Jan-Bart Gewald (Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)

Submitted: Tues, April 26, 2011


Dr. Jan-Bart Gewald
African Studies Centre
Leiden University

Mailing address
P.O. Box 9555
2300 RB
Leiden
The Netherlands

phone: +31 71 527 3370
Fax:   +31 71 527 3344
e-mail: gewald@ascleiden.nl


Southern African History, with strong regional interest in West African
and Ethiopian/Eritrean history.  Researched and published on the history 
of Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, and Eritrea.

Within the group "Agency in Africa" at the ASC, he is currently working on 
a project dealing with the social history of the motor car in Zambia in 
the 20th century. He was recently awarded funding by the Netherlands 
Organisation for Scientific Research for a five year inter-institutional 
multi-disciplinary research programme within the social sciences and 
humanities entitled, "ICE in Africa: the relationship between people and 
the Internal Combustion Engine in Africa."


Publications -- Selected Books and Articles

With S. Soeters
"African miners and shape shifting flight capital: the case of Baluba 
Luanshya,"  In: M. Larmer and A. Fraser, Zambia, mining, and 
neoliberalism boom and bust on the globalized copperbelt, London: 
Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 155-184, 2010.
	
"Gold the true motor of West African history: an overview of the 
importance of gold in West Africa and its relations with the wider 
world,"  In: C. Panella, Worlds of debts: interdisciplinary 
perspectives on gold mining in West Africa. Amsterdam: Rozenberg 
publishers, 2010.

"People, mines and cars: towards a revision of Zambian History, 
1890-1930,"  In: Walraven, K van, Luning, Sabine, Gewald, J-B. (eds.): 
The speed of change : motor vehicles and people in Africa, 
1890-2000.  pp. 21-47, Leiden: Brill, 2009.

Edited with Sabine Luning and K. van Walraven
The speed of change : motor vehicles and people in Africa, 
1890-2000.  Leiden : Brill, Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; vol. 13, 2009.

"From the Old Location to Bishops Hill: the politics of urban planning 
and landscape history in Windhoek, Namibia,"  In: M. Bollig ; O. Bubenzer 
(eds.) African Landscapes: Interdisciplinary Approaches, New 
York: Springer, pp. 255-274, 2008.

Edited with M. Hinfelaar and G. Macola
One Zambia, many histories : towards a history of post-colonial 
Zambia.  Leiden : Brill, Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; vol. 12, 2008.

Edited with M. Bollig
People, Cattle and Land: Transformations of a pastoral society in 
southwestern Africa.  Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 
p. xii + 540, 2001.	

"We thought we would be free ..." : socio-cultural aspects of Herero 
history in Namibia, 1915-1940.  Köln: Köppe, History, 
cultural traditions and innovations in Southern Africa; vol. 8, 2000.

Herero heroes : a socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia, 
1890-1923.  Oxford: James Currey, 1999.