Nicole Ulrich
Biographic Data
| ID | 80561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole Ulrich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole |
| FAMILY NAME | Ulrich |
| SIGNATURE | ULRICH N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6707-3971 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Prefiguring democratic revolution? ‘Workers’ control’ and ‘workerist’ traditions of radical South African labour, 1970–1985
During the 1970s and early 1980s, sections of the trade union movement questioned the African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) narrow vision of freedom, which was based on the capture of the colonial state by a nationalist elite. Located within a distinct political current that prioritised participatory/direct-democracy and egalitarianism, workers were regarded as the locus of transformative power in society, a…
Cape of storms
In this article I provide a broad overview of resistance at the Cape under the Dutch East India Company (VOC) undertaken by the multiracial and multiethnic popular classes (low-ranking Company servants including soldiers and sailors, slaves and indigenous Khoesan labourers). I identify and examine some of the main forms of protest including: desertion and the creation of maroon communities; arson; threats against and assault of masters; and colle…
Popular Community in 18th-Century Southern Africa
This paper examines the character of popular community in the Cape of Good Hope, located at the southern tip of Africa, from 1652 to 1795. The Cape's popular classes consisted of slaves, indigenous Khoesan labourers, and sailors and soldiers. Traditionally, scholars have portrayed the various sections of the popular classes as socially and politically atomised. I contest this view, and attempt to make sense of the numerous instances of popular so…
Imagining the Cape colony
(2013). Imagining the Cape colony: History, literature, and the South African nation. Scrutiny2: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 85-89
International Radicalism, Local Solidarities
T his article details the 1797 mutinies in the British Royal Navy in southern African waters at Simon's Bay and Table Bay at the Cape of Good Hope. Drawing attention to the intersections between international protest during the age of revolution and between local, African protest, it shows that the Cape mutinies were part of an empire-wide strike, and were rooted in the organizational traditions of naval sailors. Yet, these mutinies were also of …
Abolition From Below
This chapter argues that to appreciate the rebels' actions, one need to break with the methodological nationalism that underpins South African exceptionalism and draw on the Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, in which Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker transform our understanding of labor and resistance in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The chapter examines the revol…
Time, Space and the Political Economy of Merchant Colonialism in the Cape of Good Hope and VOC World
This article reviews Contingent Lives, a collection of essays on identity and material culture in the Cape and Dutch East India Company (VOC) world. This compilation is a substantial contribution to and reworking of a relatively neglected part of southern Africa's past. The focus on identities and cultures, especially of elites and citizens, opens up innovative avenues of enquiry. Yet, warning against the pitfalls of a narrow micro-analysis, this…
Dr Anders Sparrman
This article examines an account by Dr Anders Sparrman, who visited the Cape of Good Hope in the 1770s, with the view of utilising travel accounts as historical evidence. Late eighteenth-century travel accounts of the Cape have attracted the attention of geographers and literary scholars, who focus on the emergence of naturalist history. Drawing on Edward Said, Mary Louise Pratt has linked naturalist classificatory schemes, promoted by scientific…
The TRC
1999). The TRC: commissioning the past (June 1999) African Studies: Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 209-218
International Radicalism, Local Solidarities
T his article details the 1797 mutinies in the British Royal Navy in southern African waters at Simon's Bay and Table Bay at the Cape of Good Hope. Drawing attention to the intersections between international protest during the age of revolution and between local, African protest, it shows that the Cape mutinies were part of an empire-wide strike, and were rooted in the organizational traditions of naval sailors. Yet, these mutinies were also of …
Dr Anders Sparrman
This article examines an account by Dr Anders Sparrman, who visited the Cape of Good Hope in the 1770s, with the view of utilising travel accounts as historical evidence. Late eighteenth-century travel accounts of the Cape have attracted the attention of geographers and literary scholars, who focus on the emergence of naturalist history. Drawing on Edward Said, Mary Louise Pratt has linked naturalist classificatory schemes, promoted by scientific…
Time, Space and the Political Economy of Merchant Colonialism in the Cape of Good Hope and VOC World
This article reviews Contingent Lives, a collection of essays on identity and material culture in the Cape and Dutch East India Company (VOC) world. This compilation is a substantial contribution to and reworking of a relatively neglected part of southern Africa's past. The focus on identities and cultures, especially of elites and citizens, opens up innovative avenues of enquiry. Yet, warning against the pitfalls of a narrow micro-analysis, this…
The TRC
1999). The TRC: commissioning the past (June 1999) African Studies: Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 209-218
The TRC
1999). The TRC: commissioning the past (June 1999) African Studies: Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 209-218
Dr Anders Sparrman
This article examines an account by Dr Anders Sparrman, who visited the Cape of Good Hope in the 1770s, with the view of utilising travel accounts as historical evidence. Late eighteenth-century travel accounts of the Cape have attracted the attention of geographers and literary scholars, who focus on the emergence of naturalist history. Drawing on Edward Said, Mary Louise Pratt has linked naturalist classificatory schemes, promoted by scientific…
Time, Space and the Political Economy of Merchant Colonialism in the Cape of Good Hope and VOC World
This article reviews Contingent Lives, a collection of essays on identity and material culture in the Cape and Dutch East India Company (VOC) world. This compilation is a substantial contribution to and reworking of a relatively neglected part of southern Africa's past. The focus on identities and cultures, especially of elites and citizens, opens up innovative avenues of enquiry. Yet, warning against the pitfalls of a narrow micro-analysis, this…
Abolition From Below
This chapter argues that to appreciate the rebels' actions, one need to break with the methodological nationalism that underpins South African exceptionalism and draw on the Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, in which Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker transform our understanding of labor and resistance in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The chapter examines the revol…
Imagining the Cape colony
(2013). Imagining the Cape colony: History, literature, and the South African nation. Scrutiny2: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 85-89
International Radicalism, Local Solidarities
T his article details the 1797 mutinies in the British Royal Navy in southern African waters at Simon's Bay and Table Bay at the Cape of Good Hope. Drawing attention to the intersections between international protest during the age of revolution and between local, African protest, it shows that the Cape mutinies were part of an empire-wide strike, and were rooted in the organizational traditions of naval sailors. Yet, these mutinies were also of …
Popular Community in 18th-Century Southern Africa
This paper examines the character of popular community in the Cape of Good Hope, located at the southern tip of Africa, from 1652 to 1795. The Cape's popular classes consisted of slaves, indigenous Khoesan labourers, and sailors and soldiers. Traditionally, scholars have portrayed the various sections of the popular classes as socially and politically atomised. I contest this view, and attempt to make sense of the numerous instances of popular so…
Cape of storms
In this article I provide a broad overview of resistance at the Cape under the Dutch East India Company (VOC) undertaken by the multiracial and multiethnic popular classes (low-ranking Company servants including soldiers and sailors, slaves and indigenous Khoesan labourers). I identify and examine some of the main forms of protest including: desertion and the creation of maroon communities; arson; threats against and assault of masters; and colle…
Prefiguring democratic revolution? ‘Workers’ control’ and ‘workerist’ traditions of radical South African labour, 1970–1985
During the 1970s and early 1980s, sections of the trade union movement questioned the African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) narrow vision of freedom, which was based on the capture of the colonial state by a nationalist elite. Located within a distinct political current that prioritised participatory/direct-democracy and egalitarianism, workers were regarded as the locus of transformative power in society, a…
History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Cape (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · South African History and Culture (5 works)