Saul Dubow
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 77317 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Saul Dubow |
| PRENOMES | Saul |
| SOBRENOME | Dubow |
| ASSINATURA | DUBOW S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Sussex |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 67 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 322 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Reappraising the Life and Legacy of Jan C. Smuts
In this book, the authors cover both familiar and unfamiliar themes.
Apartheid in South Africa and Israel/Palestine
“Apartheid” is widely invoked to explain endemic conflict in Israel/Palestine. While oppression in South Africa and in Israel/Palestine bear striking familial resemblances, there are also fundamental differences. Analogy is not the same as rigorous comparison: It contributes little to the understanding of causality or process and may not be a sound guide for the development of political strategy. The two societies bear similarities with respect t…
Donal Lowry, 1959-2022
The sudden death of Donal Lowry on 16 December 2022 comes as a shock to his family and friends, some of whom are board members of the Journal of Southern African Studies (JSAS). Still in the prime
The Scientific Imagination in South Africa
South Africa provides a unique vantage point from which to examine the scientific imagination over the last three centuries, when its position on the African continent made it a staging post for Portuguese, Dutch, and British colonialism. In the eighteenth century, South African plants and animals caught the imagination of visiting Europeans. In the nineteenth century, science became central to imperial conquest, devastating wars, agricultural in…
Scientific Imagination in South Africa
Commonwealth History in the Twenty-First Century
Global Science, National Horizons
In his inaugural lecture, Saul Dubow, Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at Cambridge University, discusses the modern history of science in South Africa in terms of ‘deep time’ and space, drawing links between developments in astronomy, palaeontology, and Antarctic research. He argues that Jan Smuts's synthetic discussion of South African science in 1925, followed by J. H. Hofmeyr's discussion of the ‘South Africanization’ of science in 192…
Years of Astronomy in South Africa
South Africa has been an important site for southern hemisphere astronomy since La Caille’s observations in the 1750s. A new phase of international significance now dawns as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is being assembled in the Karoo. This huge project forms part of an international consortium and it promises to give South Africa a leading edge in radio astronomy. A strong developmentalist agenda pushed by its promoters goes along with the p…
Karoo Futures
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The curious absence of ‘civil war’ in Africa
David Armitage is exceptionally good at selecting a concept, generally in use, and holding it up to intense historical light so as to reveal its peculiarities. In Civil Wars he demonstrates the pow
Science and Society in Southern Africa
The Psychology of the Politics of Rape
Previous research has found that conservatives and liberals emphasize different moral foundations. The purpose of these two studies was to investigate whether moral foundations mediate the relationship between political ideology and attitudes toward rape among U.S. college students. In Study 1, moral foundations fully mediated the relationship between political ideology and rape myth acceptance. Study 2 generally replicated the results of Study 1…
The Commonwealth and South Africa
The creation of modern South Africa as an independent unitary state within the British Empire (c. 1910) gave birth to the Commonwealth idea. Jan Smuts’s views on Commonwealth were formative and they continued to inform the evolution of the organisation until the end of the Second World War. Also significant was the role played by Afrikaner nationalist leader J. B. M. Hertzog, who exerted a critical influence on the 1926 Balfour Declaration and St…
New Approaches to High Apartheid and Anti-Apartheid
This contribution draws together comments made by the author to several recent conferences on the era of `high' apartheid in South Africa. It addresses the rise of the anti-movement in Europe and elsewhere, arguing that anti-apartheid should be seen not only as a transnational movement but also as a series of discrete local struggles with distinctly national features. Specifically, it argues that ‘anti-apartheid’ bore different connotations in Br…
Patrick Allan Lifford Harries, 1950-2016
The End of Apartheid. Diary of a Revolution . By Robin Renwick
John Higginson. Collective Violence and the Agrarian Origins of South African Apartheid, 1900–1948
