Diana Jeater
Biographic Data
| ID | 75110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana Jeater |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana |
| FAMILY NAME | Jeater |
| SIGNATURE | JEATER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5303-5800 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
African Women in Colonial Settler Towns in East and Southern Africa
The first permanent African residents of the new towns established by whites in southern and eastern Africa at the end of the 19th century were female. These towns were new social spaces, existing where no towns had existed before. The residents had to invent the rules for living: new forms of urban identity emerged over time. For white settlers, the towns were intended to mirror familiar European urban spaces. For Africans, little was recognizab…
Can spirits play a role in peace and reconciliation projects? Perspectives on traditional reconciliation in Zimbabwe
There is a long history of spirit-oriented systems of reconciliation and healing in Zimbabwe. However, under white rule, this work was marginalised and driven underground. In Zimbabwe today, diverse views on reconciliation, reparation, justice and national healing are producing rich but frequently conflicted initiatives around ‘traditional’ and ‘community’ reconciliation. The article considers contradictions and pressures facing the National Peac…
Academic Standards or Academic Imperialism? Zimbabwean perceptions of hegemonic power in the global construction of knowledge
University cultures in the Global North generate powerful definitions of what constitutes "knowledge" and "good research." When we ask who gets to represent the "African perspective," we find it is decreasingly an African. This article argues that resource inequalities alone cannot explain this exclusion of African scholarship. Hegemonic academic standards undervalue the more positivist research orientation found in southern African universities.…
Can't pay, won't pay: Occult conflicts over neoliberal social relations in contemporary Zimbabwe
Based on interviews in Zimbabwe in 2016, the authors argue that stories about unsettled ngozi spirits are a powerful lens through which to understand grassroots experiences of neoliberalism. In the 1990s, ngozi symptoms of death and madness were associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and were instrumental in bringing families of victims and perpetrators together after war, to reconcile. Today, however, these symptoms are associated more …
Five Centuries of South African Popular History
Terence Ranger, 1929-2015
Terence Ranger is probably best known to readers of History Workshop Journal for the 1983 collection he edited with Eric Hobsbawm, The Invention of Tradition . 1 However, he was first and foremost a historian of Africa, and specifically of Zimbabwe. His life is important partly because he made a significant difference to thinking about African history; but even more perhaps for what he taught us about the necessity, and also the pitfalls, of comb…
A Reflection on Epistemology and Ideas about the Spirit in Terence Ranger's Work
Stuff Happens, and People Make it Happen: Theory and Practice in the Work of Terence Ranger
Terence Ranger is best known as the co-editor, with Eric Hobsbawm, of the 1983 book, The Invention of Tradition. However, he has spent most of his career researching and publishing on the history of Zimbabwe. As an activist academic, he has spent almost six decades working for social justice in Africa and the UK, while publishing a series of books and articles that have inspired new ways of thinking – and of campaigning – about nationalism, ethni…
The Transformation of Imperial Administrators into African Rulers in Colonial Natal
Introduction. Histories of Healing: Past and Present Medical Practices in Africa and the Diaspora
This special issue focuses on African healing the subject of a dynamic and relatively new interdisciplinary literature in African studies. Long a standard topic of evolutionary and functionalist anthropologists accounts so-called traditional medicine gained wider scholarly interest in the 1960s and 1970s with the growth of medical anthropology and the World Health Organisations Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 which supported the integration of TM in…
The British Empire and African Women in the Twentieth Century
This chapter focuses on one important dimension of women's experience of empire, their encounter with attempts to control and redirect their sexuality. Controlling men's labour, always of paramount importance to the architects of empire in Africa, was matched, if not at times surpassed, by colonial concerns over the sexuality of African women. As the nature of gender relations changed under the architecture of colonial administration, so the expe…
Law, Language, and Science: The Invention of the Native Mind in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1930
This book examines the mentalities of various communities within a district of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Focusing in particular on white administrators and missionaries in the Melsetter District, it combines linguisitc/lexical analysis with historical interpretation, in an attempt to reconstruct what whites and Africans actually meant by the words and practices they used in interactions with each other. Jeater provides a detailed study of tra…
