?Anything about us, without us, is against us?: An ethnography of the genocide reparations and decolonial movements in Namibia
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Date
2022
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
This thesis explores decolonial memory activism and queer activism in Namibia. It
demonstrates how activists have mobilized in intersectional struggles (Becker 2020;
2022) against the structural remnants of colonialism. The activists have pointed to how
racist-, patriarchal- and heteronormative hierarchies that were imposed through German
and South African colonialisms have remained and are taken even further in the
postcolony. In this sense, activists have targeted colonial monuments, colonial laws and
the colonization of human remains in their decolonial campaigns. I specifically focus on
the #ACurtFarewell petition against the Curt von Fran?ois statue, the formation of the
Namibia Equal Rights Movement calling for the recognition of same-sex relationships,
and the campaigns by the Namibia Genocide Association (NGA) and other activists for
the recognition of the graves of Prisoner-of-War graves to show respect to those who
died during Germany?s colonial genocide (1904-1908) in Namibia.
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Masters of Art
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Ethnicity, Genocide, Namibia, Queer activism, Colonialism