The argument of this deeply researched and attractively written book is that rural power and violence is central to the understanding of modern South African history and, further, that these dynamics underlie the evolution of the system of racial segregation into full-scale apartheid. That South African history, from the beginnings of settlement in the seventeenth century to the present, is saturated in violence—personal, collective, and politica…
Were There Political Alternatives in the Wake of the Sharpeville-Langa Violence in South Africa, 1960
In many accounts, the Sharpeville emergency of 1960 was a key ‘turning point’ for modern South African history. It persuaded the liberation movements that there was no point in civil rights-style activism and served as the catalyst for the formation of the African National Congress's armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe . From the South African government's perspective, the events at Sharpeville made it imperative to crush black resistance so that white…
Remembering the South African War. Britain and the Memory of the Anglo-Boer War
Journal Article Remembering the South African War. Britain and the Memory of the Anglo-Boer War: from 1899 to the Present. By Peter Donaldson Get access Remembering the South African War. Britain and the Memory of the Anglo-Boer War: from 1899 to the Present. By Peter Donaldson. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool. 193 pp. ISBN 9781846319686, £70 (hardback). Saul Dubow Saul Dubow Queen Mary, University of London Search for other works by this a…
Uncovering the Historic Strands of Egalitarian Liberalism in South Africa
Liberalism in South Africa has attracted criticism from many quarters. A persistent objection focuses on the association between liberalism and capitalism, with liberals often cast as defenders of privilege and inequity and thereby as aligned with domination rather than liberation. This characterisation relies on a great deal of oversimplification. The length of the South African liberal tradition, and its diverse influences, means that South Afr…
Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africa
The Cambridge History of South Africa
This book surveys South African history from the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in the late nineteenth century to the first democratic elections in 1994. Written by many of the leading historians of the country, it pulls together four decades of scholarship to present a detailed overview of South Africa during the twentieth century. It covers political, economic, social and intellectual developments and their interconnections in a clear a…
The Three Cornered Life
A Living Man from Africa
Macmillan, Verwoerd, and the 1960 ‘Wind of Change’ Speech
Just over fifty years ago, Prime Minister Macmillan made an extensive tour of Africa, culminating in his ‘wind of change’ speech in Cape Town, 1960. This article traces Macmillan's progress through Africa with particular emphasis on his intervention in South African politics. It offers a novel reading of the ‘wind of change’ speech, arguing that the message was far more conciliatory with respect to white South African interests than is usually as…
A Commonwealth of Knowledge
A Commonwealth of Knowledge addresses the relationship between social and scientific thought, colonial identity, and political power in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. It hinges on the tension between colonial knowledge, conceived of as a universal, modernizing force, and its realization in the context of a society divided along complex ethnic and racial fault-lines. By means of detailed analysis of colonial cultures, literary and…
Scientific racism in modern South Africa
This book is the first full-length study of the history of intellectual and scientific racism in modern South Africa. Ranging broadly across disciplines in the social sciences, sciences and humanities, it charts the rise of scientific racism and biological determinism from the late nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth. Set against the rise of apartheid, the book illuminates the complex relationship between theories of essential ra…
How British was the British World? The Case of South Africa
This paper discusses the utility of the term 'Britishness' in the context of the 'British World' conference series. It suggests reasons why the 'British world' idea as presently understood was relatively slow to emerge out of traditional nineteenth- and twentieth-century imperial and commonwealth history. Ranging over more than a century from the 1870s to the present, it surveys uses of the term 'British' in imperial historiography and draws most…
Colonial Nationalism, The Milner Kindergarten and the Rise of 'South Africanism', 1902-101
Colonial Nationalism, The Milner Kindergarten and the Rise of ‘South Africanism’, 1902–10 Get access Saul Dubow Saul Dubow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 43, Issue 1, SPRING 1997, Pages 53–86, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1997.43.53 Published: 01 January 1997
Afrikaner Nationalism, Apartheid and the Conceptualization of ‘Race’
