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Dr J.B. Gewald's publications

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Jan-Bart Gewald, Marja Hinfelaar and Giacomo Macola (eds.)
Living the End of Empire. Politics and Society in Late Colonial Zambia
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, Afrika-Studiecentrum Series; vol. 21, 2011
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J.B. Gewald and S. Soeters
'African miners and shape shifting flight capital: the case of Baluba Luanshya'
In: M. Larmer and A. Fraser, 'Zambia, mining, and neoliberalism boom and bust on the globalized copperbelt', London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 155-184, 2010.

J.B. Gewald
'Gold the true motor of West African history: an overview of the importance of gold in West Africa and its relations with the wider world'
In: C. Panella, 'Worlds of debts: interdisciplinary perspectives on gold mining in West Africa', Amsterdam: Rozenberg publishers, p. 137, 2010.

J.B. Gewald
'Remote but in contact with history and the world'
In: PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, May 4 2010, vol. 107, no. 18, 2010.
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K. van Walraven, Sabine Luning & J.B. Gewald
'Mbadamassi of Lagos: a soldier for King and Kaiser, and a deportee to German South West Africa'
In: African Diaspora, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 103-124, 2009.
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K. van Walraven, Sabine Luning & J.B. Gewald
'Motor vehicles and people in Africa: an introduction'
In: Walraven, K van, Luning, Sabine, Gewald, J-B.: The speed of change : motor vehicles and people in Africa, 1890-2000
pp. 1-18, Leiden: Brill, 2009.

J.B. Gewald
'People, mines and cars: towards a revision of Zambian History, 1890-1930'
In: Walraven, K van, Luning, Sabine, Gewald, J-B.: The speed of change : motor vehicles and people in Africa, 1890-2000
pp. 21-47, Leiden: Brill, 2009.

J.B. Gewald, Sabine Luning and K. van Walraven
The speed of change : motor vehicles and people in Africa, 1890-2000
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; vol. 13, 2009.
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J.B. Gewald
'Colonial warfare : Hehe and World War One, the wars besides Maji Maji in south-western Tanzania'
In: African Historical Review, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 1-27, 2008.

J.B. Gewald
'From the Old Location to Bishops Hill: the politics of urban planning and landscape history in Windhoek, Namibia'
In: M. Bollig ; O. Bubenzer (eds.) African Landscapes: Interdisciplinary Approaches, New York: Springer, pp. 255-274, 2008.

J.B. Gewald, M. Hinfelaar and G. Macola
'Introduction'
In: J-B. Gewald ; M. Hinfelaar ; G. Macola (eds.) One Zambia, many histories : towards a history of post-colonial Zambia, Leiden [etc.]: Brill, Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; vol. 12, pp. 1-13, 2008.
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J.B. Gewald, M. Hinfelaar and G. Macola (eds.)
One Zambia, many histories : towards a history of post-colonial Zambia
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; vol. 12, 2008.
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J.B. Gewald
'Colonisation, Genocide and Resurgence: The Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923'
In: J. Zimmerer ; J. Zeller (eds.) Genocide in German South-West Africa: The Colonial War of 1904-1908 and its aftermath, Monmouth: Merlin Press, pp. 123-142, 2007.

J.B. Gewald
'Coming Through Slaughter: The Herero of Namibia, 1904-1940'
In: A. Rao ; M. Bollig ; M. Böck (eds.) The Practice of War: Production, reproduction and communication of armed violence, New York / Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 89-110, 2007.

M.E. de Bruijn, R.A. van Dijk and J.B. Gewald
'Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa'
In: P. Chabal ; U. Engel ; L.J.de Haan (eds.) African Alternatives, Leiden [etc.]: Brill, pp. 9-20, 2007.
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M.E. de Bruijn, R.A. van Dijk and J.B. Gewald
'Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa : an introduction'
In: M.E.de Bruijn ; R.A.van Dijk ; J.B. Gewald (eds.) Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa, Leiden: Brill, African dynamics ; vol. 6, pp. 1-16, 2007.

