SAH Commons | John Aerni-Flessner | Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/aerniflessner/activity/ Activity feed for John Aerni-Flessner. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:42:26 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 bd45a1cb54d1518b01f796368982042c John Aerni-Flessner deposited Lesotho and the QwaQwa Ski Resort, 1975–82: Border Disputes and South Africa's Increasingly Deadly Responses https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900770/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 17:01:12 -0400 In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the terrain of the diplomatic and security landscape of Southern Africa shifted dramatically. South Africa declared various Bantustans “independent,” but they were not recognized by other countries. Small regional states like Lesotho increasingly took more combative diplomatic stances, aided by Cold War con…[Read more]

]]> 0 7e6eb158b28169c17f57ac1edd1456cf John Aerni-Flessner's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900769/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 16:57:42 -0400 0 e99c4c351ccc239147ae6a9ddc047764 John Aerni-Flessner deposited Basotho and the Bantustans: Long-Term Impacts of Historical Borders on Borderlands Communities in QwaQwa and Lesotho in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896783/ Tue, 20 Aug 2024 03:00:54 -0400 Drawing on archival work conducted in South Africa, the UK and Lesotho, and on oral histories collected in 2021–2023, this article historicises the experiences of Basotho living along the Lesotho–South Africa border. It focuses primarily on the part of eastern Free State designated during the apartheid era as the Basotho ‘Homeland’ of QwaQwa…[Read more]

]]> 0 c012a16771aaad44c5c0aeeeef990111 John Aerni-Flessner deposited Basotho and the Bantustans: Long-Term Impacts of Historical Borders on Borderlands Communities in QwaQwa and Lesotho in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896782/ Tue, 20 Aug 2024 03:00:53 -0400 Drawing on archival work conducted in South Africa, the UK and Lesotho, and on oral histories collected in 2021–2023, this article historicises the experiences of Basotho living along the Lesotho–South Africa border. It focuses primarily on the part of eastern Free State designated during the apartheid era as the Basotho ‘Homeland’ of QwaQwa…[Read more]

]]> 0 d919c879c4879c7b258ed1eacb8c3527 John Aerni-Flessner deposited Basotho and the Bantustans: Long-Term Impacts of Historical Borders on Borderlands Communities in QwaQwa and Lesotho https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896752/ Mon, 19 Aug 2024 18:37:17 -0400 Drawing on archival work conducted in South Africa, the UK and Lesotho, and on oral histories collected in 2021–2023, this article historicises the experiences of Basotho living along the Lesotho–South Africa border. It focuses primarily on the part of eastern Free State designated during the apartheid era as the Basotho ‘Homeland’ of QwaQwa…[Read more]

]]> 0 83434ca0b74bcc12bb9137cb64ab94ba John Aerni-Flessner's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880251/ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 18:48:39 -0400 0 e604c398b14ce9d5b6e28bcc6550f847 John Aerni-Flessner deposited Introduction: Migration, Borders, and Borderlands in Southern Africa in Historical Perspective https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879501/ Thu, 14 Mar 2024 18:27:52 -0400 An overview of borders in the SADC region and of the role of borders and border regimes for individual citizens in the region.

]]> 0 27141403136ee24dc569311b1ecd666f John Aerni-Flessner deposited Permitless Crossing and Tourism: Construction Border Regimes in the Drakensberg Mountains, 1950s-Present https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879499/ Thu, 14 Mar 2024 18:21:32 -0400 The chapters examines the ways that governments in Lesotho and South Africa looked on ordinary Basotho borderlands residents as threats to the established border regimes, whereas they saw those working with valid papers or tourists as desired crossers. In examining these stories over the decades we see the negative impact this has on subsistence…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c9e3dc55bee34fb7c2d11a40398b9b4 John Aerni-Flessner's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879498/ Thu, 14 Mar 2024 18:14:36 -0400 0 0d9926ff0d3f748a9b2f6dd137f3e907 John Aerni-Flessner's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874219/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 19:17:16 -0500 0 b65f5598aa545a74fffe5ed81b581517 John Aerni-Flessner's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862668/ Thu, 26 Oct 2023 15:25:26 -0400 0 33f6c5b0b362cf072aa101ca947f646f John Aerni-Flessner deposited A Trasnational History of Stock Theft on the Lesotho-South Africa Border, Nineteenth Century to 1994 in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1777284/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 02:33:46 -0400 Stock theft has long been a problem along the Lesotho–South Africa border. From Moshoeshoe I’s cattle-raiding in the nineteenth century through to the start of the democratic era in Lesotho (1993) and South Africa (1994), the idea that stock theft is both prevalent and an international problem has been generally accepted by one and all. This art…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d671dd125c741825818f375870cbe4e John Aerni-Flessner deposited A Trasnational History of Stock Theft on the Lesotho-South Africa Border, Nineteenth Century to 1994 in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1777283/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 02:33:44 -0400 Stock theft has long been a problem along the Lesotho–South Africa border. From Moshoeshoe I’s cattle-raiding in the nineteenth century through to the start of the democratic era in Lesotho (1993) and South Africa (1994), the idea that stock theft is both prevalent and an international problem has been generally accepted by one and all. This art…[Read more]

