Stephanie Quinn
Biographic Data
| ID | 90588 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie Quinn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Quinn |
| SIGNATURE | QUINN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Free State |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4685-2412 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Balancing the Scales
The conflation of labour activism and political activism in Namibian history and historiography - or views of a seamless transition between the two - has meant that meaningful empirical historical studies of labour relations and labour policy in Namibia have been downplayed, leaving scholars to rely on older, potentially outdated studies. The articles in this part-special issue de-centre Namibian nationalism from the economic and labour history o…
Scalar Claims, Worker Strategies, and 'South Africa's Labour Empire' in Namibia, 1943-1979
This article seeks to place Namibia’s contract labour system, and those whose lives it shaped, in histories of labour migration and South African empire-building in southern Africa. In order to do so, it traces South African and South West African (SWA) officials’ attempts to re-scale a trans-colonial migrant labour system to fit nominally decolonised, national scales. Secondly, it examines how African contestations of state power on a municipal …
Infrastructure, Ethnicity, and Political Mobilization in Namibia, 1946–87
This article uses the copper mining town Tsumeb to examine urban infrastructure, ethnicity, and African political solidarities in apartheid Namibia. To translate apartheid to Namibia, South Africa re-planned Namibian towns to reinforce colonial divisions between two classes of African laborers: mostly Ovambo migrant laborers from northern Namibia and Angola and, secondly, ethnically diverse laborers from the zone of colonial settlement and invest…
Hostels in South Africa
The primary site of Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama’s ethnography, KwaMashu Hostel in Durban, housed several hundred male migrant laborers when it opened in 1960. Today the hostel blockhouses, surrounding infor
Being Nuclear
Why Vergil? A Collection of Interpretations
Infrastructure, Ethnicity, and Political Mobilization in Namibia, 1946–87
This article uses the copper mining town Tsumeb to examine urban infrastructure, ethnicity, and African political solidarities in apartheid Namibia. To translate apartheid to Namibia, South Africa re-planned Namibian towns to reinforce colonial divisions between two classes of African laborers: mostly Ovambo migrant laborers from northern Namibia and Angola and, secondly, ethnically diverse laborers from the zone of colonial settlement and invest…
Balancing the Scales
The conflation of labour activism and political activism in Namibian history and historiography - or views of a seamless transition between the two - has meant that meaningful empirical historical studies of labour relations and labour policy in Namibia have been downplayed, leaving scholars to rely on older, potentially outdated studies. The articles in this part-special issue de-centre Namibian nationalism from the economic and labour history o…
Why Vergil? A Collection of Interpretations
Being Nuclear
Hostels in South Africa
The primary site of Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama’s ethnography, KwaMashu Hostel in Durban, housed several hundred male migrant laborers when it opened in 1960. Today the hostel blockhouses, surrounding infor
Infrastructure, Ethnicity, and Political Mobilization in Namibia, 1946–87
This article uses the copper mining town Tsumeb to examine urban infrastructure, ethnicity, and African political solidarities in apartheid Namibia. To translate apartheid to Namibia, South Africa re-planned Namibian towns to reinforce colonial divisions between two classes of African laborers: mostly Ovambo migrant laborers from northern Namibia and Angola and, secondly, ethnically diverse laborers from the zone of colonial settlement and invest…
Balancing the Scales
The conflation of labour activism and political activism in Namibian history and historiography - or views of a seamless transition between the two - has meant that meaningful empirical historical studies of labour relations and labour policy in Namibia have been downplayed, leaving scholars to rely on older, potentially outdated studies. The articles in this part-special issue de-centre Namibian nationalism from the economic and labour history o…
Scalar Claims, Worker Strategies, and 'South Africa's Labour Empire' in Namibia, 1943-1979
This article seeks to place Namibia’s contract labour system, and those whose lives it shaped, in histories of labour migration and South African empire-building in southern Africa. In order to do so, it traces South African and South West African (SWA) officials’ attempts to re-scale a trans-colonial migrant labour system to fit nominally decolonised, national scales. Secondly, it examines how African contestations of state power on a municipal …
Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · South African History and Culture (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works)