Imagining Africans: Scholarship, fantasy, and science in colonial administration, 1920s southern Rhodesia
A quantitative bioanalytical method for pharmacokinetic studies using diluted whole blood from serially bled mice was developed. Oral exposure profiles in mice for five model anticancer compounds dacarbazine, gefitinib, gemcitabine, imatinib, and topotecan were determined following discrete and cassette (five-in-one) dosing. Six micro blood samples per animal were collected and added to a fixed amount of water. This dilution served several purpos…
Speaking Like a Native: Vernacular Languages and the State in Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1935
During the early years of white administration in Southern Rhodesia, few whites spoke the local vernaculars. The state used those few, largely traders and farmers, to translate and interpret. Members of the Native Affairs Department were expected to learn ‘on the job’. However, by the early 1920s, poor language abilities in the civil services, combined with growing segregationist tendencies in the face of African competition, prompted the state t…
No Place for a Woman: Gwelo Town, Southern Rhodesia, 1894-1920
This paper asks why it is so difficult to research the lives and experiences of urban women in Gwelo, an industrial town in Southern Rhodesia. It used to be said that African migrant workers in urban areas and mine compounds were predominantly male, and that women were left behind, unwaged, as an invisible 'rural subsidy' on migrant wages. The evidence from the first few decades of white occupation supported this interpretation. However, historia…
Marriage, Perversion and Power: The Construction of Moral Discourse in Southern Rhodesia 1894-1930
The way you tell them: Language, ideology and development policy in Southern Rhodesia
The primers and dictionaries that were produced in Southern Rhodesia at the start of the white occupation for native English speakers to learn the African vernaculars are informative as well as entertaining to the modern historian. This paper uses phrase books and dictionaries from the 1890s to the 1930s to ask two major questions: Who needed to speak ‘correct’ chiShona? What did they want to say? It finds that it was probably the staff of the Na…
‘Tradition’ and Power
This chapter discusses the legislation and transformation of African marriages. The 1917 Native Marriage Ordinance consolidates legal power with a law insisting upon the details of ‘customary marriage’. The Ordinance created a ‘native marriage’ procedure, a ‘customary law’ that aided the acceptance among NCs and administrators of a segregation policy in place of the policy of integration. Of much greater practical and political significance in pe…
In Search of the Moral Realm
This chapter attempts to find a starting-point from which to examine how men and women might experience urbanization in a new colonial context. It considers the relationships within and between two internally complex and divided groups, homogenized within colonial discourse into simple ‘European’ and ‘African’ communities. The Gwelo District provided the starting point in the study of African marriage relationships in Southern Rhodesia. This chap…
Township Troubles
This chapter discusses problems of morality and sexual behaviour in the Gwelo District. The absence of lineage control in the towns left few sanctions against sexual violence. The whiff of ‘perversion’ that the Occupation had introduced hung over the urban streets. Manifestations of sexual harassment and assault that occurred in the town were specific to the social climate of urbanization and occupation. Colonization created ways of thinking abou…
Conclusion
Inspired by a wish to emancipate African women from lineage control, in order to further the Administration's proletarianization policy, the Native Marriages Ordinance of 1901 was built around the thought that African male sexuality was ‘perverse’ and should be subject to State monitoring. Although the material transformations brought about by white occupation and colonization were fundamental to the construction of moral discourse in Southern Rh…
Marriage, Perversion, and Power: The construction of moral discourse in Southern Rhodesia, 1894-1930
This book studies African marriage relationships in Southern Rhodesia during the early 20th century. It is a cogently argued history of sexuality and gender relations in colonial Africa. This book's analysis pays careful attention to methodological questions and fruitfully combines historical and anthropological approaches. This book examines the marriage relationship and the regulation of sexuality in terms of both the political and the producti…
Tears of the Dead: The social biography of an African family
Journal Article Tears of the Dead: The social biography of an African family Get access Tears of the Dead: The social biography of an African family, by Richard Werbner. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1991. xi + 211pp. £30.00 hardback. ISBN 0 7486 0304 2. DIANA JEATER DIANA JEATER Bristol Polytechnic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 367, April 1993, Pages 305–307, h…
Dance, Civet Cat: Child labour in the Zambesi Valley