This paper analyses the ideological elaboration of the concept of race in the development of Christian-nationalist thought. As such, it contributes to our understanding of the ideological and theological justifications for apartheid. The paper begins by pointing to the relatively late moment ( c. mid-1930s) at which Afrikaner nationalist ideologues began to address the systematic separation of blacks and whites. It takes its cue from a key addres…
Human origins, race typology and the other Raymond Dart
Raymond Dart is one of the best-known figures in the early development of the University of the Witwatersrand. He is most famous for his claim in 1925 that the newly discovered Taung fossil skull (which he termed Australopithecus) represented a crucial 'missing link' in the evolution of modem humankind. Dart's view was highly contested at the time and some twenty-five years were to pass before the significance of Australopithecus gained general s…
Smuts, the United Nations and the Rhetoric of Race and Rights
For almost half a century apartheid South Africa attracted more attention from the United Nations than perhaps any other problem. It served as a key reference point for international developments in human rights and helped to legitimize the United Nations' aspirations to represent the higher ideals and conscience of the world. Throughout the Cold War, and beyond, the iniquity of apartheid was one of the moral and political issues that countries, …
Ethnic euphemisms and racial echoes
1994). Ethnic euphemisms and racial echoes. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 20, Ethnicity and identity in Southern Africa, pp. 355-370
The Psychology of the Politics of Rape
Previous research has found that conservatives and liberals emphasize different moral foundations. The purpose of these two studies was to investigate whether moral foundations mediate the relationship between political ideology and attitudes toward rape among U.S. college students. In Study 1, moral foundations fully mediated the relationship between political ideology and rape myth acceptance. Study 2 generally replicated the results of Study 1…
Earth History, Natural History, and Prehistory at the Cape, 1860-1875
It is commonplace to treat the 1860s and 1870s as a crucial period in the making of modern South Africa. These two decades saw the beginnings of the mineral-led industrial revolution that so dramatically transformed the political economy of the region; they marked a decisive moment in the assertion of colonial political hegemony over regional African kingdoms; and they witnessed a secular intensification in imperial involvement in the sub-contine…
The Commonwealth and South Africa
The creation of modern South Africa as an independent unitary state within the British Empire (c. 1910) gave birth to the Commonwealth idea. Jan Smuts’s views on Commonwealth were formative and they continued to inform the evolution of the organisation until the end of the Second World War. Also significant was the role played by Afrikaner nationalist leader J. B. M. Hertzog, who exerted a critical influence on the 1926 Balfour Declaration and St…
Macmillan, Verwoerd, and the 1960 ‘Wind of Change’ Speech
Just over fifty years ago, Prime Minister Macmillan made an extensive tour of Africa, culminating in his ‘wind of change’ speech in Cape Town, 1960. This article traces Macmillan's progress through Africa with particular emphasis on his intervention in South African politics. It offers a novel reading of the ‘wind of change’ speech, arguing that the message was far more conciliatory with respect to white South African interests than is usually as…
Science and Society in Southern Africa
Field sciences in scientific fields - entomology, botany and the early ethnographic monograph in the work of H.A. Junod, Patrick Harries making canes credible in colonial Mauritius, William K. Storey a commonwealth of science - the British Association in South Africa, 1905 and 1929, Saul Dubow the public benefit - livestock statistics and expertise in the late-19th century Cape colony, Dawn Nell a mania for measurement -statistics and statecraft …
Introduction
(1994). Introduction: ethnicity, identity and nationalism in Southern Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 20, Ethnicity and identity in Southern Africa, pp. 347-353
Karoo Futures
no
New Approaches to High Apartheid and Anti-Apartheid
This contribution draws together comments made by the author to several recent conferences on the era of `high' apartheid in South Africa. It addresses the rise of the anti-movement in Europe and elsewhere, arguing that anti-apartheid should be seen not only as a transnational movement but also as a series of discrete local struggles with distinctly national features. Specifically, it argues that ‘anti-apartheid’ bore different connotations in Br…
Were There Political Alternatives in the Wake of the Sharpeville-Langa Violence in South Africa, 1960
