Holding the Line
The Rural Enclosure Movement in the Cape Colony, C . 1865–1910
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8977218 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lance Van Sittert (University of Cape Town, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 95-118 |
| Publication date | 2002-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853702007922 |
| OpenAlex | W2112552475 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
The paper outlines the impetus to, trajectory and impact of enclosure in the Cape Colony between the passing of the Fencing Act in 1883 and 1910. By increasing landowners' control over their environment, fencing enabled a suite of remedial measures that raised the productivity of the commercial small-stock sector. Fences also came to stand in the stead of the landowner in defending farms against human or animal trespass. The compartmentalization of the countryside into enclosures facilitated a more general re-ordering and re-assigning of humans and animals within it, resulting in a depersonalization of rural social relations. In all these ways the enclosure movement laid the ideological foundations for the hegemony of private property and the market economy in the countryside
Agriculture · Archaeology · Enclosure · Fencing · Land tenure · Political science · African history and culture studies · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Engineering · History · South African History and Culture
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Class and Canicide in Little Bess
Inside the Enclosed Farm
The Fertile Brain and Inventive Power of Man
Introduction
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Manufacturing dissent
The Ecology of Fencing
Anthropogenic impacts and implications for ecological restoration in the Karoo, South Africa
Locality and Belonging in the Sundays River Valley
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,78 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2021 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |