N J Jacobs
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 97160 |
|---|---|
| NOME | N J Jacobs |
| PRENOMES | N J |
| SOBRENOME | Jacobs |
| ASSINATURA | JACOBS N J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | John Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0348-8836 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1950 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Reaching Out from Lockdown
Reflection
Reflection: Conviviality and Companionship: Parrots and People in the African Forests Nancy J Jacobs Nancy J Jacobs Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Environmental History, Volume 26, Issue 4, October 2021, Pages 647–670, https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emab052 Published: 21 August 2021
How Washington Okumu Became the Mediator Who Saved the 1994 South African Elections
Washington Okumu (1936–2016) went to South Africa in April 1994 as part of the Kissinger–Carrington team charged to mediate Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)-African National Party (ANC)/National Party (NP) differences on the interim constitution. A few days after the collapse of that effort he emerged as the individual broker for a behind-the-scenes agreement that brought the IFP back into South Africa’s democratic elections. His appearance was not a …
A tribute to Priscilla Hall (27 March 1939-11 July 2017)
The awkward biography of the young Washington Okumu
Washington Okumu (1936–2016) is now largely forgotten, but he had had a burst of fame as the mediator that brought the Inkatha Freedom Party back into South Africa’s democratic elections of 1994. This article concerns his professional life until 1988. In addition to reconstructing his life, it comments on the awkward challenges of this biography. Interviews with Okumu yielded confusing and often untruthful testimony. The research process involved…
Biography in post-apartheid South Africa
Biography (with autobiography) has become the most popular type of non-fiction in South Africa, but the recent expansion of works has not inspired commentary. Here we describe four 'constellations' of biographies: political biographies of the individual-as-leader; social history biographies of the individual-as-exemplar; literary biographies of the individual-as-vessel-of-self; and critical studies biographies of the individual-as-fragmented-subj…
American Evangelicals and African Politics
This article describes the archives of the Fellowship Foundation, best known as the organizers of the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC. The secretive character of the Fellowship probably accounts for its lack of visibility in African historical narratives to date. This article makes a case that this evangelical network was significant as a clandestine “track two” diplomatic organization with ties throughout Africa. Historians of interna…
Jamie Miller. An African Volk
Jamie Miller’s analysis of apartheid diplomacy in the 1970s, An African Volk: The Apartheid Regime and Its Search for Survival, delivers two important points: that local political agendas mattered to the global history of the Cold War and that international developments prompted ideological reassessment in Afrikaner nationalist circles. To make these points, Miller looks closely at B. J. Vorster, a prime minister of South Africa (1966–1978) whom …
The Land Beneath Our Feet . Directed by Sarita Siegel and Gregg Mitman. Alchemy Films, 2016. 60 minutes.
Birders of Africa
In this unique and unprecedented study of birding in Africa, historian Nancy Jacobs reconstructs the collaborations between well-known ornithologists and the largely forgotten guides, hunters, and taxidermists who assisted them. Drawing on ethnography, scientific publications, private archives, and interviews, Jacobs asks: How did white ornithologists both depend on and operate distinctively from African birders? What investment did African birde…
Herding birds, interspecific communication, and translations
Robert Godfrey's 1941 publication drawing on schoolboys’ essays, in Xhosa, Bird-Lore of the Eastern Cape Province described two species of birds as herding stock by whistling to them. These were the umcelu (wagtail species of the Motacilla genus) and intengu (fork-tailed drongos, Dicrurus adsimilis). It is possible to take this extraordinary claim about herding birds seriously. The birds have reputations throughout eastern and southern Africa for…
Natures of Colonial Change
Reviewed by: Natures of Colonial Change: Environmental Relations in the Making of the Transkei Nancy Jacobs Jacob A. Tropp , Natures of Colonial Change: Environmental Relations in the Making of the Transkei (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006). In Natures of Colonial Change, Jacob Tropp's intent is to reveal previously unrecognized factors and dynamics in the forest history of South Africa. The book charts the history of environmental access in …
Environment, Power, and Injustice
The Intimate Politics of Ornithology in Colonial Africa
A tendency in studies of science in colonial Africa is to focus on the 'big politics' of resource extraction, environmental control, and the governmentality of subject bodies. As a result, we now recognize that colonial science was a highly political enterprise in which the pursuit of knowledge was infused with the dynamics of starkly exclusionary societies and extractive regimes. Scientific improvements in medicine and agriculture yielded benefi…
What Books Should be More Widely Read in Environmental History
Latitudes and Longitudes
This essay reviews connections between the environmental history of the Cape and similar cases along lines of latitude and longitude. It draws on many historical works, some explicitly comparative, some showing common processes in global or regional history, and some strictly local studies. More than offering a comprehensive survey of world, African, or Cape environmental history, it probes points of comparison and examines the links between the …
Cutting the Vines of the Past
Book Review| May 01 2004 Cutting the Vines of the Past: Environmental Histories of the Central African Rain Forest Nancy Jacobs Nancy Jacobs Brown University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2004) 26 (2): 111–113. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2004.26.2.111 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Lin…