Journal Article ‘Dance, Civet Cat’: Child labour in the Zambesi Valley Get access ‘Dance, Civet Cat’: Child labour in the Zambesi Valley, by Pamela Reynolds. Zed Books, London, 1991. xxxii + 176 pp. £29.95 hardback, £9.95 paperback. ISBN 0 86232 932 9 and 0 86232 933 7. DIANA JEATER DIANA JEATER Bristol Polytechnic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 91, Issue 363, April 1992, Pages 278…
Books reviewed
Albie Sachs, Protecting Human Rights in a New South Africa (Oxford University Press: Cape Town, 1990) vii + 208pp, £5.99 pbk. Mike Robertson, ed., Human Rights for South Africans (Oxford University Press: Cape Town, 1990), x + 254pp., £7.95 pbk. Sheridan Johns and R. Hunt Davis, Jr. Mandela, Tambo and the African National Congress: The Struggle against Apartheid 1948–1990. A Documentary Survey (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1991),…
Speaking Like a Native: Vernacular Languages and the State in Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1935
During the early years of white administration in Southern Rhodesia, few whites spoke the local vernaculars. The state used those few, largely traders and farmers, to translate and interpret. Members of the Native Affairs Department were expected to learn ‘on the job’. However, by the early 1920s, poor language abilities in the civil services, combined with growing segregationist tendencies in the face of African competition, prompted the state t…
Academic Standards or Academic Imperialism? Zimbabwean perceptions of hegemonic power in the global construction of knowledge
University cultures in the Global North generate powerful definitions of what constitutes "knowledge" and "good research." When we ask who gets to represent the "African perspective," we find it is decreasingly an African. This article argues that resource inequalities alone cannot explain this exclusion of African scholarship. Hegemonic academic standards undervalue the more positivist research orientation found in southern African universities.…
No Place for a Woman: Gwelo Town, Southern Rhodesia, 1894-1920
This paper asks why it is so difficult to research the lives and experiences of urban women in Gwelo, an industrial town in Southern Rhodesia. It used to be said that African migrant workers in urban areas and mine compounds were predominantly male, and that women were left behind, unwaged, as an invisible 'rural subsidy' on migrant wages. The evidence from the first few decades of white occupation supported this interpretation. However, historia…
Law, Language, and Science: The Invention of the Native Mind in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1930
This book examines the mentalities of various communities within a district of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Focusing in particular on white administrators and missionaries in the Melsetter District, it combines linguisitc/lexical analysis with historical interpretation, in an attempt to reconstruct what whites and Africans actually meant by the words and practices they used in interactions with each other. Jeater provides a detailed study of tra…
Can spirits play a role in peace and reconciliation projects? Perspectives on traditional reconciliation in Zimbabwe
There is a long history of spirit-oriented systems of reconciliation and healing in Zimbabwe. However, under white rule, this work was marginalised and driven underground. In Zimbabwe today, diverse views on reconciliation, reparation, justice and national healing are producing rich but frequently conflicted initiatives around ‘traditional’ and ‘community’ reconciliation. The article considers contradictions and pressures facing the National Peac…
Can't pay, won't pay: Occult conflicts over neoliberal social relations in contemporary Zimbabwe
Based on interviews in Zimbabwe in 2016, the authors argue that stories about unsettled ngozi spirits are a powerful lens through which to understand grassroots experiences of neoliberalism. In the 1990s, ngozi symptoms of death and madness were associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and were instrumental in bringing families of victims and perpetrators together after war, to reconcile. Today, however, these symptoms are associated more …
A Reflection on Epistemology and Ideas about the Spirit in Terence Ranger's Work
The way you tell them: Language, ideology and development policy in Southern Rhodesia
The primers and dictionaries that were produced in Southern Rhodesia at the start of the white occupation for native English speakers to learn the African vernaculars are informative as well as entertaining to the modern historian. This paper uses phrase books and dictionaries from the 1890s to the 1930s to ask two major questions: Who needed to speak ‘correct’ chiShona? What did they want to say? It finds that it was probably the staff of the Na…
Books reviewed
Albie Sachs, Protecting Human Rights in a New South Africa (Oxford University Press: Cape Town, 1990) vii + 208pp, £5.99 pbk. Mike Robertson, ed., Human Rights for South Africans (Oxford University Press: Cape Town, 1990), x + 254pp., £7.95 pbk. Sheridan Johns and R. Hunt Davis, Jr. Mandela, Tambo and the African National Congress: The Struggle against Apartheid 1948–1990. A Documentary Survey (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1991),…
Dance, Civet Cat: Child labour in the Zambesi Valley
