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Cultivating Race - Julia Tischler

Cultivating Race

Transatlantic Agricultural Reform in South Africa, c. 1900–1950

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Buch | Hardcover
336 Seiten
2025
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
9780198917281 (ISBN)
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Cultivating Race explores the rise of scientific knowledge in farming in South Africa and ways in which it informed - or was informed by - questions of race in the first half of the twentieth century.
Simultaneous to the rise of industrial capitalism, agriculture - still the mainstay of most human communities around the globe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - underwent dramatic changes. In many countries, including most settler economies, a large-scale, input-heavy, and increasingly mechanized commercial agricultural sector emerged, while scores of struggling rural producers were squeezed off the land. The same period saw the rise of a global 'colour line': increasingly rigid social categorizations based foremost on skin colour.

By considering agricultural progressivism as both a Pan-Africanist and white supremacist movement, Julia Tischler here demonstrates how the agrarian question and the 'colour line' intersected. Taking a uniquely transnational and comparative approach, the book explores these rural transformations through the lens of agricultural education - including agricultural colleges, extension services, children's clubs, and domestic training. In so doing, and by taking South Africa in the segregation period as its central case study - an extreme example of both rapid agrarian change and state-sanctioned racism - the book offers important insights into global questions of rural reform and race politics, addressing all scholars and students who seek to understand the intricate links between race, knowledge, and rural reform in the twentieth century.

Julia Tischler completed her PhD at the University of Cologne, Germany. In 2015, she joined the University of Basel as tenure-track Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020. She was a fellow at several international research institutes, including the Rachel Carson Center at LMU Munich, Germany (2019), and the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa at the University of Ghana (2022).

Introduction
1: 'The Kingdom of Mealies': Black Agricultural Progressivism and the Politics of Compromise in the Eastern Cape, 1900-1930
2: Pan-African Agrarianism
3: From 'Progress' to 'Rehabilitation': Liberal Segregation and Agricultural Policy
4: The 'American Negro' and the White Atlantic
5: Domesticating Black Women
6: Rural Reconstruction in the Imperial Orange River Colony
7: White Farmers' Provincial Science: Glen College of Agriculture
8: The State of Planning: Agricultural Scientization and the South African Nation State
9: Eugenic Agriculture and Transnational Networks of Rural Education
10: Women Farmers and Farmers' Wives
Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 240 mm
Gewicht 704 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Weitere Fachgebiete Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-13 9780198917281 / 9780198917281
Zustand Neuware
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