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Gary Kynoch

Associate Professor 

Office: 3181 McCain Arts & Social Science Building
Office Hours:
Tuesdays:  1:00-3:00

Or by appointment
Email: gary.kynoch@dal.ca
Tel: 902-494-3667
902-494-3349 (fax)

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

South Africa; Conflict in Twentieth-Century Africa; Urban African History; Crime and Social Conflict. 

ONGOING RESEARCH

  • A Social History of Township Violence on the Rand, 1890-2000
  • A History of South African Prisons  

 

PUBLICATIONS

Books 

We are Fighting the World: The Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947-1999. New African Histories Series, Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio; University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Durban, 2005.

Articles

    
   
   
2008    "Urban Violence in Colonial Africa:  A case for South African
                Exceptionalism" Journal of Southern African Studies 34, 3 (2008)

2005 "Your Petitioners are in Mortal Terror: The Violent World of Chinese Mineworkers in South Africa, 1904-1910,” Journal of Southern African Studies, 31, 3
"Crime, Conflict and Politics in Transition Era South Africa,” African Affairs, 104, 416.

"South Africa’s Complex History of Crime,” Financial Mail, June 24.

2003

"Controlling the Coolies: Chinese Mineworkers and the Struggle for Labour in South Africa, 1904-1910,” International Journal of African Historical Studies, 36, 3.

“Friend or Foe? A World View of Community-Police Relations in Gauteng Townships, 1947-77” Canadian Journal of African Studies, 37, 2/3.

“Apartheid Nostalgia and Personal Security in Contemporary South African Townships” SA Crime Quarterly, No. 5, September.

2001 "A Man Among Men: Gender, Identity and Power in South Africa's Marashea Gangs," Gender & History, 13, 2.
and Theresa Ulicki, "Cross-Border Raiding and Community Conflict in the Lesotho-South African Border Zone" Southern African Migration Project (SAMP), Migration Policy Series No. 21.
2000 "Politics and Violence in the 'Russian Zone': Conflict in Newclare South, 1950-1957" Journal of African History, 41, 2. 
"Marashea on the Mines: Economic, Social and Criminal Networks on the South African Gold Fields, 1947-1999," Journal of Southern African Studies, 26, 1. 
and Theresa Ulicki, "'It is Like the Time of Lifaqane': The Impact of Stock Theft and Violence in Southern Lesotho," Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 18, 2.
1999 "From the Ninevites to the Hard Livings Gang: Township Gangsters and Urban Violence in Twentieth Century South Africa," African Studies, 58, 1.
"How Retrenchment in the Gold Mining Industry Affects Informal Settlements," South African Labour Bulletin, 23, 4.
1997 "Terrible Dilemmas: Black Enlistment in the Union Army During the American Civil War," Slavery & Abolition, 18, 2.
1996 "The 'Transformation' of the South African Military," Journal of Modern African Studies, 34, 3.

COURSES OFFERED 2009 -2010

HIST 2426 F AFRICA SINCE 1900                             Syllabus
HIST 4401 F  [TOPICS IN AFRICAN HISTORY:]
COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS: RACE,
POWER AND IDENTITY IN
SOUTHERN AFRICA 
                                                            Syllabus                           
HIST 1502 W Origins of Modern Global
Society
HIST 3471 W Wars and Revolutions in
Twentieth Century Africa