Journal Article ‘Dance, Civet Cat’: Child labour in the Zambesi Valley Get access ‘Dance, Civet Cat’: Child labour in the Zambesi Valley, by Pamela Reynolds. Zed Books, London, 1991. xxxii + 176 pp. £29.95 hardback, £9.95 paperback. ISBN 0 86232 932 9 and 0 86232 933 7. DIANA JEATER DIANA JEATER Bristol Polytechnic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 91, Issue 363, April 1992, Pages 278…
‘Tradition’ and Power
This chapter discusses the legislation and transformation of African marriages. The 1917 Native Marriage Ordinance consolidates legal power with a law insisting upon the details of ‘customary marriage’. The Ordinance created a ‘native marriage’ procedure, a ‘customary law’ that aided the acceptance among NCs and administrators of a segregation policy in place of the policy of integration. Of much greater practical and political significance in pe…
In Search of the Moral Realm
This chapter attempts to find a starting-point from which to examine how men and women might experience urbanization in a new colonial context. It considers the relationships within and between two internally complex and divided groups, homogenized within colonial discourse into simple ‘European’ and ‘African’ communities. The Gwelo District provided the starting point in the study of African marriage relationships in Southern Rhodesia. This chap…
Township Troubles
This chapter discusses problems of morality and sexual behaviour in the Gwelo District. The absence of lineage control in the towns left few sanctions against sexual violence. The whiff of ‘perversion’ that the Occupation had introduced hung over the urban streets. Manifestations of sexual harassment and assault that occurred in the town were specific to the social climate of urbanization and occupation. Colonization created ways of thinking abou…
Conclusion
Inspired by a wish to emancipate African women from lineage control, in order to further the Administration's proletarianization policy, the Native Marriages Ordinance of 1901 was built around the thought that African male sexuality was ‘perverse’ and should be subject to State monitoring. Although the material transformations brought about by white occupation and colonization were fundamental to the construction of moral discourse in Southern Rh…
Marriage, Perversion, and Power: The construction of moral discourse in Southern Rhodesia, 1894-1930
This book studies African marriage relationships in Southern Rhodesia during the early 20th century. It is a cogently argued history of sexuality and gender relations in colonial Africa. This book's analysis pays careful attention to methodological questions and fruitfully combines historical and anthropological approaches. This book examines the marriage relationship and the regulation of sexuality in terms of both the political and the producti…
Tears of the Dead: The social biography of an African family
Journal Article Tears of the Dead: The social biography of an African family Get access Tears of the Dead: The social biography of an African family, by Richard Werbner. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1991. xi + 211pp. £30.00 hardback. ISBN 0 7486 0304 2. DIANA JEATER DIANA JEATER Bristol Polytechnic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 367, April 1993, Pages 305–307, h…
The way you tell them: Language, ideology and development policy in Southern Rhodesia
The primers and dictionaries that were produced in Southern Rhodesia at the start of the white occupation for native English speakers to learn the African vernaculars are informative as well as entertaining to the modern historian. This paper uses phrase books and dictionaries from the 1890s to the 1930s to ask two major questions: Who needed to speak ‘correct’ chiShona? What did they want to say? It finds that it was probably the staff of the Na…
Marriage, Perversion and Power: The Construction of Moral Discourse in Southern Rhodesia 1894-1930
No Place for a Woman: Gwelo Town, Southern Rhodesia, 1894-1920
This paper asks why it is so difficult to research the lives and experiences of urban women in Gwelo, an industrial town in Southern Rhodesia. It used to be said that African migrant workers in urban areas and mine compounds were predominantly male, and that women were left behind, unwaged, as an invisible 'rural subsidy' on migrant wages. The evidence from the first few decades of white occupation supported this interpretation. However, historia…
Speaking Like a Native: Vernacular Languages and the State in Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1935
During the early years of white administration in Southern Rhodesia, few whites spoke the local vernaculars. The state used those few, largely traders and farmers, to translate and interpret. Members of the Native Affairs Department were expected to learn ‘on the job’. However, by the early 1920s, poor language abilities in the civil services, combined with growing segregationist tendencies in the face of African competition, prompted the state t…
Imagining Africans: Scholarship, fantasy, and science in colonial administration, 1920s southern Rhodesia
A quantitative bioanalytical method for pharmacokinetic studies using diluted whole blood from serially bled mice was developed. Oral exposure profiles in mice for five model anticancer compounds dacarbazine, gefitinib, gemcitabine, imatinib, and topotecan were determined following discrete and cassette (five-in-one) dosing. Six micro blood samples per animal were collected and added to a fixed amount of water. This dilution served several purpos…
