Africa

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Visiting Research Fellow

University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

tony.king@uwe.ac.uk

Department of Politics
University of the West of England
Bristol
BS16 1QY
United Kingdom

South Africa

My current research concerns post-conflict transitions. I am part of a
comparative project at UWE examining transitional justice and prison
redevelopment in South Africa and Northern Ireland, which follows on from
my work on the refashioning of heritage in post-apartheid South Africa.

Areas of specialisation:

. Transitional Justice
. Post-colonial and post-apartheid heritage
. Heritage as development in transition societies, esp. South Africa
and N. Ireland.
. Public history, especially South Africa, Spain and Northern
Ireland
. Democratisation and transition societies, especially Zimbabwe,
South Africa and Spain
. Colonial, late colonial and post-colonial history, especially
Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa
. Settler societies, especially Zimbabwe and South Africa
. 20th century imperial history, especially British imperialism in
Africa

Select publications:

(with M.K. Flynn) "Symbolic Reparation, Heritage and Political Transition
in South Africa's Eastern Cape," International Journal of Heritage
Studies, 13, 8, November 2007, pp. 462-477.

(with A.K. Shutt) "Imperial Rhodesians: the 1953 Rhodes Centenary
Exhibition in Southern Rhodesia," Journal of Southern African Studies, 31,
2, June 2005, pp. 357-379.

"Partnership and Paternalism: the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland,
1953-63," in E. Kavalski and M. Zolkos (eds.), Defunct Federalisms:
critical perspectives on federal failure (New York, Ashgate, 2008), pp.
47-58.

(with M.K. Flynn) "Reconstructing South African Identity after 1994:
Museums and Public History," in T. Levin (ed.), Violence (Rotterdam,
Rodopi, 2008), pp. 123-149.

(with M.K. Flynn), "Renovating the Public Past: Nation-building, Symbolic
Reparation and the Politics of Heritage in Post-Apartheid South Africa,"
in C. Norton (ed.), Nationalism, Historiography and the (Re)construction
of the Past (Washington, New Academia Press, 2007), pp. 45-60.

"The Central African Examiner, 1957-1965," Zambezia, 23, 2, 1996
pp. 133-155.

"Settler Society in Perspective," The Zimbabwean review, 3, 3, Oct
1997.

"Of Mice and Manuscripts: A Memoir of the National Archives of Zimbabwe,"
History in Africa, 35. 1998.

"Guarding the Democratic Shrine: Rhodesian debates on the franchise,
1898-1969" in N. Bhebe and T. Ranger (eds.), The Historical Dimensions
of Democracy and Human Rights in Zimbabwe (Harare, University of
Zimbabwe Publications, 1999)

settler societies ; colonial history ; apartheid ; democratization ; transitional justice ; politics