In many accounts, the Sharpeville emergency of 1960 was a key ‘turning point’ for modern South African history. It persuaded the liberation movements that there was no point in civil rights-style activism and served as the catalyst for the formation of the African National Congress's armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe . From the South African government's perspective, the events at Sharpeville made it imperative to crush black resistance so that white…
The Three Cornered Life
Holding 'a just balance between white and black
(1986). Holding ‘a just balance between white and black’: the native affairs department in South Africa c. 1920–33. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 12, Law and Politics in Southern Africa, pp. 217-239
Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus. A Ghost Story and a Biography
Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus. A Ghost Story and a Biography, by Clifton Crais and Pamela Scully, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2009, xiv+232 pp., £20.95, ISBN 13579108642 The broa
Years of Astronomy in South Africa
South Africa has been an important site for southern hemisphere astronomy since La Caille’s observations in the 1750s. A new phase of international significance now dawns as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is being assembled in the Karoo. This huge project forms part of an international consortium and it promises to give South Africa a leading edge in radio astronomy. A strong developmentalist agenda pushed by its promoters goes along with the p…
Opération coup de poing
Nathan Schlanger's entry point into the history of South African prehistory may be read as an academic coup de poing, a sharp fist strike designed to cleave its way into the archaeological establishment; yet, like the examples of such 'palaeoliths' that so fascinated earlier prehistorians, the object of study may require further contextualization and understanding in order to yield up its wider meanings
Christian-Nationalism and the Rise of the Afrikaner Broederbond in South Africa 1918-1948
Wulf Sachs's Black Hamlet
Journal Article WULF SACHS'S BLACK HAMLET: A CASE OF ‘PSYCHIC VIVISECTION’? Get access SAUL DUBOW SAUL DUBOW Saul Dubow teaches at the University of Sussex. He is grateful to Bob Edgar and Michael Molnar for sending him material concerning Sachs, and also to Terence Ranger and Baruch Hirson for suggesting various leads. Bill Epstein, L. Bryce Boyer and Jacqueline Rose read the text with care and made useful comments. This paper is a slightly adap…
Racial Segregation and the Origins of Apartheid in South Africa, 1919-1936
Land, Labour and Merchant Capital in the Pre-Industrial Rural Economy of the Cape
Forum
White power and the liberal Conscience: Racial Segregation and South African Liberalism 1921–60 by Paul Rich. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1984. Pp. viii & 192. R12,50
Books reviewed
J. Parson, Botswana: Liberal Democracy and the Labor Reserve in Southern Africa (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press and London: Gower, 1984). Pp. 145. £11.50. R. M. K. Silitshena, Intra‐Rural Migration and Settlement Changes in Botswana (Leiden: African Studies Centre, 1983). Pp. 230. Df1.10. K. Shillington (comp.), Essays on the History of Botswana: a bibliography of history research essays presented in part fulfilment of the B.A. degree of the U…
Holding 'a just balance between white and black
(1986). Holding ‘a just balance between white and black’: the native affairs department in South Africa c. 1920–33. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 12, Law and Politics in Southern Africa, pp. 217-239
Books reviewed
Kevin Shillington, The Colonisation of the Southern Tswana 1870–1900 (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1985). Pp. xxiv+311. R20/£10.95 paperback. (Available from Third World Publications, 151 Stratford Road, Birmingham B11 1RD.) André Odendaal, Vukani Bantu! The Beginnings of Black Protest Politics in South Africa to 1912 (Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip, 1984). Pp. xv+391. £7.75. Beatrix Heintze (ed.), Fontes para a história de Angola do sécu…
Racial Segregation and the Origins of Apartheid in South Africa, 1919–36
Christian-Nationalism and the Rise of the Afrikaner Broederbond, in South Africa, 1918–48
An investigation into the phenomenon of Christian nationalism amongst the whites in South Africa and the simultaneous rise of the exclusive right wing society, the Afrikaner Broderbond
The Founder
Journal Article The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the pursuit of power Get access The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the pursuit of power, by Robert I. Rotberg. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1988. xxii + 800 pp. £25 hardback. ISBN 0 19 504968 3. SAUL DUBOW SAUL DUBOW Sussex University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 89, Issue 354, January 1990, Pages 130–132, https://doi.org/…
South Africa to the Sources of Apartheid
