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Sisters Crossing Boundaries

German Missionary Nuns in Colonial Togo and New Guinea, 1897–1960

By: Katharina Stornig

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Sisters Crossing Boundaries

German Missionary Nuns in Colonial Togo and New Guinea, 1897–1960

By: Katharina Stornig

The last third of the 19th century witnessed a considerable increase in the active participation of women in the various Christian missions. Katharina Stornig focusses onthe Catholic case, and particularly explores the activities and experiences of German missionary nuns, the so-called Servants of the Holy Spirit,in colonial Togo and New Guinea in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. Introducing the nuns' ambiguous roles as travelers, evangelists, believers, domestic workers, farmers, teachers, and nurses, Stornig highlights the ways in which these women shaped and were shaped by the missionary encounter and how they affected colonial societies more generally. Privileging the sources produced by nuns (i.e. letters, chronicles and reports) and emphasizing their activities, Sisters Crossing Boundaries profoundly challenges the frequent depiction of women and particularly nuns as the largely passive observers of the missionizing and colonizing activities of men. Stornig does not stop at adding women to the existing historical narrative of mission in Togo and New Guinea, but presents the hopes and strategies that German nuns related to the imagination and practice of empire. She also discusses the effects of boundary-crossing, both real and imagined, in the context of religion, gender and race.

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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

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364710129X

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9783647101293

Building a White Nation

Propaganda, Photography, and the Apartheid Regime Between the Late 1940s and the Mid-1970s

By: Katharina Jörder

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Building a White Nation

Propaganda, Photography, and the Apartheid Regime Between the Late 1940s and the Mid-1970s

By: Katharina Jörder

Throughout the apartheid era, South Africa maintained a wide-reaching propaganda apparatus. At its core was the information service that strongly capitalised on photography to visually articulate the minority regime’s racist political messages, promote Afrikaner nationalism, and consolidate White rule. By unearthing a substantial corpus of photographs that so far have been hidden in archives, this book offers a distinctive perspective on the institutional context of the regime’s photographic production and how it was tightly linked to the objective to build a White nation. Through scrutiny of the photographic material’s iconographies, its circulation in printed matters, and a comparison with works by photographers like Margaret Bourke-White, Ernest Cole, and David Goldblatt, readers gain fresh insight into the country’s visual culture of the period. Based on the ambiguity of photographs, the monograph challenges the alleged dichotomy between so-called pro- and anti-apartheid photographies, highlighting how the regime was able to position photographs in the grey area of inconspicuousness. By blending photo theory and art historical analysis with historical studies, Building a White Nation will appeal to scholars and postgraduate students in cultural studies interested in photo history and theory, visual culture and art history, African studies, South African photography, Afrikaner nationalism, propaganda studies, postcolonial studies, and archive theory.

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369

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Leuven University Press

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9462703809

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9789462703803

Humanity

a History of European concepts in practice from the sixteenth century to the present

By: Judith Becker,Johannes Paulmann,Joachim Berger,Francisco Bethencourt,Paul Betts,Mihai-D. Grigore,Gerhard Kruip,Kerstin Von Lingen,Esther Möller,Katharina Stornig,Thomas Weller,Mariano Delgado

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Humanity

a History of European concepts in practice from the sixteenth century to the present

By: Judith Becker,Johannes Paulmann,Joachim Berger,Francisco Bethencourt,Paul Betts,Mihai-D. Grigore,Gerhard Kruip,Kerstin Von Lingen,Esther Möller,Katharina Stornig,Thomas Weller,Mariano Delgado

This volume investigates the development of the concepts and practices of "humanity" from the sixteenth century up to the present. By taking a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the contributers focus on Europe as well as Europe's relations to other world regions in the process that shaped "humanity". They show how this emerging concept led to the overcoming of fundamental divisions in many spheres on the one hand and the formation of new hierarchies on the other.

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3666101453

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9783666101458

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