The British Empire and African Women in the Twentieth Century
This chapter focuses on one important dimension of women's experience of empire, their encounter with attempts to control and redirect their sexuality. Controlling men's labour, always of paramount importance to the architects of empire in Africa, was matched, if not at times surpassed, by colonial concerns over the sexuality of African women. As the nature of gender relations changed under the architecture of colonial administration, so the expe…
Law, Language, and Science: The Invention of the Native Mind in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1930
This book examines the mentalities of various communities within a district of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Focusing in particular on white administrators and missionaries in the Melsetter District, it combines linguisitc/lexical analysis with historical interpretation, in an attempt to reconstruct what whites and Africans actually meant by the words and practices they used in interactions with each other. Jeater provides a detailed study of tra…
Introduction. Histories of Healing: Past and Present Medical Practices in Africa and the Diaspora
This special issue focuses on African healing the subject of a dynamic and relatively new interdisciplinary literature in African studies. Long a standard topic of evolutionary and functionalist anthropologists accounts so-called traditional medicine gained wider scholarly interest in the 1960s and 1970s with the growth of medical anthropology and the World Health Organisations Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 which supported the integration of TM in…
The Transformation of Imperial Administrators into African Rulers in Colonial Natal
Stuff Happens, and People Make it Happen: Theory and Practice in the Work of Terence Ranger
Terence Ranger is best known as the co-editor, with Eric Hobsbawm, of the 1983 book, The Invention of Tradition. However, he has spent most of his career researching and publishing on the history of Zimbabwe. As an activist academic, he has spent almost six decades working for social justice in Africa and the UK, while publishing a series of books and articles that have inspired new ways of thinking – and of campaigning – about nationalism, ethni…
A Reflection on Epistemology and Ideas about the Spirit in Terence Ranger's Work
Five Centuries of South African Popular History
Terence Ranger, 1929-2015
Terence Ranger is probably best known to readers of History Workshop Journal for the 1983 collection he edited with Eric Hobsbawm, The Invention of Tradition . 1 However, he was first and foremost a historian of Africa, and specifically of Zimbabwe. His life is important partly because he made a significant difference to thinking about African history; but even more perhaps for what he taught us about the necessity, and also the pitfalls, of comb…
Can't pay, won't pay: Occult conflicts over neoliberal social relations in contemporary Zimbabwe
Based on interviews in Zimbabwe in 2016, the authors argue that stories about unsettled ngozi spirits are a powerful lens through which to understand grassroots experiences of neoliberalism. In the 1990s, ngozi symptoms of death and madness were associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and were instrumental in bringing families of victims and perpetrators together after war, to reconcile. Today, however, these symptoms are associated more …
Academic Standards or Academic Imperialism? Zimbabwean perceptions of hegemonic power in the global construction of knowledge
University cultures in the Global North generate powerful definitions of what constitutes "knowledge" and "good research." When we ask who gets to represent the "African perspective," we find it is decreasingly an African. This article argues that resource inequalities alone cannot explain this exclusion of African scholarship. Hegemonic academic standards undervalue the more positivist research orientation found in southern African universities.…
African Women in Colonial Settler Towns in East and Southern Africa
The first permanent African residents of the new towns established by whites in southern and eastern Africa at the end of the 19th century were female. These towns were new social spaces, existing where no towns had existed before. The residents had to invent the rules for living: new forms of urban identity emerged over time. For white settlers, the towns were intended to mirror familiar European urban spaces. For Africans, little was recognizab…
Can spirits play a role in peace and reconciliation projects? Perspectives on traditional reconciliation in Zimbabwe
There is a long history of spirit-oriented systems of reconciliation and healing in Zimbabwe. However, under white rule, this work was marginalised and driven underground. In Zimbabwe today, diverse views on reconciliation, reparation, justice and national healing are producing rich but frequently conflicted initiatives around ‘traditional’ and ‘community’ reconciliation. The article considers contradictions and pressures facing the National Peac…
Sociology (23 works) · Political science (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · African history and culture studies (13 works) · History (13 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (12 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Colonialism (6 works)