9 20 433 https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/e041e9d65fb062a73ec027b7f213dfd4.pdf 5d3f3b079c899cfe4dc6600fbd9a579b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dissertations on Namibia Description An account of the resource This collection holds full length dissertations written on and/or from Namibia. Unless the dissertations are particularly dated, or the author has passed, I have obtained permission before uploading the files. There are both M.A. and PhD Dissertations uploaded. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Emergence of Kommando Politics in Namaland, Southern Namibia, 1800-1870 Description An account of the resource Former archivist at the National Archives of Namibia, Brigitte Lau provides the reader with a groundbreaking social, political, and economic history of Namaland in the early to mid 19th century, with particular emphasis on Oorlam migrations, Kommando politics, Christianity, and traders. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Brigitte Lau Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unviersity of Cape Town Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1982 Language A language of the resource English Brigitte Lau Jonker Afrikaner Kommando Missionaries Nama Oorlam Southern Namibia Traders https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/6c06af86d8726cce01324a1932699085.pdf 668d27f3643784a6c5c44fda38cb5ddc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dissertations on Namibia Description An account of the resource This collection holds full length dissertations written on and/or from Namibia. Unless the dissertations are particularly dated, or the author has passed, I have obtained permission before uploading the files. There are both M.A. and PhD Dissertations uploaded. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Critique of the Historical Sources and Historiography Relating to the Damaras in Pre-Colonial Namibia Description An account of the resource Despite being only a B.A. Honours Thesis, Brigitte Lau's work has stood up as a solid resource in Central Namibian historiography and early Namibian history Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Brigitte Lau Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Cape Town Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1979 Language A language of the resource English BergDamara Brigitte Lau Damara Francis Galton Herero Missionaries Namibia Precolonial Traders Travelers https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/e82e0611fae81abd0fed080387cebb87.pdf 3f379a6c9f5b8d446deb022a36e34985 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dissertations on Namibia Description An account of the resource This collection holds full length dissertations written on and/or from Namibia. Unless the dissertations are particularly dated, or the author has passed, I have obtained permission before uploading the files. There are both M.A. and PhD Dissertations uploaded. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "A Nation On the Move”: A Discourse Analysis of Namibian Policies for Development Description An account of the resource M.A. Thesis - "This thesis is approaching the concept of development in Namibian plans for development, its Vision 2030 and Third National Development Plan. The aim is to analyse discourses of development in the Namibian political context of planning for development. I have done this through the theoretical and methodological framework of Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis, CDA. I have identified four contrasting and complementing discourses in the way that the documents talk about development. Two of them, discourse of tradition and discourse of modernity, are connected to meanings of development. The two others, a social equity and justice discourse and a neo-liberal market discourse, are connected to structures of development, which shape how the documents vision development to happen. I have seen that there is a struggle between the discourses in the way they are described as both complementing and conflicting." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Elise Jansson Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Linköpings Universitet Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2010 Language A language of the resource English Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:359287/FULLTEXT01.pdf Discourse Analysis Elise Jansson Globalization Governmentality Linköpings universitet Magnus Berg Neoliberalism Sweden Vision 2030 https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/e5337b3e778f752234396aab0ec5599f.pdf 326e7c87c3cbd93fdc1edf3f038bb722 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dissertations on Namibia Description An account of the resource This collection holds full length dissertations written on and/or from Namibia. Unless the dissertations are particularly dated, or the author has passed, I have obtained permission before uploading the files. There are both M.A. and PhD Dissertations uploaded. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource How Kings are Made, How Kingship Changes: A Study of Ritual and Ritual Change in Pre-Colonial Owamboland, Namibia Description An account of the resource Published PhD Dissertation - This study discusses the legitimacy basis of political power and its changes in historical African societies. It starts from Luc de Heusch's tenet that political power required a legitimacy basis of a spiritual kind, often formulated as sacred kingship. In ancient and pre-literate societies such kings were held to be responsible for the fertility of man, land and cattle. The king was a paradoxical figure, symbolising society, but standing above it, while simultaneously being its victim by being ritually killed at old age. This was also how Owambo sacred kings were conceived. De Heusch suggested that African kings derived their power over fertility from having been made 'sacred monsters' in the rituals of installation. With the example of Owambo kingship, this study argues that the transgressive and monstrous aspect is only one of several dimension of a king's sacredness and brings out the nurturing and symbolically female aspect, identified but not analysed further by de Heusch. In the Owambo kingly installation a king-elect was made sacred, and part of it was that a link was ritually created to the early owners of the land. Their consent made it possible for the king to promote fertility and to appropriate power emblems needed for ruling. In the kingdom of Ondonga the early owners of the land were the spirits of early Bushman inhabitants and those of an early kingly clan, both neglected in public memory. The sacred dimension of kingship was further augmented when kings manipulated and appropriated rain rituals and initiation rituals, both of which were related to fertility. The study argues that even though there were aspects of the 'sacred monster' in Owambo kingship, its manifestation was, in part, a distortion of the reciprocal aspect of kingship that was expressed in the homage paid to various ancestor spirits. A change in succession practices from ritual regicide to political assassination took place concomitant with the introduction of firearms, and this broke the sacrificial aspect of sacred kingship paving the way for a more predatory form of kingship while the sacred status of the king was retained. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Märta Salokoski Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Helsinki Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006 Language A language of the resource English Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/val/sosio/vk/salokoski/abstract.html Evangelical Lutheran Church Finland Harri Siiskonen Helsinki Kings Kinship Märta Salokoski Ondonga Ovamboland https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/cf9d0344d78ced760915322bce35609b.pdf 568196e4b89a38ad578e53a6d2570ceb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dissertations on Namibia Description An account of the resource This collection holds full length dissertations written on and/or from Namibia. Unless the dissertations are particularly dated, or the author has passed, I have obtained permission before uploading the files. There are both M.A. and PhD Dissertations uploaded. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Landwirtschaft und ihre Nebenbetriebe in Südwestafrika Description An account of the resource Doctoral Dissertation on agrarian structure and agriculture policies during the German colonial period. Written in 1913 at the University of Heidelberg Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Emmerich Schubert Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Universität zu Heidelberg Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1913 Language A language of the resource German Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Namibia Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Agriculture Emmerich Schubert Germany Heidelberg Labour Land https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/22e4942fc2f1117f7cc9e8fe3a6af17e.pdf 650bf57c7e1035fb7712cd4942f40287 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dissertations on Namibia Description An account of the resource This collection holds full length dissertations written on and/or from Namibia. Unless the dissertations are particularly dated, or the author has passed, I have obtained permission before uploading the files. There are both M.A. and PhD Dissertations uploaded. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource What Makes Borders Real : In the Namibia-Zambia and Uganda-South Sudan Borderlands Description An account of the resource PhD Dissertation - "Some argue that the territorial boundaries of African countries, having largely survived the transition to independence, are now like a poorly tailored suit: It does not fit in many places but African leaders have by and large accepted that they and their societies must somehow try to wear it. But has history stood still since independence? What is the everyday reality of those who live with these inherited colonial boundaries today? This dissertation investigates how competing claims of territory, authority and citizenship are negotiated between state representatives and residents in the Namibia-Zambia and Uganda-South Sudan borderlands. It asks: What kinds of governance regimes result from these negotiations? From considering these questions emerges the argument that borders do not only exist as an abstract construct, separate from or above the people and territories they are supposed to separate. Borderland actors in the study regions instead actively engage, challenge and thereby reshape the state, over time and repeatedly. They contribute to fine-tuning the state in ways that do not necessarily undermine or hollow it out. However, there are clear differences in how this happens between the more peaceful setting of the Namibia-Zambia borderland, with its annual rhythm of life patterned according to the seasonal rise and fall of the Zambezi river, and the Uganda-South Sudan borderland, where the memory of recent and fear of future large-scale organised violence strongly affect daily life. This dissertation consists of two articles published in peer-reviewed journals and two chapters published in peer-reviewed edited volumes in 2007-2013, and a synopsis which discusses these works comparatively and introduces their wider conceptual framework. Toisinaan kuulee väitettävän, että Afrikan valtioiden alueelliset rajat, jotka ovat lähes samat kuin ennen itsenäistymistä, ovat nykyään kuin kuin huonosti räätälöity puku: se ei istu kehuttavasti, mutta Afrikan poliittiset johtajat ovat kuitenkin päättäneet käyttää sitä. Mutta onko historia jämähtänyt paikoilleen sitten itsenäistymisen? Millaista on niiden ihmisten arki, jotka elävät nykyään siirtomaavalta-ajan peruja olevilla raja-alueilla? Tässä väitöskirjassa tarkastellaan, miten valtion hallinnon edustajat ja paikalliset asukkaat sovittelevat alueeseen, hallintoon ja kansalaisuuteen liittyviä näkemyksiään ja käytäntöjään Namibian ja Sambian sekä Ugandan ja Etelä-Sudanin välisillä raja-alueilla. Keskeisenä kysymyksenä on, millaisia hallintotapoja tästä syntyy. Näiden kysymysten tarkastelun perusteella voidaan väittää, etteivät rajat ole pelkkiä abstrakteja käsitteitä erillään tai yläpuolella niistä ihmisistä ja alueista, jotka niiden pitäisi erottaa. Tarkastelluilla raja-alueilla asukkaat ovat aktiivisia ja haastavat käytännöillään hallintojärjestelmän ja muovaavat omalta osaltaan valtiota. He osallistuvat virallisten hallintotapojen hienosäätöön tavoilla, jotka eivät välttämättä heikennä tai rappeuta sitä. Käytännöissä on kuitenkin selkeitä eroja: Namibian ja Sambian välisellä, melko rauhallisella raja-alueella, vuotuista elämänrytmiä hallitsee Sambesi-joen nousu ja lasku, kun taas Ugandan ja Etelä-Sudanin välisellä raja-alueella väkivaltainen lähimenneisyys ja pelko sen toistumisesta vaikuttaa voimakkaasti ihmisten arkeen. Tämä väitöskirja muodostuu kahdesta artikkelista, jotka ovat ilmestyneet vertaisarvioidussa aikakauskirjassa sekä kahdesta luvusta, jotka on julkaistu vertaisarvioiduissa teoksissa vuosina 2007-2013. Mukana on tiivistelmä, jossa näitä tekstejä käsitellään suhteessa toisiinsa ja esitellään laajempi käsitteellinen viitekehys." 978-952-10-9155-1 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wolfgang Zeller Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Helsinki Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015 Language A language of the resource English Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/153542 Caprivi Finland Germany Helsinki Katima Mulilo Sudan Wolfgang Zeller Zambia https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/31a6eeb40951e0ac5737ab642efca682.pdf 12b2f584f541e597c252edd1eab6b543 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dissertations on Namibia Description An account of the resource This collection holds full length dissertations written on and/or from Namibia. Unless the dissertations are particularly dated, or the author has passed, I have obtained permission before uploading the files. There are both M.A. and PhD Dissertations uploaded. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reintegration as Recognition: Ex-combatant and veteran politics in Namibia Description An account of the resource PhD Dissertation - "This is a study of Namibian ex-combatant and veteran policies after the country s transition to independence in 1990. Instead of assessing the successfulness of reintegration against its stated objectives or the perspective of post-conflict policy discourses, it examines the politics of reintegration as a process of multiform negotiation over recognition and entitlements for the ex-combatants, and political authority and legitimacy for party and government leaders. The study interrogates the ways in which this process reflects and contributes to postcolonial Namibian politics, state formation and citizenship. It is based on nine months of fieldwork in 2002, 2003 and 2009 and its main sources include ethnographic observation, life historical interviews with ex-combatants, thematic interviews with politicians and civil servants, grey literature as well as Namibian newspapers and internet sources. The study finds that instead of being a neutral exercise in post-conflict management and peacebuilding, Namibian reintegration has been motivated by more exclusive ideas of the nation and by the special bond between the ruling party and the former liberation movement Swapo and its formerly exiled cadres. This close tie and the characterization of Swapo combatants as heroes who hold a special place in the Namibian narrative of national liberation have repeatedly enabled Swapo ex-combatants to demand recognition, employment, monetary compensation and other benefits. Coupled with this, the relative strength of the Namibian state and economy has made it possible to plan and implement ex-combatant reintegration as a predominantly domestic process without the close involvement of international agencies. Hence, it has been possible to diverge from mainstream disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programmes and attempt to solve the ex-combatant question by broad-based public employment. After most ex-combatants were employed in the late 1990s and early 2000s, however, their demands and policy responses shifted towards monetary compensation. The domestic character of Namibian reintegration also made it possible to implement ex-combatant and veteran policies selectively so that former Swapo exiles have gradually been transformed into an officially recognized group of veterans while their former enemies, Namibian fighters of South African surrogate forces, have been sidelined. This process of domestically driven, selective reintegration has multiple broad implications. First, as Namibia has recently emerged from a long period of violent conflict, security concerns and the imperative to control organized violence are clearly visible. The targeting of Swapo ex-combatants in reintegration and their recruitment to the public service, particularly the uniformed services, have relinked their fates with that of the Swapo government, pacifying them and making them useful in consolidating the hold of the regime over the security agencies and the marginal and frontier areas and populations. Indeed, a key reason why the demand politics of the ex-combatants have been so successful is that their interests have been largely congruent with the perceived interests of the political elite. Second, the tendency of Namibian reintegration to entrench involvement in liberationist history as a criterion of full membership in the political community, creating an ever-widening circle of veterans versus others, provides and interesting comparison with