Andrew Ivaska
Biographic Data
| ID | 285737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Ivaska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Ivaska |
| SIGNATURE | IVASKA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4660-7030 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Two African Historiographies in a Decolonising Moment: Dependency Theory, the “Dar School,” and Institutional Politics at the University of Dar es Salaam
This article re-examines the relationship between two key historiographical traditions seeking an epistemological sovereignty at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) in the 1960s. The first, sometimes dubbed the “Dar school of historiography” and associated with Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere’s recruitment of Terence Ranger to build a new History department at the University, centred “African initiative” as the sine qua non of any approach …
Beyond crisis: African universities' global presence before and after structural adjustment
I want to say what a privilege it is to be invited to comment on Jeremiah Arowosegbe's article 'African universities and the challenge of postcolonial development'. First and foremost, this is because Arowosegbe's piece is exactly the kind of intervention we need more of: passionately written, politically engaged commentaries on the state of African universities today by scholars based on the continent who are invested in charting the best way fo…
Law and Its Other: The Everyday Life of Crime in Post–Civil War Nigeria
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Romancing the frontline: A view from dar es salaam on intimacy and political attachment
This article explores the entwinement of inter-racial romance, political mobilization, and public morality using the vantage-point of Dar es Salaam as a relay station for 1960s leftwing exiles. Cleansed from many formal political accounts, romance – and talk of it – loomed large and consequential in the everyday rhythms of life along the transnational networks of political exiles who transited through Dar. Featuring couples whose trajectories con…
Leveraging Alternatives
This article explores the place of the USSR in the imagination, circuitry, and everyday practice of the early Mozambican nationalist movement configuring itself in exile in Dar es Salaam. Soviet plans, like those of the US, for engaging African liberation movements were ambitiously imagined, but superpower influence cohered within relatively narrow, if global, corridors. This impact (through funding, scholarships, and more) was at once significan…
P aul B jerk . Julius Nyerere
Paul Bjerk is a prominent scholar of Tanzania and one those best acquainted with the history of the country’s first generation of political leadership. His biography of Tanzania’s first president, Julius Nyerere, is therefore a welcome addition to a scholarly landscape in which work on both Nyerere and the country he led is already plentiful. While Bjerk’s book is entering a crowded field, it does so at an interesting moment for work on the early…
Tensions of an Oeuvre: Historical Materialism, Cultural History, and the Work of Frederick Cooper
Using the Tensions of Empire volume as a pivot point, this article traces Frederick Cooper’s work in relation to trajectories of historical materialism and cultural history over the past forty years. Highlighting Cooper’s contributions to both approaches, it points to a generative tension between these strands of his scholarship – as well as between his oeuvre and the arc of broader historiography on empire. Specific features of Cooper’s approach…
Movement Youth in a Global Sixties Hub: The Everyday Lives of Transnational Activists in Postcolonial Dar es Salaam
Writing in a mimeographed student journal in 1970, long before he would become a household name across Africa as president of Uganda, a young Yoweri Museveni reflected on his undergraduate years away from home at the University of Dar es Salaam in neighboring Tanzania. He explained how the choice to leave Uganda for university abroad but not in the West was a natural one at the time for any young East African with leftist political leanings. Tanz…
Cultured States: Youth, Gender, and Modern Style in 1960s Dar es Salaam
Of Students, ?'Nizers,? and a Struggle over Youth: Tanzania's 1966 National Service Crisis
Andrew M. Ivaska, Of Students, "'Nizers," and a Struggle over Youth: Tanzania's 1966 National Service Crisis, Africa Today, Vol. 51, No. 3, Youth and Citizenship in East Africa (Spring, 2005), pp. 83-107
Of Students, "'Nizers," and a Struggle over Youth: Tanzania's 1966 National Service Crisis
Anti–Mini Militants Meet Modern Misses’: Urban Style, Gender and the Politics of ‘National Culture’ in 1960s Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
This essay examines a 1968–9 campaign by Tanzania’s ruling party Youth League to outlaw mini–skirts and other ‘indecent’ fashions as ‘decadent’ affronts to Tanzanian ‘national culture’. It situates the intense, public debate on the campaign both in terms of the state’s contested national cultural project, and in relation to intersecting anxieties about shifts in women’s work and mobility in urban space, and the politics of sex in postcolonial Dar…
Anti–Mini Militants Meet Modern Misses’: Urban Style, Gender and the Politics of ‘National Culture’ in 1960s Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
This essay examines a 1968–9 campaign by Tanzania’s ruling party Youth League to outlaw mini–skirts and other ‘indecent’ fashions as ‘decadent’ affronts to Tanzanian ‘national culture’. It situates the intense, public debate on the campaign both in terms of the state’s contested national cultural project, and in relation to intersecting anxieties about shifts in women’s work and mobility in urban space, and the politics of sex in postcolonial Dar…
Of Students, "'Nizers," and a Struggle over Youth: Tanzania's 1966 National Service Crisis
Of Students, ?'Nizers,? and a Struggle over Youth: Tanzania's 1966 National Service Crisis
Andrew M. Ivaska, Of Students, "'Nizers," and a Struggle over Youth: Tanzania's 1966 National Service Crisis, Africa Today, Vol. 51, No. 3, Youth and Citizenship in East Africa (Spring, 2005), pp. 83-107
