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Global Studies: Lower !Garib - Orange River : Pasts and Presents of a Southern African Border Region by Martha Akawa (2023, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherTranscript Verlag

ISBN-103837666395

ISBN-139783837666397

eBay Product ID (ePID)4059009555

Product Key Features

Number of Pages326 Pages

Publication NameLower !Garib-Orange River : Pasts and Presents of a Southern African Border Region

LanguageEnglish

SubjectHuman Geography, Sociology / General, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism

Publication Year2023

TypeTextbook

AuthorMartha Akawa

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science

SeriesGlobal Studies

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

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Table Of ContentFrontmatter 1 Contents 5 The Lower Garib / Orange River: A Cross-border Microregion 11 Entangled Networks: Ethnicity, Mobility, and Exchange in the Lower Garib / Orange River Region in the Late 18th Century 27 The Visit of the Snake: The Storied Landscape of the Lower Garib in the mid-1830s 51 Imaginations and Constructions of Literary Spaces: The Lower Garib / Orange River Region in Literature 65 Fritz Isak (Zak) Gomaxnab Dirkse IGabaxab: Teacher and Promoter of Nama Language 79 The Enigma of the Namaqualand Trekboer 83 Permeable Borders: Configurations of whiteness and Boer Commercial Ranching in Southern Namibia 99 Swimming Upstream: From 'Poor-Whites' to 'Coloureds' along South Africa's Lower Orange River 119 Monika and Willem Basson: Farming and Living along the River 145 Onseepkans: Irrigation, Removals and Resistance in the Borderlands of Namibia and South Africa 151 Company Hegemony and Social Relations in Oranjemund: The Paterson Job Grading System and the 1970s Town Transformations 165 Understanding the Relationships between the Ai-Ais Richtersveld Transfrontier Park (ARTP) and Local Communities of Gamaseb Conservancy in Namibia 179 Settling in the Mining Town: An Account of Women linked to Migrant Workers in Oranjemund, Namibia 195 Anne-Marie IssaBrown Garises: Curator of the Keetmanshoop Museum 207 The Orange River Boundary and the Ongoing Border Dispute Between Namibia and South Africa 211 Contesting Control over the Namaqualand Landscape through Property 225 Rethinking River Resilience: The Lower Garib / Orange River 241 Paulus Johannes: Park ranger 261 Archaeological Space and Time along the Lower Orange River and Coast: Narratives of Gudrun Corvinus 267 Landscape Archives, Aerial Photography and Geomorphic Change along the Lower Orange River 287 The Water Quality of the Lower Orange River and its Implications on Human and River Health 297 Epilogue 315 Authors and Editors 319

SynopsisThe 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 this volume focus on this hardly discussed stretch of the Orange River to understand the region's social history, geography, and economy. This book 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., This volume focuses on the stretch of Orange River between Namibia and South Africa to understand the region's social history, geography, and economy.