AFRICAN HISTORY AND GLOBAL STUDIES: A VIEW FROM SOUTH AFRICA

Recent debates on global and world history have largely been shaped in the Euro-American academy, an arrangement that appears to deepen the growing divide between metropolitan and African universities. This article takes a more optimistic view arguing that twenty years of post-apartheid life has ena...

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Published inJournal of African history Vol. 54; no. 3; pp. 341 - 349
Main Author Hofmeyr, Isabel
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.11.2013
Subjects
African history
Cognitive problems, arts and sciences, folk traditions, folklore
Ethnology
Generalities
Historical analysis
Historical source materials
History
JAH Forum: AFRICA AND GLOBAL HISTORY
Oral/folk literature
Sources and methods
World history
South Africa
literature
South Africa
Transnational
historiography
media
regional
Historiography
Literature
Transnationalism
Media
Theme
Research project
Research
Post-apartheid
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Summary:Recent debates on global and world history have largely been shaped in the Euro-American academy, an arrangement that appears to deepen the growing divide between metropolitan and African universities. This article takes a more optimistic view arguing that twenty years of post-apartheid life has enabled a freer flow of people and ideas across the continent. These new networks have sparked projects that explore inter-regional exchanges and transnational circuits within the continent. These developments coincide with the ‘rise of the south’ and present an opportunity for new styles of world history that take the global south as their matrix. This article examines a range of such projects and draws out their wider significance.
ISSN:0021-8537
1469-5138
DOI:10.1017/S0021853713000558