Brett Shadle
Biographic Data
| ID | 636577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brett Shadle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brett |
| FAMILY NAME | Shadle |
| SIGNATURE | SHADLE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa
As I was preparing to write this review, I happened to pull from my shelf V. S. Naipaul's The Masques of Africa (2010), in which the author devotes a few paragraphs to discussing the place of animals in Nigeria. Naipaul reproduces the enduring stereotypes of white people as lovers and protectors of animals and of Africans as cruel and inhumane. Save one Nigerian Naipual met, only white people in the country (he claims) were concerned about allevi…
The “problem” of the urban refugee
This article examines a short era in which the category of the African “urban refugee” garnered special attention from governments and non-governmental organizations. In the late 1960s, those dealing with refugee issues began to perceive urban refugees as posing a unique set of problems, ones that required intervention by specialized professionals. This shift in thinking came to fruition with the Joint Refugee Services of Kenya (JRSK). For the fi…
Rachel Jean-Baptiste. Conjugal Rights
Journal Article Rachel Jean-Baptiste. Conjugal Rights: Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon. Get access Rachel Jean-Baptiste. Conjugal Rights: Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon. (New African Histories.) Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii, 300. Cloth $80.00, paper $32.95. Brett Shadle Brett Shadle Virginia Tech [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
The Souls of White Folk
Kenya's white settlers have been alternately celebrated and condemned, painted as romantic pioneers or hedonistic bed-hoppers or crude racists. The souls of white folk examines settlers not as caricatures, but as people inhabiting a unique historical moment. It takes seriously - though not uncritically - what settlers said, how they viewed themselves and their world. It argues that the settler soul was composed of a series of interlaced ideas: se…
Madness and marginality
White settlers and the law in early colonial Kenya
This article examines settler attitudes toward the law and the legal system in early colonial Kenya. Settlers believed that English law was the culmination of centuries of evolution and was unsurpassed for its justice and logic. Nonetheless, they insisted English law and legal procedure were supremely ill-suited for the African context. When courts released Africans on "technicalities" it only encouraged more crime; insufficient punishments did t…
The Souls of White Folk
Kenya's white settlers have been alternately celebrated and condemned, painted as romantic pioneers or hedonistic bed-hoppers or crude racists. The souls of white folk examines settlers not as caricatures, but as people inhabiting a unique historical moment. It takes seriously - though not uncritically - what settlers said, how they viewed themselves and their world. It argues that the settler soul was composed of a series of interlaced ideas: se…
White settlers and the law in early colonial Kenya
This article examines settler attitudes toward the law and the legal system in early colonial Kenya. Settlers believed that English law was the culmination of centuries of evolution and was unsurpassed for its justice and logic. Nonetheless, they insisted English law and legal procedure were supremely ill-suited for the African context. When courts released Africans on "technicalities" it only encouraged more crime; insufficient punishments did t…
White settlers and the law in early colonial Kenya
This article examines settler attitudes toward the law and the legal system in early colonial Kenya. Settlers believed that English law was the culmination of centuries of evolution and was unsurpassed for its justice and logic. Nonetheless, they insisted English law and legal procedure were supremely ill-suited for the African context. When courts released Africans on "technicalities" it only encouraged more crime; insufficient punishments did t…
The Souls of White Folk
Kenya's white settlers have been alternately celebrated and condemned, painted as romantic pioneers or hedonistic bed-hoppers or crude racists. The souls of white folk examines settlers not as caricatures, but as people inhabiting a unique historical moment. It takes seriously - though not uncritically - what settlers said, how they viewed themselves and their world. It argues that the settler soul was composed of a series of interlaced ideas: se…
Madness and marginality
Rachel Jean-Baptiste. Conjugal Rights
Journal Article Rachel Jean-Baptiste. Conjugal Rights: Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon. Get access Rachel Jean-Baptiste. Conjugal Rights: Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon. (New African Histories.) Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii, 300. Cloth $80.00, paper $32.95. Brett Shadle Brett Shadle Virginia Tech [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
The “problem” of the urban refugee
This article examines a short era in which the category of the African “urban refugee” garnered special attention from governments and non-governmental organizations. In the late 1960s, those dealing with refugee issues began to perceive urban refugees as posing a unique set of problems, ones that required intervention by specialized professionals. This shift in thinking came to fruition with the Joint Refugee Services of Kenya (JRSK). For the fi…
Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa
As I was preparing to write this review, I happened to pull from my shelf V. S. Naipaul's The Masques of Africa (2010), in which the author devotes a few paragraphs to discussing the place of animals in Nigeria. Naipaul reproduces the enduring stereotypes of white people as lovers and protectors of animals and of Africans as cruel and inhumane. Save one Nigerian Naipual met, only white people in the country (he claims) were concerned about allevi…
Archaeology (5 works) · History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works)