.com during the elections of 2007 and their violent aftermath. It discusses news reporting on this website through the concept of a communication circuit, and the changing forms of address by conceptualising the narrative as a social diary. These two parallel routes of interpretation, the first spatial and the second temporal, are framed in the…
Les provinces septentrionales du royaume Kongo d’après les sources historiques
‘To Make Book’
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Music and Dance in Eastern Africa
This collection of articles cuts across the Eastern African region, with authors interrogating varying themes in different historical periods that speak not only to the practice of music and dance but also to the performances that characterize these practices. The book dedicates itself to research in music and dance, while engaging with colonial and contemporary political and historical realities within the Eastern African region. Inevitably, the…
The mobile phone and society in South Sudan
This article outlines the development of mobile telephony in the nascent Republic of South Sudan (ROSS). We focus specifically on Juba, during turbulent times from the end of the second Sudanese Civil War in 2005 to just after independence in 2011. We highlight the complicated political relations behind the establishment of mobile networks and the main functions and importance of the mobile phone throughout this period. Despite major technical ob…
The Time of the Leaflet
In March 1961, war broke out in Northern Angola. The Portuguese authorities attributed the violence to the UPA - a nationalist movement led by Northern Angolan immigrants resident in Congo. The movement's leadership tried to keep in contact with its (potential) followers in Northern Angola by various means, pamphlets being one of the most important. Written for a local audience, these pamphlets provide an insight into the inner lines of communica…
Town, village and bush
In most of the literature on the subject, urban and rural areas are presented as real physical entities that are geographically determined. Obviously such an approach is important and necessary, but in this contribution I want to draw attention to ‘the urban’ and ‘the rural’ as ideas, as items of cultural landscape rather than as physical facts. This will result both in a history of ideas and a social history of the war in Angola as experienced b…
Town, village and bush
In most of the literature on the subject, urban and rural areas are presented as real physical entities that are geographically determined. Obviously such an approach is important and necessary, but in this contribution I want to draw attention to ‘the urban’ and ‘the rural’ as ideas, as items of cultural landscape rather than as physical facts. This will result both in a history of ideas and a social history of the war in Angola as experienced b…
Communicating Africa”. Researching Mobile Kin Communities Communication Technologies, and Social Transformation in Angola and Cameroon
'A war for people' Civilians, mobility, and legitimacy in south-east Angola during the MPLA's war for independence
L'Angola colonial, histoire et société. Les prémisses du mouvement nationaliste
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Manhood and Morality
An impressive and meticulously crafted African ethnography, which has theoretical and practical relevance for understanding masculinity and violence in general'- David Parkin, Professor of Anthropology, Cambridge University Manhood and Morality explores issues of male identity among the Gisu of Uganda and the moral dilemma faced by men who define themselves by their capacity for violence. Drawing extensively on twenty years of fieldwork and on ps…
Ways of Death
In their accounts of the war in Angola, refugees from south-eastern Angola who now live in Rundu (Namibia) draw a distinction between warfare in the past and the events that happened in their region of origin after Angolan independence in 1975. Although they process their experiences through recounting history, these refugees maintain that the incidence of torture, mutilation and massive killing after 1975 has no precedent in the area's history a…
Pounders of Grain
War, Witches and Traitors
Accusations, trials and executions of witches and sell-outs frequently occurred at the MPLA's Eastern Front in Angola (1966–75). These events do not fit the general self-portrayal of the MPLA as a socialist, secular movement that was supported by the Angolan population without recourse to force. The people interviewed, mostly rural civilians from south-east Angola who lived under MPLA control, suggested many links between treason and witchcraft, …
The Time of the Leaflet
In March 1961, war broke out in Northern Angola. The Portuguese authorities attributed the violence to the UPA - a nationalist movement led by Northern Angolan immigrants resident in Congo. The movement's leadership tried to keep in contact with its (potential) followers in Northern Angola by various means, pamphlets being one of the most important. Written for a local audience, these pamphlets provide an insight into the inner lines of communica…
Violence, Exile and Ethnicity
