Keywords
Union of South Africa
Herbert Gladstone
historiography
iterative power
How to Cite
-
Abstract771
-
PDF (Español)580
-
XML (Español)441
Abstract
This article uses archival documents concerning Herbert Gladstone, first Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1910 to 1914, to explore the enactment of iterative power. Iterative power focuses on the inevitable fallibility of individual decision-makers who respond to, and seek to alter, the spatial arrangement of diverse materials and flows. Focusing on Gladstone’s interaction with a critical incident in 1914, the article reveals how he imagined altering the country’s unique geography but yet how the iterative power he expressed was ultimately incapable of negotiating the dynamics of capitalist accumulation, race, and the imperial project in South Africa.References
Allen, John, Lost geographies of power, Oxford, Blackwell, 2003.
Ashforth, Adam, “Lineaments of the political geography of state formation in twentieth-century South Africa”, Journal of Historical Sociology, vol. 10, 1997, pp. 101-126.
Auld, John W., “The Liberal Pro-Boers”, Journal of British Studies, vol. 14, 1975, pp.78-101.
Beinart, William, Twentieth-Century South Africa, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001.
Beinart, William & Delius, Peter, “The Historical Context and Legacy of the Natives Land Act of 1913”, Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 40, 2014, pp.667-688.
Bentley, Michael, “Gladstone's Heir”, The English Historical Review, vol. 107, 1992, p.922.
Boehmer, Elleke, Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002.
Bottomly, Edward-John, “Transnational governmentality and the 'poor white' in early twentieth century South Africa”, Journal of Historical Geography, vol. 54, 2016, 76-86.
Butler, Judith , “Performative agency”, Journal of Cultural Economy, vol. 3, 2010, pp.147–161.
Callinicos, Luli, Gold and Workers, 1886-1924, Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1985.
Cox, Kevin R. Political geography: Territory, state, and society, Oxford, Blackwell, 2002.
Cox, Kevin R., “Geographies, critical and Marxist, and lessons from South Africa”, Human Geography, vol. 9, 2016, pp.10-26.
Diamond Fields Advertiser, S.A. Native Congress, March 3 1914.
Dubow, Saul, “Colonial Nationalism, the Milner Kindergarten and the Rise of 'South Africanism’, 1902-10”, History Workshop Journal, vol. 43, 1997, pp.53-85.
Evans, Ivan, “Racial Violence and the Origins of Segregation in South Africa”, in C. Elkins and S. Pedersen (eds), Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century, London, Routledge, 2005, pp.183-202.
Graham, Lucy V., State of Peril: Race and Rape in South African Literature, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012.
Harris, Jose, “The Liberal Empire and British Social Policy: Citizens, Colonials, and Indigenous Peoples, circa 1880-1914”, Histoire@Politique, vol. 11, 2010/2, pp.1-14.
Harvey, David, The Limits to Capital, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1982.
Higginson, John, “Hell in small places: Agrarian elites and collective violence in the western Transvaal, 1900-1907”, Journal of Social History, vol. 35, 2001, pp. 95-124.
Hoffmann, Stefan-Ludwig, Human rights in the twentieth century, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Hyslop, Jonathan, “The strange death of Liberal England and the Strange Birth of Illiberal South Africa: British Trade Unionists, Indian Labourers and Afrikaner Rebels, 1910-1914”, Labour History Review, vol. 79, 2014, pp.97-120.
Jackson, Patrick, Loulou: Selected Extracts from the Journals of Loulou Harcourt (1880-1895), Madison, Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2006.
Jenkins, Roy, Asquith, London, Collins, 1978.
Jenkins, Roy, Gladstone, London, Macmillan, 1995.
Le May, Godfrey Hugh, British Supremacy in South Africa, 1899-1907, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965.
Mallet, Charles E., Herbert Gladstone: A Memoir, London, Hutchinson & Co., 1932.
Mamdani, Mahmood, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism, London, James Currey, 1996.
Marks, Shula and Trapido, Stanley, “Lord Milner and the South African State”, History Workshop, vol. 8, 1979, pp.50-80.
Massey, Doreen & Allen, John, Geographical worlds, Milton Keynes, Open University, 1995.
Massey, Doreen. Space, place and gender, Cambridge, Polity, 1994.
Massey, Doreen, For space, London, SAGE, 2005.
McClendon, Thomas V., White chief, Black lords: Shepstone and the colonial state in Natal, South Africa, 1845-1878, Rochester, University of Rochester Press, 2010.
O'Meara, Dan, Forty Lost Years: The Apartheid State and the Politics of the National Party, 1948-1994, Athens, Ohio University Press, 1996.
Paimter, Joe, “Prosaic geographies of stateness”, Political Geography, vol. 25, 2006, pp.752-774.
Plaatje, Sol T., Native life in South Africa, Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1995.
Platzky, Laura and Walker, Cherryl, The Surplus People: Forced Removals in South Africa, Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1985.
Posel, Deborah, The Making of Apartheid, 1948-1961: Conflict and Compromise, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1991.
Raco, Mike, “Governmentality, subject-building, and the discourses and practices of devolution in the UK”, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, vol. 28, 2003, pp.75-95.
Scott, James C., Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1998.
Times, The, The Rev. Leyton Richards, Aug 24 1948.
Tripp, David. “Teachers’ lives, critical incidents, and professional practice.” Qualitative Studies in Education, vol. 7, 1994, pp.65-76.
Tuffnell, Stephen. “Engineering inter-imperialism: American miners and the transformation of global mining, 1871-1910”, Journal of Global History, vol. 10, 2015, pp.53-76
Waitt, G & Head, L. “Postcards and Frontier Mythologies: Sustaining Views of the Kimberley as Timeless”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol. 20, 2002, pp.319-344
Archival materials consulted:The National Archives of the UK, CO551/53-55.
British Library, Viscount Gladstone Papers, Additional Manuscripts 45997, 46113, 46118.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
Copyright 2022 Estudios de Asia y África