struggles over recognition and citizenship elsewhere in Africa which are often framed in terms of language, religion, ethnicity, race or historical origins. The movements thus generated may adopt anti-national stances but they are as likely to seek to reformulate and colonize nationalism itself. Namibian ex-combatant reintegration, on the other hand, exemplifies a situation where nationalism as a supposedly unifying force still has salience but has been appropriated by a particular narrative of belonging. Thus, instead of representing a break from inclusive citizenship towards increasingly codified particular identities that compete within the national space, the Namibian case demonstrates the coexistence of a legal concept of universal national citizenship with a pervasive ideology of national belonging. The latter, however, inherently contradicts the supposed universalism of legal citizenship. The long-term effects of Namibian veteran politics remain to be seen. On the one hand, the aim to reconcile and build a nation, evident in some of the decisions and statements associated with reintegration as well as in Namibian political discourse more generally, is countered by the persistence of pre-independence political logics and divisions, and a concentration of power according to liberationist fault lines. It is not surprising that a militant version of nationalism seems appealing to certain political elites in their bid to justify the current regime and entrench their own positions in it. On the other hand, in the long run the politics of ex-combatants and veterans may also offer a template for more broad-based demands that question entrenched patterns of economic and political privilege, and provoke responses that may lead towards more inclusive citizenship and more broadly legitimate authority. Tässä väitöskirjassa on tutkittu entisiä taistelijoita ja sotaveteraaneja koskevaa politiikkaa Namibiassa, eteläisessä Afrikassa. Entisten taistelijoiden reintegrointi eli sopeuttaminen yhteiskuntaan on nykyään oleellinen osa konfliktien jälkeisten yhteiskuntien jälleenrakennusohjelmia. Työssä ei kuitenkaan tarkastella namibialaista entisiä taistelijoita ja veteraaneja koskevaa politiikkaa ohjelmallisten onnistumisten tai epäonnistumisten näkökulmasta vaan osana laajempia valtionmuodostukseen ja kansalaisuuteen vaikuttavia poliittisia kehityskulkuja. Namibialainen veteraanipolitiikka näyttäytyy monimuotoisena ja pitkäaikaisena neuvotteluna toisaalta entisten taistelijoiden ja veteraanien ja toisaalta hallinnon ja valtapuolueen edustajien välillä, jossa yhteiskuntarauhaa ja poliittisen vallan oikeutusta on ostettu veteraanien tunnustamisella ja heille tarjotuilla eduilla. Työ perustuu yhteensä yhdeksän kuukauden kenttätyöhön Namibiassa vuosina 2002, 2003 ja 2009. Sen pääasiallisina lähteinä on käytetty etnografisia havaintoja, elämäntarinahaastatteluita, teemahaastatteluita, virallisia dokumentteja ja namibialaista mediaa. Työssä päädytään siihen, että entisiä taistelijoita koskeva yhteiskuntapolitiikka Namibiassa ei edusta neutraalia hallinnointia ja rauhanrakennusta, vaan juontuu maan lähihistoriasta kumpuavasta poissulkevasta kansallisuusaatteen tulkinnasta ja vapautusliikkeestä valtapuolueeksi muuntuneen Swapon ja sen maanpaossa eläneiden jäsenten välisestä pitkäaikaisesta erityissuhteesta. Tämä suhde ja Swapon veteraanien asema sankareina puolueen vaalimassa kansallisen vapautuksen tarinassa on yhä uudelleen suonut tälle veteraaniryhmälle mahdollisuuden vaatia tunnustusta, työtä, rahakorvauksia ja muita etuja. Koska Namibian valtion ja talouden suhteellinen vahvuus on tarjonnut maan hallinnolle vapauden suunnitella ja toteuttaa entisiä taistelijoita ja veteraaneja koskevaa politiikkaa verrattain itsenäisesti ja ilman mittavaa ulkopuolista puuttumista, pystyttiin Namibiassa poikkeamaan entisten taistelijoiden sopeuttamisen kansainvälisestä valtavirrasta tarjoamalla heille julkisen sektorin työpaikkoja. Laajamittainen työllistäminen ei kuitenkaan johtanut veteraanien vaatimusten loppumiseen vaan siirsi niiden painopisteen työstä rahakorvauksiin. Namibialaisen veteraanipolitiikan kotoperäisyys on tehnyt mahdolliseksi myös sen valikoivan toteuttamisen; Swapon veteraaneista on vähitellen tullut vakiintunut, merkittävä intressiryhmä kun puolestaan heidän sodanaikaiset vihollisensa eli Etelä-Afrikan miehityshallinnon riveissä taistelleet namibialaiset ovat jääneet enimmäkseen syrjään. Yllämainituilla namibialaisen veteraanipolitiikan toteutustavoilla on merkittäviä seurauksia. Ensinnäkin, Namibian itsenäistyminen pitkän väkivaltaisen konfliktin jälkeen ja siihen liittynyt poliittisen vallan vaihtuminen teki turvallisuudesta ja järjestyksestä keskeisiä kysymyksiä. Kohdistamalla veteraanipolitiikkansa ensisijaisesti omiin maanpaossa eläneisiin jäseniinsä ja työllistämällä heidät julkiselle sektorille, suureksi osaksi poliisiin ja asevoimiin, Swapon hallinto on sitouttanut heitä itseensä. Työllistäminen on myös kanavoinut heidän kykyään järjestäytyneen väkivallan käyttöön sellaisin tavoin, jotka ovat palvelleet valtion ja valtapuolueen vallan vakiinnuttamista alueilla, joilla se on aikaisemmin ollut heikko. Yksi olennainen syy sille, miksi Swapon veteraanit ovat toistuvasti saaneet vaatimuksensa hyväksytyiksi onkin ollut se, että heidän intressinsä ovat usein langenneet yksiin nykyisen poliittisen eliitin intressien kanssa. Toiseksi, namibialaisen veteraanipolitiikan taipumus nostaa osallisuus vapaustaistelun historiaan poliittisen yhteisön täyden tai etuoikeutetun jäsenyyden ehdoksi ja siihen liittyvä veteraaniuden vähittäinen laajeneminen koskemaan yhä useampia ryhmiä tarjoaa mielenkiintoisen vertailukohdan kansalaisuutta koskeviin kamppailuihin muualla Afrikassa. Näiden kamppailujen ilmiasu perustuu usein kielellisiin, uskonnollisiin tai etnisiin erotteluihin tai paikalliseen alkuperään. Niissä saatetaan omaksua sellaisia erityisiä identiteettejä, jotka vastustavat jotain olemassa olevaa kansakunnan mallia, mutta ne saattavat myös pyrkiä määrittelemään kansallisuuden ja kansalaisuuden kriteerit uudelleen. Namibialainen veteraanipolitiikka puolestaan ilmentää tilannetta, jossa ajatuksella yhtenäisestä kansakunnasta on edelleen huomattava poliittinen merkitys, mutta se kansallisen vapautuksen kertomus, jolla tuo kansakunta on historiallisesti kuviteltu tarjoaa tietyille ryhmille toisia paremmat mahdollisuudet käytännössä sitoutua ja kuulua siihen. Toisin sanoen tämä namibialainen tapaus ei edusta yleisen ja yhtäläisen kansalaisuuden rapautumista yhä ahtaammin määriteltyjen erityisten ryhmäidentiteettien kilpakentäksi vaan pikemminkin tilannetta, jossa voimakas kansakuntaan kuulumisen kriteeristö määrittää periaatteessa tasavertaisen, perustuslakiin kirjatun namibialaisuuden käytännön sisältöä ja toteutumista. Namibialaisen veteraanipolitiikan pitkän ajan seuraukset jäävät nähtäviksi. Toisaalta sota-ajalta periytyvät poliittiset ajattelutavat ja ryhmäjaot sekä vallan kasautuminen niiden mukaan rajoittavat mahdollisuuksia rakentaa kansallista sovintoa ja yhtenäistä kansakuntaa. Toisaalta veteraanien painostuspolitiikan onnistuminen saattaa tarjota esikuvan muiden ryhmien vastaaville vaatimuksille ja nykyisten taloudellisten ja poliittisten etuoikeuksien kyseenalaistamiselle, mikä puolestaan voi johtaa esimerkiksi yhteiskuntapoliittisten mekanismien laajempaan kattavuuteen ja siten sellaiseen poliittiseen valtaan, jolla on nykyistä laajempi oikeutus." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lalli Metsola Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Helsinki Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015 Language A language of the resource English Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/154055 Finland Helsinki Koevoet Lalli Metsola PLAN Reconciliation SADF SWAPO SWATF https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/fb507fcd8bc0df0bfa3ef8c3eb837ecc.pdf d75e6c321b7fa88d50b4755672a8a916 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dissertations on Namibia Description An account of the resource This collection holds full length dissertations written on and/or from Namibia. Unless the dissertations are particularly dated, or the author has passed, I have obtained permission before uploading the files. There are both M.A. and PhD Dissertations uploaded. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Public Health, Science and the Economy : The onto-politics of traditional medicine in Namibia Description An account of the resource PhD Dissertation - "This is an ethnographic and discourse analytical study into the onto-politics of traditional medicine in Namibia. The discourses and practices that shape, make and imagine traditional medicine at the international, national and individual level are examined. Traditional medicine in this study is not something that can be discovered, institutionalised, controlled and improved to be part of the modern Namibian state. Instead, traditional medicine is created through the multiple ways, in which Namibians and others already engage, to define what it is and what role it can officially play. It is not a system that consists of traditional healers, their practices and the natural resources they utilise, but it entails practices and discourses of the state, researchers, aid and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and the Namibian society at large. Traditional medicine is a product of international, national, local and individual utterances and practices, and it feeds into the imaginary space of a developed and modern Namibia. Methodologically, this thesis departs from conventional research into traditional medicine in Africa, which primarily focuses on in-depth studies of individual healers practices. These are framed either as cultural-specific therapeutic methods, as individual herbal medical exercises based on plants containing active compounds for potential new drugs, or as occult practices within the realm of witchcraft. This study deflects from the conceptualisation of traditional medicine as a traditional healing practice that is local or individual, and distinctly African. Instead, it seeks to ontologically re-define and re-politicise traditional medicine and to bring it into the wider global formations of subjects and objects in the field of health, sciences, and politics. This is achieved by decentring and deconstructing traditional medicine as a folk category that receives meaning either as a national cultural heritage, an alternative medical system, as a traditional knowledge system, or as an anti-witchcraft practice. The respective discourses and practices on international, national and individual level are analysed through applying the Logics and Critical Explanation (LCE) approach by Jason Glynos and David Howarth, which draws from Foucauldian genealogy, Derridan deconstruction and Lacanian psychoanalysis. To this was added the insights by Lene Hansen s discourse analysis, Homi Bhabha s concept of mimicry, and Gayatri Spivak s subaltern. The data of this study is based on five months of ethnographic fieldwork in Namibia, mostly Windhoek, and poststructural discourse analyses of policy documents. The study s results indicate that traditional medicine in Namibia is discursively split between culture and knowledge. What is envisioned, negotiated and created is a traditional medicine that is, on the one hand, a cultural artefact, a traditional heritage that is part of a national and African identity. It is something that can be staged, exhibited and celebrated. On the other hand, it is a knowledge resource that, once appropriated and tested, is subsumed under biomedical knowledge and practice or under the economic system with the aim to improve and develop Namibia. Traditional medicinal knowledge, therefore, transforms into scientific knowledge or a potential commodity governed by the state. Knowledge that is considered profitable and true is transferred to other systems of knowledge and practices, relinquishing traditional medicine to performances of culture and traditions with traditional healers as main actors. At the national and international level, traditional healers are spoken for and about. They remain in a subaltern position in Namibia. Despite using subjectivities and objectivities created by these discourses and practices for their own advantages, traditional healers do not have the power to change and forge traditional medicine in Namibia according to their imaginations and preferences. Instead, they inhabit and claim for themselves the discursive field that is outside of official and state discourse and practices: witchcraft. On the basis of its ethnographic material this study proposes to read witchcraft discourse as a re-/deflection of the fantasies of development that is, of a healthy Namibian population, economic development and independence, and the development of a modern democratic nation state. Traditional medicine articulated as an anti-witchcraft practice, therefore, addresses the negative side-effects and by-products of social and economic development and its failures. By decentring and deconstructing traditional medicine at international and national level, this study reveals the phantasmagorical and arbitrary character of the various constructions. The occult aspects, which are generally considered beyond reason and an uneasy fit, become just one of the imaginative and performative aspects of traditional medicine . Traditional medicine and its occult aspects, therefore, are not relics from the past. On the contrary, traditional medicine as a folk category is already an integral aspect of contemporary international and national imaginations in the context of health and development." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Maylin Meincke Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Helsinki Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016 Language A language of the resource English Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/158962 Finland Foucault Health Helsinki Maylin Meincke Traditional Medicine Witchcraft https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/c18d73f281a6f4b0148cbf5d533652f0.pdf 86ecf221ac743ab9a38bb205b4a7f4f3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dissertations on Namibia Description An account of the resource This collection holds full length dissertations written on and/or from Namibia. Unless the dissertations are particularly dated, or the author has passed, I have obtained permission before uploading the files. There are both M.A. and PhD Dissertations uploaded. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Tourism-Development Nexus in Namibia : A Study on National Tourism Policy and Local Tourism Enterprises' Policy Knowledge Description An account of the resource PhD Dissertation - "The tourism development nexus in southern Africa involves highly topical issues related to tourism planning, power relations, community participation, and natural resources. Namibia offers a particularly interesting context for the study of these issues due to its colonial legacy, vast tourism potential, recently adopted tourism policy and community-based approaches to tourism and natural resource management. This study is an interdisciplinary endeavour to analyse the role of tourism in Namibia s post-apartheid transformation process by focusing on Namibian tourism policy and local tourism enterprises' policy knowledge. Major attention is paid to how the tourism policy's national development objectives are understood and conceptualised by the representatives of different tourism enterprises and the ways in which they relate to the practical needs of the enterprises. Through such local policy knowledge the study explores various opportunities, challenges and constraints related to the promotion of tourism as a development strategy. The study utilises a political economy approach to tourism and development through three current and interrelated discourses which are relevant in the Namibian context. These are tourism, power and inequality, tourism and sustainable development, and tourism and poverty reduction. The qualitative research material was gathered in Namibia in 2006-2007 and 2008. This material consists of 34 semi-structured interviews in 16 tourism enterprises, including private trophy hunting farms and private lodges, small tour operators and community-based tourism enterprises. In addition, the research material consists of observations in the enterprises, and 37 informal and 23 expert interviews. The findings indicate that in the light of local tourism enterprises the tourism policy objectives appear more complex and ambiguous. Furthermore, they involve multiple meanings and interpretations which reflect the socio-economic stratification of the informants and Namibian society, together with the professional stratification of the tourism enterprises and restrictions on the capacity of tourism to address the development objectives. In the light of such findings it is obvious that aspects of power and inequality affect the tourism development nexus in Namibia. The study concludes that, as in the case of other southern African countries, in order to promote sustainable development and reduce poverty, Namibia should not only target tourism growth but pay attention to who benefits from that growth and how. From a political economy point of view, it is important that prevailing structural challenges are addressed equally in the planning of tourism, development and natural resource management. Such approach would help the Namibian majority to enjoy the benefits of increasing tourism in the country. Matkailun ja kehityksen välinen suhde eteläisessä Afrikassa heijastaa ajankohtaisia kysymyksiä matkailun suunnittelusta, valtasuhteista, paikallisten yhteisöjen osallistumisesta ja luonnonvaroista. Namibia sopii oivallisesti näiden kysymysten tarkasteluun maan poliittisen historian, matkailupotentiaalin, tuoreen