Timothy Gibbs
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 120518 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Timothy Gibbs |
| PRENOMES | Timothy |
| SOBRENOME | Gibbs |
| ASSINATURA | GIBBS T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Université Paris Nanterre |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4644-4056 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Declarations of Independence
Writing History in a Wounded Country
Dans les années 1980 en Afrique du Sud, une école d’historiens radicaux, proche des syndicats et des mouvements civiques, a été pionnière en développant un récit historique qui se focalisait sur la résistance des classes populaires contre l’apartheid. Cet article prend également en compte un autre point de vue en s’intéressant aux militants et aux ONG sud-africains qui proposaient un récit historique ancré dans les traditions vernaculaires de l’h…
The Scorpion’s Sting
Black Lawyers in South Africa
Archives of Autogestion
One strategy to decentre and create a more polycentric model of the history of international development is to focus on influential alternative models of development practice formulated at specific moments in particular places in the Global South. Hence this article about the attempt of an influential cluster of new-left, anti-apartheid activists to create a new sort of democratic, grassroots-focused, urban planning expertise and archives in Sout…
« Remember home »
Dans les années 1980, les syndicats sud-africains en plein essor ont été comparés à la génération montante de mouvements démocratiques qui s’attaquaient aux gouvernements autocratiques. L’industrialisation par substitution aux importations (ISI) a transformé les villes du Sud global en sociétés de consommation. Cet article se concentre sur la main-d’œuvre de l’industrie manufacturière de Durban et du KwaZulu-Natal. Il est frappant de constater qu…
Propaganda of the deed
Model city to murder city
Cet article analyse le « cadre politique » instable qui a sous-tendu l’ascension et la chute remarquables d’un « appareil » municipal clientéliste dans le Durban post-apartheid, une ville de 3 millions d’habitants sur la côte est de l’Afrique du Sud. Se relevant des décombres de l’apartheid et des ravages d’une quasi-guerre civile qui a failli compromettre la transition démocratique de l’Afrique du Sud, le nouveau gouvernement du Congrès national…
Model city to murder city
A French Neo-colonialism? The Controversial Concept of Françafrique
the enduring president of Côte d'Ivoire, to convey the supposed benefits of the continued association between metropolitan France and postcolonial Africa.More recently, however, in the hands of Tier-Mondialiste NGOs, such as Survie ['Survival'], the term became a syllogism for a distinctive French form of neo-colonialism, protective of its chasse gardée ('hunting grounds') in francophone Africa.An exposé of the corruption at the heart of these Fr…
Anatomy of a Municipal Meltdown
As South Africa’s governing African National Congress unravelled in the late 2010s, a new stream of research emerged on the crisis of urban governance – power cuts, water outages – as municipal budgets faltered and ageing infrastructure cracked. These crises were sharpest in South Africa’s secondary cities, which had faster rates of demographic growth, higher rates of poverty and weaker fiscal bases: hence this study of Pietermaritzburg/Msunduzi.…
A History of Southern Africa, by Alois S. Mlambo and Neil Parsons
While adorned with yet another cover photo of Nelson Mandela, this excellent overview of Southern Africa, from 300,000 BC to the present day, is a rare work of historical synthesis covering the whole region. Such breadth of ambition is relatively unusual. For while ‘regions’ and ‘borderlands’ are very much in vogue in historical writing elsewhere on the continent—see, for example Paul Nugent’s Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Afri…
Coffee House Conversations
International audience
The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe
In one sense, this is a remarkably old-fashioned political biography of an army general, Solomon Mujuru. Nonetheless, Blessing-Miles Tendi’s book is a fascinating pointer to how the historiography of Zimbabwe’s liberation wars is changing in ways that echo shifts seen elsewhere in African history, as more researchers return to the study of elites. (For instance, see Wale Adebanwi and Rogers Orock, eds, Elites and the Politics of Accountability in…
Black Consciousness and Progressive Movements under Apartheid, by Ian M. Macqueen
Black Consciousness and Progressive Movements under Apartheid, by Ian M. Macqueen Black Consciousness and Progressive Movements under Apartheid, by Ian M. Macqueen (Pietermaritzburg: U. of KwaZulu-Natal P., 2018; pp. 268. ZAR 345). Timothy Gibbs Timothy Gibbs University College London [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 135, Issue 576, October 2020, Pages…
Apartheid South Africa's segregated legal field
The history of South Africa's urban-based 'struggle lawyers' - a trajectory epitomized by Nelson Mandela - is much discussed by historians and biographers, reflecting a broader vein of historiography that celebrates anti-colonial legal activism. However, it was South Africa's 'Native Reserves' and Bantustans that produced the majority of African lawyers for much of the twentieth century. Indeed, two-thirds of the African justices who have sat on …
Writing the Histories of South Africa’s Cities after Apartheid
A quarter of a century after South Africa’s democratic elections of 1994, this essay reviews how the work of a generation of radical historians, whose interests in urban history were forged in the crucible of apartheid, has shaped a new generation of urban history writing. At the peak of their influence in the 1980s and early 1990s, many of the older generation of historians were associated with a particularly vigorous branch of social history wh…