J.B. Gewald
Spanish influenza in Africa : some comments regarding source material and future research
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 77, 2007.
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M.E. de Bruijn, R.A. van Dijk and J.B. Gewald (eds.)
Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa
Leiden: Brill, African dynamics ; vol. 6, 2007.
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J.B. Gewald
Transport transforming society : towards a history of transport in Zambia, 1890-1930
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 74, 2007.
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J.B. Gewald
'More than Red Rubber and figures alone : a critical appraisal of the Memory of the Congo exhibition at the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium'
In: The international journal of African historical studies, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 471-486, 2006.
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J.B. Gewald
Colonial warfare : Hehe and World War One, the wars besides Maji Maji in south-western Tanzania
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 63, 2005.
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J.B. Gewald
'Das deutsche Kaiserreich und die Herero des südlichen Afrika: der Völkermord und die Entschädigungsfrage'
In: A. Jones (ed.) Völkermord, Kriegsverbrechen und der Westen, Berlin: Parthas Verlag GmbH, pp. 69-90, 2005.

J.B. Gewald and H. Melber
'Genozid, Herero-Identität(en) und die Befreiungsbewegung an der Macht'
In: Henning Melber (ed.) Genozid und Gedenken : Namibisch-deutsche Geschichte und Gegenwart, Frankfurt am Main: Brandes & Apsel, pp. 79-102, 2005.
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J.B. Gewald
Learning to wage and win wars in Africa : a provisional history of German military activity in Congo, Tanzania, China and Namibia
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 60, 2005.
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J.B. Gewald and H. Melber
'Nationalistische Diskurse einer Befreiungsbewegung an der Macht: Auf dem Wege zu einer patriotischen Geschichte?'
In: H. Melber (ed.) Genozid und Gedenken: Namibisch-Deutsche Geschichte und Gegenwart, Beiträge zur Politik mit Kolonialer Vergangenheit, Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2005.

J.B. Gewald
Review of Jürgen Zimmerer, 'Deutsche Herrschaftüber Afrikaner: Staatlicher Machtanspruch und Wirklichkeit im kolonialen Namibia' (German Governance of Africans: Stately Claims to Power, and Reality in Colonial Namibia)
In: The Journal of African History, 46 (1): 173-75, published online 29 March, 2005.

J.B. Gewald
The impact of motor-vehicles in Africa in the twentieth century : towards a socio-historical case study
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 61, 2005.
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J.van Beurden and J.B. Gewald
From output to outcome? 25 years of IOB evaluations
Amsterdam: Aksant, 2004.
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J.B. Gewald
'Global media and violence in Africa: The case of Somalia'
In: W.M.J.van Binsbergen ; R.A.van Dijk ; J.B. Gewald (eds.) Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture, Leiden: Bril, pp. 90-106, 2004.
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J.B. Gewald
'Imperial Germany and the Herero of Southern Africa : genocide and the quest of recompense'
In: A. Jones (ed.) Genocide, war crimes and the West : history and complicity, London: Zed Books, pp. 59-77, 2004.
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J.B. Gewald
'Ontwikkelingshulp faalt door onkunde'
In: NRC Handelsblad, no. 6 October, 2004.

J.B. Gewald
'Ovita ovia Zürn - "Zürn's Krieg"'
In: L.von Förster ; D. Henrichsen ; M. Bollig (eds.) Namibia-Deutschland : eine geteilte Geschichte : Widerstand, Gewalt, Erinnerung, Köln: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, pp. 78-91, 2004.
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W.M.J. van Binsbergen, R.A. van Dijk and J.B. Gewald (eds.)
Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, African dynamics ; vol. 3, 2004.
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W.M.J. van Binsbergen, R.A. van Dijk and J.B. Gewald
'Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture : an introduction'
In: W.M.J.van Binsbergen ; R.A.van Dijk ; J.B. Gewald (eds.) Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture, Leiden [etc.]: Brill, pp. 3-54, 2004.
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J.B. Gewald
'The Herero and Nama Genocides, 1904 - 1908'
In: D.L. Shelton (ed.) Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, New York: Macmillan Reference, 2004.

