Namibia under South African rule: mobility & containment, 1915-46

This collective volume is about the mobility of indigenous polities and communities in Namibia, and colonial efforts at containment, during the first three decades (1915-1946) of South African colonization. Contents: Introduction (Jeremy Silvester, Marion Wallace & Patricia Hayes) – Construction of people: construction of the State – Internal pacification 1915-1939 (Robert J. Gordon); Women, VD & Windhoek (Marion Wallace); The survival & creation of pastoral economies in southern Namibia 1915-1935 (Jeremy Silvester); Gender, labour & politics in colonial Ovamboland 1929-1930 (Patricia Hayes) – The reserves: contesting containment – Land, uniforms & politics in the history of the Herero in the interwar period (Gesine Krger & Dag Henrichsen); Power & trade in precolonial & early colonial northern Kaokoland 1860s-1940s (Michael Bollig); Constraint, resistance & transformation on a Native Reserve (Ben Fuller Jr.) – Beyond the Police Zone: Ovamboland – Migration in Ovamboland: the Oshigambo & Elim parishes 1925-1935 (Harri Siiskonen); Generational struggles & social mobility in western Ovambo communities 1915-1954 (Meredith McKittrick); Ondillimani! Iipumbu ya Tshilongo & the ambiguities of resistance in Ovambo (Wolfram Hartmann); The Namibia-Angola boundary demarcation 1926-1928 (Randolph Vigne), with The Borderline: ‘Onhaululi’ (Petrus Ndongo).