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Hydrology of Hope
No full textThis is the author version (pre-publication) of Chapter 4 in the volume: Whiteness in Zimbabwe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).Peer reviewe
Oral History Interview with David Hughes
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with David Hughes. Hughes joined the Navy in February 1941 and was assigned to the USS Northampton (CA-26)as a coxswain. He went ashore at Pearl Harbor two weeks before the attack, while the Northampton traveled on to Wake Island. On the morning of the attack, he was in a whaleboat at Battleship Row. He went ashore and hid behind a tree until the attack ended, at which time he began transporting officers and wounded personnel in his whaleboat. On one of his trips, he carried men with acetylene torches to the USS Oklahoma (BB-37) and overheard an engineer warn them about the danger of depleting oxygen, which ultimately killed several men. Hughes spent a short time aboard the USS Hornet (CV-8) and describes the sea conditions during the Doolittle Raid launch. He was back aboard the Northampton for the Battle of Tassafaronga and abandoned ship when it was torpedoed. He returned to the States as an aviation machinist’s mate and towed targets for VJ-2, VJ-7, and VJ-12 utility squadrons on the West Coast. He did the same at Henderson Field, where he also served as George Burns' personal driver during his USO tour. Hughes returned home and was discharged at the end of the war
Third nature: making space and time in the Great Limpopo Conservation Area
No full textIn Southern Africa’s “Great Limpopo Transboundary Conservation Area,” potential nature, envisioned as ideal habitats for wildlife, may outweigh actual nature. I refer to this notion of conditional biodiversity as “third nature,” distinguishing it from the equally anthropogenic, but tangible, second nature (“nature” as including human habitation). Conservationists and investors are inventing nature on a new scale that crosses national boundaries in elaborate ventures to develop ecotourism in the Great Limpopo zone. They now imagine a continentwide field for (white) tourists to be created by fencing out local populations of (black) peasants. Few observers appreciate the structural racism involved in the profound material consequences of these dreams of third nature.Peer reviewedThis is the final author version of the article published in Cultural Anthropology. The published version is available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/can.2005.20.2.157/abstrac
"Paradise without labour": how oil missed its utopian moment
No full textSubmitted for inclusion in: Michael Watts and Arthur Mason, eds. Oil-Talk: Retelling the Political and Cultural Economy of Oil and Gas
David McDermott Hughes' Response to Bram Büscher's Review of Whiteness in Zimbabwe: Race, Landscape, and the Problem of Belonging
No full textBüscher and I approach Southern African conservation with quite different agendas. Taken together, these perspectives demonstrate the co-existence of meaningful and exploitative practices.Peer reviewe
Oral History Interview with David Hughes
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with David Hughes. Hughes joined the Navy in February 1941 and was assigned to the USS Northampton (CA-26)as a coxswain. He went ashore at Pearl Harbor two weeks before the attack, while the Northampton traveled on to Wake Island. On the morning of the attack, he was in a whaleboat at Battleship Row. He went ashore and hid behind a tree until the attack ended, at which time he began transporting officers and wounded personnel in his whaleboat. On one of his trips, he carried men with acetylene torches to the USS Oklahoma (BB-37) and overheard an engineer warn them about the danger of depleting oxygen, which ultimately killed several men. Hughes spent a short time aboard the USS Hornet (CV-8) and describes the sea conditions during the Doolittle Raid launch. He was back aboard the Northampton for the Battle of Tassafaronga and abandoned ship when it was torpedoed. He returned to the States as an aviation machinist’s mate and towed targets for VJ-2, VJ-7, and VJ-12 utility squadrons on the West Coast. He did the same at Henderson Field, where he also served as George Burns' personal driver during his USO tour. Hughes returned home and was discharged at the end of the war
Comment on "Community Involvement in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management: An Assessment from Case Studies in Southern Africa and Elsewhere" by Shadreck Chirikure and Gilbert Pwiti
No full textMy comments address not the specifics of Chirikure and Pwiti’s judicious intervention into the policy of Zimbabwean and South African archaeology but its general principle: deference to “community.”Open peer commentary on: Chirikure, Shadreck, and Gilbert Pwiti. "Community Involvement in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management: An Assessment from Case Studies in Southern Africa and Elsewhere." Current Anthropology 49, no. 3 (2008): 467-485.Peer reviewe
The elegies of Ted Hughes
Full text linkThe purpose of this study is to make the case that Ted Hughes (1930-1998) is one of the pre-eminent elegists writing in English in the latter half of the twentieth century. Whilst his poetry has been widely criticised for its apparent preoccupation with violence and death, it is puzzling that the links these topics have in common with elegy have never been clearly verified. This might be because Hughes's elegies do not appear to bear the characteristics frequently associated with traditional poetic laments; however, as this study shows, closer scrutiny reveals not only many similarities, but also acts of resistance within the broader scope of elegy. Drawing on both established and contemporary critical debates surrounding Hughes and elegy, this study undertakes a comprehensive reading of the poet's major works from The Hawk in the Rain to Birthday Letters, whilst also paying attention to limited editions of his verse, including Recklings, Capriccio and Howls & Whispers. Posthumous publications, including the Collected Poems. Selected Translations and Letters of Ted Hughes, are accounted for. so that (alongside the chronological reading of the poems) Hughes's development as an elegist is fully realised. One of the aims of the thesis is to demonstrate that the poet's elegies are unified in presenting what I term the ‘actual'; that is to say, that Hughes does not fabricate sensations or forge experiences that purport to be beyond the realm of recognisable human endeavour. This I term his 'unfalsifying dream’. This is striking because quite often traditional elegies appear to present the opposite: a language which is ๐mate and images which are close to beatifying the deceased, putting them at a remove from human experience and existence. 'The Hawk in the Rain' is used to illustrate Hughes's theoretical position, especially in the case of his earlier war elegies and the circumstances of Remains of Elmet and Moortown Diary. He is both the observational, seemingly dispassionate poet (the hawk), capable of a detaching himself from the experience he wishes to relay in his verse, and yet, he is also the wanderer 'in the rain, one who is immersed in the momentous instant of his own language and experience. Like his personas, Hughes is divided. He is complicit with many of elegy's practices and traditions, but he is also a reformer and renovator of elegy, writing invigorating verse which brings the realities of mortality closer to the reader. In doing so, he reaffirms the significance of life and how this life might be better lived in closer harmony to poetry and contemporary ecological urgencies. 'The Elegies of Ted Hughes' aims to prove that far from being just a 'poet of nature', Hughes has been an exemplary elegist in our own time
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The David W. Fentress Family Letters, 1856-1969
No full textTranscript of a letter by an unidentified author to David Fentress regarding sharing federal newspapers and the banning of federal newspapers in some areas. The author passes on the news of the war including the destruction of the Federal merchantmen by the Confederate fleet. He passes along world news: Russia preparing to go to War with Europe and how that could negatively affect the Confederacy. There is also speculation on the future of the war
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