Giorgio Miescher
Biographic Data
| ID | 236275 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giorgio Miescher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giorgio |
| FAMILY NAME | Miescher |
| SIGNATURE | MIESCHER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Basel |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Crossing Etosha: A history of donkeys in Namibia's central north
Donkeys are a common sight in Namibia’s central north and play an important albeit contested role in rural society and economy. Historically, they were one of the few domesticated animals that were allowed to enter today’s Etosha National Park and to cross the veterinary border (Red Line) between the northern communal lands and the Police Zone in central Namibia. In the first half of the twentieth century, migrant workers brought thousands of don…
Authors and Editors
Fritz Isak (Zak) Gomaxnab Dirkse IGabaxab: Teacher and Promoter of Nama Language
Monika and Willem Basson: Farming and Living along the River
The Lower !Garib - Orange River: Pasts and Presents of a Southern African Border Region
The Lower !Garib, or Orange River, flows through the historical Namaqualand and since 1990 has formed the international border between Namibia and South Africa. The contributors to this volume focus on this hardly discussed stretch of the Orange River to understand the region's social history, geography, and economy. This book brings together scholars from Namibia, South Africa, and overseas, as well as the knowledge and analysis from people livi…
Paulus Johannes: Park ranger
Anne-Marie IssaBrown Garises: Curator of the Keetmanshoop Museum
The Lower ǃGarib / Orange River: A Cross-border Microregion
Lower !Garib - Orange River: Pasts and Presents of a Southern African Border Region
Remembering Jeremy Gale Silvester
Jeremy Silvester died on 5 July 2021, aged 58, following a struggle with Covid-19. In the 1980s, while a doctoral student at the School of Oriental and African Studies, he was also a member of the London-based Namibia Support Committee. In 1994, he completed his Ph.D. on the history of land dispossession and labour recruitment in southern Namibia under South African colonialism. He subsequently became an academic at the University of Namibia in t…
The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa
This book brings together recent and ongoing empirical studies to examine two relational kinds of politics, namely, the politics of nature, i.e. how nature conservation projects are sites on which power relations play out, and the politics of the scientific study of nature. These are discussed in their historical and present contexts, and at specific sites on which particular human-environment relations are forged or contested. This spatio-tempor…
Rethinking Empire in Southern Africa
This special issue on the ‘South African empire’ evolved from the South African empire research project, the origins of which lie in the discomfort of a number of historians of Namibia with dominan
The NE 51 Series Frontier: The Grand Narrative of Apartheid Planning and the Small Town
The article proposes to bring the urban development of Usakos, a small Namibian town on the fringe of the South African empire, into conversation with the ‘grand narrative’ of the apartheid city. Narratives of the apartheid city were shaped by contemporary academic architectural discourses sustained by those who pioneered and promoted urban planning in South Africa. It was formulated in texts on architecture and apartheid produced in the 1980s an…
Global Perspectives on Football in Africa: Visualising the Game
Football, in many ways, is a visual endeavour. From the visual experience within the stadium itself to worldwide media representations, from advertisements to football art and artifacts: football is much about seeing and being seen, about watching, making visual and being visualised. The FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa turned into a perfect example of the visual dimensions of football. Stadiums were built and marketed as tourist attractions, …
Namibia's Red Line
Based on archival sources and oral history, this book reconstructs a border-building process in Namibia that spanned more than sixty years. The process commenced with the establishment of a temporary
The Police Zone Boundary and “Restricted Areas,” 1905–1915
On January 12, 1904, a military confrontation broke out between the colonial authorities and the Herero groups allied with the Germans under the leadership of Samuel Maharero. By the end of the year, the war had spread to the south of the colony. 1 At first, the German troops were thrown onto the defensive and almost defeated; the colonial government had vastly superior military resources, however, and the Germans went on to conduct a ruthless wa…
The Red Line as a Veterinary and Settlement Border, 1928–1945
Partitioning the colony, as a cartographic and legal strategy, was a difficult process; so too would be the geographic and veterinary separation of "healthy" from potentially "diseased" cattle. This was particularly the case in the Kamanjab region and southern Kaoko, near the northwestern section of the new Police Zone border, which later became known as the Red Line.1 There, geographic, historical, and political factors joined to create a comple…
