Colin Darch
Biographic Data
| ID | 332310 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Darch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Darch |
| SIGNATURE | DARCH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3208-7748 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Afrikanístika: As origens dos ‘Estudos Africanos’ na União Soviética, 1929-1945
Dos seus primórdios na década de 1920 até ao final da Segunda Guerra Mundial, os estudos africanos na URSS foram conduzidos por um grupo de intelectuais revolucionários que trabalhavam sob condições materiais difíceis e em um cenário político delicado. Os pesquisadores soviéticos foram impedidos de realizar trabalho de campo nos territórios colonizados e de aceder à documentação primária. A turbu- lência política interna, a "revolução cultural" n…
Soviet intelligence gathering in Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s: A review article
The wave of independence in Africa in the late 1950s and early 1960s, combined with the ‘thaw’ after Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, resulted in renewed Soviet interest after two decades of ignoring African affairs. Newly established diplomatic relations with liberation movements and independent states required the rapid training of middle-level cadres who could report back accu…
Liberation and Biographical Narrative in Mozambican Historiography: The Struggle in Cabo Delgado, 1962-1974
Over the last 25 years, memoirs and testimonies have appeared in Mozambique recounting the life stories of participants in the armed struggle for national independence led by FRELIMO (1964–1974). Most of the protagonists have remained loyal to FRELIMO and many have had political careers after independence. Their memoirs have been published in the course of reinforcing the Frelimo party’s political dominance in the early 21st century. Although som…
Nestor Makhno and Rural Anarchism in Ukraine, 1917-1921
Médicas-sacerdotisas: Religiosidades ancestrais e contestação no sul de Moçambique, c.1927–1988
This volume presents a detailed historical analysis of the Portuguese colonial state’s ongoing but unsuccessful attempts, throughout the mid-twentieth century, to suppress the activities of tinyang
On the Right Side of History: The Trajectory of “Domestic” African Studies from Endre Sik to the Present Day
The article presents an analysis of the trajectory of “domestic” African studies in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet Russian Federation, posing the fundamental question of the extent to which Soviet afrikanistika was in fact a manifestation of a disinterested political solidarity with the struggles of oppressed African peoples, and can be absolved of pursuing economic interests and even of harbouring colonial ambitions. The article analyses a…
More on Soviet military personnel in Angola Cuito Cuanavale: Frontline accounts by Soviet soldiers
No abstract available
From prohibited immigrants to citizens: The origins of citizenship and nationality in South Africa
In this carefully argued and detailed book, Jonathan Klaaren analyses how the ‘legal cultural concept of South African citizenship developed from the official practices regulating the mobility of d
Lusotopie, Lusotopy. What Legacy, What Future
The introduction of this issue goes back over the history of the creation of the Lusotopie journal. It also questions the scope of the concept of lusotopy in the social sciences. The intellectual project of the journal, published from 1994 onwards, was complex and ambitious. Lusotopie is not a review of “cultural-area” studies, but a generalist review of political analysis, in the broadest sense, from an empirically-delimited research field: that…
Transversalidade no Centro de Estudos Africanos em Moçambique, 1976-1986: A Construção De Uma Nova Visão Nas Ciências Sociais
Neste artigo reflito sobre um estudo de caso que aproveita dos conceitos antropológicos de transversalidade e olhar cruzado. Interrogo minha própria experiência de trabalho num centro de pesquisa em Moçambique na década de 1980, em meio a um conflito armado pós-independência, desencadeado por rebeldes e apoiado pelo regime sul-africano de apartheid. Anglófono, com experiência de trabalho em diversos países africanos, cheguei a Moçambique em 1979 …
Separatist tensions and violence in the ‘model post-conflict state’: Mozambique since the 1990s
The assassination of Professor Gilles Cistac, shot down in a busy Maputo street in broad daylight on 3 March, sent shockwaves across southern Africa and focused renewed attention on the worrying an
Remembering Ruth First at the CEA