J.B. Gewald
'Who Killed Clemens Kapuuo?'
In: Journal of Southern African studies, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 559-576, 2004.
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J.B. Gewald and M. Prins
25 Years IOV-IOB: Competence with Consequence?
Amsterdam: IISG, IISG Working Document, 2003.
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J.B. Gewald
'Culture de la violence, destruction des normes et déshumanisation en Afrique'
In: Marchés tropicaux et méditerranéens, vol. 58, no. 3000, pp. 977-987, 2003.
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J.B. Gewald
'Die Beerdigung von Samuel Maharero und die Reorganisation der Herero'
In: J. Zimmerer ; J. Zeller (eds.) Völkermord in Deutsch-Südwestafrika : der Kolonialkrieg (1904-1908) in Namibia und seine Folgen, Berlin: Links Verlag, pp. 171-179, 2003.
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J.B. Gewald
'Herero genocide in the twentieth century: politics and memory'
In: J. Abbink ; M.E.de Bruijn ; K.van Walraven (eds.) Rethinking resistance : revolt and violence in African history, Leiden [etc.]: Brill, pp. 279-304, 2003.
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J.B. Gewald
'Kolonisierung, Völkermord und Wiederkehr : die Herero von Namibia 1890-1923'
In: J. Zimmerer ; J. Zeller (eds.) Völkermord in Deutsch-Südwestafrika : der Kolonialkrieg (1904-1908) in Namibia und seine Folgen, Berlin: Links Verlag, pp. 105-120, 2003.
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J.B. Gewald
'Near death in the streets of Karibib: famine, migrant labour and the coming of Ovambo to central Namibia'
In: The journal of African history, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 211-239, 2003.
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W.M.J. van Binsbergen, R.A. van Dijk and J.B. Gewald
'Situating Globality: African Agency in the Appropriation of Global Culture: An Introduction'
In: Binsbergen, W.M.J., van Dijk, R., (eds), Situating Globality: African Agency in the Appropriation of Global Culture, Leiden: Brill, pp. 3-54, 2003.

J.B. Gewald
'The Herero genocide: German unity, settlers, soldiers, and ideas'
In: M. Bechhaus-Gerst ; R. Klein-Arendt (eds.) Die (koloniale) Begegnung : AfrikanerInnen in Deutschland (1880-1945), Deutsche in Afrika (1880-1918), Frankfurt am Main [etc.]: Peter Lang, pp. 109-127, 2003.
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J. Silvester and J.B. Gewald
Words cannot be found : German colonial rule in Namibia : an annotated reprint of the 1918 Blue Book
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, Sources for African history ; vol. 1, 2003.
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J.B. Gewald
'"I was afraid of Samuel, therefore I came to Sekgoma": Herero refugees and patronage politics in Ngamiland, Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1890-1914'
In: The journal of African history, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 211-234, 2002.
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J.B. Gewald
'A Teutonic ethnologist in the Windhoek district: rethinking the anthropology of Guenther Wagner'
In: D. LeBeau ; R.J. Gordon (eds.) Challenges for anthropology in the 'African Renaissance' : a Southern African contribution, Windhoek: University of Namibia Press, pp. 19-30, 2002.
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J.B. Gewald
'Diluting drinks and deepening discontent : colonial liquor controls and public resistance in Windhoek, Namibia'
In: D.F. Bryceson (ed.) Alcohol in Africa : mixing business, pleasure, and politics, Portsmouth: NH : Heinemann, pp. 117-138, 2002.
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J.B. Gewald
'El Negro, El Niño, Witchcraft and the absence of rain in Botswana'
In: Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 37-51, 2002.
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J.B. Gewald
'Flags, funerals and fanfares: Herero and missionary contestations of the acceptable, 1900-1940'
In: Journal of African cultural studies, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 105-117, 2002.
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J.B. Gewald
'Missionaries, Hereros, and motorcars: mobility and the impact of motor vehicles in Namibia before 1940'
In: The international journal of African historical studies, vol. 35, no. 2/3, pp. 257-285, 2002.
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J.B. Gewald
'El Negro, el Niño, witchcraft and the absence of rain in Botswana'
In: African affairs : the journal of the Royal African Society, vol. 100, no. 401, pp. 555-580, 2001.
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M. Bollig and J.B. Gewald and J.B. Gewald (eds.)
People, Cattle and Land: Transformations of a pastoral society in southwestern Africa.
Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, p. xii + 540, 2001.
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J.B. Gewald
"We thought we would be free ..." : socio-cultural aspects of Herero history in Namibia 1915 - 1940
Köln: Köppe, History, cultural traditions and innovations in Southern Africa ; vol. 8, 2000.
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J.B. Gewald
'Colonization, genocide and resurgence: the Herero of Namibia 1890-1933'
In: M. Bollig ; J.B. Gewald (eds.) People, cattle and land : transformations of a pastoral society in southwestern Africa, Köln: Köppe, pp. 187-225, 2000.
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J.B. Gewald
'Herero and missionaries: the making of historical sources in the 1920s'
In: W.J.G. Möhlig (ed.) Frühe Kolonialgeschichte Namibias 1880-1930, Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, pp. 77-95, 2000.

J.B. Gewald
'Making tribes: social engineering in the Western Province of British administered Eritrea 1941-52'
In: Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 1, no. 2, 2000.
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J.B. Gewald
'Mbadamassi of Lagos: a Nigerian soldier for King and Kaiser, and a deportee to German South West Africa'
In: Newsletter Namibia Scientific Society, vol. 41, no. 1-3, pp. 3-21, 2000.

J.B. Gewald and M. Bollig
People, cattle and land : transformations of a pastoral society in southwestern Africa
Köln: Köppe, History, cultural traditions and innovations in Southern Africa 13, 2000.
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M. Bollig and J.B. Gewald
'People, cattle and land-transformations of pastoral society : an introduction'
In: M. Bollig ; J.B. Gewald (eds.) People, cattle and land : transformations of a pastoral society in southwestern Africa, Köln: Köppe, pp. 3-52, 2000.
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J.B. Gewald
Herero heroes : a socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923
Oxford: James Currey, 1999.
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J.B. Gewald
'Religion, Labour and Resistance in Namibia - II - The Road of the Man Called Love and the Sack of Sero: The Herero-German War and the Export of Herero Labour to the South African Rand'
In: The journal of African history, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 21-40, 1999.
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J.B. Gewald
'Herero annual parades: commemorating to create'
In: H. Behrend ; T. Geider (eds.) Afrikaner schreiben zurück : Texte und Bilder afrikanischer Ethnographen, Köln: Köppe, pp. 131-151, 1998.
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J.B. Gewald
'Mirror images? photographs of Herero commemorations in the 1920s and 1930s'
In: W. Hartmann ; P. Hayes ; J. Silvester (eds.) The colonising camera: photographs in the making of Namibian history, Cape Town [etc.]: University of Cape Town Press, pp. 118-124, 1998.
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J.B. Gewald
'’We thought we would be free’: ideals and realities in the 1920s'
Paper presented at 'People, Cattle and Land: A symposium on the culture, history and economy of Otjiherero speaking people', Michaelsberg, Siegburg, Germany, 14-17 September, 1997.

J.B. Gewald
Towards redemption : a socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia between 1890 and 1923
Leiden: Research School CNWS, CNWS publications ; vol. 47, 1996.
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J.B. Gewald
'The issue of forced labour in the 'Onjembo' : German South West Africa 1904-1908'
In: Itinerario : bulletin of the Leyden Centre for the History of European Expansion, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 97-104, 1995.
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J.B. Gewald
'Untapped sources: slave exports from southern and central Namibia up to the mid-nineteenth century'
In: C. Hamilton (ed.) The Mfecane Aftermath, Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 419-435, 1995.
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J.B. Gewald
'History in the making: commemorations of the dead and Herero identity in the 20th century'
In: J.van der Kle (ed.) Proceedings, Utrecht: Ceres, 1994.

J.B. Gewald
Seeking to return?, Herero exiles 1904-1923
Toronto: [African Studies Association], 1994.
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J.B. Gewald
'The great General of the Kaiser'
In: Botswana notes and records, vol. 26, pp. 67-76, 1994.
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J.B. Gewald
Hands off Africa!! : an overview and analysis of the ideological, political and socio-economic approaches to African unity expressed at the first All-African People's Conference held in Accra, Ghana in December 1958
[S.l.]: [s.n.], 1990.
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J.B. Gewald
"A faithful, circumstantial and unvarnished detail of incidents" : a critical reassessment of the accounts relating to Shaka in 'The diary of Henry Francis Fynn'
Leiden: State University, 1989.
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J.B. Gewald
'Mountaineers' as mantatees : a critical reassessment of events leading up to the Battle of Dithakong
Leiden: State University, 1989.
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Paper and poster presentations

 

J.B. Gewald
Challenging Nationalist "Historiography" in Settler States: Zimbabwe, Kenya and Namibia
Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the African Studies Association: "The Power of Expression: Identity, Language, and Memory in Africa and the Diaspora" November 11 -14, New Orleans, USA, 2006.

J.B. Gewald
African History and the Netherlands
Paper presented at the African History Research Seminar, St. Cross College, Oxford University 15 June, 2004.

J.B. Gewald
Chief Hosea Kutako: Herero Royal and Namibian Nationalist. A life against confinement, 1870 - 1970
Paper presented at "The Concept of Agency in African History: A Workshop on Structure and Agency in African History", ASC, Leiden, 27-28 May, 2004. 2004.

J.B. Gewald
Colonisation, Genocide and Resurgence: The Herero of Namibia, 1890 - 1923
Paper presented at the University of Zambia, Lusaka, 24 March, 2004.

J.B. Gewald
Coming through slaughter: The Herero of Namibia 1904 - 1940
Paper presented at the conference Heritage in Southern and Eastern Africa: Imagining and marketing Public Culture and History, Livingstone, 5-8 July, 2004.

J.B. Gewald
Namibia's Past in the Present: Towards Patriotic History?
Paper presented at the conference Heritage in Southern and Eastern Africa: Imagining and marketing Public Culture and History, Livingstone, 5-8 July, 2004.

J.B. Gewald
Transformations in Transport in Zambia: Peliminary ideas regarding a social history dealing with the introduction of the motor-car in Zambia, 1890 - 1930
Paper presented at the University of Basel, 3 February, University of Zambia, 10 March, University of the Witwatersrand, 17 March, International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, 27 April, ASC: Agency in Africa theme group, Leiden, 3 June, African History and Politics Seminar Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University, 7 June, 2004.

J.B. Gewald
Urbanisation in Africa, the example of Zambia
Lecture on African urbanization, University of Leiden, 1 December, 2004.

J.B. Gewald
From the Anecdotal to the Empirical: A Provisional Exploration of Globalisation and Questions of Ownership with particular focus on Africa
Background paper prepared for 'Globalisation and Changing Questions of Ownership in Culture and Society', African Studies Centre, Leiden, 26-27 April, 2002.

J.B. Gewald
From the Old Location to Bishops Hill: the politics of urban planning and landscape history in Windhoek, Namibia
Paper presented at 'The Governance of Daily Life in Africa: Public and Collective Services and their Users', Apad conference, African Studies Centre, Leiden, 22-25 May, 2002. 2002.

J.B. Gewald
Globalisation and violence in Africa
Paper presented at 'Globalisation and Changing Questions of Ownership in Culture and Society', African Studies Centre, Leiden, 26-27 April, 2002.

J.B. Gewald
The first and the last of the Twentieth Century: The Herero and the Rwandan genocides
Paper presented at the Department of Ethnology, University of Cologne, 29 January, 2002.

