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FEATURE: CANIS FAMILIARIS—A DOG HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA

Dogs and the Public Sphere: The Ordering of Social Space in Early Nineteenth-Century Cape Town

Pages 235-251 | Published online: 14 Jan 2009

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  • Habermas , J. 1989 . The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society A key theoretical text is, translated by T. Burger, with the assistance of F. Lawrence (Cambridge, Ma., original German edition, 1962. A foundational feminist critique is offered by Carole Pateman in The Sexual Contract (Cambridge and Oxford, 1988) and The Disorder of Women: Democracy, Feminism and Political Theory (Cambridge, 1989). For a detailed discussion of these issues at the Cape, see K. McKenzie, ‘“Franklins of the Cape”: The South African Commercial Advertiser and the Creation of a Colonial Public Sphere, 1824–1854’, Kronos: Journal of Cape History, 25, (1998–9), 88–102
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  • 1831 . Ibid., 14 Dec.
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  • 1832 . Ibid., 31 Oct., original emphasis
  • 1826 . Ibid., 4 July, 11 July 1824, 14 Apr. 1824, 26 Jan. 1831, 9 Feb. 1831
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  • Ibid.
  • For a discussion of these issues with reference to Melbourne, see Brown-May, Melbourne Street Life
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  • 1831 . Ibid., 12 Oct.
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  • Ibid., 99
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  • Ibid.
  • 1840 . SACA, 27 May
  • 1840 . CA, CO 490 item 159, Report of the Special Wardmasters on the state of the cleanliness in the town and the extent of smallpox, May
  • 1840 . Report on Ward no. 2, 5 May
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  • 1862 . Statute Law of the Cape of Good Hope, Comprising the Placaats, Proclamations and Ordinances Enacted before the Establishment of the Colonial Parliament and Still Wholly or In Part in Force 409 Cape Town (See also SACA, 3 Dec. 1836
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  • Ibid., original emphasis
  • 1826 . SACA, 22 Aug. With thanks to Andrew Bank
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  • 1835 . Ibid., 7 Jan.
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