E Burton
Biographic Data
| ID | 17380 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Burton |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Burton |
| SIGNATURE | BURTON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Innsbruck |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1117-6602 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A 1960s odyssey from Zanzibar to Cairo: Educational mobility and anti-heroic anticolonialism in Adam Shafi’s travelogue Mbali na Nyumbani
Frontline Citizens: Liberation Movements, Transnational Solidarity, and the Making of Anti-Imperialist Citizenship in Tanzania
This article explores the intricate relationship between transnational solidarity and citizenship in socialist Tanzania, renowned for its extensive and enduring support of liberation movements from the 1960s to the 1980s. Termed “frontline citizenship”, this unique political subjectivity, evolving in the 1960s, was shaped not only by Tanzania's geopolitical location, nationalist struggles against colonialism, and government efforts to instil atti…
From convergence to divergence: Mozambique’s failed campaign to join the CMEA and the reconfiguration of East-South relations
This article analyses Mozambique’s failed campaign to join the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA). It explores the motives and strategies of the Mozambican politicians who led the campaign and the reactions of planners and politicians in Eastern Europe, embedding them in a longer history of their bilateral and multilateral economic relations and the various steps before, during and after the accession campaign from the 1960s to the lat…
The Missing Link? Western Communists as Mediators Between the East German FDGB, the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), and African Trade Unions in the Late 1950s and Early 1960s
In the interstices of Cold War rivalries and anti-colonial agitation in late 1950s Africa, African workers came into the focus of African nationalist politicians, Western leftists, colonial regimes and state socialist states alike. They were a small, but influential group, increasingly organized in trade unions and capable of bringing whole economies to a halt. European communists on both sides of the Iron Curtain saw these workers not only as pa…
Civilisation under Colonial Conditions: Development, Difference and Violence in Swahili Poems, 1888-1907
or a global history of development, Swahili poems from the German colonial period are valuable sources as they help to question the diffusionist view of development discourses as colonial import. This article analyses how concepts of development (maendeleo) and civilisation (ustaarabu) figured in poems written by Swahili authors between 1888 and 1907. Going beyond a reading of these texts as pro- or anti-colonial, it shows the importance poets at…
Decolonization, the Cold War, and Africans’ routes to higher education overseas, 1957–65
From the late 1950s, Africans seeking higher education went to a rapidly increasing number of destinations, both within Africa and overseas. Based on multi-sited archival research and memoirs, this article shows how Africans forged and used new routes to gain access to higher education denied to them in their territories of origin, and in this way also shaped scholarship policies across the globe. Focusing on British-ruled territories in East Afr…
Hubs of Decolonization. African Liberation Movements and “Eastern” Connections in Cairo, Accra, and Dar es Salaam
Hubs of Decolonization. African Liberation Movements and “Eastern” Connections in Cairo, Accra, and Dar es Salaam was published in Southern African Liberation Movements and the Global Cold War ‘East’ on page 25
Navigating global socialism: Tanzanian students in and beyond East Germany
This article investigates tensions and dynamics in global socialism through a focus on Tanzanian students in East Germany between the late 1950s and 1990. Disciplinary techniques partially known from Tanzania and everyday strategies of survival explain why most students complied with official requirements, but did not necessarily agree with East German ideological tenets. Additionally, throughout the decades, mobility across the Iron Curtain rema…
Auf der Suche nach den Grenzen der Zivilisation
Anthropos , Seite 1 - 20
Building, Burning, and Rebuilding Bridges Anthropological and Historical Approaches to Witchcraft in Tanzania and Beyond
After a first, short-lived attempt in the 1970s, the cooperation of historical and anthropological approaches to witchcraft has recently experienced a renaissance. This article discusses both cross-fertilizations and persistent gaps in the interdisciplinary exchanges, arguing that the perception of witchcraft-related phenomena outside of Europe continues to suffer from insufficient historicization, while many historians of early modern Europe cli…
Going Places: Picture Based English, Books 1 and 2
Navigating global socialism: Tanzanian students in and beyond East Germany
This article investigates tensions and dynamics in global socialism through a focus on Tanzanian students in East Germany between the late 1950s and 1990. Disciplinary techniques partially known from Tanzania and everyday strategies of survival explain why most students complied with official requirements, but did not necessarily agree with East German ideological tenets. Additionally, throughout the decades, mobility across the Iron Curtain rema…
Decolonization, the Cold War, and Africans’ routes to higher education overseas, 1957–65
From the late 1950s, Africans seeking higher education went to a rapidly increasing number of destinations, both within Africa and overseas. Based on multi-sited archival research and memoirs, this article shows how Africans forged and used new routes to gain access to higher education denied to them in their territories of origin, and in this way also shaped scholarship policies across the globe. Focusing on British-ruled territories in East Afr…