J.B. Gewald
"I was afraid of Samuel, therefore I came to Sekgoma": Herero refugees and patronage politics in Ngamiland, Bechuanaland protectorate 1890-1914
Paper presented at the 'Afrikanische Migration und Aufnahmegesellschaften, Kolloquium des Sonderforschungsbereich 520', University of Hamburg, 7 December, 2001.

J.B. Gewald
Anticipating the Kaiser: German soldiers and the Herero genocide
Paper presented at 'The (colonial) encounter: Africans in Germany-Germans in Africa' conference, Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Germany, 5-8 September 2001.The 44th Annual Meeting, African Studies Association, Houston, Texas, 15-18 November, 2001.

J.B. Gewald
Death in the streets of Karibib: the Ovamboland famine of 1915 and its impact on Namibian history
Paper presented at the 'History and Archaeology Research Seminar' of the University of Botswana, Gaborone, 18 January, 2001.

J.B. Gewald
El Negro, el Niño, Witchcraft and the absence of rain in Botswana
Paper presented at the Workshop on the repatriation of "El Negro", University of Botswana, Gaborone, 24 May, 2001.

J.B. Gewald
Presenting the past to conquer the future: the political use of the Herero genocide in the course of the twentieth century
Paper presented at the 'Revolt and Resistance in African History: Reinterpreting their Significance in Africa's Past and Present' conference, African Studies Centre, Leiden, Netherlands 11-12 October, 2001.

J.B. Gewald
The Herero genocide: Bureaucracy and mass-killing
Paper presented at the Department of History, Brown University, Providence, 13 November 2001.

J.B. Gewald
'The Killing of Clemens Kapuuo: Operation Reindeer and South African Dirty Tricks in Namibia, 1978'
Paper presented at the Department of Africana Studies, Brown University, Providence, 12 November, 2001.

J.B. Gewald
'A Teutonic ethnologist in the Windhoek district: Günther Wagner and the unpublished ethnographic survey'
Paper presented at the 'Anthropological Association of Southern Africa', Windhoek, Namibia, 8-14 May, 2000.

J.B. Gewald
'Making tribes: social engineering in the Western Province of British administered Eritrea 1941-52'
Paper presented at 'African Studies Association of the United Kingdom Biennial Conference', Trinity College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 11-13 September, 2000.

J.B. Gewald
'Who killed Clemens Kapuuo? assassination, politics and "hearts and minds" in central Namibia in the late 1970s'
Paper presented at the 'History and Archaeology Research Seminar' of the University of Botswana, Gaborone, 17 February 2000.'The Public History: Forgotten History' conference held at the University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia, 22-25 August, 2000.

J.B. Gewald
Of brothers and war: On becoming a chief in the Kaokoveld 1916-1930
Paper presented at the SFB 389 Kaokoland colloquium, University of Cologne, Germany, 22-23 January, 1999.

J.B. Gewald
Remembering genocide to forget divisions: Namibian Herero identity in post-colonial Namibia
Paper presented at 'Namibië: Naar een Nieuwe Identiteit?', Studium Generale, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, 26 October, 1999.

J.B. Gewald
'From Kuruman to Gobabis: Barolong Batlharo traders, trade routes and trade strategies 1880-1904'
Paper presented at the 'History and Archaeology Research Seminar' of the University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana, 21 October 1999.The forty-second annual meeting of the African Studies Association, Philadelphia, 11-14 November, 1999.

J.B. Gewald
'Mbadamassi: A Nigerian soldier for King and Kaiser in Nigeria, Cameroon and Namibia, 1890-1916'
Paper presented at University of Namibia staff colloquium, Windhoek,15 February 1999.Namibian Scientific Society public lecture, Windhoek, 22 February 1999.History and Archaeology Research Seminar of the University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana, 20 May 1999.

J.B. Gewald
"We will go to the Jews": The re-introduction of circumcision, polygamy and ritual mutilation, and the redefinition of gender relations in central Namibian Herero society, 1920-1940
Paper presented at the forty-first annual meeting of the African Studies association, Chicago, 29 October-1 November, 1998.