matkailupolitiikan ja yhteisöpohjaisten lähestymistapojensa johdosta. Tämä tutkimus tarkastelee matkailun roolia Namibian itsenäisyyden jälkeisessä kehityksessä kansallisen matkailupolitiikan ja paikallisten matkailutoimijoiden politiikkatietämyksen valossa. Tutkimus selvittää miten eri matkailuyritysten edustajat ymmärtävät ja käsitteellistävät matkailupolitiikan sisältämiä kansallisia kehitystavoitteita. Paikallisen politiikkatietämyksen kautta tutkimus tarkastelee matkailuun kehitysstrategiana liittyviä mahdollisuuksia, haasteita ja rajoituksia. Tutkimus lähestyy matkailun ja kehityksen välistä suhdetta poliittisen taloustieteen näkökulmasta kolmen ajankohtaisen ja toisiinsa kytkeytyvän diskurssin kautta, jotka soveltuvat erityisesti Namibian kontekstiin. Ne ovat matkailu, valta ja eriarvoisuus, matkailu ja kestävä kehitys sekä matkailu ja köyhyyden vähentäminen. Laadullinen tutkimusaineisto on kerätty Namibiassa 2006-2007 ja 2008. Se koostuu 34 teemahaastattelusta 16 matkailuyrityksessä, joihin lukeutuvat yksityiset metsästystilat ja majatalot, pienyrittäjä-matkanjärjestäjät sekä yhteisöpohjaiset matkailuyritykset. Lisäksi aineisto koostuu matkailuyritysten havainnoinnista ja 37 epävirallisesta sekä 23 asiantuntijahaastattelusta. Tutkimus osoittaa, että paikallisten matkailuyritysten valossa matkailupolitiikan kehitystavoitteet ovat monimutkaisempia ja tulkinnanvaraisempia. Niihin liittyy erilaisia merkityksiä ja tulkintoja, jotka heijastavat haastateltujen matkailuyrittäjien ja Namibian yhteiskunnan sosio-taloudellista kerrostuneisuutta sekä haastateltavien ammatillista kerrostuneisuutta ja matkailun rajoittuneisuutta kansallisten kehitystavoitteiden edistämisessä. Näiden tulosten valossa valtaan ja eriarvoisuuteen liittyvät kysymykset vaikuttavat keskeisesti matkailun ja kehityksen väliseen suhteeseen Namibiassa. Tutkimuksen johtopäätöksenä on, että kestävän kehityksen ja köyhyyden vähentämisen edistämiseksi Namibian ei tulisi ainoastaan keskittyä kasvattamaan matkailua ja sen talousvaikutuksia, vaan huomiota tulisi kiinnittää yhtälailla siihen, ketkä hyötyvät matkailun kasvusta ja millä tavoin. Poliittisen taloustieteen näkökulmasta on tärkeää, että vallitseviin rakenteellisiin ongelmiin puututaan sekä matkailun ja kehityksen suunnittelussa että luonnonvarojen hallinnoinnissa. Tällainen lähetysmistapa edesauttaisi Namibian enemmistön hyötymistä lisääntyvästä matkailusta." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Julia Jänis Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Helsinki Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2011 Language A language of the resource English Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/27778 Development Finland Helsinki Julia Jänis Political Economy Tourism https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/13449170e8046683a4c57e65bcd19322.pdf 6b08d7e850557ba36cac3d47c25a141c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dissertations on Namibia Description An account of the resource This collection holds full length dissertations written on and/or from Namibia. Unless the dissertations are particularly dated, or the author has passed, I have obtained permission before uploading the files. There are both M.A. and PhD Dissertations uploaded. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wells of Experience: A pastoral land-use history of Omaheke, Namibia Description An account of the resource PhD Dissertation - "The conventional view on the Kalahari in southern Africa expresses that the area is unsuitable for livestock herding. For this reason, it is argued that livestock herders avoided the Kalahari in the past and were only able to establish themselves in the later half of the twentieth century, when deep-reaching boreholes were introduced in the area. An effect of this concept was that the archaeological record of pastoralists in the Kalahari either was perceived as non-existent or received little attention from scientific enquiry. Based on an archaeological survey in the Kalahari of the northeastern part of Namibia, the purpose of this study is to construct an alternative approach to the archaeology of livestock herding. The aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the areas unrecorded land-use history. I depart from the notion that the main ecological constraint for dryland pastoralism is the availability of dry season water and fodder resources. For this reason, the fundamental basis for a pastoral land-use system is places that contain dry season resources. By reviewing recent ecological research, historical and anthropological accounts and previous archaeological research, I establish a link between livestock herders’ procurement of dry season key resources and the practice of digging wells. The link can be motivated from the pastoral ambition of accumulating livestock and high water requirements in the restrained dry season. On this basis, I suggest that artificial wells are useful indicators of pastoral land use in the Kalahari. The most crucial task for the study is to address the archaeological visibility of pastoral well sites. By a research approach integrating the theoretical understanding of pastoralism and a methodology including ecology, archaeology, history and the knowledge of the people who keep livestock in the region today, the archaeological survey revealed 40 well sites, including nearly 200 well structures that have all been used for watering livestock. However, it would be unfortunate if a study of pastoral wells would solely address the ecological foundation and the archaeological visibility of pastoralism. I suggest that the wells signify the labour of peoples with common or separate histories, with or without own herds, but probably talked about in relation to herds. I will also argue that the wells can be used for tracking and reconstructing a pastoral land-use system that predated the colonial era. Furthermore, the wells can be used to identify changes of the land-use that took place during the twentieth century, which involved that livestock herding was more or less abandoned in large parts of northwestern Kalahari. The study surmises that the critical historical perspective is valuable for development projects and conservationist interventions active in the region, especially in the light of the recent trends in the dryland ecology, which shows a larger appreciation for the indigenous understanding of the management of dryland ecosystems. With modifications, the developed approach can be applicable for land-use historical research elsewhere in southern Africa." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Karl-Johan Lindholm Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Uppsala Universitet Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006 Language A language of the resource English Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn%3Anbn%3Ase%3Auu%3Adiva-7084 Cattle Conservation Ecology Kalahari Karl-Johan Lindholm Omaheke Pastoralism Uppsala https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/6b951270765d934314839e2302d91a5a.pdf 6eefbd41d806558ec53002248ac23d66 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dissertations on Namibia Description An account of the resource This collection holds full length dissertations written on and/or from Namibia. Unless the dissertations are particularly dated, or the author has passed, I have obtained permission before uploading the files. There are both M.A. and PhD Dissertations uploaded. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mining and Sustainability? Systems and Stakeholder Analyses of Uranium Mining in Namibia Description An account of the resource M.A. Thesis - "Roughly 10% of the Namibian GDP and over 40% of total exports are dependent on the mining sector. Namibia is one of the five leading uranium producing countries worldwide withperspectives to triple the production in the following years. This study aims to identify the implications to sustainable development of the country carried by such a strategy to stimulate the economic growth.The complexity of the issue is addressed by an interdisciplinary set of methods leading to a better understanding of processes linking uranium mining in Namibia with the environment, society and the global economy. Regulatory, trade and production systems are outlined and assessed, after which a stakeholder analysis is conducted in order to determine who are the most influential actors as well as parties affected by the uranium production in Namibia. The results reveal a great dependence of the Namibian uranium mining sector on external factors, with the government perceived as the most affected stakeholder." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mateusz Pietrzela Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Uppsala Universitet Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2013 Language A language of the resource English Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn%3Anbn%3Ase%3Auu%3Adiva-204172 Mateusz Pietrzela Mining Sustainable Development Sweden Uppsala Uranium https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/d66ba38ab83b5ca670275a300255f9fd.pdf e7e683f8873e6450432f33e25160d147 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dissertations on Namibia Description An account of the resource This collection holds full length dissertations written on and/or from Namibia. Unless the dissertations are particularly dated, or the author has passed, I have obtained permission before uploading the files. There are both M.A. and PhD Dissertations uploaded. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Recordkeeping and Missing “Native Estate” Records in Namibia: An Investigation of Colonial Gaps in a Post-colonial National Archive Description An account of the resource PhD Dissertation - "This dissertation explores the historical origin of practical challenges experienced in user services of the post-colonial National Archives of Namibia (NAN). It was motivated by the observation that many requests by Black Namibians for civic records such as divorce orders, adoption records, and estate records from the period of colonial and apartheid rule in Namibia cannot be served by the NAN despite intensive time-consuming searches, while similar requests by White Namibians can be served without problems within minutes. While it could be assumed that this disparity originates from the racial discrimination under colonial apartheid rule, a literature study revealed that the issue why and how the colonial situation affected the content and accessibility of the archives has not been systematically researched. This research gap inspired an in-depth exploration of the colonial records at the National Archives of the decolonized Namibia, using deceased estate records of Black Namibians (or “Native estates” as they had been called) as a case study. The study investigates the colonial legal framework for the creation and management of the estate records, the actual Native estate files in custody of the NAN, as well as the finding aids, archives databases and the own administrative files of the NAN. It explores the relationship between the historical legal environment, the creation, management, disposal, listing, appraisal, destruction, archiving, indexing and metadata enhancement of the Native estates records over the colonial period, between 1884 to 1990, and their alleged absence from the NAN. The author discovered a large but not systematic corpus of over 11,000 “Native estate” case files which had been assumed destroyed or lost, but also established substantial gaps in the holdings of such records. Only a few of those gaps could be explained by documented destructions, but the study traces the causes for the loss and inaccessibility of substantial records to the combined effect of racially discriminatory legislation, a confusing and haphazard legislative and regulatory framework for Native estates, and an all-pervasive apartheid ideology that also affected the appraisal and the creation of discovery tools at the Archives. The dissertation concludes with a programme to “decolonize the archives”, recommending to unlock the full potential of the previously hidden “Native” records, not only by recording and indexing them in discovery tools but also by enhancing search options to alleviate the search problems caused by unstandardized name spellings and non-Western naming and kinship systems. It is anticipated that this study will raise awareness about similar gaps, stir debate and lead to further research about archival deficiencies with other types of person-related records, in Namibia as well as in other decolonised nations, in order to establish how far their national archival records are responsive to the needs of all citizens." 978-951-44-9883-1 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ellen Ndeshi Namhila Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Tampere Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource © 2015 Tampere University Press and the author Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015 Language A language of the resource English Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://tampub.uta.fi/handle/10024/97932 Archives Ellen Ndeshi Namhila Finland Library. Colonialism Native Estates Racism South Africa Tampere https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/45d084102b9b69a3947d42722d6cac85.pdf fe40aacae383e619cca10d97fdeaf403 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dissertations on Namibia Description An account of the resource This collection holds full length dissertations written on and/or from Namibia. Unless the dissertations are particularly dated, or the author has passed, I have obtained permission before uploading the files. There are both M.A. and PhD Dissertations uploaded. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The need and use of community library services in Namibia Description An account of the resource M.A. Thesis - "The overall aim of this study is to investigate the use of community libraries in Namibia. The study aims at finding solid data on the actual use of community libraries, who needs them and what do they need them for. Main questions addressed in the study are as follows: (i) Who are the users of Namibian community libraries? (ii) For which purposes do people use the services provided by community libraries? (iii) In which ways do the users´ demographic characteristics relate to the purposes of use? (iv) Which are the main usage patterns of the community libraries? (v) What are the needs for the development of the services of community libraries based on the suggestions and problems experienced by library users? The study was carried out as a survey in three community libraries in North-Central Namibia. The libraries were chosen to represent community libraries in the previously disadvantages regions to represent the majority of Namibian population and provide information on emerging user needs and usage patterns. The empirical data on demographic characteristics of all users and services used in those libraries was gathered during six days in October-November 2003. The data was analysed using frequencies of variables and a their cross tabulation. The working hypothesis of the study was that Namibian community libraries have changed from the pre-independence Anglo-American model of recreational and cultural institution and lending library mainly used for leisure reading and borrowing out fiction and hobby type of books, to a primarily educational institution. The hypothesis was clearly supported by the data on the users and usage patterns from the case libraries. Almost 70% of the users in the three case libraries were learners and students. Community library was mainly used as a learning place, to study and do school work in the library. The other main functions used by varied groups of the community were photocopy service and public ICT access. Although lending continued to be a way of using the library it was not the major usage pattern. 64% of users did not borrow books and only 1.5% of clients used the library only for borrowing. The main usage pattern of the community library as a study place and the most popular resources: textbooks, photocopy service and public ICT access, were interpreted to respond to important educational and socio-economic needs of Namibian communities. " Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ritva Niskala Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Tampere Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008 Language A language of the resource English Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://tampub.uta.fi/handle/10024/79357 Finland Information Science Libraries Ritva Niskala Tampere https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/7d37548b6f96b76cb572c1f83c860102.pdf 38d24fbf075791d57e1e4a5a75f2af17 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dissertations on Namibia Description An account of the resource This collection holds full length dissertations written on and/or from Namibia. Unless the dissertations are particularly dated, or the author has passed, I have obtained permission before uploading the files. There are both M.A. and PhD Dissertations uploaded. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Canons of Classical Rhetoric in Sam Nujoma's State of the Nation Addresses (1990-2004) Description An account of the resource M.A. Dissertation - "The mini-dissertation examines and highlights in broad detail how Mr. Sam Nujoma used the canons of classical rhetoric in his State of the Nation Addresses during his Presidential reign in Namibia from 1990 to 2004. Mr. Nujoma’s Addresses are critiqued against the five canons of classical rhetoric: invention, arrangement, style, delivery and memory. Specifically, the author focuses on the following five research questions: 1. What evidence of particular appeals or approaches are used by Mr. Nujoma? 