Andreas Eckert
Biographic Data
| ID | 76459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas Eckert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas |
| FAMILY NAME | Eckert |
| SIGNATURE | ECKERT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2566-1302 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Alexander Rubel, Migration. Eine Kulturgeschichte der Menschheit. Stuttgart, Kohlhammer 2024
Narratives, Nations, and Other World Products in the Making of Global History
Explaining how nations and narratives have been the products of transnational, cross-border forces of migration and cultural exchange, this open access volume presents a global history of the basic ideas that govern our understanding of the modern world and highlight the power of narratives in world history. From the Enlightenment forward, the nation and other global concepts have been conjured and repurposed to manage and make sense of what we n…
Lars Kreye, „Deutscher Wald“ in Afrika. Koloniale Konflikte um regenerative Ressourcen, Tansania 1892–1916. (Umwelt und Gesellschaft, Bd. 23.) Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2021
Article Lars Kreye, „Deutscher Wald“ in Afrika. Koloniale Konflikte um regenerative Ressourcen, Tansania 1892–1916. (Umwelt und Gesellschaft, Bd. 23.) Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2021 was published on April 1, 2022 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 314, issue 2)
Sebastian Bischoff / Barbara Frey / Andreas Neuwöhner (Hrsg.), Koloniale Welten in Westfalen. (Studien und Quellen zur Westfälischen Geschichte, Bd. 89.) Leiden, Brill 2021
Article Sebastian Bischoff / Barbara Frey / Andreas Neuwöhner (Hrsg.), Koloniale Welten in Westfalen. (Studien und Quellen zur Westfälischen Geschichte, Bd. 89.) Leiden, Brill 2021 was published on August 1, 2022 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 315, issue 1)
Geschichte der Sklaverei: Von der Antike bis ins 21. Jahrhundert
Noch heute leben schätzungsweise 40 Millionen Menschen in «moderner Sklaverei». Andreas Eckert zeichnet in seinem profunden Band die düstere Geschichte einer Institution nach, die schon seit der Antike in unterschiedlichen Ausprägungen in allen Weltregionen anzutreffen ist. Zugleich geht er der Frage nach den Motiven von Sklavenhändlern und -haltern nach, den Handlungsspielräumen der Versklavten und den Ursachen für den allmählichen Wandel der Sk…
A escrita da História e a virada global: Perspectivas de um historiador de África
Como a História Global pode estabelecer um diálogo com a História Africana? Qual é o valor dos conceitos de conexões e entrelaçamentos propostos pela História Global? Como podemos usar a História Global em nossas pesquisas? Além de explorar o que é a História Global, nos motivamos por entrevistar um pesquisador com ampla experiência sobre o assunto. Nesta conversa, o Professor Andreas Eckert detalha sua trajetória como Professor de História Afric…
Untergang einer Verheißung: Afrika nach der Unabhängigkeit
The story of independent Africa is usually rendered as an epic of decline and disillusionment. This article takes issue with this perspective by focusing at moments of alternative possibilities and different configurations of power during decolonization and the decades after independence without assuming a single „postcolonial constellation“ south of the Sahara. When did these alternatives open up and when did they close down? To what extent did …
Où sont les travailleurs
Cet article part de l'observation que la « question du travail », presque disparue des études africaines depuis les années 1980, est de retour. La renaissance actuelle de cette thématique, liée à l'intérêt profond suscité par le travail informel et précaire, va de pair avec la considération d'une grande variété de formes de travail, depuis celui des femmes qui exécutent des tâches domestiques jusqu'aux activités de contrebande. Il s'agit, dans ce…
Innere Mission: Dietmar Rothermund (1933 –2020) und die Geschichte der Weltregionen in Deutschland
The history of world regions beyond theNorth Atlantic realm has gainedmuch greater visibility in Germany in recent decades than it previously enjoyed. Dietmar Rothermund, the eminent and internationally renowned specialist of South Asian history who from the early 1960s taught at Heidelberg University, played a crucial role in this process. In the wake of his death earlier this year, this article offers a short intellectual biography of Rothermun…
Wage Labour
WAGE LABOUR, AFRICAN LABOUR HISTORIOGRAPHY AND GLOBAL LABOUR HISTORY Karl Marx defined the worker as a category that does not apply to all times and places. According to Marxist theory, the worker becomes a meaningful social category only when labour power becomes a commodity, that is, when a class of people without access to the means of production is created. In this context Marx famously assumed that labour power in capitalism can become a com…
Wage Labour
ONE Wage Labour
The ‘Labour Question’ in Africanist Historiography
The year 2019 marks the centenary of the International Labour Organization (ILO). The General Labour History of Africa ( GLHA ) is the result of cooperation between the ILO and a group of Africanist labour historians who came together to write a history of African workers and work in Africa since the beginning of the twentieth century. The GLHA is intended, first, to contribute to a substantial understanding of labour in Africa throughout history…
The ‘Labour Question’ in Africanist Historiography
Von der Sklaverei in die Prekarität?: Afrikanische Arbeitsgeschichte im globalen Kontext
Recently, there has been renewed interest in the history of African labor. Moreover, this interest comes with a new perspective. A new analysis of the networks, mobilizations, and the development of institutions across categorical boundaries helps explain successful labor movements in the past and the possibilities for the future.
