Tony King

Region of Interest

Africa

Primary Country of Residence

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Title

Visiting Research Fellow

Affiliation

University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Email

tony.king@uwe.ac.uk

Mailing Address

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

Countries of Specialization

South Africa

Research Interests

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

Publications

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)

Keywords

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