John Aerni-Flessner
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John Aerni-Flessner deposited Lesotho and the QwaQwa Ski Resort, 1975–82: Border Disputes and South Africa’s Increasingly Deadly Responses on Humanities Commons 11 months, 2 weeks ago
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the terrain of the diplomatic and security landscape of Southern Africa shifted dramatically. South Africa declared various Bantustans “independent,” but they were not recognized by other countries. Small regional states like Lesotho increasingly took more combative diplomatic stances, aided by Cold War con…[Read more]
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John Aerni-Flessner's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 11 months, 2 weeks ago
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John Aerni-Flessner deposited Basotho and the Bantustans: Long-Term Impacts of Historical Borders on Borderlands Communities in QwaQwa and Lesotho in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year agoDrawing on archival work conducted in South Africa, the UK and Lesotho, and on oral histories collected in 2021–2023, this article historicises the experiences of Basotho living along the Lesotho–South Africa border. It focuses primarily on the part of eastern Free State designated during the apartheid era as the Basotho ‘Homeland’ of QwaQwa…[Read more]
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John Aerni-Flessner deposited Basotho and the Bantustans: Long-Term Impacts of Historical Borders on Borderlands Communities in QwaQwa and Lesotho in the group
African History on Humanities Commons 1 year agoDrawing on archival work conducted in South Africa, the UK and Lesotho, and on oral histories collected in 2021–2023, this article historicises the experiences of Basotho living along the Lesotho–South Africa border. It focuses primarily on the part of eastern Free State designated during the apartheid era as the Basotho ‘Homeland’ of QwaQwa…[Read more]
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John Aerni-Flessner deposited Basotho and the Bantustans: Long-Term Impacts of Historical Borders on Borderlands Communities in QwaQwa and Lesotho on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
Drawing on archival work conducted in South Africa, the UK and Lesotho, and on oral histories collected in 2021–2023, this article historicises the experiences of Basotho living along the Lesotho–South Africa border. It focuses primarily on the part of eastern Free State designated during the apartheid era as the Basotho ‘Homeland’ of QwaQwa…[Read more]
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John Aerni-Flessner's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
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John Aerni-Flessner deposited Introduction: Migration, Borders, and Borderlands in Southern Africa in Historical Perspective on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
An overview of borders in the SADC region and of the role of borders and border regimes for individual citizens in the region.
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John Aerni-Flessner deposited Permitless Crossing and Tourism: Construction Border Regimes in the Drakensberg Mountains, 1950s-Present on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
The chapters examines the ways that governments in Lesotho and South Africa looked on ordinary Basotho borderlands residents as threats to the established border regimes, whereas they saw those working with valid papers or tourists as desired crossers. In examining these stories over the decades we see the negative impact this has on subsistence…[Read more]
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John Aerni-Flessner's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
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John Aerni-Flessner's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
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John Aerni-Flessner's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
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John Aerni-Flessner deposited A Trasnational History of Stock Theft on the Lesotho-South Africa Border, Nineteenth Century to 1994 in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoStock theft has long been a problem along the Lesotho–South Africa border. From Moshoeshoe I’s cattle-raiding in the nineteenth century through to the start of the democratic era in Lesotho (1993) and South Africa (1994), the idea that stock theft is both prevalent and an international problem has been generally accepted by one and all. This art…[Read more]
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John Aerni-Flessner deposited A Trasnational History of Stock Theft on the Lesotho-South Africa Border, Nineteenth Century to 1994 in the group
African History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoStock theft has long been a problem along the Lesotho–South Africa border. From Moshoeshoe I’s cattle-raiding in the nineteenth century through to the start of the democratic era in Lesotho (1993) and South Africa (1994), the idea that stock theft is both prevalent and an international problem has been generally accepted by one and all. This art…[Read more]
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John Aerni-Flessner deposited A Trasnational History of Stock Theft on the Lesotho-South Africa Border, Nineteenth Century to 1994 on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months ago
Stock theft has long been a problem along the Lesotho–South Africa border. From Moshoeshoe I’s cattle-raiding in the nineteenth century through to the start of the democratic era in Lesotho (1993) and South Africa (1994), the idea that stock theft is both prevalent and an international problem has been generally accepted by one and all. This art…[Read more]
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John Aerni-Flessner deposited Bargaining with Land: Borders, Bantustans, and Sovereignty in 1970s and 1980s Southern Africa in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months ago‘Independence’ for bantustans was universally rejected by the international community in
the late 1970s and early 1980s. How the status of Lesotho and Swaziland as
internationally recognised states deeply embedded in South Africa’s economic and
political orbit differed from that of the bantustans was clear in some cases, murky in
others. The a…[Read more] -
John Aerni-Flessner deposited Bargaining with Land: Borders, Bantustans, and Sovereignty in 1970s and 1980s Southern Africa in the group
African History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months ago‘Independence’ for bantustans was universally rejected by the international community in
the late 1970s and early 1980s. How the status of Lesotho and Swaziland as
internationally recognised states deeply embedded in South Africa’s economic and
political orbit differed from that of the bantustans was clear in some cases, murky in
others. The a…[Read more] -
John Aerni-Flessner's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months ago
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John Aerni-Flessner deposited Bargaining with Land: Borders, Bantustans, and Sovereignty in 1970s and 1980s Southern Africa on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months ago
‘Independence’ for bantustans was universally rejected by the international community in
the late 1970s and early 1980s. How the status of Lesotho and Swaziland as
internationally recognised states deeply embedded in South Africa’s economic and
political orbit differed from that of the bantustans was clear in some cases, murky in
others. The a…[Read more] -
John Aerni-Flessner's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years ago
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John Aerni-Flessner deposited Digitally Documenting Urban Renewal in Lansing, 1930s-1960s in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years agoIn this article we trace the history of Urban Renewal in Lansing through a collaborative research project involving undergraduate students and the course instructor. Looking in fine-grain detail at the block and individual house level, the project reveals the patchwork of discrimination that African Americans faced in accessing housing in the…[Read more]
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