The ‘Labour Question’ in Africanist Historiography
Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery
Historians often assume a one-directional transmission of knowledge and ideas, leading to the establishment of spatial hierarchies defined as centres and peripheries. In recent decades, transnational and global history have contributed to a more inclusive understanding of intellectual and cultural exchanges that profoundly challenged the ways in which we draw our mental maps. \n \nCovering the early modern and modern periods, Re-Mapping Centre an…
General Labour History of Africa: Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries
Co-published by the ILO and James Currey, the General Labour History of Africa is a landmark in the study of labour history. It brings, for the first time, an African perspective within a global context to the study of labour and labour relations. Eminent historians, anthropologists and social scientists from Africa, Europe and the United States examine key developments in the 20th century, such as the emergence of free wage labour; the transform…
General Labour History of Africa: Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries
The First Postcolonial Nation in Europe? The End of the German Empire
Contrasting the ‘early’ decolonization imposed on defeated Germany after World War I with the subsequent creation of a Nazi Empire, dismantled after years of war and occupation, this chapter examines what made Germany’s twentieth century colonialism and its aftermath so different. It briefly points out why historians and politicians have ignored or downplayed Germany’s colonial past. It then looks at the variety of ways in which colonialism shape…
Von der „freien Lohnarbeit“ zum „informellen Sektor“: Alte und neue Fragen in der Geschichte der Arbeit
These comments reflect on the articles of this issue from the perspective of non-Western, and in particular African labor historiography. This contribution emphasizes the fluidity and ambiguity of established, often Eurocentric concepts. Perspectives from the “Global South” not only tend to destabilize notions like wage labor, the working class, or the “standard employment pattern” (“Normalarbeitsverhältnis”) that used to be taken for granted. Th…
Years of Africa Spectrum
This article offers a portrait of the journal Africa Spectrum (known through 2008 as Afrika Spectrum), which just celebrated its 50th birthday. The essay outlines both the political and institutional context of its founding and traces its major transformations in format and content. Africa Spectrum's metamorphosis also reflects significant changes and trends in African studies in Germany and beyond. One of the journal's main features has been its…
“We must run while others walk”: African Civil Servants, State Ideologies and Bureaucratic Practices in Tanzania, from the 1950s to the 1970s
This chapter attempts to shed some light on the crucial importance of higher civil servants in the making of independent Tanzania. It looks at the larger political context, the strong amalgamation of (party) politics and administration, the attitudes of higher civil servants towards general aspects of society, economy and politics, and more specifically, at their ideas about work. The work of civil servants in early independent Tanzania was very …
Anti-Western Doctrines of Nationalism
This chapter builds upon the insight that around 1900 different concepts and institutions such as ‘nationalism’ and ‘nation’ began to spread globally. Outside the West, nationalism soon emerged as the leading ideology and privileged form of political discourse and eroded more encompassing definitions of belonging in places as diverse as Egypt and India. Non-European actors had a variety of ways they could go about selectively appropriating Europe…
Globalisierung
Regulating the Social: Social Security, Social Welfare and the State in Late Colonial Tanzania
This essay discusses British discourses and efforts to regulate social policy in both urban and rural areas in late colonial Tanzania. It focuses mainly on questions of social security and especially on the vague concept of social welfare and development, which after the Second World War became a favoured means of expressing a new imperial commitment to colonial people. The British were very reluctant about implementing international standards of…
General Labour History of Africa: Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries
Herrschen und Verwalten: Afrikanische Bürokraten, staatliche Ordnung und Politik in Tanzania, 1920-1970
Am Beispiel Tanzanias stellt Andreas Eckert jene Afrikaner in den Mittelpunkt, die zunächst Funktionen im kolonialen Staatsapparat ausübten und dann - mit der Unabhängigkeit - das Erbe der europäischen Kolonialherren an der Spitze des Staates antraten. Die afrikanischen Verwaltungsmitarbeiter nahmen in der kolonialen Ordnung eine zentrale Rolle ein und agierten als Mittler und Übersetzer zwischen Kolonisierenden und Kolonisierten. Diese Position …
Historical writing about everyday life
Everyday life' is an enigmatic term which eludes a straightforward or universal definition. The notion is less precise and more complicated than it looks. One reason may be that since 'everyday life' and the categories with which it is described are constituted within specific cultural and historical contexts, we face a host of (often contradictory) concepts.l Yet all approaches to everyday life in contemporary historical writing do have somethin…