Cutting the Vines of the Past
Environment, Power, and Injustice
This book presents the socio-environmental history of black people around Kuruman, on the edge of the Kalahari in South Africa. Considering successive periods - Tswana agropastoral chiefdoms before colonial contact, the Cape frontier, British colonial rule, Apartheid, and the homeland of Bophuthatswana in the 1980s - Environment, Power and Injustice shows how the human relationship with the environment corresponded to differences of class, gender…
Environment, Power, and Injustice
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 …
The Great Bophuthatswana Donkey Massacre
The Great Bophuthatswana Donkey Massacre: Discourse on the Ass and the Politics of Class and Grass Get access Nancy J. Jacobs Nancy J. Jacobs Nancy J. Jacobs is an assistant professor of African History in the History Department and Afro-American Studies Program at Brown University. Her previous articles have been published in the Journal of African History, the Journal of Southern African Studies, and Environment and History. The donkey killing …
Grasslands and Thickets
This paper addresses bush encroachment around Kuruman, South Africa. The 'received wisdom' is that bushes result from overgrazing, displace the climax community, and lower carrying capacity. In contrast, this paper is informed by non-equilibrium ecological and range management science, as well as recent challenges to degradationist interpretations about environmental change in Africa. To what extent has bush encroachment occurred? Has a consequen…
Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land
Environment, Production and Social Difference in the Kalahari Thornveld, c1750-1830
This article considers the food production activities of people in the Thlaping and Tlharo chiefdoms in the present-day Northern Cape and North-West Provinces between c1750 and 1830. It considers food production methods, their environmental suitability and how food produtction related to social difference. It is arguted that the Tlhaping and Tlharo chiefdoms did not arise through the migration of agro-pastoralists, but that indigenous inihabitant…
The Intimate Politics of Ornithology in Colonial Africa
A tendency in studies of science in colonial Africa is to focus on the 'big politics' of resource extraction, environmental control, and the governmentality of subject bodies. As a result, we now recognize that colonial science was a highly political enterprise in which the pursuit of knowledge was infused with the dynamics of starkly exclusionary societies and extractive regimes. Scientific improvements in medicine and agriculture yielded benefi…
A Most Promising Weed
The Great Bophuthatswana Donkey Massacre
The Great Bophuthatswana Donkey Massacre: Discourse on the Ass and the Politics of Class and Grass Get access Nancy J. Jacobs Nancy J. Jacobs Nancy J. Jacobs is an assistant professor of African History in the History Department and Afro-American Studies Program at Brown University. Her previous articles have been published in the Journal of African History, the Journal of Southern African Studies, and Environment and History. The donkey killing …
Biography in post-apartheid South Africa
Biography (with autobiography) has become the most popular type of non-fiction in South Africa, but the recent expansion of works has not inspired commentary. Here we describe four 'constellations' of biographies: political biographies of the individual-as-leader; social history biographies of the individual-as-exemplar; literary biographies of the individual-as-vessel-of-self; and critical studies biographies of the individual-as-fragmented-subj…
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 …
The Flowing Eye
This paper considers the intensification of agriculture along racial lines in South Africa by looking at the history of one spring and nine miles of river valley. It illustrates how racial conflict included struggles over nature, and how whites and blacks had different perceptions and abilities regarding its exploitation. The ‘Eye’ of Kuruman is a large spring in a semi-arid region. Tswana herders originally used it as a water hole. Their food pr…
Reflection
Reflection: Conviviality and Companionship: Parrots and People in the African Forests Nancy J Jacobs Nancy J Jacobs Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Environmental History, Volume 26, Issue 4, October 2021, Pages 647–670, https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emab052 Published: 21 August 2021
The awkward biography of the young Washington Okumu
Washington Okumu (1936–2016) is now largely forgotten, but he had had a burst of fame as the mediator that brought the Inkatha Freedom Party back into South Africa’s democratic elections of 1994. This article concerns his professional life until 1988. In addition to reconstructing his life, it comments on the awkward challenges of this biography. Interviews with Okumu yielded confusing and often untruthful testimony. The research process involved…
American Evangelicals and African Politics
This article describes the archives of the Fellowship Foundation, best known as the organizers of the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC. The secretive character of the Fellowship probably accounts for its lack of visibility in African historical narratives to date. This article makes a case that this evangelical network was significant as a clandestine “track two” diplomatic organization with ties throughout Africa. Historians of interna…
The Practice of Smallholder Irrigation
Die Sprache als Quell der Seelenkunde
Making Race
The Flowing Eye
This paper considers the intensification of agriculture along racial lines in South Africa by looking at the history of one spring and nine miles of river valley. It illustrates how racial conflict included struggles over nature, and how whites and blacks had different perceptions and abilities regarding its exploitation. The ‘Eye’ of Kuruman is a large spring in a semi-arid region. Tswana herders originally used it as a water hole. Their food pr…
Freedom in Our Lifetime
The Practice of Smallholder Irrigation