Journal Article South Africa to the Sources of Apartheid Get access South Africa to the Sources of Apartheid, by Steven Debroey. University Press of America, 1989. xii+612 pp. $42.50 hardback, $28.50 paperback. ISBN 0 8191 73185 and 0 8191 7319 3. SAUL DUBOW SAUL DUBOW University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 89, Issue 357, October 1990, Pages 617–618, https://doi.org/10…
Racial Segregation and the Origins of Apartheid in South Africa, 1919-1936
South Africa's Foreign Policy
Journal Article South Africa's Foreign Policy: The Search for Status and Security 1945–1988 Get access South Africa's Foreign Policy: The Search for Status and Security 1945–1988, by James Barber and John Barratt. Cambridge University Press, 1990. x+398pp. £35 hardback, £12.95 paperback. ISBN 0 521 37313 and 0521 38876 7. SAUL DUBOW SAUL DUBOW University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Af…
The Politics of Official Discourse in Twentieth-Century South Africa
Journal Article The Politics of Official Discourse in Twentieth-Century South Africa Get access The Politics of Official Discourse in Twentieth-Century South Africa, by Adam Ashforth. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990. xiv + 296pp. £32.50 hardback. ISBN 0 19 827702 4. SAUL DUBOW SAUL DUBOW University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 90, Issue 358, January 1991, Pages 132–133, h…
Christian Nationalism and the Rise of the Afrikaner Broederbond in South Africa, 1918-1948
Afrikaner Nationalism, Apartheid and the Conceptualization of ‘Race’
This paper analyses the ideological elaboration of the concept of race in the development of Christian-nationalist thought. As such, it contributes to our understanding of the ideological and theological justifications for apartheid. The paper begins by pointing to the relatively late moment ( c. mid-1930s) at which Afrikaner nationalist ideologues began to address the systematic separation of blacks and whites. It takes its cue from a key addres…
Wulf Sachs's Black Hamlet
Journal Article WULF SACHS'S BLACK HAMLET: A CASE OF ‘PSYCHIC VIVISECTION’? Get access SAUL DUBOW SAUL DUBOW Saul Dubow teaches at the University of Sussex. He is grateful to Bob Edgar and Michael Molnar for sending him material concerning Sachs, and also to Terence Ranger and Baruch Hirson for suggesting various leads. Bill Epstein, L. Bryce Boyer and Jacqueline Rose read the text with care and made useful comments. This paper is a slightly adap…
Ethnic euphemisms and racial echoes
1994). Ethnic euphemisms and racial echoes. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 20, Ethnicity and identity in Southern Africa, pp. 355-370
Introduction
(1994). Introduction: ethnicity, identity and nationalism in Southern Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 20, Ethnicity and identity in Southern Africa, pp. 347-353
Christian-Nationalism and the Rise of the Afrikaner Broederbond in South Africa 1918-1948
Scientific racism in modern South Africa
This book is the first full-length study of the history of intellectual and scientific racism in modern South Africa. Ranging broadly across disciplines in the social sciences, sciences and humanities, it charts the rise of scientific racism and biological determinism from the late nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth. Set against the rise of apartheid, the book illuminates the complex relationship between theories of essential ra…
Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa
Human origins, race typology and the other Raymond Dart
Raymond Dart is one of the best-known figures in the early development of the University of the Witwatersrand. He is most famous for his claim in 1925 that the newly discovered Taung fossil skull (which he termed Australopithecus) represented a crucial 'missing link' in the evolution of modem humankind. Dart's view was highly contested at the time and some twenty-five years were to pass before the significance of Australopithecus gained general s…
Cecil Rhodes and the Cape Afrikaners
Cecil Rhodes and the Cape Afrikaners: The imperial colossus and the colonial parish pump Cecil Rhodes and the Cape Afrikaners: The imperial colossus and the colonial parish pump, by Mordechai Tamarkin. Frank Cass, 1996. 339 pages. £35.00 hardback, £16.00 paperback. ISBN 0-7146-4267 and 0-7146-4267-3. SAUL DUBOW SAUL DUBOW School of African and Asian Studies, Univeristy of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sch…
Colonial Nationalism, The Milner Kindergarten and the Rise of 'South Africanism', 1902-101
Colonial Nationalism, The Milner Kindergarten and the Rise of ‘South Africanism’, 1902–10 Get access Saul Dubow Saul Dubow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 43, Issue 1, SPRING 1997, Pages 53–86, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1997.43.53 Published: 01 January 1997
Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa
Scientism, Social Research and the Limits of ‘South Africanism’
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