Grundbesitz, Landkonflikte und kolonialer Wandel. Douala 1880 bis 1960
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Alles unter Kontrolle: Disziplinierungsprozesse im kolonialen Tansania (1850-1960)
African Rural Entrepreneurs and Labor in the Cameroon Littoral
IN most African farming systems, hired workers provide only a small part of the total labor devoted to agricultural production, even today. By and large, farm labor in Africa is still family labor. However, during and after the colonial period, many Africans also ran agrarian enterprises on a scale and in a nexus of social relations far removed from the traditional picture of the smallholder cultivating land with family labor. In Cameroon, Duala …
Afrikanische Intellektuelle und Aktivisten in Europa und die Dekolonisation Afrikas
This article examines to what extent the writings and activities of Africans based in Germany, France and Britain during the first six decades of the twentieth century have shaped the debates about colonialism and the end of colonial empires in Europe. Did the small number of Africans in Europe bear any influence on the process of decolonisation?Which African voices could be heard and what did they postulate? This is discussed based on the exampl…
We Are All Planners Now.” Planung und Dekolonisation in Afrika
The concept of »development« was an important part of the global re-ordering which took place after World War II. With the rise of the development paradigm, the hour of the planners began to strike. »We are all planners now,« W. Arthur Lewis declared in 1949. Lewis, who originated from the Caribbean and taught development economics in Manchester, embodied like no one else the confidence in the »development potential« of the states in Africa and A…
Years of Africa Spectrum
This article offers a portrait of the journal Africa Spectrum (known through 2008 as Afrika Spectrum), which just celebrated its 50th birthday. The essay outlines both the political and institutional context of its founding and traces its major transformations in format and content. Africa Spectrum's metamorphosis also reflects significant changes and trends in African studies in Germany and beyond. One of the journal's main features has been its…
Où sont les travailleurs
Cet article part de l'observation que la « question du travail », presque disparue des études africaines depuis les années 1980, est de retour. La renaissance actuelle de cette thématique, liée à l'intérêt profond suscité par le travail informel et précaire, va de pair avec la considération d'une grande variété de formes de travail, depuis celui des femmes qui exécutent des tâches domestiques jusqu'aux activités de contrebande. Il s'agit, dans ce…
The Making of Modern Cameroon. A History of Substate Nationalism and Disparate Union, 1914-1961
Cocoa Farming in Cameroon, c. 1914 – c. 1960: Land and Labour
In colonial Cameroon between 1914 and 1960 cocoa was a crop mainly produced on African smallholdings. While it had no great economic importance in the British Mandate zone, cocoa played a crucial role in the economy of the French territory, especially after World War II. Over 500 000 Cameroonians in the French sphere, that is approximately 12 per cent of the entire population, were more or less dependent on cocoa during the last decade of colonia…
Slavery in Colonial Cameroon, 1880s to 1930s
African Rural Entrepreneurs and Labor in the Cameroon Littoral
IN most African farming systems, hired workers provide only a small part of the total labor devoted to agricultural production, even today. By and large, farm labor in Africa is still family labor. However, during and after the colonial period, many Africans also ran agrarian enterprises on a scale and in a nexus of social relations far removed from the traditional picture of the smallholder cultivating land with family labor. In Cameroon, Duala …
Development and Disorder: A History of the Third World since 1945
The Making of Modern Cameroon. A History of Substate Nationalism and Disparate Union, 1914-1961
Grundbesitz, Landkonflikte und Kolonialer Wandel: Douala 1880 Bis 1960. [Property, Land Conflicts and Colonial Change: Doula from 1880 to 1960]
Zion in Africa: The Jews of Zambia
This is an account of the Jewish community in central Africa, telling the story of the coming of the first Jews to the area in the late-19th century, the heyday of the Jewish community in the mid-20th century, and its decline since Zambian independence. Dealing primarily with the Jewish traders in Zambia who flourished in the face of both anti-Semitism and their own acute social dislocation, the author explores a number of interrelated topics: th…
Grundbesitz, Landkonflikte und kolonialer Wandel. Douala 1880 bis 1960
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Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: The Duala and Their Hinterland, c. 1600-c. 1960
Ralph A. Austen and Jonathan Derrick, Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: the Duala and their hinterland, c. 1600-c. 1960. African Studies 96. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 264 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0 521 56228 7 hard covers, £14.95, ISBN 0 521 56664 9 paperback. - Volume 71 Issue 3
