Lance Van Sittert

Mellon Global Scholar

Spring 2008

  • African Environmental History (AFRS 267)
Title Mellon Global Scholar
Department ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Work Location Adams Hall
E-Mail lvan@bowdoin.edu

Education:

Ph.D University of Cape Town, 1992.
B.A. Hons University of Cape Town, 1986.
B.A. University of Cape Town, 1984

Publications

Co-Authored

Books

People & Power Book 2: An O-Level History Textbook for Zimbabwe (Academic Books, Harare, 1992).

Sites of History: The Waterfront (Oxford University Press, 1994).

Articles

(First author with R. Crawford) ‘Historical reconstruction of guano production on the Namibian islands 1843-1895’, South African Journal of Science, 99, 2003, 13-16.

(First author with S. Swart), ‘Canis familiaris: a dog history of South Africa’, South African Historical Journal, 48, 2003, 138-173.

(Second author with seventeen others), ‘Impacts of human activities on marine animal life in the Benguela: an historical overview’, Oceanography and Marine Biology an Annual Review, , 42, 2004, 303-92.

(Second author with R. Melville-Smith), ‘Historical west coast rock lobster (Jasus lalandii) landings in South African waters’, African Journal of Marine Science, 27, 2005, 33-44.

(First author with M. Hauck), ‘Introduction: Post-apartheid marine fisheries in South Africa: Through the ten-year looking glass’, Marine Policy, 30, 2005, 1-2.

(Second author with two others) ‘The integration of South African fisheries into the global economy: past, present and future’, Marine Policy, 2005, 30, 18-29.

(First author with three others) ‘Benchmarking the first decade of post-apartheid fisheries reform in South Africa’, Marine Policy, 2005, 30, 96-110.

Forthcoming

(Second author with J. David) ‘A Historical Reconstruction of the Cape (South African) Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus) Harvest c.1652-1899’, South African Journal of Science.

Articles

‘Slawe van die fabriek: the state, monopoly capital and the subjugation of labour in the Hout Bay valley crayfish industry, 1946-1956’ in C. Saunders et al (eds) Studies in the History of Cape Town, Volume 6 (University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 1986), 112-149.

‘Making like America: the industrialisation of the St Helena Bay fisheries, 1936-1956’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 19, 1993, 442-464.

‘More in the breach than in the observance: crayfish, conservation & capitalism’, Environmental History Review, 17, 1993, 21-46.

‘South Africa's seagoing proletariat: the Trawler & Line Fishermen's Union, 1939-1945’, International Journal of Maritime History, 6, 1994, 1-44.

‘The handmaiden of industry: marine science and fisheries development in South Africa, 1890-1939’, Studies in the History & Philosophy of Science, 1995, 531-558

‘Keeping the enemy at bay": the extermination of wild carnivora in the Cape Colony, 1889-1910’, Environmental History Review, 3, 1998, 333-356.

‘The seed blows about in every breeze: noxious weed eradication in a dynamic environment, the Cape Colony c.1899-1909’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 26, 2000, 655-674.

‘To live this poor life: remembering the Hottentots Huisie fishery, Cape Town, c1934-c1965’, Social History, 26, 2001, 1-21.

‘Velddrift: the making of a South African company town 1930-1960’, Urban History, 28, 2001, 194-217.

‘Holding the line: the rural enclosure movement in the Cape Colony c.1865-c.1910’, Journal of African History, 43, 2002, 95-118.

‘Our irrepresible fellow-colonist: the biological invasion of prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) in the Eastern Cape Colony c.1890-1910’, Journal of Historical Geography, 28, 2002, 397-419.

‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it: comparing fisheries reforms in South Africa’, Marine Policy, 26, 2002, 295-305.

‘From mere weeds and bosjes to Cape floral kingdom: the re-imagining of the indigenous flora at the Cape c.1890-1939’, Kronos, 28, 2002, 102-126.

‘The tyranny of the past: why local histories matter in the South African fisheries’, Ocean and Coastal Management, 46, 2003, 199-219.

‘Making the Cape floral kingdom: the discovery and defence of indigenous flora at the Cape c. 1890-1939’, Landscape Research, 28, 2003, 113-129.

‘Class and canicide in Little Bess: the 1893 Port Elizabeth rabies epidemic’, South African Historical Journal, 48, 2003.

‘The bourgeois eye aloft: Table Mountain in the urban middle class imagination, c.1891-1950’, Kronos, 29, 2003, 161-90.

‘The supernatural state: water divining and the Cape underground water rush 1891-1910’ in Journal of Social History, 37, 2004, 915-38.

‘Review article. The nature of power: Cape environmental history, the history of ideas and neoliberal historiography’ in Journal of African History, 45, 2004, 305-13.

‘Writing and teaching the history of land and the environment in Africa in the twenty-first century’, South African Historical Journal, 50, 2004, 223-28.

‘The other seven tenths’ in Anniversary Forum: What’s Next for Environmental History?, Environmental History, 10, 2005, 106-9.

‘Reply’, Journal of African History, 46, 2005.

‘Bringing in the wild: the commodification of wild animals in the Cape Colony/Province c.1850-1950’, Journal of African History, 2005, 46, 269-91.

‘Seeing the Cedarberg: alpinism, alienation and the Agterberg in the white urban middle class imagination c.1890-1950’, Kronos, 31, 2005, 152-83.

Chapters in Books

‘Our irrepresible fellow-colonist: the biological invasion of prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) in the Eastern Cape Colony c.1890-1910’ in S. Dovers, R. Edgecombe and B. Guest (eds) South Africa’s Environmental History: Cases and Comparisons (David Philip, Cape Town, 2002), 139-159.

‘Leviathan bound: the post-1994 reform of the South African fishing industry’ in A. Lemon and C.M. Rogerson (eds.) Geography and Economy in South Africa and Its Neighbours (Ashgate, London, 2002), 45-62.

‘The South African fisheries: a preliminary survey of historical sources’, in P. Holm, T.D. Smith and D.J. Starkey (eds.), Research in Maritime History No.21: The Exploited Seas: New Directions for Marine Environmental History (St Johns, International Maritime Economic History Association/Census of Marine Life, 2001),167-80.

‘Nationalism(s): southern Africa’ in P. Poddar and D. Johnson (eds.), A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2005), 346-52.

‘Imperialism in Africa’ in K.S. Jomo (ed.), The Great Divergence: Hegemony, Uneven Development and Global Inequality (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006), 116-36.