Ineke W. M. J. van Kessel (Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)

Submitted:  Fri, 22 August 2003


Dr. Ineke W. M. J. van Kessel
Afrika-Studiecentrum = African Studies Centre
Leiden University
P.O. Box 9555
2300 RB
Leiden
The Netherlands

phone:   +31-71-5276605
E-mail:  kessel@ascleiden.nl


Afrika-Studiecentrum Web site: http://www.ascleiden.nl



Main research interests: contemporary history of South Africa (incl.
social movements, youth, mass media, politics) The Gold Coast in the 19th
century, notably Dutch-African relations in that period


Publications -- Selected Books and Articles:

With S.D.K. Ellis.
Movers and shakers : social movements in Africa.  Leiden: Brill,
African dynamics ; vol. 8, 2009.

"South Africa,"  In: A. Mehler ; H. Melber ; K.van Walraven (eds.) 
Africa yearbook: Politics, economy and society South of the Sahara in 
2008, Leiden/ Boston: Brill, pp. 473-488, 2009.

"South Africa,"  In: A. Mehler, H. Melber & K. van Walraven, eds., 
Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 
2006, pp. 469-484.'
	
Zwarte Hollanders : Afrikaanse soldaten in Nederlands-Indië.
Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, 2005.

Edited with G.J. Abbink.
Vanguard or vandals : youth, politics and conflict in Africa.
Leiden ; Boston: Brill, African dynamics ; vol. 4, 2005.

"African mutinies in the Netherlands East Indies: a nineteenth-century 
colonial paradox," in: J. Abbink, M. de Bruijn and K.  van Walraven, eds., 
Rethinking Resistance: Revolt and Violence in African History. 
African Dynamics vol 2, pp. 141-169.  Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2003.

Editor
Merchants, Missionaries & Migrants: 300 years of Dutch-Ghanaian 
Relations. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers ; Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2002.

"The Black Dutchmen: African soldiers in the Netherlands East Indies', in 
I. van Kessel, ed., Merchants, Missionaries & Migrants, 2002, 
pp. 133-142.

"The Impact of Democratic Transitions on the Representation of Women in 
the National Parliaments of Southern Africa", in: Eddy Maloka, ed., 
A United States of Africa?.  Pretoria: Africa Institute of South 
Africa, 2001, pp. 116-132.

'Beyond our Wildest Dreams': the United Democratic Front and the 
Transformation of South Africa. Charlottesville/London: University
Press of Virgina, 2000.

"Stability or Democracy: on the role of Monitors, Media and Miracles", in: 
J. Abbink and G. Hesseling, eds., Election Observation and 
Democratization in Africa. Basingstoke: MacMillan, 2000, pp. 50-75.

Edited with Nina Tellegen.
Afrikanen in Nederland.  Amsterdam/Leiden: Koninklijk Instituut 
voor de Tropen/Afrika-Studiecentrum, 2000.

"'Grassroots': from washing lines to Utopia", in: L. Switzer & M. Adhikari, eds., 
South Africa's Resistance Press: Alternative voices in the Last 
Generation under Apartheid. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000, pp. 
283-326.

With Barbara Oomen. 
"'One Chief, One Vote': The Revival of Traditional Authorities in 
Post-Apartheid South Africa."  In: E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal and 
R. van Dijk (eds.) African Chieftaincy in a New Socio-Political 
Landscape, pp 155-179, Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 1999.

Aspects of the Apartheid State; a bibliographical survey.  
Leiden: African Studies Centre, 1989, Research Report no 34.