In debates about ethnicity it is often taken for granted that Africans developed or imagined an ethnic identity, albeit in different periods and in different forms. In the Kuando-Kubango province in southeastern Angola, however, ethnic ideology does not seem to have acquired the compelling attraction it has had elsewhere in Africa. Among refugees from this area, who now live in Rundu (Namibia), ethnicity is avoided as a category of identity as we…
Language, Names, and War
This article shows the links between naming practices and war. The focus is on MPLA war names used during the Angolan struggle for independence. These names are framed in the wider context of the relations between language and war. In many African contexts, names are not singular and fixed, but may change with every personal transformation. Entering the life of a soldier constitutes just such a drastic change. The article shows that through war n…
L'Angola colonial, histoire et société. Les prémisses du mouvement nationaliste
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
War and Identity in Angola
Guerra e identidade em Angola : dois estudos de caso. Este artigo analisa a ligação entre diversas categorias de identidade e os processos pelos quais estas categorias podem mudar. Dois estudos de caso são apresentados. O primeiro trata do norte e o segundo do sul-este de Angola. O primeiro estudo de caso mostra que as referências à etnicidade não são necessariamente ligadas á unidade : mesmo sendo visto como um grupo unido pelos outros, os «Bako…
Confinement and beyond
This contribution analyzes two detention diaries, by J. M. Kariuki (Mau Mau Detainee: The Account by a Kenya African of His Experiences in the Detention Camps 1953–1960. Oxford University Press, 1963) and Gakaara wa Wanjaũ (Mwandĩki wa Mau Mau Ithaamĩrio-Inĩ. Heinemann, 1983), that interpret life in the colonial camps in Kenya in the 1950s. Focusing on aspects of movement, camp landscapes, sociability, bodily degradation, writing and the mobility…
Space, time, and culture on African/diaspora websites
The four articles presented in this collection on the topic 'Space, time, and culture on African/diaspora websites' address African/diaspora websites and their networks in divergent ways and focus on a number of broad themes. These are: that the future is located in and shaped by the past; movement and displacement in geographical terms are re-conceptualised through website activities to produce discourses of identity; online and offline interact…
Town, village and bush
In most of the literature on the subject, urban and rural areas are presented as real physical entities that are geographically determined. Obviously such an approach is important and necessary, but in this contribution I want to draw attention to ‘the urban’ and ‘the rural’ as ideas, as items of cultural landscape rather than as physical facts. This will result both in a history of ideas and a social history of the war in Angola as experienced b…
History as hidden truth
This article focuses on the relations between the Internet, religion and ‘Kongo history’. The websites under study claim an existing ‘Kongo community’ and recurrently evoke the Kongo kingdom and historical figures like Kimpa Vita and Simon Kimbangu. Texts and images on Kongo history have long been available in print media, but through the increasing accessibility to the Internet and the consequent possibilities of online activities the distributi…
Social diary and news production
This paper offers an analysis of the politics of (self-)referentiality on the Kenyan weblog kenyanpundit.com during the elections of 2007 and their violent aftermath. It discusses news reporting on this website through the concept of a communication circuit, and the changing forms of address by conceptualising the narrative as a social diary. These two parallel routes of interpretation, the first spatial and the second temporal, are framed in the…
Stadt, Land und Busch
We Women Work so Hard
Kikuyu Gender Norms and Narratives
Masses in Flight
Kikuyu Gender Norms and Narratives
Violence, Exile and Ethnicity
In debates about ethnicity it is often taken for granted that Africans developed or imagined an ethnic identity, albeit in different periods and in different forms. In the Kuando-Kubango province in southeastern Angola, however, ethnic ideology does not seem to have acquired the compelling attraction it has had elsewhere in Africa. Among refugees from this area, who now live in Rundu (Namibia), ethnicity is avoided as a category of identity as we…
Violence, Exile and Ethnicity
In debates about ethnicity it is often taken for granted that Africans developed or imagined an ethnic identity, albeit in different periods and in different forms. In the Kuando-Kubango province in southeastern Angola, however, ethnic ideology does not seem to have acquired the compelling attraction it has had elsewhere in Africa. Among refugees from this area, who now live in Rundu (Namibia), ethnicity is avoided as a category of identity as we…
Kikuyu Gender Norms and Narratives
African Guerrillas
Masses in Flight
Manhood and Morality