J.B. Gewald
Football, fanfares and funerals: Herero and missionary contestations of the acceptable, 1900-1940
Paper presented at 'Everyday Life in Colonial Africa', symposium held at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Leipzig, Germany, 6-7 October, 1998.

J.B. Gewald
Heaven on earth: Herero conceptualisation of land 1920-1940
Paper presented at 'Landnahme: Zur Historischen und Symbolischen Aneigung Lokaler Räume', symposium held at the University of Cologne, Germany, 16-18 October, 1998.

J.B. Gewald
"We thought we would be free ..." : socio-cultural aspects of Herero history in Namibia 1915 - 1940
Paper presented at 'People, Cattle and Land: A symposium on the culture, history and economy of Otjiherero speaking people', Michaelsberg, Siegburg, Germany, 14-17 September, 1997.

J.B. Gewald
Herero and missionaries: the making of historical sources in the 1920's
Paper presented at Colloquium Africanum, University of Cologne, Germany, 9 January, 1997.

J.B. Gewald
Herero annual parades: commemorating to create
Paper presented at 'Indigene afrikanische Ethnographien', symposium, University of Cologne, Germany, 14-16 June, 1996.

J.B. Gewald
Death by camel: the Herero succession dispute of 1890-1894
Paper presented at the African studies PhD seminar, University of Leiden, the Netherlands, 29 April, 1995.

J.B. Gewald
Unburdening myself of Herero history
Paper presented at the African studies PhD seminar, University of Leiden, the Netherlands, 8 March, 1995.

J.B. Gewald
The curse of Kahimemua: the impact of rinderpest in Hereroland
Paper presented at 'Writing History. Identity and Society in Namibia', conference, Hannover, Germany, 5 May, 1994.

J.B. Gewald
Bakgalagadi ethnic formation in post independence Namibia
Paper presented at the University of Leiden and Institute for Social Studies Africa seminar in the Hague, the Netherlands, 8 June, 1993.

J.B. Gewald
The creation of Damaraland: the creation of a new ethnicity?
Paper presented at 'Ethnicity and Nationalism in Southern Africa', conference, held in Grahamstown, South Africa, 20-24 April, 1993.

J.B. Gewald
The return of Herero refugees to Namibia post 1914
Presented at '"Trees Never Meet, but People do" Mobility and Containment in Namibia, 1915-1945', Workshop, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, 10-11 December, 1993.

J.B. Gewald
The road of the man called Love and the Sack of Sero: The export of Herero labour to the South African Rand, 1890-1914
Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the African Studies Association, Boston, 4-7 December, 1993.

 

Reviews

 

J.B. Gewald
Review of "Mineworkers in Zambia: labour and political change in post-colonial Africa " by M. Larmer
In: International Review of Social History, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 524-527, 2009.

J.B. Gewald
'Carriers of Culture: Labor on the Road in Nineteenth Century East Africa written by Stephen J. Rockel'
In: International Review of Social History, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 145-147, 2008.

J.B. Gewald
'Mining and the Colonial State in Northern Rhodesia, c. 1930-64 written by L.J. Butler'
In: Journal of African History, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 489-491, 2008.

J.B. Gewald
'No insignificant part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War written by Timothy J. Stapleton'
In: Journal of Military History, vol. 73, no. 1, pp. 296-297, 2008.

J.B. Gewald
Review of Jocelyn Alexander, JoAnn McGregor and Terence Ranger, 'Violence & Memory: One Hundred Years in the "Dark Forests" of Matabeleland' (Oxford 2000).
In: African Studies Review, vol. 44, 2002.

J.B. Gewald
Review of Norbert Aas&Harald Sippel, 'Koloniale Konflikte im Alltag; Eine rechsthistorische Untersuchung der Auseinandersetzungen des Siedlers Heinrich Langkopp mit der Kolonialverwaltung in Deutsch-Ostafrika und dem Reichentschadigungsam' (Bayreuth '97)
In: Journal of African History, vol. 40, no. 1, p. 138-139, 1999.

