Survival in the 'Dumping Grounds': A Social History of Apartheid Relocation

Author:   Laura Evans
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   8
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Pages:   302
Publication Date:   11 April 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Survival in the 'Dumping Grounds': A Social History of Apartheid Relocation


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Survival in the 'Dumping Grounds' examines a defining aspect of South Africa's recent past: the history of apartheid-era relocation. While scholars and activists have long recognised the suffering caused by apartheid removals to the so-called 'homelands', the experiences of those who lived through this process have been more often obscured. Drawing on extensive archival and oral history research, this book examines the makings and the multiple meanings of relocation into two of the most notorious apartheid 'dumping grounds' established in the Ciskei bantustan during the mid-1960s: Sada and Ilinge. Evans examines the local and global dynamics of the project of bantustan relocation and develops a multi-layered analysis of the complex histories - and ramifications- of displacement and resettlement in the Ciskei.

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Author:   Laura Evans
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   8
Weight:   0.503kg
ISBN:  

9789004388277


ISBN 10:   9004388273
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   11 April 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations and Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction: Rethinking Relocation in Apartheid South Africa Part 1: Regimes of Relocation  1Apartheid, the Bantustans and the End of Empire  1Peace, Population and Colonial Development, c.1920–1945  2The ‘late colonial’ Apartheid State  3Cold War in Southern Africa: Villagisation and Counter-insurgency  2Regimes of Relocation in the Ciskei  1The Cape as Apartheid Test Case  2The Relocation Regime  3Villagisation and Repression  4Decolonisation, Repatriation and Resettlement  5The Expansion of Sada and Ilinge  6White Farmers and Relocation Part 2: Repertoires of Relocation  3Dislocation and Disrupted Livelihoods: Removals, Evictions and Banishments  1The Coercive Relocation Regime  2The Biopolitics of Neglect  3Displacement and Marginal Livelihoods  4Farm Evictions: Enclosure and Dispossession  5Urban Removals: Dislocation and Deprivation  6Political Banishment: Surveillance and Isolation  7‘We were starving. And we survived’: Gender, Domesticity and Displacement  4Farm Dwellers and Relocation: Gender, Generation and Agrarian Change  1Farm Labour and Agrarian Change  2Gender, Generation and Changing Men  3Changing Livelihoods and the Transformation of Aspirations  4Migration, Male Breadwinners and Masculinity  5Gender, Autonomy and Impoverishment: The Paradoxical Impacts of Relocation  Part 3 Place, Space and Power  5‘We Came from Different Places’: Displacement and Place-Making  1Forced Removals and ‘communities of memory’  2The Emergence of Underground Networks in Sada and Ilinge  3Churches, Spirituality and Sociability  4Poverty, Survival and Reciprocity  6Relocation and the State: Relations of Rule  1Territoriality and the Gendered Disciplinary Project of the BAD, c. 1963–71  2Ethnic Politics, Clientelism and Coercion under Ciskei, c.1971–80  Conclusion Bibliography Index

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[...] 'Das mit viel Empathie fur die Bewohnerinnen und Bewohner der Ciskei geschriebene Buch hat seine Starke in der Empirie. Es zeigt differenziert deren Handlungsmoeglichkeiten und -grenzen unter den vorgegebenen Verwaltungsstrukturen auf, so tragt es zur Sozialgeschichte des fruheren Homelands bei.' [...] Rita Schafer in Dhau - Yearbook for Extra-European History 5/2020, pp. 235-240. [...] Survival in the 'Dumping Grounds is a brilliant work of social history. Evans effortlessly provides a clear and concise account of the tragedy of apartheid in South Africa, expertly executes a nuanced historical analysis with insight into the imperial foundation in which apartheid anchored its segregationist policies, and meticulously presents the stories of Black South Africans who experienced relocation to the bantustans. It is well-researched and masterfully written. Therefore, this book would be ideal for both novice students and expert scholars of Africa. Moreover, it accomplishes the duality of capturing the complexities of segregationist policies while remaining comprehensible. Constance Pruitt, Howard University, in African Studies Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 1, 2022, pp. 75-77


[...] 'Das mit viel Empathie fur die Bewohnerinnen und Bewohner der Ciskei geschriebene Buch hat seine Starke in der Empirie. Es zeigt differenziert deren Handlungsmoeglichkeiten und -grenzen unter den vorgegebenen Verwaltungsstrukturen auf, so tragt es zur Sozialgeschichte des fruheren Homelands bei.' [...] Rita Schafer in Dhau - Yearbook for Extra-European History 5/2020, pp. 235-240.


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Laura Evans (PhD, University of Sheffield, 2011) is a Senior Lecturer in History at Sheffield Hallam University and Research Associate of the International Studies Group, University of the Free State. She teaches modern South African, colonial and postcolonial history and has published articles on various aspects of the history of apartheid and the bantustan scheme.

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