An impressive and meticulously crafted African ethnography, which has theoretical and practical relevance for understanding masculinity and violence in general'- David Parkin, Professor of Anthropology, Cambridge University Manhood and Morality explores issues of male identity among the Gisu of Uganda and the moral dilemma faced by men who define themselves by their capacity for violence. Drawing extensively on twenty years of fieldwork and on ps…
We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We will be Killed with Our Families
Gourevitch, Philip. 1998. We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We will be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 356 pp. No price indicated
Stadt, Land und Busch
We Women Work so Hard
Ways of Death
In their accounts of the war in Angola, refugees from south-eastern Angola who now live in Rundu (Namibia) draw a distinction between warfare in the past and the events that happened in their region of origin after Angolan independence in 1975. Although they process their experiences through recounting history, these refugees maintain that the incidence of torture, mutilation and massive killing after 1975 has no precedent in the area's history a…
Speaking with Vampires
Grandmother's Footsteps
African Spirituality
Olupona, Jacob K., ed. African Spirituality: Forms, Meanings, And Expressions. World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest, volume 3. New York: Herder and Herder, Crossroad Publishing Company. 2000. xxxvi + 476 pp. $35.00
Women in African Colonial Histories (review)
Allman, Jean, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi, eds. 2002. Women In African Colonial Histories . Bloomington: Indiana University Press. xi + 388 pp. $24.95
War and Identity in Angola
Guerra e identidade em Angola : dois estudos de caso. Este artigo analisa a ligação entre diversas categorias de identidade e os processos pelos quais estas categorias podem mudar. Dois estudos de caso são apresentados. O primeiro trata do norte e o segundo do sul-este de Angola. O primeiro estudo de caso mostra que as referências à etnicidade não são necessariamente ligadas á unidade : mesmo sendo visto como um grupo unido pelos outros, os «Bako…
War, Witches and Traitors
Accusations, trials and executions of witches and sell-outs frequently occurred at the MPLA's Eastern Front in Angola (1966–75). These events do not fit the general self-portrayal of the MPLA as a socialist, secular movement that was supported by the Angolan population without recourse to force. The people interviewed, mostly rural civilians from south-east Angola who lived under MPLA control, suggested many links between treason and witchcraft, …
Pounders of Grain
Language, Names, and War
This article shows the links between naming practices and war. The focus is on MPLA war names used during the Angolan struggle for independence. These names are framed in the wider context of the relations between language and war. In many African contexts, names are not singular and fixed, but may change with every personal transformation. Entering the life of a soldier constitutes just such a drastic change. The article shows that through war n…
Young Soldiers
Reviewed by: Young Soldiers: Why They Choose to Fight Inge Brinkman Brett, Rachel, and Irma Specht . 2004. Young Soldiers: Why They Choose to Fight. Boulder: Lynne Riener. xvi + 192 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Over the past decades, the number of children actively involved in warfare has steadily risen. Hitherto, attempts to reverse this trend have focused on children presumed to have been forced to fight. The vast majority of child soldiers, however, co…
Routes and the War for Independence in Northern Angola (1961-74)
RésuméEn mars 1961, la guerre a éclaté en Angola occidental. De nombreux habitants de la région ont fui soit vers les forêts, soit vers le Congo indépendant depuis peu (plus tard nommé Zaïre). Certaines régions ont été presque entièrement dépeuplées. La plupart des réfugiés ont traversé les forêts, évitant les routes contrôlées par l’armée portugaise. Pour la population du nord, les forêts constituaient une possibilité de fuir et de contacter que…
Notes De Lecture
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Le Fait Missionaire. Social Sciences & Missions, « War, peace and religion. Religion, guerre et paix. Sénégal, Guatemala, Angola »
"Le Fait Missionaire. Social Sciences & Missions (Dorigny, Faculté de Théologie, Université de Lausanne), 13, October 2003, ISSN : 1420-2018, Éric M orier -G enoud & Didier P éclard (eds), « War, peace and religion. Religion, guerre et paix. Senegal, Guatemala, Angola », 160 p. [disponible sur ]" published on 23 Oct 2008 by Brill
David Birmingham, Empire in Africa. Angola and its neighbors
This is a great book. Empire in Africa. Angola and its neighbors gives us an overview of Angolan history from colonial times to the present, framed in the wider context of Southern and Central African history. The book consists of eleven essays, some of which have been published before, others based on unpublished papers, and yet others new pieces written with the specific foci of this book in mind. People familiar with the work of David Birmingh…
The mobile phone, ‘modernity’ and change in Khartoum, Sudan
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