Visualizing African football in apartheid Namibia: Photography, posters and constructions of consumers and nationalism
In this article, the history of African football in Namibia and its politicized and public visuality are analysed with reference to the history of both historical photography and historical poster archives. A brief outline of the history of African football in this South African colony is followed by discussion of how African football became part and parcel of the marketing and consumer imagery used during apartheid reformism in late-colonial Nam…
Visualizing the game: Global perspectives on football in Africa 1
Facing Barbarians: A Narrative of Spatial Segregation in Colonial Namibia
Under South African rule Namibia was divided by a border into two territorial entities, both physically and symbolically. This article explores the establishment of this border, the so-called Red Line, which separated the settler society's heartland in central Namibia from the ‘native territories’ in the far north. Beginning as a mere cartographic construction, the Red Line eventually materialised in a double fence. I argue that veterinary scienc…
Documenting and Researching Southern Africa: Aspects and Perspectives. Essays in Honour of Carl Schlettwein
New Notes on Kaoko: The Northern Kunene Region (Namibia) in Texts and Photographs
New Notes on Kaoko: The Northern Kunene Region (Namibia) in Texts and Photographs
Rethinking Empire in Southern Africa
This special issue on the ‘South African empire’ evolved from the South African empire research project, the origins of which lie in the discomfort of a number of historians of Namibia with dominan
The NE 51 Series Frontier: The Grand Narrative of Apartheid Planning and the Small Town
The article proposes to bring the urban development of Usakos, a small Namibian town on the fringe of the South African empire, into conversation with the ‘grand narrative’ of the apartheid city. Narratives of the apartheid city were shaped by contemporary academic architectural discourses sustained by those who pioneered and promoted urban planning in South Africa. It was formulated in texts on architecture and apartheid produced in the 1980s an…
New Notes on Kaoko: The Northern Kunene Region (Namibia) in Texts and Photographs
Visualizing the game: Global perspectives on football in Africa 1
Crossing Etosha: A history of donkeys in Namibia's central north
Donkeys are a common sight in Namibia’s central north and play an important albeit contested role in rural society and economy. Historically, they were one of the few domesticated animals that were allowed to enter today’s Etosha National Park and to cross the veterinary border (Red Line) between the northern communal lands and the Police Zone in central Namibia. In the first half of the twentieth century, migrant workers brought thousands of don…
Facing Barbarians: A Narrative of Spatial Segregation in Colonial Namibia
Under South African rule Namibia was divided by a border into two territorial entities, both physically and symbolically. This article explores the establishment of this border, the so-called Red Line, which separated the settler society's heartland in central Namibia from the ‘native territories’ in the far north. Beginning as a mere cartographic construction, the Red Line eventually materialised in a double fence. I argue that veterinary scienc…
New Notes on Kaoko: The Northern Kunene Region (Namibia) in Texts and Photographs
New Notes on Kaoko: The Northern Kunene Region (Namibia) in Texts and Photographs
Documenting and Researching Southern Africa: Aspects and Perspectives. Essays in Honour of Carl Schlettwein
Namibia's Red Line
Based on archival sources and oral history, this book reconstructs a border-building process in Namibia that spanned more than sixty years. The process commenced with the establishment of a temporary
The Police Zone Boundary and “Restricted Areas,” 1905–1915
On January 12, 1904, a military confrontation broke out between the colonial authorities and the Herero groups allied with the Germans under the leadership of Samuel Maharero. By the end of the year, the war had spread to the south of the colony. 1 At first, the German troops were thrown onto the defensive and almost defeated; the colonial government had vastly superior military resources, however, and the Germans went on to conduct a ruthless wa…
The Red Line as a Veterinary and Settlement Border, 1928–1945
Partitioning the colony, as a cartographic and legal strategy, was a difficult process; so too would be the geographic and veterinary separation of "healthy" from potentially "diseased" cattle. This was particularly the case in the Kamanjab region and southern Kaoko, near the northwestern section of the new Police Zone border, which later became known as the Red Line.1 There, geographic, historical, and political factors joined to create a comple…
Visualizing African football in apartheid Namibia: Photography, posters and constructions of consumers and nationalism
