Browsing Research Publications (Anthropology and Sociology) by Author "Becker, Heike"
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Africa after apartheid: South Africa, race, and nation in Tanzania
Becker, Heike (Routledge, 2016)South African economic and political expansion into the African continent has been a controversial feature of the post-apartheid era. Now human geographer Richard Schroeder has taken up the matter in an ethnographic study ... -
Against trauma: silence, victimhood, and (photo-) voice in Northern Namibia
Becker, Heike (UFS, 2015)The article shows how the discourses of trauma, victimhood and silence regarding local agency contributed to the production of the nationalist master narrative in postcolonial Namibia. However, I point out repositories of ... -
The burden of history: Namibia and Germany from colonialism to postcolonialism
Becker, Heike (Taylor & Francis, 2017)When former German Foreign Minister Joseph ‘Joschka’ Fischer visited Windhoek in October 2003, he went on record to say that there would be no apology that might give grounds for reparations for the first genocide of the ... -
Changing urbanscapes: Colonial and postcolonial monuments in Windhoek
Becker, Heike (Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2018)This article investigates how recently-constructed sites that anchor memories of anti-colonial resistance and national liberation have changed the urban landscape of the Namibian capital, Windhoek. The discussion is ... -
Dissent, disruption, decolonization: South African student protests 1968 to 2016
Becker, Heike (Center for Economic Research and Social Change, 2018)Fifty years after student protests shook much of the Cold War world, in the “West” and in the “East,” “Global 1968” has become the catchword to describe these profound generational revolts. We hear a lot about West Berlin, ... -
From ‘to die a tribe and be born a nation’ towards ‘culture, the foundation of a nation’: the shifting politics and aesthetics of Namibian nationalism
Becker, Heike (Otjivanda Presse, 2015)Namibia’s postcolonial nationalist imaginary is by no means homogeneous. Overall, however, it is conspicuous that as Namibia celebrates her twenty-fifth anniversary of independence, national identity is no longer defined ... -
A hip-hopera in Cape Town: The aesthetics, and politics of performing ‘Afrikaaps’
Becker, Heike (Taylor & Francis, 2017)This paper looks into the aesthetics and politics of the ‘hip-hopera’ Afrikaaps. Afrikaaps was produced in 2010 by a group of musicians and spoken-word artists from Cape Town and the rural Western Cape Province of South ... -
Namibia’s moment: youth and urban land activism
Becker, Heike (Taylor & Francis, 2016)A few months short of the 25th anniversary of independence from South Africa in March 1990 Namibia reached her Fanonian moment. As Achille Mbembe has explained this term with regard to the South African student movements ... -
The politics and aesthetics of commemoration: national days in southern Africa
Becker, Heike; Lentz, Carola (Taylor & Francis, 2013)The contributions to the special section in this issue study recent independence celebrations and other national days in South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Madagascar and the Democratic Republic of Congo. They explore the ... -
Remembering Marikana: Public art intervention and the right to the city in Cape Town
Becker, Heike (Taylor & Francis, 2018)This article investigates the role played by cultural initiatives in urban struggles in South Africa, and the emergence of public art to assert the right to the city. I explore how artistic– activist interventions engage ... -
South Africa's May 1968: decolonising institutions and minds
Becker, Heike (Taylor & Francis, 2016)Throughout 2015 students at South African universities rose up in a mass revolt. They made their voices heard from their campuses, from the streets, from the grounds of Parliament in Cape Town, and the lawns of the Union ... -
South Africa: anthropology or anthropologies?
Becker, Heike; Spiegel, Andrew D. (American Anthropological Association, 2015)A direct result of South Africa’s specific history has been the extraordinary significance of its contested, if not conflicting, political and ideological positions on anthropology’s South African trajectories. This was ... -
Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
Becker, Heike; Schulz, Dorothea (Routledge, 2017)This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive ... -
Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
Becker, Heike; Schulz, Dorothea (Taylor & Francis, 2017)This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive revival ... -
“Youth speaking truth to power”: Intersectional decolonial activism in Namibia
Becker, Heike (Springer, 2022)This article portrays a recent movement towards intersectional activism in urban Namibia. Since 2020, young Namibian activists have come together in campaigns to decolonize public space through removing colonial monuments ...