Civilisation under Colonial Conditions: Development, Difference and Violence in Swahili Poems, 1888-1907
or a global history of development, Swahili poems from the German colonial period are valuable sources as they help to question the diffusionist view of development discourses as colonial import. This article analyses how concepts of development (maendeleo) and civilisation (ustaarabu) figured in poems written by Swahili authors between 1888 and 1907. Going beyond a reading of these texts as pro- or anti-colonial, it shows the importance poets at…
Frontline Citizens: Liberation Movements, Transnational Solidarity, and the Making of Anti-Imperialist Citizenship in Tanzania
This article explores the intricate relationship between transnational solidarity and citizenship in socialist Tanzania, renowned for its extensive and enduring support of liberation movements from the 1960s to the 1980s. Termed “frontline citizenship”, this unique political subjectivity, evolving in the 1960s, was shaped not only by Tanzania's geopolitical location, nationalist struggles against colonialism, and government efforts to instil atti…
Going Places: Picture Based English, Books 1 and 2
Building, Burning, and Rebuilding Bridges Anthropological and Historical Approaches to Witchcraft in Tanzania and Beyond
After a first, short-lived attempt in the 1970s, the cooperation of historical and anthropological approaches to witchcraft has recently experienced a renaissance. This article discusses both cross-fertilizations and persistent gaps in the interdisciplinary exchanges, arguing that the perception of witchcraft-related phenomena outside of Europe continues to suffer from insufficient historicization, while many historians of early modern Europe cli…
Navigating global socialism: Tanzanian students in and beyond East Germany
This article investigates tensions and dynamics in global socialism through a focus on Tanzanian students in East Germany between the late 1950s and 1990. Disciplinary techniques partially known from Tanzania and everyday strategies of survival explain why most students complied with official requirements, but did not necessarily agree with East German ideological tenets. Additionally, throughout the decades, mobility across the Iron Curtain rema…
Auf der Suche nach den Grenzen der Zivilisation
Anthropos , Seite 1 - 20
Hubs of Decolonization. African Liberation Movements and “Eastern” Connections in Cairo, Accra, and Dar es Salaam
Hubs of Decolonization. African Liberation Movements and “Eastern” Connections in Cairo, Accra, and Dar es Salaam was published in Southern African Liberation Movements and the Global Cold War ‘East’ on page 25
Decolonization, the Cold War, and Africans’ routes to higher education overseas, 1957–65
From the late 1950s, Africans seeking higher education went to a rapidly increasing number of destinations, both within Africa and overseas. Based on multi-sited archival research and memoirs, this article shows how Africans forged and used new routes to gain access to higher education denied to them in their territories of origin, and in this way also shaped scholarship policies across the globe. Focusing on British-ruled territories in East Afr…
Civilisation under Colonial Conditions: Development, Difference and Violence in Swahili Poems, 1888-1907
or a global history of development, Swahili poems from the German colonial period are valuable sources as they help to question the diffusionist view of development discourses as colonial import. This article analyses how concepts of development (maendeleo) and civilisation (ustaarabu) figured in poems written by Swahili authors between 1888 and 1907. Going beyond a reading of these texts as pro- or anti-colonial, it shows the importance poets at…
From convergence to divergence: Mozambique’s failed campaign to join the CMEA and the reconfiguration of East-South relations
This article analyses Mozambique’s failed campaign to join the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA). It explores the motives and strategies of the Mozambican politicians who led the campaign and the reactions of planners and politicians in Eastern Europe, embedding them in a longer history of their bilateral and multilateral economic relations and the various steps before, during and after the accession campaign from the 1960s to the lat…
The Missing Link? Western Communists as Mediators Between the East German FDGB, the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), and African Trade Unions in the Late 1950s and Early 1960s
In the interstices of Cold War rivalries and anti-colonial agitation in late 1950s Africa, African workers came into the focus of African nationalist politicians, Western leftists, colonial regimes and state socialist states alike. They were a small, but influential group, increasingly organized in trade unions and capable of bringing whole economies to a halt. European communists on both sides of the Iron Curtain saw these workers not only as pa…
Frontline Citizens: Liberation Movements, Transnational Solidarity, and the Making of Anti-Imperialist Citizenship in Tanzania
This article explores the intricate relationship between transnational solidarity and citizenship in socialist Tanzania, renowned for its extensive and enduring support of liberation movements from the 1960s to the 1980s. Termed “frontline citizenship”, this unique political subjectivity, evolving in the 1960s, was shaped not only by Tanzania's geopolitical location, nationalist struggles against colonialism, and government efforts to instil atti…
A 1960s odyssey from Zanzibar to Cairo: Educational mobility and anti-heroic anticolonialism in Adam Shafi’s travelogue Mbali na Nyumbani
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · Geography (3 works)