The Lower !Garib - Orange River: Pasts and Presents of a Southern African Border Region

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2023

The Lower !Garib - Orange River

Pasts and Presents of a Southern African Border Region

Edited by: Luregn Lenggenhager , Martha Akawa , Giorgio Miescher , Romie Nghitevelekwa and Ndidzulafhi Innocent Sinthumule
Funded by: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

In the series Global Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839466391

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The Lower !Garib, or Orange River flows through the historical Namaqualand and since 1990 has formed the international border between Namibia and South Africa. The contributors to his volume focus on this hardly discussed stretch of the Orange River to understand the region's social history, geography, and economy. It brings together scholars from Namibia, South Africa, and overseas, as well as the knowledge and analysis from people living in the region. In concise chapters and short portraits, they discuss the region's past and present from a variety of perspectives.

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Luregn Lenggenhager (PhD) is a post-doc at the Centre for African Studies Basel. He has published on the history of militarization and conservation, transfrontier conservation and land issue in Southern Africa and has been organizing regular academic exchange programs between Namibia and Switzerland.
Martha Akawa holds a doctorate in history from Universität Basel and is a senior lecturer in history, and associate dean for the School of Humanities, Society and Development at the University of Namibia.
Giorgio Miescher (PhD) is Carl Schlettwein Foundation senior lecturer and research fellow in Namibian and Southern African Studies at the Universität Basel and research associate with the University of Namibia.
Romie Vonkie Nghitevelekwa holds a PhD in anthropology from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and is a lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Namibia.
Ndidzulafhi Innocent Sinthumule is a senior lecturer in the Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies at the University of Johannesburg and received his PhD in environmental studies from the University of Cape Town.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Introduction
The Lower ǃGarib / Orange River: A Cross-border Microregion Giorgio Miescher, Luregn Lenggenhager and Maano Ramutsindela Open Access Download PDF	11
Movements, Networks and Imaginations
Entangled Networks: Ethnicity, Mobility, and Exchange in the Lower ǃGarib / Orange River Region in the Late 18^th Century Andrea Rosengarten Open Access Download PDF	27
The Visit of the Snake: The Storied Landscape of the Lower ǃGarib in the mid-1830s Dag Henrichsen Open Access Download PDF	51
Imaginations and Constructions of Literary Spaces: The Lower ǃGarib / Orange River Region in Literature Julia Rensing and Coletta Kandemiri Open Access Download PDF	65
Fritz Isak (Zak) Gomaxnab Dirkse IGabaxab: Teacher and Promoter of Nama Language Open Access Download PDF	79
Changing Dynamics of Settler Farming
The Enigma of the Namaqualand Trekboer Robert Gordon Open Access Download PDF	83
Permeable Borders: Configurations of whiteness and Boer Commercial Ranching in Southern Namibia Janie Swanepoel Open Access Download PDF	99
Swimming Upstream: From ‘Poor-Whites’ to ‘Coloureds’ along South Africa’s Lower Orange River Bernard C. Moore Open Access Download PDF	119
Monika and Willem Basson: Farming and Living along the River Open Access Download PDF	145
Living along the River
Onseepkans: Irrigation, Removals and Resistance in the Borderlands of Namibia and South Africa Luregn Lenggenhager Open Access Download PDF	151
Company Hegemony and Social Relations in Oranjemund: The Paterson Job Grading System and the 1970s Town Transformations Tim Rüdiger Open Access Download PDF	165
Understanding the Relationships between the ǀAi-ǀAis Richtersveld Transfrontier Park (ARTP) and Local Communities of ǁGamaseb Conservancy in Namibia Mecthilde Pinto, Jona Heita and Selma Lendelvo Open Access Download PDF	179
Settling in the Mining Town: An Account of Women linked to Migrant Workers in Oranjemund, Namibia Romie Nghitevelekwa and Martha Akawa Open Access Download PDF	195
Anne-Marie IssaBrown Garises: Curator of the Keetmanshoop Museum Open Access Download PDF	207
Contested Land, Water and Borders
The Orange River Boundary and the Ongoing Border Dispute Between Namibia and South Africa Wanda Rutishauser Open Access Download PDF	211
Contesting Control over the Namaqualand Landscape through Property Kolosa Ntombini Open Access Download PDF	225
Rethinking River Resilience: The Lower ǃGarib / Orange River Sindi-Leigh McBride Open Access Download PDF	241
Paulus Johannes: Park ranger Open Access Download PDF	261
Interdisciplinary Conversations
Archaeological Space and Time along the Lower Orange River and Coast: Narratives of Gudrun Corvinus Ulla Mussgnug Open Access Download PDF	267
Landscape Archives, Aerial Photography and Geomorphic Change along the Lower Orange River James Merron, Nikolaus J. Kuhn and Brigitte Kuhn Open Access Download PDF	287
The Water Quality of the Lower Orange River and its Implications on Human and River Health Justina T. Nangolo, Martin Hipondoka and Eliakim Hamunyela Open Access Download PDF	297
Epilogue Martha Akawa, Romie Nghitevelekwa and Ndidzulafhi Innocent Sinthumule Open Access Download PDF	315
Authors and Editors Open Access Download PDF	319

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 326
Keywords: South Africa; History; Geography; Border Studies; Politics; Postcolonialism; Space; Social Geography; History of Colonialism

eBook

Published: June 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783839466391