Mandela, Human Rights and the Making of South Africa's Transformative Constitution
Since 1994, numerous books have been written about South Africa’s leadership of the human rights revolution. Such narratives lie at the heart of Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom and George Bizos’ Odyssey to Freedom: A Memoir by the World-Renowned Human Rights Advocate, Friend and Lawyer to Nelson Mandela. More recently, historians have taken a clearer-eyed view of the African National Congress’s (ANC) late conversion to the language of right…
Inkatha's young militants
South Africa's township revolts have generated much excellent research on the central role played by rebellious, urban youth. This article explores a parallel set of intergenerational conflicts that opened up in the marginal rural districts of the Natal Midlands, which were exacerbated by apartheid's forced removals of labour tenants from commercial farming districts to crowded 'Native Reserves' in the 1970s. At this time of deepening poverty, el…
Mandela’s Kinsmen
International audience
Mandela's Kinsmen
Becoming a "big man" in neo-liberal South Africa
International audience
Chris Hani's 'Country Bumpkins
This article considers the social hinterland of leading members of the ANC underground who, raised in the Transkei, came of age in the late 1970s. Earlier in the twentieth century, South Africa's Native Reserves were wellsprings of nationalist leadership. Prominent ANC leaders shared a similar regionally-focused set of familial, educational and professional connections that vaulted them to the centre of the nationalist movement. These regional ne…
Union Boys in Caps Leading Factory Girls Astray?’ The Politics of Labour Reform in Lesotho's ‘Feminised’ Garment Industry
Following accession to the US bilateral trade treaty, the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act, Lesotho has become the leading African garment exporter to the USA. One key issue in debates surrounding globalisation has concerned the work conditions experienced by labour forces in the textiles industry. Many have argued that 'feminised workforces' are exploited by a patriarchal alliance of international industrialists and local state elites. This art…
Becoming a "big man" in neo-liberal South Africa
International audience
Union Boys in Caps Leading Factory Girls Astray?’ The Politics of Labour Reform in Lesotho's ‘Feminised’ Garment Industry
Following accession to the US bilateral trade treaty, the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act, Lesotho has become the leading African garment exporter to the USA. One key issue in debates surrounding globalisation has concerned the work conditions experienced by labour forces in the textiles industry. Many have argued that 'feminised workforces' are exploited by a patriarchal alliance of international industrialists and local state elites. This art…
Apartheid South Africa's segregated legal field
The history of South Africa's urban-based 'struggle lawyers' - a trajectory epitomized by Nelson Mandela - is much discussed by historians and biographers, reflecting a broader vein of historiography that celebrates anti-colonial legal activism. However, it was South Africa's 'Native Reserves' and Bantustans that produced the majority of African lawyers for much of the twentieth century. Indeed, two-thirds of the African justices who have sat on …
Inkatha's young militants
South Africa's township revolts have generated much excellent research on the central role played by rebellious, urban youth. This article explores a parallel set of intergenerational conflicts that opened up in the marginal rural districts of the Natal Midlands, which were exacerbated by apartheid's forced removals of labour tenants from commercial farming districts to crowded 'Native Reserves' in the 1970s. At this time of deepening poverty, el…
Union Boys in Caps Leading Factory Girls Astray?’ The Politics of Labour Reform in Lesotho's ‘Feminised’ Garment Industry
Following accession to the US bilateral trade treaty, the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act, Lesotho has become the leading African garment exporter to the USA. One key issue in debates surrounding globalisation has concerned the work conditions experienced by labour forces in the textiles industry. Many have argued that 'feminised workforces' are exploited by a patriarchal alliance of international industrialists and local state elites. This art…
Chris Hani's 'Country Bumpkins
This article considers the social hinterland of leading members of the ANC underground who, raised in the Transkei, came of age in the late 1970s. Earlier in the twentieth century, South Africa's Native Reserves were wellsprings of nationalist leadership. Prominent ANC leaders shared a similar regionally-focused set of familial, educational and professional connections that vaulted them to the centre of the nationalist movement. These regional ne…
Mandela’s Kinsmen
International audience
Mandela's Kinsmen
Becoming a "big man" in neo-liberal South Africa
International audience
Inkatha's young militants
South Africa's township revolts have generated much excellent research on the central role played by rebellious, urban youth. This article explores a parallel set of intergenerational conflicts that opened up in the marginal rural districts of the Natal Midlands, which were exacerbated by apartheid's forced removals of labour tenants from commercial farming districts to crowded 'Native Reserves' in the 1970s. At this time of deepening poverty, el…
Writing the Histories of South Africa’s Cities after Apartheid
