Julia Tischler
Biographic Data
| ID | 285736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Tischler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Tischler |
| SIGNATURE | TISCHLER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Basel |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4665-4141 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Stephan F. Miescher. A Dam for Africa: Akosombo Stories from Ghana
Violence and intimacy in colonial and postcolonial Africa
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Planting Seeds of Knowledge: Agriculture and Education in Rural Societies in the Twentieth Century
Examining African contributions to global health: Reflections on knowledge circulation and innovation
This article unites different disciplinary debates on 'southern innovation', 'theory from the South', and 'decolonisation of knowledge' in order to discuss existing understandings around the role of Africa in the production of health-related knowledge, public health policy, and medical innovation. Arguing that high-income countries have much to learn from the global South when it comes to health-related knowledge and practices, we propose an inte…
The Only Industry That Can Make Us Hold Our Own”: Black Agrarianism in South Africa from a Transatlantic Perspective, ca. 1910–1930
By exploring agricultural education initiatives in South Africa in the period from the 1910s to the 1930s, this article seeks to expand the historiography of both Black internationalism and global progressivism to include Black agrarianism and questions of race from a transatlantic perspective. In their efforts to promote scientific farming, Black progressive farmers in the Eastern Cape reserves made strategic use of the famous educational philos…
Agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture has been the most important economic activity and socially structuring force around the world until very recently – and it still is for many people. While the ratio of urban residents is constantly rising in Africa, 63.9 per cent of its population were still living in rural areas as recently as 2011. However, neat statistical divisions into urban and rural areas, agricultural and non-agricultural occupations do not capture the much mo…
Four Agriculture
Environmental Change and African Societies
in ensuring that all contributions are in due form. At the University of Basel, Raphael Jenny and Zanele Leu helped to ensure that the publisher's guidelines were followed. The authors would also like to thank Patrick Grogan for his language editing and proof-reading
General Labour History of Africa: Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries
Education and the Agrarian Question in South Africa, C. 1900–40
During the first half of the twentieth century, deep structural changes occurred in the South African countryside. While farming became an important pillar of the national economy, more and more people left the land in search of better lives in towns and cities. This article examines agricultural education, an early avenue of state intervention in farming, to elucidate how officials and groups of farmers navigated the ‘agrarian question’ by tryin…
Grounding Global Climate Change: Contributions from the Social and Cultural Sciences
This book traces the evolution of climate change research, which, long dominated by the natural sciences, now sees greater involvement with disciplines studying the socio-cultural implications of global warming. While most of social climate change research focuses on how people deal with environmental stresses and possible ways of adaptation, this volume foregrounds the question: What are the theoretical and methodological challenges of investiga…
Heather J. Hoag. Developing the Rivers of East and West Africa: An Environmental History
In current developmentalist debates, sub-Saharan Africa has become emblematic of global water problems, suffering from scarcity, unequal access, and unsafe quality. In her original and insightful study on African rivers in East and West Africa, Heather J. Hoag confronts contemporary crisis narratives with a nuanced history of the role that water has played in African history, including its “positive contributions” (p. 3). Recent publications like…
Cementing Uneven Development: The Central African Federation and the Kariba Dam Scheme
Using the Kariba dam project as a case study, this article examines some of the biases and interdependencies of development planning in 1950s Northern Rhodesia in order to consider Zambia's trajectory into independence. The Kariba dam, a highly controversial hydro-electricity scheme in the short-lived Central African Federation, crystallises the ambivalent practices of building nations – materially, politically and ideologically. Colonial imbalan…
Building the Kariba Dam
If one believes government-friendly publicity, the Kariba construction site was a birthplace of multiracial modernity. An ‘army of workmen, White and Black’ laboured in one of the region’s ‘wildest’ terrains, taming the mighty Zambesi, erecting a dam, and creating the world’s biggest reservoir around which ‘a large lakeshore civilisation’ was to grow.1 Glossy PR presented the Kariba workers as midwives of the new nation, from whose labour industr…
Light and power for a multiracial nation: The Kariba Dam scheme in the Central African Federation
Introduction PART I: PLANNING KARIBA 1. Global High Modernism and the Kariba Dam Scheme 2. 'Scientific' Decision-Making? 3. Developing a Powerful White Nation 4. Negotiating Development: the Kariba Loan Talks PART II: PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING THE RESETTLEMENT 5. African Development and the Resettlement Question 6. A Dam Against the 'Primitive': White Discourse about the Gwembe Tonga 7. Renegotiating African Development: the Resettlement in North…
Light and Power for a Multiracial Nation
'Modernisation' was one of the most pervasive ideologies of the twentieth century. Focusing on a case study of the Kariba Dam in central-southern Africa and based on an array of primary sources and in
General Labour History of Africa: Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries
Education and the Agrarian Question in South Africa, C. 1900–40
During the first half of the twentieth century, deep structural changes occurred in the South African countryside. While farming became an important pillar of the national economy, more and more people left the land in search of better lives in towns and cities. This article examines agricultural education, an early avenue of state intervention in farming, to elucidate how officials and groups of farmers navigated the ‘agrarian question’ by tryin…
