Todd Cleveland
Biographic Data
| ID | 3614332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Todd Cleveland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Todd |
| FAMILY NAME | Cleveland |
| SIGNATURE | CLEVELAND T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Alluring Opportunities
This book examines the lives of African laborers in the tourism industry in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique and the social ascension that many of these workers achieved in spite of demanding conditions. From the origin of the colonial period until its end in 1975, the tourism industry developed on the backs of these laborers and ultimately became an important source of foreign exchange for Portugal. The book explores the daily experiences of …
A History of Tourism in Africa
Sports in Africa, Past and Present
"These groundbreaking sports studies essays demonstrate how Africans past and present have utilized sports to forge complex identities and shape Africa's dynamic place in the world. Since the late-nineteenth century, modern sports in Africa have both reflected and shaped cultural, social, political, economic, generational, and gendered relations on the continent. Originally intended as a means of "civilizing" indigenous populations and upholding …
Cassandra Mark-Thiesen. Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital
Resisting the Conceptualization of Theft as Resistance and Informing as Collaboration
Feeding the Aversion
Darshan Vigneswaran and Joel Quirk, editors. Mobility Makes States
The volume constitutes an effort to redirect current scholarly engagement with human mobility and state power in Africa. Prompted, in part, by Charles Tilly’s aphorism that “war made the state, and the state made war,” the editors’ titular contention is that “mobility makes states” and, correspondingly, states also make mobility. Darshan Vigneswaran and Joel Quirk aver that various forms of human movement have played a “central role in shaping th…
Diamonds in the Rough
List of Illustrations* Acknowledgments* Chapter 1: An Introduction to Angola's Diamond Past Paternalism, Professionalism, and Place* Chapter 2: A Bountiful Place The Political Economy of Lunda, 1870-1975* Chapter 3: The Recruitment Process, 1921-75* Chapter 4: A Group Effort The Collaborative Process of Diamond Extraction, 1917-75* Chapter 5: Negotiating Stability Laborers' Work-Site Strategies, 1922-75* Chapter 6: Eventful Evenings Life after th…
Minors in Name Only
Although African men and women comprised the vast majority of the labor force on Angola’s colonial-era diamond mines, child laborers, or “minors,” also played important roles, primarily as mineworkers and plantation laborers. While these young male and female laborers’ daily tasks were often lighter than those assigned to adult males, they often worked side-by-side with more senior workers and were equally subject to physical abuse, poor rations,…
Angola Is Not Just about Oil, War and Poverty
No abstract
We Still Want the Truth”
Research Article| May 01 2005 “We Still Want the Truth”: The ANC's Angolan Detention Camps and Post-Apartheid Memory Todd Cleveland Todd Cleveland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 63–77. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-1-63 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Todd Cleveland; “We Still Want the Truth”: The…
Minors in Name Only
Although African men and women comprised the vast majority of the labor force on Angola’s colonial-era diamond mines, child laborers, or “minors,” also played important roles, primarily as mineworkers and plantation laborers. While these young male and female laborers’ daily tasks were often lighter than those assigned to adult males, they often worked side-by-side with more senior workers and were equally subject to physical abuse, poor rations,…
We Still Want the Truth”
Research Article| May 01 2005 “We Still Want the Truth”: The ANC's Angolan Detention Camps and Post-Apartheid Memory Todd Cleveland Todd Cleveland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 63–77. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-1-63 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Todd Cleveland; “We Still Want the Truth”: The…
A History of Tourism in Africa
Feeding the Aversion
We Still Want the Truth”
Research Article| May 01 2005 “We Still Want the Truth”: The ANC's Angolan Detention Camps and Post-Apartheid Memory Todd Cleveland Todd Cleveland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 63–77. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-1-63 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Todd Cleveland; “We Still Want the Truth”: The…
Angola Is Not Just about Oil, War and Poverty
No abstract
Minors in Name Only
Although African men and women comprised the vast majority of the labor force on Angola’s colonial-era diamond mines, child laborers, or “minors,” also played important roles, primarily as mineworkers and plantation laborers. While these young male and female laborers’ daily tasks were often lighter than those assigned to adult males, they often worked side-by-side with more senior workers and were equally subject to physical abuse, poor rations,…
Diamonds in the Rough
List of Illustrations* Acknowledgments* Chapter 1: An Introduction to Angola's Diamond Past Paternalism, Professionalism, and Place* Chapter 2: A Bountiful Place The Political Economy of Lunda, 1870-1975* Chapter 3: The Recruitment Process, 1921-75* Chapter 4: A Group Effort The Collaborative Process of Diamond Extraction, 1917-75* Chapter 5: Negotiating Stability Laborers' Work-Site Strategies, 1922-75* Chapter 6: Eventful Evenings Life after th…
Darshan Vigneswaran and Joel Quirk, editors. Mobility Makes States
The volume constitutes an effort to redirect current scholarly engagement with human mobility and state power in Africa. Prompted, in part, by Charles Tilly’s aphorism that “war made the state, and the state made war,” the editors’ titular contention is that “mobility makes states” and, correspondingly, states also make mobility. Darshan Vigneswaran and Joel Quirk aver that various forms of human movement have played a “central role in shaping th…
Feeding the Aversion
Resisting the Conceptualization of Theft as Resistance and Informing as Collaboration
Sports in Africa, Past and Present
"These groundbreaking sports studies essays demonstrate how Africans past and present have utilized sports to forge complex identities and shape Africa's dynamic place in the world. Since the late-nineteenth century, modern sports in Africa have both reflected and shaped cultural, social, political, economic, generational, and gendered relations on the continent. Originally intended as a means of "civilizing" indigenous populations and upholding …
Cassandra Mark-Thiesen. Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital
A History of Tourism in Africa
Alluring Opportunities
This book examines the lives of African laborers in the tourism industry in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique and the social ascension that many of these workers achieved in spite of demanding conditions. From the origin of the colonial period until its end in 1975, the tourism industry developed on the backs of these laborers and ultimately became an important source of foreign exchange for Portugal. The book explores the daily experiences of …
African history and culture studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)