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SUMMARY:Strikes\, refusal\, troublemaking: Workers’ resistance to and di
 sruption of German rule in colonial Namibia - Malin Bornemann (University 
 of Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:I will be presenting part of my research on anti-colonial diss
 ent in 1884–1915 German Southwest Africa\, present-day Namibia. Drawing 
 on and critically engaging with the archives of the German colonial admini
 stration in Windhoek and Berlin\, the project explores how labour was a ke
 y site of both collective and everyday resistance to German colonial rule.
  One strand of the project sheds light on the exploitation of Namibian lab
 our in railway construction and mining. Here\, I discuss unstudied archiva
 l material on numerous workers’ strikes and their violent suppression\, 
 emphasising the sustained challenge of Namibians to colonial accumulation.
  A second strand turns to the exploitation of domestic labour\, an arena c
 rucial to the reproduction of empire\, yet usually marginalised in account
 s of colonial expropriation. My research traces the varied ways in which N
 amibian women\, forced to perform domestic labour in the German home\, res
 isted their oppressors through fugitivity\, work refusal\, and troublemaki
 ng.  Methodologically\, this project is grounded in an approach of reading
  against the archival grain\, challenging the epistemic violence of coloni
 al archives and stretching their interpretive boundaries to trace otherwis
 e obscured voices and practices of resistance.\nSpeakers:\nMalin Bornemann
  (University of Oxford)
LOCATION:Queen Elizabeth House (Seminar Room 2)\, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
TZID:Europe/London
URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/13ef5345-dacd-49ac-b9b8-0af267fe778a/
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