HFG Emerging Scholars …The Cinderella of the South African Courts? Delay, De-Prioritisation and Re-Purposing Process: The Operation of Discretion in Inquests Daniel Waqar (History, Tufts University), People to the Power: Governing “Violent” Crowds,…
HFG African Fellows …Urban and the Rural in Sudan Between Revolution and War Tamia Botes (Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand), Eldorado Park as Demonic Grounds: A Social History from 1960s–Present Nonhlanhla Gumede (Social…
Policing Protests: Lessons from The Occupy Movement, Ferguson and Beyond As recent history shows, police often treat peaceful protests as if they are riots or fail to prevent violence with early action. Authors Edward Maguire and Megan Oakley provide a…
Postcolonial Aspirations and Intimacies of Violence Among Gebusi of the Nomad Area, Papua New GuineaandThe Role of Culture in the Early Evolution of Human Violence My HFG-supported research has included (1) analysis of information concerning homicide among the Gebusi—a rainforest people of Papua New Guinea who have had one of the highest rates of homicide…
Happy Marriages: Civilizing Domestic Life in Costa Rica, 1850–1950 The purpose of this research project is to analyze the main divorce tendencies in Costa Rica between 1800 and 1950, and to what extent ideals of and attitudes toward marriage,…
Political Violence, Military Conflict and Civil Unrest in Palestine: The Palestinian Police, the Fatah Tanzim and the “Al-Aqsa Intifada” This research project was originally undertaken with the aim of examining the roles played by the military and civilian police forces of the Palestinian Authority, and the popular militias (in…
The Militarization of Nuer and Dinka Community Life: A Comparative Field Study of the Transformative Impact of Sudan’s Unresolved War Our original research focused on the militarization of Nuer and Dinka community life, with special attention devoted to the role of ethnic conflict triggered off by the 1991 splitting of…
Controlling Violence in Wartime? Power Centralization and Economization of Republican Violence in the Spanish Civil War The goal of this HGF grant was to provide a richer picture of the violence against civilians in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). More specifically, it proposed examining the violence…
King George’s Generals: How the British Army Lost America, 1774-1781 My research project examines how successive British commanders understood the problem they faced during the American Revolution, the ways in which they responded, and why they ultimately failed. The five…
On Traumatic Modernities: Forced Migration and Nakh Cultural Memory Along Caucasus Borderlands My research for “On Traumatic Modernities,” carried out mostly in the Caucasus, yielded several new insights as well as concrete outputs. My findings include the following: 1. Migration narratives from…