J.B. Gewald
Review of Horst Drechsler, 'Südwestafrika unter deutscher Kolonialherrschaft. Die großen Land- und Minengesellschaften, 1885-1914' (Stuttgart 1996).
In: The International History Review, vol. XIX, no. 4 (November), p. 928-930, 1997.

 

Non academic literature

 

J.B. Gewald
Researching and writing in the twilight of an imagined conquest : anthropology in Northern Rhodesia 1930-1960
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 75, 2007.
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J.B. Gewald
'Review of E. Ndeshi Namhila, Kaxumba kaNdola: Man and myth: the biography of a barefoot soldier'
In: African affairs, vol. 105, no. 420, pp. 481-483, 2006.

J.B. Gewald
'Review of L. Rakner, Political and economic liberalisation in Zambia 1991-2001'
In: Journal of African History, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 353-355, 2006.

J.B. Gewald
'Review of Kuzmierz, K. : Documents on South Africa: The Lienemann Collection (1970-1992)'
In: The journal of African history, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 186-187, 2005.
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J.B. Gewald
'Review of Miescher, G. and Henrichsen, D. : African posters: a catalogue of the poster collection in the Basler Afrika bibliographien'
In: The journal of African history, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 377-377, 2005.
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J.B. Gewald
'Review of Zimmerer, J. : Deutsche Herrschaft über Afrikaner: Staatlicher Machtanspruch und Wirklichkeit im kolonialen Namibia (German governance of Africans: stately claims to power, and reality in colonial Namibia)'
In: The journal of African history, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 173-175, 2005.
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J.B. Gewald
'Review of Walther, D.J. : Creating Germans abroad: cultural policies and national identity in Namibia'
In: International History Review, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 163-164, 2004.

J.B. Gewald
'Review of Hellberg, C.-J. : Mission colonialism and liberation: the Lutheran Church in Namibia 1840-1966'
In: Journal of African History, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 533-536, 2003.
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J.B. Gewald
'Review of Oermann, N.O. : Mission, church and state relations in South West Africa under German rule (1884-1915)'
In: Journal of African History, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 533-536, 2003.
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J.B. Gewald
'Review Alexander, J., McGregor, J.and Ranger, T. : Violence & memory: one hundred years in the "dark forests" of Matabeleland'
In: African studies review, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 122-125, 2002.
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J.B. Gewald
'Review of Hooper E. : The river: A journey back to the source of HIV and AIDS'
In: Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 268-269, 2001.
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J.B. Gewald
'Review of Tony Emmett,T. : Popular resistance and the roots of nationalism in Namibia, 1915-1966'
In: Journal of African History, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 157-158, 2001.
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J.B. Gewald
'Review of Negash,G. : A history of Tigrinya literature in Eritrea: The oral and the written 1890-1991'
In: African affairs : the journal of the Royal African Society, vol. 99, no. 397, pp. 670-671, 2000.
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J.B. Gewald
'Review of Werner, W. : No one will become rich: economy and society in the Herero Reserves in Namibia, 1915-1946'
In: The journal of African history, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 161-162, 2000.
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J.B. Gewald
'Review of Aas,N.; Sippel,H. : Koloniale Konflikte im Alltag: Eine rechtshistoriche Untersuchung der Auseinandersetxungen des Siedlers Heinrich Langkopp mit der Kolonialverwaltung in Deutsch-Ostafrika und dem Reichsentschadigungsamt'
In: The journal of African history, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 138-139, 1999.
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J.B. Gewald
'Review of Drechsler, H. : Südwestafrika unter deutscher Kolonialherrschaft. Die großen Land- und Minengesellschaften, 1885-1914'
In: The international history review, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 928-930, 1997.

J.B. Gewald
'Review of Vansina, J. : Paths in the rainsforests: toward a history of political tradition in equatorial Africa'
In: Leidschrift, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 123-131, 1994.
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