A quarter of a century after South Africa’s democratic elections of 1994, this essay reviews how the work of a generation of radical historians, whose interests in urban history were forged in the crucible of apartheid, has shaped a new generation of urban history writing. At the peak of their influence in the 1980s and early 1990s, many of the older generation of historians were associated with a particularly vigorous branch of social history wh…
Mandela, Human Rights and the Making of South Africa's Transformative Constitution
Since 1994, numerous books have been written about South Africa’s leadership of the human rights revolution. Such narratives lie at the heart of Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom and George Bizos’ Odyssey to Freedom: A Memoir by the World-Renowned Human Rights Advocate, Friend and Lawyer to Nelson Mandela. More recently, historians have taken a clearer-eyed view of the African National Congress’s (ANC) late conversion to the language of right…
Black Consciousness and Progressive Movements under Apartheid, by Ian M. Macqueen
Black Consciousness and Progressive Movements under Apartheid, by Ian M. Macqueen Black Consciousness and Progressive Movements under Apartheid, by Ian M. Macqueen (Pietermaritzburg: U. of KwaZulu-Natal P., 2018; pp. 268. ZAR 345). Timothy Gibbs Timothy Gibbs University College London [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 135, Issue 576, October 2020, Pages…
Apartheid South Africa's segregated legal field
The history of South Africa's urban-based 'struggle lawyers' - a trajectory epitomized by Nelson Mandela - is much discussed by historians and biographers, reflecting a broader vein of historiography that celebrates anti-colonial legal activism. However, it was South Africa's 'Native Reserves' and Bantustans that produced the majority of African lawyers for much of the twentieth century. Indeed, two-thirds of the African justices who have sat on …
A History of Southern Africa, by Alois S. Mlambo and Neil Parsons
While adorned with yet another cover photo of Nelson Mandela, this excellent overview of Southern Africa, from 300,000 BC to the present day, is a rare work of historical synthesis covering the whole region. Such breadth of ambition is relatively unusual. For while ‘regions’ and ‘borderlands’ are very much in vogue in historical writing elsewhere on the continent—see, for example Paul Nugent’s Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Afri…
Coffee House Conversations
International audience
The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe
In one sense, this is a remarkably old-fashioned political biography of an army general, Solomon Mujuru. Nonetheless, Blessing-Miles Tendi’s book is a fascinating pointer to how the historiography of Zimbabwe’s liberation wars is changing in ways that echo shifts seen elsewhere in African history, as more researchers return to the study of elites. (For instance, see Wale Adebanwi and Rogers Orock, eds, Elites and the Politics of Accountability in…
Archives of Autogestion
One strategy to decentre and create a more polycentric model of the history of international development is to focus on influential alternative models of development practice formulated at specific moments in particular places in the Global South. Hence this article about the attempt of an influential cluster of new-left, anti-apartheid activists to create a new sort of democratic, grassroots-focused, urban planning expertise and archives in Sout…
« Remember home »
Dans les années 1980, les syndicats sud-africains en plein essor ont été comparés à la génération montante de mouvements démocratiques qui s’attaquaient aux gouvernements autocratiques. L’industrialisation par substitution aux importations (ISI) a transformé les villes du Sud global en sociétés de consommation. Cet article se concentre sur la main-d’œuvre de l’industrie manufacturière de Durban et du KwaZulu-Natal. Il est frappant de constater qu…
Propaganda of the deed
Model city to murder city
Cet article analyse le « cadre politique » instable qui a sous-tendu l’ascension et la chute remarquables d’un « appareil » municipal clientéliste dans le Durban post-apartheid, une ville de 3 millions d’habitants sur la côte est de l’Afrique du Sud. Se relevant des décombres de l’apartheid et des ravages d’une quasi-guerre civile qui a failli compromettre la transition démocratique de l’Afrique du Sud, le nouveau gouvernement du Congrès national…
Model city to murder city
A French Neo-colonialism? The Controversial Concept of Françafrique
the enduring president of Côte d'Ivoire, to convey the supposed benefits of the continued association between metropolitan France and postcolonial Africa.More recently, however, in the hands of Tier-Mondialiste NGOs, such as Survie ['Survival'], the term became a syllogism for a distinctive French form of neo-colonialism, protective of its chasse gardée ('hunting grounds') in francophone Africa.An exposé of the corruption at the heart of these Fr…
Anatomy of a Municipal Meltdown
As South Africa’s governing African National Congress unravelled in the late 2010s, a new stream of research emerged on the crisis of urban governance – power cuts, water outages – as municipal budgets faltered and ageing infrastructure cracked. These crises were sharpest in South Africa’s secondary cities, which had faster rates of demographic growth, higher rates of poverty and weaker fiscal bases: hence this study of Pietermaritzburg/Msunduzi.…
The Scorpion’s Sting
Black Lawyers in South Africa
Declarations of Independence
Writing History in a Wounded Country
Dans les années 1980 en Afrique du Sud, une école d’historiens radicaux, proche des syndicats et des mouvements civiques, a été pionnière en développant un récit historique qui se focalisait sur la résistance des classes populaires contre l’apartheid. Cet article prend également en compte un autre point de vue en s’intéressant aux militants et aux ONG sud-africains qui proposaient un récit historique ancré dans les traditions vernaculaires de l’h…
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