Ruth changed in Mozambique; she softened. I think she belonged in Mozambique in a way that she never belonged to England. It was her home, and she meant something to that society. (Gillian Slovo, interview, 1989) This article traces the evolution of research at the Centro de Estudos Africanos (CEA) from before the time of Ruth First's arrival. It divides her work there into two periods: the work on the Mozambican Miner, in which she was heavily i…
The hidden thread: Russia and South Africa in the Soviet era
The Hidden Thread is an important addition to the small but growing shelf of scholarly post-Soviet books in English on the role of the Soviet Union, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) a
In the Name of the People: Angola's Forgotten Massacre
COLIN DARCHUniversity of Cape Town© 2014 Colin Darch
Freedom of Information and the Developing World: Demand, Compliance and Democratic Behaviours
£10/US$17/€13 Books are sent by 1st class post within the UK. Orders outside the UK are dispatched by priority airmail and will take between 5 and 28 days to be delivered depending on location. An express courier service is also available on request at an additional charge. O R D E R I N G Title ISBN Price Qty Total Post: Woodhead Publishing Limited, Abington Hall, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge CB21 6AH, UK Online @ www.chandospublishing…
Catalyst, Stake, Pretext, Symbol, Mask: On the History of Relations between the Comintern, the Soviet Union and Southern Africa
Digital Divide or Unequal Exchange? How the Northern Intellectual Property Rights Regime Threatens the South
This conference of law librarians is convened around the theme of "New Rights - New Laws." I want to argue that, with regard to information, while there are new laws aplenty, there are in fact no new rights. Worse, we are presently witnessing a steady erosion of even the existing public rights of access to and use of information content, whether of a legal nature or not. In fact, there is mounting evidence that the idea of the public domain itsel…
Are there warlords in provincial Mozambique? Questions of the social base of MNR banditry
Exploring the origins, nature and consequences of MNR violence and murder, this article argues that Renamo does not conform to the classical characteristics of warlordism. It does not represent a cession of central control to local interests; rather it is an attack on the national sovereignty of Mozambique created and perpetuated by external powers. Nevertheless, in some areas the externally imposed proxy war may have been able to achieve a certa…
Guide to Current National Bibliographies in the Third World
Mozambique
The myth of Nestor Makhno
Endre Sik and the Development of African Studies in the USSR: A Study Agenda From 1929
Writing in 1963, the late D.H. Jones commented on the first volume of the Hungarian Endre Sik's History of Black Africa that “this is simply another pot-boiling account of the European colonisation of Africa, about 1910 vintage, distinguished from others of its kind only by the slightly greater space it allots to speculation about the mysterious native past...Professor Sik's unexacting standards of evidence are those of the crudest type of politi…
A Soviet View of Africa. An Annotated Bibliography on Ethiopia, Somalia and Djibouti
Endre Sik and the Development of African Studies in the USSR: A Study Agenda From 1929
Writing in 1963, the late D.H. Jones commented on the first volume of the Hungarian Endre Sik's History of Black Africa that “this is simply another pot-boiling account of the European colonisation of Africa, about 1910 vintage, distinguished from others of its kind only by the slightly greater space it allots to speculation about the mysterious native past...Professor Sik's unexacting standards of evidence are those of the crudest type of politi…
The hidden thread: Russia and South Africa in the Soviet era
The Hidden Thread is an important addition to the small but growing shelf of scholarly post-Soviet books in English on the role of the Soviet Union, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) a
Are there warlords in provincial Mozambique? Questions of the social base of MNR banditry
Exploring the origins, nature and consequences of MNR violence and murder, this article argues that Renamo does not conform to the classical characteristics of warlordism. It does not represent a cession of central control to local interests; rather it is an attack on the national sovereignty of Mozambique created and perpetuated by external powers. Nevertheless, in some areas the externally imposed proxy war may have been able to achieve a certa…
In the Name of the People: Angola's Forgotten Massacre
COLIN DARCHUniversity of Cape Town© 2014 Colin Darch
Lusotopie, Lusotopy. What Legacy, What Future