Cultured States: Youth, Gender, and Modern Style in 1960s Dar es Salaam
Leveraging Alternatives
This article explores the place of the USSR in the imagination, circuitry, and everyday practice of the early Mozambican nationalist movement configuring itself in exile in Dar es Salaam. Soviet plans, like those of the US, for engaging African liberation movements were ambitiously imagined, but superpower influence cohered within relatively narrow, if global, corridors. This impact (through funding, scholarships, and more) was at once significan…
Romancing the frontline: A view from dar es salaam on intimacy and political attachment
This article explores the entwinement of inter-racial romance, political mobilization, and public morality using the vantage-point of Dar es Salaam as a relay station for 1960s leftwing exiles. Cleansed from many formal political accounts, romance – and talk of it – loomed large and consequential in the everyday rhythms of life along the transnational networks of political exiles who transited through Dar. Featuring couples whose trajectories con…
Anti–Mini Militants Meet Modern Misses’: Urban Style, Gender and the Politics of ‘National Culture’ in 1960s Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
This essay examines a 1968–9 campaign by Tanzania’s ruling party Youth League to outlaw mini–skirts and other ‘indecent’ fashions as ‘decadent’ affronts to Tanzanian ‘national culture’. It situates the intense, public debate on the campaign both in terms of the state’s contested national cultural project, and in relation to intersecting anxieties about shifts in women’s work and mobility in urban space, and the politics of sex in postcolonial Dar…
Of Students, ?'Nizers,? and a Struggle over Youth: Tanzania's 1966 National Service Crisis
Andrew M. Ivaska, Of Students, "'Nizers," and a Struggle over Youth: Tanzania's 1966 National Service Crisis, Africa Today, Vol. 51, No. 3, Youth and Citizenship in East Africa (Spring, 2005), pp. 83-107
Of Students, "'Nizers," and a Struggle over Youth: Tanzania's 1966 National Service Crisis
Cultured States: Youth, Gender, and Modern Style in 1960s Dar es Salaam
Movement Youth in a Global Sixties Hub: The Everyday Lives of Transnational Activists in Postcolonial Dar es Salaam
Writing in a mimeographed student journal in 1970, long before he would become a household name across Africa as president of Uganda, a young Yoweri Museveni reflected on his undergraduate years away from home at the University of Dar es Salaam in neighboring Tanzania. He explained how the choice to leave Uganda for university abroad but not in the West was a natural one at the time for any young East African with leftist political leanings. Tanz…
Tensions of an Oeuvre: Historical Materialism, Cultural History, and the Work of Frederick Cooper
Using the Tensions of Empire volume as a pivot point, this article traces Frederick Cooper’s work in relation to trajectories of historical materialism and cultural history over the past forty years. Highlighting Cooper’s contributions to both approaches, it points to a generative tension between these strands of his scholarship – as well as between his oeuvre and the arc of broader historiography on empire. Specific features of Cooper’s approach…
Leveraging Alternatives
This article explores the place of the USSR in the imagination, circuitry, and everyday practice of the early Mozambican nationalist movement configuring itself in exile in Dar es Salaam. Soviet plans, like those of the US, for engaging African liberation movements were ambitiously imagined, but superpower influence cohered within relatively narrow, if global, corridors. This impact (through funding, scholarships, and more) was at once significan…
P aul B jerk . Julius Nyerere
Paul Bjerk is a prominent scholar of Tanzania and one those best acquainted with the history of the country’s first generation of political leadership. His biography of Tanzania’s first president, Julius Nyerere, is therefore a welcome addition to a scholarly landscape in which work on both Nyerere and the country he led is already plentiful. While Bjerk’s book is entering a crowded field, it does so at an interesting moment for work on the early…
Romancing the frontline: A view from dar es salaam on intimacy and political attachment
This article explores the entwinement of inter-racial romance, political mobilization, and public morality using the vantage-point of Dar es Salaam as a relay station for 1960s leftwing exiles. Cleansed from many formal political accounts, romance – and talk of it – loomed large and consequential in the everyday rhythms of life along the transnational networks of political exiles who transited through Dar. Featuring couples whose trajectories con…
Law and Its Other: The Everyday Life of Crime in Post–Civil War Nigeria
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
Beyond crisis: African universities' global presence before and after structural adjustment
I want to say what a privilege it is to be invited to comment on Jeremiah Arowosegbe's article 'African universities and the challenge of postcolonial development'. First and foremost, this is because Arowosegbe's piece is exactly the kind of intervention we need more of: passionately written, politically engaged commentaries on the state of African universities today by scholars based on the continent who are invested in charting the best way fo…
Two African Historiographies in a Decolonising Moment: Dependency Theory, the “Dar School,” and Institutional Politics at the University of Dar es Salaam
This article re-examines the relationship between two key historiographical traditions seeking an epistemological sovereignty at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) in the 1960s. The first, sometimes dubbed the “Dar school of historiography” and associated with Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere’s recruitment of Terence Ranger to build a new History department at the University, centred “African initiative” as the sine qua non of any approach …
Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · African history and culture studies (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · History (6 works) · Tanzania (6 works) · Dar es salaam (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)