Keith Shear
Biographic Data
| ID | 80351 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith Shear |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Shear |
| SIGNATURE | SHEAR K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0564-6279 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From ethnographic knowledge to anthropological intelligence: An anthropologist in the office of strategic services in Second World War Africa
This article explores the overlapping modalities and practical purposes of anthropological ethnographic knowledge and political–military intelligence gathering – the commonalities as well as the boundaries between them – through an analysis of the career of the anthropologist Jack Sargent Harris (1912–2008), a secret operative for the United States’ Office of Strategic Services during the Second World War in Nigeria and South Africa. Calling upon…
Colonel Coetzee's War: Loyalty, Subversion and the South African Police, 1939–1945
This article analyses the (mal)functioning of the state administrative machinery during the Second World War government of General Smuts, focusing on opposition to the war policy within the police. The emphasis is on the chief of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Colonel J.J. (‘Bill’) Coetzee. The CID had the principal role in producing intelligence and countering subversion, but Coetzee's actions respecting Axis espionage and South Af…
At War With the Pass Laws? Reform and the Policing of White Supremacy in 1940s South Africa
This article analyses a key reformist gesture by General Smuts's Second World War South African government – the May 1942 order suspending enforcement of the pass laws in major cities. Hated by Africans for curbing their mobility, employment opportunities, and urban residence rights, the pass laws were a fundamental instrument of white supremacy. What then did the suspension order signify? Reconstructing debates and divisions within and beyond th…
Tested Loyalties: Police and Politics in South Africa, 1939–63
Well into their rule, at a time when South Africa was increasingly perceived as a police state, the Nationalists, the party of apartheid, depended for the implementation of their policies on structures and personnel inherited from previous governments. Even in the South African Police, the institution most associated with the country's authoritarian reputation, key developments of the early apartheid decades originated in and cannot properly be u…
Chiefs or Modern Bureaucrats? Managing Black Police in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa
Early twentieth-century South Africa was a composite society-'part settler state and part African colony ... includ[ing] diverse recently conquered African polities as well as a divided white population.' Mining industrialization and British imperialism, particularly after the discovery of substantial gold deposits and the founding of Johannesburg in 1886, put pressure on southern African peoples and states to function as an integrated labor mark…
Legal Liberalism, Statutory Despotism and State Power in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa
This article is about the attempts by pre- and post-Union (1910) South African governments to create effective sedition laws, partly directly to curb specific political opponents, but also to license and focus state intelligence-gathering activities. Supreme Court judges' adherence to a rule-of-law formalism in a succession of court cases both hindered and encouraged these attempts. I am particularly interested in how the courts' imposition of mo…
White Rising: The 1922 Insurrection and Racial Killing in South Africa (review)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Not Welfare or Uplift Work”: White Women, Masculinity and Policing in South Africa
Comment on Barber's ‘remarks of silence and alterity’
Colonel Coetzee's War: Loyalty, Subversion and the South African Police, 1939–1945
This article analyses the (mal)functioning of the state administrative machinery during the Second World War government of General Smuts, focusing on opposition to the war policy within the police. The emphasis is on the chief of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Colonel J.J. (‘Bill’) Coetzee. The CID had the principal role in producing intelligence and countering subversion, but Coetzee's actions respecting Axis espionage and South Af…
At War With the Pass Laws? Reform and the Policing of White Supremacy in 1940s South Africa
This article analyses a key reformist gesture by General Smuts's Second World War South African government – the May 1942 order suspending enforcement of the pass laws in major cities. Hated by Africans for curbing their mobility, employment opportunities, and urban residence rights, the pass laws were a fundamental instrument of white supremacy. What then did the suspension order signify? Reconstructing debates and divisions within and beyond th…
From ethnographic knowledge to anthropological intelligence: An anthropologist in the office of strategic services in Second World War Africa
