Journal of Southern African Studies, Volume 43, Issue 2 (2017)

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Editorial

Editorial
Editorial
Anthony Simpson
Pages: 245-250
Published online: 17 Mar 2017
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Gender and Sexuality

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‘Brought into Manhood’: Christianity and Male Initiation in South Africa in the Early 20th Century
Natasha Erlank
Pages: 251-265
Published online: 24 Feb 2017
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Cutting to the Chase: Donor Expediency Drives the Campaign for Safe Male Circumcision in Botswana
Krista Johnson
Pages: 267-281
Published online: 17 Mar 2017
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Changing Understandings of Gender and Parenthood in a North-Central Namibian Village
Mari Tarkkonen
Pages: 283-297
Published online: 24 Feb 2017
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Enacting Compassion: Hot/Cold, Illness and Taboos in Northern Mozambique
Arianna Huhn
Pages: 299-313
Published online: 28 Feb 2017
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German Colonial Policy

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Selective Memory: British Perceptions of the Herero–Nama Genocide, 1904–1908 and 1918
Mads Bomholt Nielsen
Pages: 315-330
Published online: 24 Feb 2017
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Germany’s Colonial Policy in German South-West Africa in the Light of International Criminal Law
Klaus Bachmann
Pages: 331-347
Published online: 24 Feb 2017
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Land, Cattle and Environment

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Building a Perfect Pest: Environment, People, Conflict and the Creation of a Rinderpest Epizootic in Southern Africa
Gary Marquardt
Pages: 349-363
Published online: 26 Feb 2017
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Beloved Countries: Labour, Landscape and the Politics of Conservation in Three Novels from KwaZulu-Natal
Brady Smith
Pages: 365-380
Published online: 26 Feb 2017
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Path Dependence in Nebo Plateau: Strategic Partnerships and Rural Poverty Alleviation in South African Small-Scale Irrigation Schemes
Magalie Bourblanc, Raphaëlle Ducrot & Everisto Mapedza
Pages: 381-396
Published online: 09 Feb 2017
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The Consequences of Political Alliances

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Colonial Wars, Colonial Alliances: The Alcora Exercise in the Context of Southern Africa
Maria Paula Meneses, Celso Braga Rosa & Bruno Sena Martins
Pages: 397-410
Published online: 28 Feb 2017
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Confucius Institutes in Africa, or How the Educational Spirit in Africa is Re-Rationalised Towards the East
Amy Stambach & Aikande Kwayu
Pages: 411-424
Published online: 28 Feb 2017
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Review Article

Review Article
Damming the Zambezi: Light and Power for Which Nation?
Joost Fontein
Pages: 425-432
Published online: 24 Feb 2017
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Book Review

Book Review
A History of Apartheid
Saul Dubow, Apartheid 1948–1994 (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014), xx + 360 pp., paperback, £18.99, ISBN 978-0-19-955067-8.
Adrian Guelke
Pages: 433-434
Published online: 22 Feb 2017
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The Problem with Democracy in Post-Apartheid Kwa-Zulu Natal
Jason Hickel, Democracy as Death: The Moral Order of Anti-Liberal Politics in South Africa (Oakland, University of California Press, 2015) xvii +263 pp., hardback, US$85.00, ISBN 978-0-520-28422-7; paperback, US$34.95, ISBN 978-0-520-28423-4; e-book, US$34.95, ISBN 978-0-520-95986-6.
Colin Bundy
Pages: 434-436
Published online: 26 Feb 2017
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An Ethnography of Trade Unions in Botswana
Pnina Werbner, The Making of an African Working Class: Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers’ Union of Botswana (London, Pluto Press, 2014), xiii + 306 pp., paperback, £22.00, ISBN 978-0-7453-3495-0.
Alexander Beresford
Pages: 436-437
Published online: 26 Feb 2017
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A History of Resistance in Colonial Nyasaland
John McCracken (ed.), Voices from the Chilembwe Rising: Witness Testimonies Made to the Nyasaland Rising Commission of Inquiry, 1915 (London, Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2015), xxvi + 623 pp., hardback, £110.00, ISBN 978-0-19-726592-5.
Derek R. Peterson
Pages: 438-440
Published online: 22 Feb 2017
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Food and Everyday Life from Colonialism to Postcolonialism in Malawi
Elias C. Mandala, The End of Chidyerano: A History of Food and Everyday Life in Malawi, 1860–2004 (Portsmouth, Heinemann, 2005), 368 pp., hardback, ISBN 978-0-325-07021-6; paperback, US$50.00, ISBN 978-0-325-07020-9.
Harvey C. Chidoba Banda
Pages: 440-441
Published online: 28 Feb 2017
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Obituary

Obituary
Patrick Allan Lifford Harries, 1950–2016
Saul Dubow
Pages: 443-446
Published online: 24 Feb 2017
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Erratum

Correction
Erratum
Page: i
Published online: 17 Mar 2017
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