History, Knowledge and Power in Southern Africa

Anne Heffernan is Associate Professor of Southern African History at the University of Durham, UK, and a Research Associate of the History Workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.Rebekah Lee is Associate Professor in African Studies at the University of Oxford, UK, and an Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Geography, Environmental Studies and Tourism at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

• Chapter 1: William Beinart: A Brief Intellectual Biography.- Chapter 2: The Scientific Imagination in Maputaland, South Africa.- Chapter 3: Betterment and the Reordering of Rural Landscapes and Lives in Pholela.- Chapter 4: White Monopoly Capitalism in the South African Meat industry: A Century of Debate, from Imperial Cold Storage to Vleissentraal and Beyond.- Chapter 5: Ideology, Identity and Intersectionality in South African Student Resistance.- Chapter 6: ‘Political and Collective Violence’ Revisited.- Chapter 7: Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford: A Critical Testimony.- Chapter 8: Returning to Cecil Rhodes: Racial Segregation in the Cape Colony and Violence in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 9: Land Reform, History, and the Law: A Critical Reflection on the Role of History in Navigating South Africa’s Land Disputes.- Chapter 10: The Impacts of Geothermal Development on Kenyan Communities: Issues, Challenges, and Activism.