2. How effective is the arrangement of messages or arguments in the Introduction, Purpose statement, Body and Conclusion of the addresses? 3. Is the language style clear, vivid and persuasive in the sense of it being appropriate to Mr. Nujoma, the audience and the occasion? 4. Are there vocal and other nonverbal aspects used to complement verbal messages during the delivery of the addresses? 5. Is Mr. Nujoma’s retention and grasp of the contents of the addresses evident? In an attempt to answer the research questions above, twenty eight hours of video recordings shown live on the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation and two hundred twenty pages of the Hansard of the fifteen State of the Nation Addresses delivered between 1990 and 2004 were examined. The research shows that there is a difference between Mr. Nujoma’s written and delivered addresses in articulation. While the speeches were properly written, Nujoma’s delivery at times failed them. Notwithstanding the fact that English is not Nujoma’s home language, the grammatical conventions in his addresses were largely correct. However, the video recordings of the speeches sometimes contradicted Nujoma on the pronunciation of words. Mr. Nujoma’s inability to pronounce certain words is one of the reasons for the deficiency in delivery. Policies and actions are more important, but when one is the President, the public and history look to him to shape the way important things are talked about. Mr. Nujoma used various verbal tactics to complement pathos in his State of the Nation Addresses. He appealed to emotions of fear. Another technique evident in Nujoma’s State of the Nation Addresses was the use of logos. In this technique, the danger lies in the fact that decisions based on rational appeals are not necessarily based on truth or logic, but on emotions favouring those who put forth the more powerful arguments." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Audrin Inambao Mathe Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of the Free State Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006 Language A language of the resource English Audrin Inambao Mathe Language NBC Rhetoric Sam Nujoma Speech SWAPO https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/c74a5ffbe133bc94afc3ee4ce540727c.pdf 9eb3325bd3b83262757e969a5ef023ca Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dissertations on Namibia Description An account of the resource This collection holds full length dissertations written on and/or from Namibia. Unless the dissertations are particularly dated, or the author has passed, I have obtained permission before uploading the files. There are both M.A. and PhD Dissertations uploaded. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cattle for Beads: The Archaeology of Historical Contact and Trade on the Namib Coast Description An account of the resource Published PhD Dissertation - "Walvis Bay, the largest and safest harbour on the Namib coast, was known to maritime explorers as early as the fifteenth century European voyages of discovery. This study centres on 58 archaeological sites in the IKhuiscb Delta around Walvis Bay and Sandwich Harbour. The variety and distribution of trade goods among the sites reveal the indigenous response to the outside world, previously known only from written records documenting the attitudes and opinions of the foreigners. Walvis Bay was the port of access; the IKhuiseb River led to the interior. Because little modern development took place in the delta or the environs of the town before the late 1980s, the area provided an excellent opportunity for archaeological investigation of contact between indigenous society and the seafaring nations of western Europe. The voyages of discovery in the fifteenth century opened a maritime route which drew the people of the African coast directly into a network of trade with Europe (Wallerstein 1989) (Fig. 1.1). With new markets for cheap raw materials and their mass-produced goods, European mercantile interests expanded to dominate the world economy in succeeding centuries. During this process, some African societies diversified their economies and increased production as a result of the expanded external trade (Spear 1978; Kjekshus 1996) but ultimately, indigenous societies suffered major disruption and collapse (Wolf 1982). The growth of European hegemony is extensively documented, while the changes to indigenous society are not well understood." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jill Kinahan Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Namibia Archaeological Trust & Department of Archaeology & Ancient History, Uppsala Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2000 Language A language of the resource English Archaeology Beads Cattle Ceramics Coast Contact Jill Kinahan Material Culture Sweden Trade Uppsala Walvis Bay https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/e34dfd06d7389012725e0c5f51dad15d.pdf 3694256d85b4b4b3a1e2068adaea82ff Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dissertations on Namibia Description An account of the resource This collection holds full length dissertations written on and/or from Namibia. Unless the dissertations are particularly dated, or the author has passed, I have obtained permission before uploading the files. There are both M.A. and PhD Dissertations uploaded. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Donor support of opposition parties in Namibia: How foreign support for parties effects democracy in a new democracy Description An account of the resource M.A. Thesis - This paper will examine the effects of donor support of opposition parties on Namibian democracy. But this central research question elicits other crucial questions: • How does the international community justify its support of opposition parties around the world? • What are the prevailing conditions of a political system which lead donors to support opposition parties? These questions are applicable to many variables, e.g., case studies, which can refer to states and political parties. Thus this paper will examine one particular case variable, Namibia, and the political parties operating there. Adding the variable Namibia to the discussion gives rise to further questions: • What is the state of opposition parties in Namibia? • What forms of support have Namibian parties received and from whom? • Crucially how have Namibian parties reacted to support? Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Karl Wagner Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available African Studies Centre, Leiden Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009 Language A language of the resource English Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://www.ascleiden.nl/Pdf/thesis-wagner.pdf Aid Donor Elections Karl Wagner Leiden Namibia Netherlands Opposition Political Parties RDP SWAPO https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/1ce3a127556a1847582310cd39fc858e.pdf 32f493b595e22ba0e78ba24b92fea2b8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dissertations on Namibia Description An account of the resource This collection holds full length dissertations written on and/or from Namibia. Unless the dissertations are particularly dated, or the author has passed, I have obtained permission before uploading the files. There are both M.A. and PhD Dissertations uploaded. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Treesleeper camp: impacts on community perception and on image creation of Bushmen: a study on community-based and cultural tourism in Tsintsabis, Namibia Description An account of the resource M.A. Thesis - The study analyses (re)negotiations of power positions and (re)constructions of images in a changing local setting where local people respond to and influence the social, economic, political and cultural context. The question of dynamics of change with an emphasis on contributions of local actors is important for Hai//om (and !Kung) Bushmen who, as well as other Bushmen, have long been seen as influenced by others and as being exposed to change. Smith and Brent claim that tourism as an influencing local and global factor offers chances to look at both the changes brought about by ‘outside contacts’ and ‘ongoing processes of change inherent in societies’ because it triggers “sociopolitical-cultural changes (…) and will further magnify [these changes] in the decades ahead” (Smith, Brent 2001:11). In order to elaborate this issue in a local context, the following main research problem and its subquestions will be addressed: Which role does the community-based and cultural tourism project Treesleeper play for the people of Tsintsabis and for the image creation of Bushmen, in specific Hai//om and to a minor extent !Kung? Does the project foster old patterns, initiate new changes or act as a magnifier of existent processes of change? • How do local people negotiate their positions within the village and what do they perceive as ‘community’? • How does the tourism project Treesleeper shape the understanding of ‘community’ and the negotiations for power positions among the people of Tsintsabis? • What are dynamics of change in external stakeholders’ (governments’, civil society’s, anthropologists’ and others’) perspectives on (Hai//om and to a minor extent on !Kung) Bushmen and how do Hai//om and !Kung Bushmen of Tsintsabis reconstruct their self-image in the context of marginalisation? • Which role does the community-based and cultural tourism project Treesleeper play for the processes of change in the perception and self-perception of (Hai//om and !Kung) Bushmen? Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Anna Hüncke Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available African Studies Centre, Leiden Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2010 Language A language of the resource English Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/331/411/331411148.pdf Anna Hüncke Bushmen Hai//om Identity Leiden Netherlands Representation San Tourism Treesleeper Tsintsabis https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/e4276c82c7c6f95274958eef67237d7e.pdf a175d447fe55f858bdfb3e91acc27023 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dissertations on Namibia Description An account of the resource This collection holds full length dissertations written on and/or from Namibia. Unless the dissertations are particularly dated, or the author has passed, I have obtained permission before uploading the files. There are both M.A. and PhD Dissertations uploaded. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource On the Way to Whiteness: Christianization, Conflict and Change in Colonial Ovamboland, 1910-1965 Description An account of the resource Published Dissertation - "The spread of the Christian faith is often said to have marked the greatest change in 20th century Africa. This dissertation analyzes the processes of this change in Ovamboland of northern Namibia, where it was initiated and guided by Finnish missionaries. By using a socio-historical approach, this research presents an interesting analysis which suggests that conversion to Christianity was often a multi-casual chain of events where the primary motives of the converts were often quite practical. The study presents new information concerning the relationship between the Ovambo and the Finnish missionaries, and by so doing also particularizes or corrects some of the earlier views on the social and cultural effects of Ovambo christianization." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kari Miettinen Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Soumalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2005 Language A language of the resource English Christianity Conversion Evangelical Lutheran Church Finland Finnish Missionary Society Kari Miettinen Kinship Missionaries Ovamboland Traditional Authorities https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/18ca1da6cce3e036df9196573f75425e.pdf 6c9e34a31e8fdebdf7c0ac2c34815b5e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dissertations on Namibia Description An account of the resource This collection holds full length dissertations written on and/or from Namibia. Unless the dissertations are particularly dated, or the author has passed, I have obtained permission before uploading the files. There are both M.A. and PhD Dissertations uploaded. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Evolution of Marginal-Marine Systems of the Amibberg Formation, Karasburg Basin, Southern Namibia: Implications for Early-Middle Permian Palaeography in South Western Gondwana Description An account of the resource M.A. Dissertation - The Karasburg Basin is situated in southern Namibia and preserves a heterogeneous succession of Karoo Supergroup strata up to 1000m thick. The uppermost preserved succession in this basin is the Amibberg Formation which is 250m thick and consists of intervals of sandstone, siltstone and mudstone. This study uses facies analysis, sequence stratigraphy and petrography to determine the palaeogeography and provenance for the Amibberg Formation. This is then used to establish environmental variability across the Karasburg – Aranos – Main Karoo basins and to define an equivalent of the Amibberg Formation in the Main Karoo Basin. Detailed stratigraphic logging of five outcrop localities has led to the identification of seven distinct lithofacies and two dominant ichnofacies (Cruziana and Skolithos). These lithofacies include: 1) Massive, laminated and bioturbated mudstones interpreted as offshore deposits (OS); 2) Bioturbated siltstones and sandstones which are representative of offshore-transitional environments (OST); 3) Interbedded sandstones and siltstones also interpreted as offshore-transitional deposits (OST) and generated by river-fed hyperpycnal plumes; 4) Sharp based, massive sandstones interpreted as being deposited on the distal lower shoreface (dLSF); 5) Non-amalgamated hummocky cross-stratified (HCS) and wave rippled sandstones interpreted as distal lower shoreface deposits (dLSF); 6) Amalgamated HCS and wave rippled sandstones interpreted as proximal lower shoreface deposits (pLSF); and 7) Soft-sediment deformed (SSD) sandstones and siltstones occurring in close juxtaposition with dLSF and pLSF deposits. The vertical arrangement of these lithofacies shows a general coarsening and shallowing upward trend. Overall the rocks of the Amibberg Formation consist of wave-dominated shoreface deposits with significant influence by tidal processes. Petrographically, the sandstone samples fall into the class of quartz and feldspathic wackes and are sourced from craton interior provenances. Geochemical analysis of mudstones and nodules indicate high levels of microbial activity under predominantly oxic conditions during the deposition of the Amibberg Formation. Five poorly defined 4th order T-R cycles are observable within the strata of the Amibberg Formation. Large regressive intervals are capped by thin transgressive tracts and these cycles are interpreted to have formed due to eustatic processes. Overall, the Amibberg Formation represents a regressive shoreline. Based on the mean palaeocurrent vectors a NNE-SSW palaeoshoreline orientation is deduced and the shoreface must have occupied a palaeohigh on the northern side of the western Cargonian Highlands. This emergent highland acted as an extensive headland and assisted in the connectivity of the Karasburg and Aranos basins, with partial connectivity with the Main Karoo Basin during the Early Permian. Based on this study, the Amibberg Formation is considered an equivalent of the Waterford Formation in the Main Karoo Basin based on similar: stratigraphic position; thickness; sedimentary structures; trace fossil assemblages and stacking patterns. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Michael Berti Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of the Witwatersrand Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014 Language A language of the resource English Amibberg Formation Cargonian Highlands Geology Karasburg Basin Karoo Supergroup lithofacies Michael Berti palaeoshoreline provenance Science T-R cycles Waterford Formation Witwatersrand https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/files/original/49e802a0c6155f412df1b7f5991bbf7c.pdf 7393b33f0e0ad2f5ed9553f650e58964 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dissertations on Namibia Description An account of the resource This collection holds full length dissertations written on and/or from Namibia. Unless the dissertations are particularly dated, or the author has passed, I have obtained permission before uploading the files. There are both M.A. and PhD Dissertations uploaded. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource White Power in Angola and Namibia: The Kunene Hydro-Electric Schemes - A Study in the Political Economy of Infrastructural Development Description An account of the resource B.A. (Hons) Thesis - "This paper will examine the Kunene river Hydro-electric schemes, in their historical, legal, military, strategic, technological, economic and political contexts, in order to bring greater understanding of the society and its conflicts. The schemes will be seen in a relatively loose theoretical framework, involving concepts of modernisation, development and underdevelopment, colonialism, imperialism, together with capital accumulation and violence in the struggle between social groupings." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Renfrew Christie Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Cape Town Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1974 Language A language of the resource English Apartheid Dams Development Economics electricity Hydroelectric Kunene modernisation Renfrew Christie water