Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2022.2077513
Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako-Gyampah
ABSTRACT British colonial rule in Ghana profoundly affected the interment of corpses. The practice of home burials was widespread in nineteenth-century Ghana. Guided by prevailing Euro-Western discourses on sanitation and public health, colonial officials banned home interment and introduced cemeteries. This article examines the imposition of cemetery burials in colonial Ghana, the responses of the local population, its impact on indigenous burial practices, and its ramifications beyond the public health imperative. I argue that, despite initial opposition, the colonial administration succeeded in imposing cemeteries and this reoriented the people’s beliefs and practices regarding burial rituals, with spiritual and pragmatic implications for health, identity and the use of space; it also reoriented the people’s perceptions of the relationship between the living and the dead. The widespread acceptance of cemeteries was accompanied by a penchant by chiefs and other notables to create private cemeteries exclusively for their families. This threatened the spatial planning policies of the colonial administration, especially in urban areas, forcing them to strictly regulate the creation of cemeteries, limiting burials to public cemeteries, and closing already demarcated ones. Chiefs exploited cemeteries to flex power by imposing customary fees and sanctions, and by forcing their opponents to exhume their buried relatives.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2022.2075604
C. Scarboro
This book explores the fin de siècle, an era of powerful global movements and turbulent transition, in Australia and beyond through a series of biographical microhistories. From the first wave feminist Rose Summerfield and the working class radical John Dwyer, to the indigenous rights advocate David Unaipon and the poet Christopher Brennan, Hearn traces the transnational identities, philosophies, ideas and cultures that characterised this era and permeated from Australia into the wider world. Recent a re-examination of Britain’s imperialist past, with changes to how its citizens understand, study and scrutinize its history. Examining issues such as Brexit, recent reassessments of Winston Churchill’s historical record, the so-called 'culture wars' and Britain’s uncomfortable reckoning with its imperial past, the book reconsiders what it means to be a “patriot” in Britain. the and from Edinburgh to Plymouth, this powerful collection examines the significance of locality in queer spaces and experiences in modern British history. Foregrounding the voices of LGBTQ-identified people through an innovative synthesis of source material – from letters and diaries to TV interviews and oral testimonies – this collection sheds light on these experiences in Britain and, chiefly, how they were shaped, and differentiated, through a complex relation with locality. Servants of Diplomacy offers a bottom-up history of the 19th-century Foreign Office and in doing so, provides a ground-breaking study of modern British diplomacy. Whilst current literature focuses on the higher echelons of the Office, Keith Hamilton sheds a new light on the administrative and social history of Whitehall which have, until now, been largely ignored. Lucidly-written and incredibly detailed, this book draws extensively from Foreign Office and Treasury archives and private manuscript collections, making it essential reading for anyone with an interest in British diplomatic history. From a ‘no surrender’ attitude to Republican hunger strikes to the Northern Ireland peace process, Kelly traces the evolutionary and sometimes contradictory nature of Thatcher’s approach to Northern Ireland. In doing so, this nuanced study reflects afresh on the political relationship between Britain and Ireland in the late-20th century. Making use of previously neglected archival sources, this is a vital resource for those interested in Thatcherism, Anglo-Irish relations, and 20th-century British political history. Bartrop examines the formation and execution of Australian government policy towards European Jews during the Holocaust period. The book also considers the (largely negative) popular attitudes toward Jewish immigrants in Australia, looking at how these views were manifested in the press and in letters to the Department of the Interior. Incorporating the voices of the Holocaust refugees and placing the country’s response in wider contexts, Bartrop provides an Australian perspective on one of the most ca
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2022.2077521
S. Harikrishnan
ABSTRACT A vibrant public sphere has come to be recognised as a necessary condition of modern democracies. Jürgen Habermas’s work has been a convenient point of departure for studies concerned with the concept of the public sphere and modernity, despite evidence mounting from feminist, postcolonial and subaltern studies that its despatialised nature and universalistic assumptions render invisible large groups that remained – temporally and spatially – outside the ‘mainstream’. Using examples from colonial and early modern India, this article demonstrates how these limitations play out in complex societies and why ‘space’ is pivotal in studying the public sphere, especially in caste societies. Following the spatial (re)turn within academia in the last decades, I argue that Henri Lefebvre’s work on social spaces provides a theoretical alternative that treats space with analytical rigour, allowing us to problematise the concept of the public sphere and to move away from Western Europe as an ‘ideal type’. The article demonstrates how an approach that is informed by Lefebvre’s framework is particularly useful in societies where caste influences spatiality and, consequently, lived experience – as well as having broader resonance and application.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2022.2045743
Joseph Harley
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2022.2045750
D. Landry
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2022.2045742
Joseph Harley
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2022.2045757
K. Leng
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2022.2044202
David M. Turner, D. Blackie
ABSTRACT This article examines disabled people’s political activism in Britain before the emergence of the modern disability rights movement (DRM). Focusing on the campaign for shorter factory working hours in the 1830s and 1840s, it highlights the centrality of so-called ‘factory cripples’ to the reformist cause, both figuratively and as witnesses to the consequences of industrial labour. Drawing on a wide range of sources – from accounts of campaign speeches and gatherings to official reports and the writings and testimonies of impaired workers – the article shows how the factory movement opened spaces for working-class ‘maimed’ and ‘deformed’ people to talk about their experiences in their own words. Self-proclaimed ‘factory cripples’ engaged in the fight for shorter hours in complex and reciprocal ways, with some using it to advance a socio-cultural understanding of ‘disability’. Recognising this reminds us that disabled people engaged in significant forms of political activism long before the twentieth century and suggests that the analysis developed by the DRM was not as pioneering as some studies imply.
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