The introduction of this issue goes back over the history of the creation of the Lusotopie journal. It also questions the scope of the concept of lusotopy in the social sciences. The intellectual project of the journal, published from 1994 onwards, was complex and ambitious. Lusotopie is not a review of “cultural-area” studies, but a generalist review of political analysis, in the broadest sense, from an empirically-delimited research field: that…
Transversalidade no Centro de Estudos Africanos em Moçambique, 1976-1986: A Construção De Uma Nova Visão Nas Ciências Sociais
Neste artigo reflito sobre um estudo de caso que aproveita dos conceitos antropológicos de transversalidade e olhar cruzado. Interrogo minha própria experiência de trabalho num centro de pesquisa em Moçambique na década de 1980, em meio a um conflito armado pós-independência, desencadeado por rebeldes e apoiado pelo regime sul-africano de apartheid. Anglófono, com experiência de trabalho em diversos países africanos, cheguei a Moçambique em 1979 …
Digital Divide or Unequal Exchange? How the Northern Intellectual Property Rights Regime Threatens the South
This conference of law librarians is convened around the theme of "New Rights - New Laws." I want to argue that, with regard to information, while there are new laws aplenty, there are in fact no new rights. Worse, we are presently witnessing a steady erosion of even the existing public rights of access to and use of information content, whether of a legal nature or not. In fact, there is mounting evidence that the idea of the public domain itsel…
The myth of Nestor Makhno
Endre Sik and the Development of African Studies in the USSR: A Study Agenda From 1929
Writing in 1963, the late D.H. Jones commented on the first volume of the Hungarian Endre Sik's History of Black Africa that “this is simply another pot-boiling account of the European colonisation of Africa, about 1910 vintage, distinguished from others of its kind only by the slightly greater space it allots to speculation about the mysterious native past...Professor Sik's unexacting standards of evidence are those of the crudest type of politi…
A Soviet View of Africa. An Annotated Bibliography on Ethiopia, Somalia and Djibouti
The myth of Nestor Makhno
Mozambique
Are there warlords in provincial Mozambique? Questions of the social base of MNR banditry
Exploring the origins, nature and consequences of MNR violence and murder, this article argues that Renamo does not conform to the classical characteristics of warlordism. It does not represent a cession of central control to local interests; rather it is an attack on the national sovereignty of Mozambique created and perpetuated by external powers. Nevertheless, in some areas the externally imposed proxy war may have been able to achieve a certa…
Guide to Current National Bibliographies in the Third World
Digital Divide or Unequal Exchange? How the Northern Intellectual Property Rights Regime Threatens the South
This conference of law librarians is convened around the theme of "New Rights - New Laws." I want to argue that, with regard to information, while there are new laws aplenty, there are in fact no new rights. Worse, we are presently witnessing a steady erosion of even the existing public rights of access to and use of information content, whether of a legal nature or not. In fact, there is mounting evidence that the idea of the public domain itsel…
Catalyst, Stake, Pretext, Symbol, Mask: On the History of Relations between the Comintern, the Soviet Union and Southern Africa
Freedom of Information and the Developing World: Demand, Compliance and Democratic Behaviours
£10/US$17/€13 Books are sent by 1st class post within the UK. Orders outside the UK are dispatched by priority airmail and will take between 5 and 28 days to be delivered depending on location. An express courier service is also available on request at an additional charge. O R D E R I N G Title ISBN Price Qty Total Post: Woodhead Publishing Limited, Abington Hall, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge CB21 6AH, UK Online @ www.chandospublishing…
Remembering Ruth First at the CEA
Ruth changed in Mozambique; she softened. I think she belonged in Mozambique in a way that she never belonged to England. It was her home, and she meant something to that society. (Gillian Slovo, interview, 1989) This article traces the evolution of research at the Centro de Estudos Africanos (CEA) from before the time of Ruth First's arrival. It divides her work there into two periods: the work on the Mozambican Miner, in which she was heavily i…
The hidden thread: Russia and South Africa in the Soviet era