In this article, the history of African football in Namibia and its politicized and public visuality are analysed with reference to the history of both historical photography and historical poster archives. A brief outline of the history of African football in this South African colony is followed by discussion of how African football became part and parcel of the marketing and consumer imagery used during apartheid reformism in late-colonial Nam…
Visualizing the game: Global perspectives on football in Africa 1
Facing Barbarians: A Narrative of Spatial Segregation in Colonial Namibia
Under South African rule Namibia was divided by a border into two territorial entities, both physically and symbolically. This article explores the establishment of this border, the so-called Red Line, which separated the settler society's heartland in central Namibia from the ‘native territories’ in the far north. Beginning as a mere cartographic construction, the Red Line eventually materialised in a double fence. I argue that veterinary scienc…
Global Perspectives on Football in Africa: Visualising the Game
Football, in many ways, is a visual endeavour. From the visual experience within the stadium itself to worldwide media representations, from advertisements to football art and artifacts: football is much about seeing and being seen, about watching, making visual and being visualised. The FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa turned into a perfect example of the visual dimensions of football. Stadiums were built and marketed as tourist attractions, …
Rethinking Empire in Southern Africa
This special issue on the ‘South African empire’ evolved from the South African empire research project, the origins of which lie in the discomfort of a number of historians of Namibia with dominan
The NE 51 Series Frontier: The Grand Narrative of Apartheid Planning and the Small Town
The article proposes to bring the urban development of Usakos, a small Namibian town on the fringe of the South African empire, into conversation with the ‘grand narrative’ of the apartheid city. Narratives of the apartheid city were shaped by contemporary academic architectural discourses sustained by those who pioneered and promoted urban planning in South Africa. It was formulated in texts on architecture and apartheid produced in the 1980s an…
The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa
This book brings together recent and ongoing empirical studies to examine two relational kinds of politics, namely, the politics of nature, i.e. how nature conservation projects are sites on which power relations play out, and the politics of the scientific study of nature. These are discussed in their historical and present contexts, and at specific sites on which particular human-environment relations are forged or contested. This spatio-tempor…
Remembering Jeremy Gale Silvester
Jeremy Silvester died on 5 July 2021, aged 58, following a struggle with Covid-19. In the 1980s, while a doctoral student at the School of Oriental and African Studies, he was also a member of the London-based Namibia Support Committee. In 1994, he completed his Ph.D. on the history of land dispossession and labour recruitment in southern Namibia under South African colonialism. He subsequently became an academic at the University of Namibia in t…
Authors and Editors
Fritz Isak (Zak) Gomaxnab Dirkse IGabaxab: Teacher and Promoter of Nama Language
Monika and Willem Basson: Farming and Living along the River
The Lower !Garib - Orange River: Pasts and Presents of a Southern African Border Region
The Lower !Garib, or Orange River, flows through the historical Namaqualand and since 1990 has formed the international border between Namibia and South Africa. The contributors to this volume focus on this hardly discussed stretch of the Orange River to understand the region's social history, geography, and economy. This book brings together scholars from Namibia, South Africa, and overseas, as well as the knowledge and analysis from people livi…
Paulus Johannes: Park ranger
Anne-Marie IssaBrown Garises: Curator of the Keetmanshoop Museum
The Lower ǃGarib / Orange River: A Cross-border Microregion
Lower !Garib - Orange River: Pasts and Presents of a Southern African Border Region
Crossing Etosha: A history of donkeys in Namibia's central north
Donkeys are a common sight in Namibia’s central north and play an important albeit contested role in rural society and economy. Historically, they were one of the few domesticated animals that were allowed to enter today’s Etosha National Park and to cross the veterinary border (Red Line) between the northern communal lands and the Police Zone in central Namibia. In the first half of the twentieth century, migrant workers brought thousands of don…
Geography (13 works) · Archaeology (12 works) · History (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · South African History and Culture (6 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · German Colonialism and Identity Studies (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works)