Tony King (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK)

Submitted: Tues, 23 September 2008


Visiting Research Fellow
Department of Politics
University of the West of England
Bristol
BS16 1QY
United Kingdom

E-mail: tony.king@uwe.ac.uk


My current research concerns post-conflict transitions. I am part of a 
comparative project at UWE examining transitional justice and prison 
redevelopment in South Africa and Northern Ireland, which follows on from 
my work on the refashioning of heritage in post-apartheid South Africa.

Select publications:

(with M.K. Flynn) "Symbolic Reparation, Heritage and Political Transition 
in South Africa.s Eastern Cape," International Journal of Heritage 
Studies, 13, 8, November 2007, pp. 462-477.

(with A.K. Shutt) "Imperial Rhodesians: the 1953 Rhodes Centenary 
Exhibition in Southern Rhodesia," Journal of Southern African Studies, 31, 
2, June 2005, pp. 357-379.

"Partnership and Paternalism: the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 
1953-63," in E. Kavalski and M. Zolkos (eds.), Defunct Federalisms: 
critical perspectives on federal failure (New York, Ashgate, 2008), pp. 
47-58.

(with M.K. Flynn) "Reconstructing South African Identity after 1994: 
Museums and Public History," in T. Levin (ed.), Violence (Rotterdam, 
Rodopi, 2008), pp. 123-149.

(with M.K. Flynn), "Renovating the Public Past: Nation-building, Symbolic 
Reparation and the Politics of Heritage in Post-Apartheid South Africa," 
in C. Norton (ed.), Nationalism, Historiography and the (Re)construction 
of the Past (Washington, New Academia Press, 2007), pp. 45-60.

"The Central African Examiner, 1957-1965," Zambezia, 23, 2, 1996
pp. 133-155

"Settler Society in Perspective," The Zimbabwean review, 3, 3, Oct
1997. 

"Of Mice and Manuscripts: A Memoir of the National Archives of Zimbabwe,"
History in Africa, 35. 1998. 

"Guarding the Democratic Shrine: Rhodesian debates on the franchise,
1898-196Visiting Research Fellow
Department of Politics
University of the West of England
Bristol BS16 1QY, UK
tony.king@uwe.ac.uk

Areas of specialisation:
.       Transitional Justice
.       Post-colonial and post-apartheid heritage
.       Heritage as development in transition societies, esp. South 
Africa and N. Ireland.
.       Public history, especially South Africa, Spain and Northern 
Ireland
.       Democratisation and transition societies, especially Zimbabwe, 
South Africa and Spain
.       Colonial, late colonial and post-colonial history, especially 
Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa
.       Settler societies, especially Zimbabwe and South Africa
.       20th century imperial history, especially British imperialism in 
Africa

My current research concerns post-conflict transitions. I am part of a 
comparative project at UWE examining transitional justice and prison 
redevelopment in South Africa and Northern Ireland, which follows on from 
my work on the refashioning of heritage in post-apartheid South Afric' in 
N. Bhebe and T. Ranger (eds.), The 
Historical Dimensions
of Democracy and Human Rights in Zimbabwe (Harare, University of
Zimbabwe Publications, 1999)


Areas of specialisation:
.       Transitional Justice
.       Post-colonial and post-apartheid heritage
.       Heritage as development in transition societies, esp. South Africa 
           and N. Ireland.
.       Public history, especially South Africa, Spain and Northern 
           Ireland
.       Democratisation and transition societies, especially Zimbabwe, 
           South Africa and Spain
.       Colonial, late colonial and post-colonial history, especially 
           Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa
.       Settler societies, especially Zimbabwe and South Africa
.       20th century imperial history, especially British imperialism in Africa