Historical writing about everyday life
Everyday life' is an enigmatic term which eludes a straightforward or universal definition. The notion is less precise and more complicated than it looks. One reason may be that since 'everyday life' and the categories with which it is described are constituted within specific cultural and historical contexts, we face a host of (often contradictory) concepts.l Yet all approaches to everyday life in contemporary historical writing do have somethin…
Regulating the Social: Social Security, Social Welfare and the State in Late Colonial Tanzania
This essay discusses British discourses and efforts to regulate social policy in both urban and rural areas in late colonial Tanzania. It focuses mainly on questions of social security and especially on the vague concept of social welfare and development, which after the Second World War became a favoured means of expressing a new imperial commitment to colonial people. The British were very reluctant about implementing international standards of…
Alles unter Kontrolle: Disziplinierungsprozesse im kolonialen Tansania (1850-1960)
Europäische Überseegeschichte – ein neues Jahrbuch
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Panafrikanismus, afrikanische Intellektuelle und Europa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
Pan-Africanism, African Intellectuals and Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries This article discusses the efforts of African (and some African-American) intellectuals and political activists to counteract European racism and claims to superiority and to develop their own visions of modernity. The paper focuses on individuals and networks which could be linked to Pan-Africanist ideas. It discusses the projects and visions of early African nationa…
Herrschen und Verwalten: Afrikanische Bürokraten, staatliche Ordnung und Politik in Tanzania, 1920-1970
Am Beispiel Tanzanias stellt Andreas Eckert jene Afrikaner in den Mittelpunkt, die zunächst Funktionen im kolonialen Staatsapparat ausübten und dann - mit der Unabhängigkeit - das Erbe der europäischen Kolonialherren an der Spitze des Staates antraten. Die afrikanischen Verwaltungsmitarbeiter nahmen in der kolonialen Ordnung eine zentrale Rolle ein und agierten als Mittler und Übersetzer zwischen Kolonisierenden und Kolonisierten. Diese Position …
We Are All Planners Now.” Planung und Dekolonisation in Afrika
The concept of »development« was an important part of the global re-ordering which took place after World War II. With the rise of the development paradigm, the hour of the planners began to strike. »We are all planners now,« W. Arthur Lewis declared in 1949. Lewis, who originated from the Caribbean and taught development economics in Manchester, embodied like no one else the confidence in the »development potential« of the states in Africa and A…
Reflecting colonialism: Reflecting Colonialism
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Europa, Sklavenhandel und koloniale Zwangsarbeit – einführende Bemerkungen
Europe, Slave Trade, and Forced Labour: Introductory Remarks This article provides a general introduction to the theme of this issue and attempts to place the following papers better in context within the relevant historiography. It focuses on the slave trade and its abolition, the close connection between antislavery ideologies and measurements and the colonial expansion of Europe especially in Africa, the slow death of slavery and forced labour…
African Nationalists and Human Rights, 1940s–1970s
‘ Contemplating human rights in the abstract is a luxury that only the most isolated occupants of the ivory tower can afford’ . I. It is now something like a truism that the end of the Second World War marked the dawn of a new era of rights. Since the adoption of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the subject of rights ranks high among themes of great popular and academic interest. For instance, rights have become …
Work in a Modern Society: The German Historical Experience in Comparative Perspective
Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian Elites, and the Project of African Socialism
In 1965, W. Arthur Lewis, one of the founders of the field of development economics and a consultant with numerous African governments, published a set of three lectures under the title Politics in West Africa.1 This book was the fruit of his growing disillusionment with the politics of Africa's new leaders, among them Kwame Nkrumah, whose chief economic advisor Lewis had been in the late 1950s.2 In fact, this book "was an indictment of the West …
Afrikanische Intellektuelle und Aktivisten in Europa und die Dekolonisation Afrikas
This article examines to what extent the writings and activities of Africans based in Germany, France and Britain during the first six decades of the twentieth century have shaped the debates about colonialism and the end of colonial empires in Europe. Did the small number of Africans in Europe bear any influence on the process of decolonisation?Which African voices could be heard and what did they postulate? This is discussed based on the exampl…
Globalisierung
Sklaven in Europa
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