The Hidden Thread is an important addition to the small but growing shelf of scholarly post-Soviet books in English on the role of the Soviet Union, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) a
In the Name of the People: Angola's Forgotten Massacre
COLIN DARCHUniversity of Cape Town© 2014 Colin Darch
Separatist tensions and violence in the ‘model post-conflict state’: Mozambique since the 1990s
The assassination of Professor Gilles Cistac, shot down in a busy Maputo street in broad daylight on 3 March, sent shockwaves across southern Africa and focused renewed attention on the worrying an
Transversalidade no Centro de Estudos Africanos em Moçambique, 1976-1986: A Construção De Uma Nova Visão Nas Ciências Sociais
Neste artigo reflito sobre um estudo de caso que aproveita dos conceitos antropológicos de transversalidade e olhar cruzado. Interrogo minha própria experiência de trabalho num centro de pesquisa em Moçambique na década de 1980, em meio a um conflito armado pós-independência, desencadeado por rebeldes e apoiado pelo regime sul-africano de apartheid. Anglófono, com experiência de trabalho em diversos países africanos, cheguei a Moçambique em 1979 …
Lusotopie, Lusotopy. What Legacy, What Future
The introduction of this issue goes back over the history of the creation of the Lusotopie journal. It also questions the scope of the concept of lusotopy in the social sciences. The intellectual project of the journal, published from 1994 onwards, was complex and ambitious. Lusotopie is not a review of “cultural-area” studies, but a generalist review of political analysis, in the broadest sense, from an empirically-delimited research field: that…
More on Soviet military personnel in Angola Cuito Cuanavale: Frontline accounts by Soviet soldiers
No abstract available
From prohibited immigrants to citizens: The origins of citizenship and nationality in South Africa
In this carefully argued and detailed book, Jonathan Klaaren analyses how the ‘legal cultural concept of South African citizenship developed from the official practices regulating the mobility of d
Nestor Makhno and Rural Anarchism in Ukraine, 1917-1921
Médicas-sacerdotisas: Religiosidades ancestrais e contestação no sul de Moçambique, c.1927–1988
This volume presents a detailed historical analysis of the Portuguese colonial state’s ongoing but unsuccessful attempts, throughout the mid-twentieth century, to suppress the activities of tinyang
On the Right Side of History: The Trajectory of “Domestic” African Studies from Endre Sik to the Present Day
The article presents an analysis of the trajectory of “domestic” African studies in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet Russian Federation, posing the fundamental question of the extent to which Soviet afrikanistika was in fact a manifestation of a disinterested political solidarity with the struggles of oppressed African peoples, and can be absolved of pursuing economic interests and even of harbouring colonial ambitions. The article analyses a…
Liberation and Biographical Narrative in Mozambican Historiography: The Struggle in Cabo Delgado, 1962-1974
Over the last 25 years, memoirs and testimonies have appeared in Mozambique recounting the life stories of participants in the armed struggle for national independence led by FRELIMO (1964–1974). Most of the protagonists have remained loyal to FRELIMO and many have had political careers after independence. Their memoirs have been published in the course of reinforcing the Frelimo party’s political dominance in the early 21st century. Although som…
Soviet intelligence gathering in Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s: A review article
The wave of independence in Africa in the late 1950s and early 1960s, combined with the ‘thaw’ after Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, resulted in renewed Soviet interest after two decades of ignoring African affairs. Newly established diplomatic relations with liberation movements and independent states required the rapid training of middle-level cadres who could report back accu…
Afrikanístika: As origens dos ‘Estudos Africanos’ na União Soviética, 1929-1945
Dos seus primórdios na década de 1920 até ao final da Segunda Guerra Mundial, os estudos africanos na URSS foram conduzidos por um grupo de intelectuais revolucionários que trabalhavam sob condições materiais difíceis e em um cenário político delicado. Os pesquisadores soviéticos foram impedidos de realizar trabalho de campo nos territórios colonizados e de aceder à documentação primária. A turbu- lência política interna, a "revolução cultural" n…
Political science (19 works) · Law (11 works) · African history and culture studies (10 works) · History (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (6 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (5 works)