Cementing Uneven Development: The Central African Federation and the Kariba Dam Scheme
Using the Kariba dam project as a case study, this article examines some of the biases and interdependencies of development planning in 1950s Northern Rhodesia in order to consider Zambia's trajectory into independence. The Kariba dam, a highly controversial hydro-electricity scheme in the short-lived Central African Federation, crystallises the ambivalent practices of building nations – materially, politically and ideologically. Colonial imbalan…
Building the Kariba Dam
If one believes government-friendly publicity, the Kariba construction site was a birthplace of multiracial modernity. An ‘army of workmen, White and Black’ laboured in one of the region’s ‘wildest’ terrains, taming the mighty Zambesi, erecting a dam, and creating the world’s biggest reservoir around which ‘a large lakeshore civilisation’ was to grow.1 Glossy PR presented the Kariba workers as midwives of the new nation, from whose labour industr…
Light and power for a multiracial nation: The Kariba Dam scheme in the Central African Federation
Introduction PART I: PLANNING KARIBA 1. Global High Modernism and the Kariba Dam Scheme 2. 'Scientific' Decision-Making? 3. Developing a Powerful White Nation 4. Negotiating Development: the Kariba Loan Talks PART II: PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING THE RESETTLEMENT 5. African Development and the Resettlement Question 6. A Dam Against the 'Primitive': White Discourse about the Gwembe Tonga 7. Renegotiating African Development: the Resettlement in North…
Light and Power for a Multiracial Nation
'Modernisation' was one of the most pervasive ideologies of the twentieth century. Focusing on a case study of the Kariba Dam in central-southern Africa and based on an array of primary sources and in
Heather J. Hoag. Developing the Rivers of East and West Africa: An Environmental History
In current developmentalist debates, sub-Saharan Africa has become emblematic of global water problems, suffering from scarcity, unequal access, and unsafe quality. In her original and insightful study on African rivers in East and West Africa, Heather J. Hoag confronts contemporary crisis narratives with a nuanced history of the role that water has played in African history, including its “positive contributions” (p. 3). Recent publications like…
Cementing Uneven Development: The Central African Federation and the Kariba Dam Scheme
Using the Kariba dam project as a case study, this article examines some of the biases and interdependencies of development planning in 1950s Northern Rhodesia in order to consider Zambia's trajectory into independence. The Kariba dam, a highly controversial hydro-electricity scheme in the short-lived Central African Federation, crystallises the ambivalent practices of building nations – materially, politically and ideologically. Colonial imbalan…
Grounding Global Climate Change: Contributions from the Social and Cultural Sciences
This book traces the evolution of climate change research, which, long dominated by the natural sciences, now sees greater involvement with disciplines studying the socio-cultural implications of global warming. While most of social climate change research focuses on how people deal with environmental stresses and possible ways of adaptation, this volume foregrounds the question: What are the theoretical and methodological challenges of investiga…
Education and the Agrarian Question in South Africa, C. 1900–40
During the first half of the twentieth century, deep structural changes occurred in the South African countryside. While farming became an important pillar of the national economy, more and more people left the land in search of better lives in towns and cities. This article examines agricultural education, an early avenue of state intervention in farming, to elucidate how officials and groups of farmers navigated the ‘agrarian question’ by tryin…
Agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture has been the most important economic activity and socially structuring force around the world until very recently – and it still is for many people. While the ratio of urban residents is constantly rising in Africa, 63.9 per cent of its population were still living in rural areas as recently as 2011. However, neat statistical divisions into urban and rural areas, agricultural and non-agricultural occupations do not capture the much mo…
Four Agriculture
Environmental Change and African Societies
in ensuring that all contributions are in due form. At the University of Basel, Raphael Jenny and Zanele Leu helped to ensure that the publisher's guidelines were followed. The authors would also like to thank Patrick Grogan for his language editing and proof-reading
General Labour History of Africa: Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries
Examining African contributions to global health: Reflections on knowledge circulation and innovation
This article unites different disciplinary debates on 'southern innovation', 'theory from the South', and 'decolonisation of knowledge' in order to discuss existing understandings around the role of Africa in the production of health-related knowledge, public health policy, and medical innovation. Arguing that high-income countries have much to learn from the global South when it comes to health-related knowledge and practices, we propose an inte…
The Only Industry That Can Make Us Hold Our Own”: Black Agrarianism in South Africa from a Transatlantic Perspective, ca. 1910–1930
By exploring agricultural education initiatives in South Africa in the period from the 1910s to the 1930s, this article seeks to expand the historiography of both Black internationalism and global progressivism to include Black agrarianism and questions of race from a transatlantic perspective. In their efforts to promote scientific farming, Black progressive farmers in the Eastern Cape reserves made strategic use of the famous educational philos…
Planting Seeds of Knowledge: Agriculture and Education in Rural Societies in the Twentieth Century
Stephan F. Miescher. A Dam for Africa: Akosombo Stories from Ghana
Violence and intimacy in colonial and postcolonial Africa
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Political science (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · African history and culture studies (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · History (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works)