]]> 0 a86126a27db2e71cc1dbbdcacf5858da John Aerni-Flessner deposited A Trasnational History of Stock Theft on the Lesotho-South Africa Border, Nineteenth Century to 1994 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1777167/ Mon, 04 Apr 2022 13:52:42 -0400 Stock theft has long been a problem along the Lesotho–South Africa border. From Moshoeshoe I’s cattle-raiding in the nineteenth century through to the start of the democratic era in Lesotho (1993) and South Africa (1994), the idea that stock theft is both prevalent and an international problem has been generally accepted by one and all. This art…[Read more]

]]> 0 49db03a9356e0457abb1f61f4fbe60de John Aerni-Flessner deposited Bargaining with Land: Borders, Bantustans, and Sovereignty in 1970s and 1980s Southern Africa in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1762128/ Tue, 21 Dec 2021 02:24:36 -0500 ‘Independence’ for bantustans was universally rejected by the international community in
the late 1970s and early 1980s. How the status of Lesotho and Swaziland as
internationally recognised states deeply embedded in South Africa’s economic and
political orbit differed from that of the bantustans was clear in some cases, murky in
others. The a…[Read more]

]]> 0 444ab92d22d4e122bd9796012e8bf7c4 John Aerni-Flessner deposited Bargaining with Land: Borders, Bantustans, and Sovereignty in 1970s and 1980s Southern Africa in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1762127/ Tue, 21 Dec 2021 02:24:35 -0500 ‘Independence’ for bantustans was universally rejected by the international community in
the late 1970s and early 1980s. How the status of Lesotho and Swaziland as
internationally recognised states deeply embedded in South Africa’s economic and
political orbit differed from that of the bantustans was clear in some cases, murky in
others. The a…[Read more]

]]> 0 73ecb037ed4eff75c0b8d6dd5e2670c9 John Aerni-Flessner's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1761981/ Mon, 20 Dec 2021 11:56:22 -0500 0 90f2a7cb57795eb656276227178288ab John Aerni-Flessner deposited Bargaining with Land: Borders, Bantustans, and Sovereignty in 1970s and 1980s Southern Africa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1761980/ Mon, 20 Dec 2021 11:54:43 -0500 ‘Independence’ for bantustans was universally rejected by the international community in
the late 1970s and early 1980s. How the status of Lesotho and Swaziland as
internationally recognised states deeply embedded in South Africa’s economic and
political orbit differed from that of the bantustans was clear in some cases, murky in
others. The a…[Read more]