Environment, Production and Social Difference in the Kalahari Thornveld, c1750-1830
This article considers the food production activities of people in the Thlaping and Tlharo chiefdoms in the present-day Northern Cape and North-West Provinces between c1750 and 1830. It considers food production methods, their environmental suitability and how food produtction related to social difference. It is arguted that the Tlhaping and Tlharo chiefdoms did not arise through the migration of agro-pastoralists, but that indigenous inihabitant…
A Most Promising Weed
Grasslands and Thickets
This paper addresses bush encroachment around Kuruman, South Africa. The 'received wisdom' is that bushes result from overgrazing, displace the climax community, and lower carrying capacity. In contrast, this paper is informed by non-equilibrium ecological and range management science, as well as recent challenges to degradationist interpretations about environmental change in Africa. To what extent has bush encroachment occurred? Has a consequen…
Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land
The Great Bophuthatswana Donkey Massacre
The Great Bophuthatswana Donkey Massacre: Discourse on the Ass and the Politics of Class and Grass Get access Nancy J. Jacobs Nancy J. Jacobs Nancy J. Jacobs is an assistant professor of African History in the History Department and Afro-American Studies Program at Brown University. Her previous articles have been published in the Journal of African History, the Journal of Southern African Studies, and Environment and History. The donkey killing …
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 …
Environment, Power, and Injustice
This book presents the socio-environmental history of black people around Kuruman, on the edge of the Kalahari in South Africa. Considering successive periods - Tswana agropastoral chiefdoms before colonial contact, the Cape frontier, British colonial rule, Apartheid, and the homeland of Bophuthatswana in the 1980s - Environment, Power and Injustice shows how the human relationship with the environment corresponded to differences of class, gender…
Environment, Power, and Injustice
Latitudes and Longitudes
This essay reviews connections between the environmental history of the Cape and similar cases along lines of latitude and longitude. It draws on many historical works, some explicitly comparative, some showing common processes in global or regional history, and some strictly local studies. More than offering a comprehensive survey of world, African, or Cape environmental history, it probes points of comparison and examines the links between the …
Cutting the Vines of the Past
Book Review| May 01 2004 Cutting the Vines of the Past: Environmental Histories of the Central African Rain Forest Nancy Jacobs Nancy Jacobs Brown University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2004) 26 (2): 111–113. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2004.26.2.111 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Lin…
Cutting the Vines of the Past
What Books Should be More Widely Read in Environmental History
The Intimate Politics of Ornithology in Colonial Africa
A tendency in studies of science in colonial Africa is to focus on the 'big politics' of resource extraction, environmental control, and the governmentality of subject bodies. As a result, we now recognize that colonial science was a highly political enterprise in which the pursuit of knowledge was infused with the dynamics of starkly exclusionary societies and extractive regimes. Scientific improvements in medicine and agriculture yielded benefi…
Environment, Power, and Injustice
Natures of Colonial Change
Reviewed by: Natures of Colonial Change: Environmental Relations in the Making of the Transkei Nancy Jacobs Jacob A. Tropp , Natures of Colonial Change: Environmental Relations in the Making of the Transkei (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006). In Natures of Colonial Change, Jacob Tropp's intent is to reveal previously unrecognized factors and dynamics in the forest history of South Africa. The book charts the history of environmental access in …
Herding birds, interspecific communication, and translations
Robert Godfrey's 1941 publication drawing on schoolboys’ essays, in Xhosa, Bird-Lore of the Eastern Cape Province described two species of birds as herding stock by whistling to them. These were the umcelu (wagtail species of the Motacilla genus) and intengu (fork-tailed drongos, Dicrurus adsimilis). It is possible to take this extraordinary claim about herding birds seriously. The birds have reputations throughout eastern and southern Africa for…
Birders of Africa
In this unique and unprecedented study of birding in Africa, historian Nancy Jacobs reconstructs the collaborations between well-known ornithologists and the largely forgotten guides, hunters, and taxidermists who assisted them. Drawing on ethnography, scientific publications, private archives, and interviews, Jacobs asks: How did white ornithologists both depend on and operate distinctively from African birders? What investment did African birde…
The Land Beneath Our Feet . Directed by Sarita Siegel and Gregg Mitman. Alchemy Films, 2016. 60 minutes.
American Evangelicals and African Politics
This article describes the archives of the Fellowship Foundation, best known as the organizers of the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC. The secretive character of the Fellowship probably accounts for its lack of visibility in African historical narratives to date. This article makes a case that this evangelical network was significant as a clandestine “track two” diplomatic organization with ties throughout Africa. Historians of interna…
Jamie Miller. An African Volk
Jamie Miller’s analysis of apartheid diplomacy in the 1970s, An African Volk: The Apartheid Regime and Its Search for Survival, delivers two important points: that local political agendas mattered to the global history of the Cold War and that international developments prompted ideological reassessment in Afrikaner nationalist circles. To make these points, Miller looks closely at B. J. Vorster, a prime minister of South Africa (1966–1978) whom …
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