This article explores the overlapping modalities and practical purposes of anthropological ethnographic knowledge and political–military intelligence gathering – the commonalities as well as the boundaries between them – through an analysis of the career of the anthropologist Jack Sargent Harris (1912–2008), a secret operative for the United States’ Office of Strategic Services during the Second World War in Nigeria and South Africa. Calling upon…
Chiefs or Modern Bureaucrats? Managing Black Police in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa
Early twentieth-century South Africa was a composite society-'part settler state and part African colony ... includ[ing] diverse recently conquered African polities as well as a divided white population.' Mining industrialization and British imperialism, particularly after the discovery of substantial gold deposits and the founding of Johannesburg in 1886, put pressure on southern African peoples and states to function as an integrated labor mark…
Legal Liberalism, Statutory Despotism and State Power in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa
This article is about the attempts by pre- and post-Union (1910) South African governments to create effective sedition laws, partly directly to curb specific political opponents, but also to license and focus state intelligence-gathering activities. Supreme Court judges' adherence to a rule-of-law formalism in a succession of court cases both hindered and encouraged these attempts. I am particularly interested in how the courts' imposition of mo…
Not Welfare or Uplift Work”: White Women, Masculinity and Policing in South Africa
Comment on Barber's ‘remarks of silence and alterity’
Not Welfare or Uplift Work”: White Women, Masculinity and Policing in South Africa
White Rising: The 1922 Insurrection and Racial Killing in South Africa (review)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Legal Liberalism, Statutory Despotism and State Power in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa
This article is about the attempts by pre- and post-Union (1910) South African governments to create effective sedition laws, partly directly to curb specific political opponents, but also to license and focus state intelligence-gathering activities. Supreme Court judges' adherence to a rule-of-law formalism in a succession of court cases both hindered and encouraged these attempts. I am particularly interested in how the courts' imposition of mo…
Tested Loyalties: Police and Politics in South Africa, 1939–63
Well into their rule, at a time when South Africa was increasingly perceived as a police state, the Nationalists, the party of apartheid, depended for the implementation of their policies on structures and personnel inherited from previous governments. Even in the South African Police, the institution most associated with the country's authoritarian reputation, key developments of the early apartheid decades originated in and cannot properly be u…
Chiefs or Modern Bureaucrats? Managing Black Police in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa
Early twentieth-century South Africa was a composite society-'part settler state and part African colony ... includ[ing] diverse recently conquered African polities as well as a divided white population.' Mining industrialization and British imperialism, particularly after the discovery of substantial gold deposits and the founding of Johannesburg in 1886, put pressure on southern African peoples and states to function as an integrated labor mark…
Colonel Coetzee's War: Loyalty, Subversion and the South African Police, 1939–1945
This article analyses the (mal)functioning of the state administrative machinery during the Second World War government of General Smuts, focusing on opposition to the war policy within the police. The emphasis is on the chief of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Colonel J.J. (‘Bill’) Coetzee. The CID had the principal role in producing intelligence and countering subversion, but Coetzee's actions respecting Axis espionage and South Af…
At War With the Pass Laws? Reform and the Policing of White Supremacy in 1940s South Africa
This article analyses a key reformist gesture by General Smuts's Second World War South African government – the May 1942 order suspending enforcement of the pass laws in major cities. Hated by Africans for curbing their mobility, employment opportunities, and urban residence rights, the pass laws were a fundamental instrument of white supremacy. What then did the suspension order signify? Reconstructing debates and divisions within and beyond th…
From ethnographic knowledge to anthropological intelligence: An anthropologist in the office of strategic services in Second World War Africa
This article explores the overlapping modalities and practical purposes of anthropological ethnographic knowledge and political–military intelligence gathering – the commonalities as well as the boundaries between them – through an analysis of the career of the anthropologist Jack Sargent Harris (1912–2008), a secret operative for the United States’ Office of Strategic Services during the Second World War in Nigeria and South Africa. Calling upon…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · South African History and Culture (6 works) · Legal Issues in South Africa (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · State (computer science (4 works) · History (3 works)