]]> 0 fe8ed8328099ea9e1f53a242940a5497 John Aerni-Flessner's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1750236/ Fri, 27 Aug 2021 14:34:51 -0400 0 9c8f14c2cf6aad45ef53936ca50df4db John Aerni-Flessner deposited Digitally Documenting Urban Renewal in Lansing, 1930s-1960s in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749988/ Wed, 25 Aug 2021 02:24:57 -0400 In this article we trace the history of Urban Renewal in Lansing through a collaborative research project involving undergraduate students and the course instructor. Looking in fine-grain detail at the block and individual house level, the project reveals the patchwork of discrimination that African Americans faced in accessing housing in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 2c0aad56633a45a420eb60fcc411ed8f John Aerni-Flessner deposited Digitally Documenting Urban Renewal in Lansing, 1930s-1960s in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749987/ Wed, 25 Aug 2021 02:24:20 -0400 In this article we trace the history of Urban Renewal in Lansing through a collaborative research project involving undergraduate students and the course instructor. Looking in fine-grain detail at the block and individual house level, the project reveals the patchwork of discrimination that African Americans faced in accessing housing in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 9fb7ebf4778526ecd911949dbcc8ae92 John Aerni-Flessner deposited Digitally Documenting Urban Renewal in Lansing, 1930s-1960s in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749986/ Wed, 25 Aug 2021 02:24:19 -0400 In this article we trace the history of Urban Renewal in Lansing through a collaborative research project involving undergraduate students and the course instructor. Looking in fine-grain detail at the block and individual house level, the project reveals the patchwork of discrimination that African Americans faced in accessing housing in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 556c56f8167ae4605d0ecccc8239afbc John Aerni-Flessner deposited Digitally Documenting Urban Renewal in Lansing, 1930s-1960s https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749947/ Tue, 24 Aug 2021 18:40:46 -0400 In this article we trace the history of Urban Renewal in Lansing through a collaborative research project involving undergraduate students and the course instructor. Looking in fine-grain detail at the block and individual house level, the project reveals the patchwork of discrimination that African Americans faced in accessing housing in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 2930134079c3ac2b040fdd6825302572 John Aerni-Flessner's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1727181/ Thu, 11 Feb 2021 14:26:19 -0500 0 da235156ce64e9a6002a933f1fe11b55 John Aerni-Flessner's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1705512/ Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:14:41 -0400 0 aa35c7b4c97242e02f0ea0c9d43a5a28 John Aerni-Flessner's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1688258/ Fri, 22 May 2020 20:58:24 -0400 0 6d0ba12bac6a2a3d4a3c47bd1b56bd55 John Aerni-Flessner's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1681293/ Thu, 19 Mar 2020 17:18:19 -0400 0 d51e6bc7e63c484900e37fd197be18e8 John Aerni-Flessner's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1668848/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 03:16:50 -0400 0 fb6f4a88f17570091bcae78291013a20 John Aerni-Flessner deposited Passports, Citizenship, Residency, and Asylum: The Meanings of Decolonisation in Lesotho https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1668846/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 03:04:26 -0400 In late colonial Basutoland and early independence Lesotho, the issue of who could access citizenship rights and passports became increasingly important. Political refugees fleeing apartheid South Africa took up passports on offer in the territory to further their political work. Basotho residents also took up passports in increasing numbers as a…[Read more]

]]> 0 963fcf5d8fd3012cbc11faa0df4fc88d John Aerni-Flessner deposited Self-Help Development Projects and Conceptions of Independence in Lesotho, 1950s-1970s https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609478/ Tue, 29 May 2018 18:58:02 -0400 In the 1960s, the concept of development became increasingly intertwined with conceptions of independence amongst Basotho. Politicians and administrators before and after independence wanted to use development to legitimize their rule and consolidate power for a fairly weak central government. Their inability to procure funding for large projects…[Read more]

]]> 0 5147b041b4b7d446ce502ed400600fd6 John Aerni-Flessner deposited Introduction: Localizing the History of Development in Africa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609464/ Tue, 29 May 2018 18:19:50 -0400 An Introduction to the special issue of the International Journal of African Historical Studies on Localizing the History of Development in Africa.

]]> 0 bc11846783a1a3218695fdab7494f868 John Aerni-Flessner deposited Homemakers, Communists, and Refugees: Smuggling Anti-Apartheid Refugees in Rural Lesotho in the 1960s and 1970s https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609460/ Tue, 29 May 2018 18:01:56 -0400 This article tells the story of Maleseko Kena, a woman born in South Africa but who lived most of her adult life in rural Lesotho. It narrates how her story of helping apartheid refugees cross the border and move onward complicates understandings of what the international border, belonging, and citizenship meant for individuals living near it. By…[Read more]

]]> 0 91ece674a3cf2d405d8cce41bae734c7 John Aerni-Flessner deposited Development, Politics, and the Centralization of State Power in Lesotho, 1960-75 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609459/ Tue, 29 May 2018 17:53:56 -0400 The rhetoric of development served as a language for Sotho politicians from 1960–70 to debate the meanings of political participation. The relative paucity of aid in this period gave outsized importance to small projects run in rural villages, and stood in stark contrast to the period from the mid-1970s onwards when aid became an ‘…[Read more]

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