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Writing resurrection and reversal: the cattle killing and other nineteenth-century millennial dreams -- Spectral and textual ancestors: new African intermediation and the politics of intertextuality -- The promise of failure: memory, prophecy, and temporal disjunctures of the South African twentieth century -- Weapons of struggle and weapons of memory: thinking time beyond apartheid -- Ancestors without borders: the cattle killing as global reimaginary.

Politics and government --- Antikolonialismus. --- Chiliasmus. --- Auswirkung. --- Xhosa. --- Xhosa Cattle-Killing (South Africa : 1856-1857) --- 1836-1999 --- South Africa --- South Africa. --- History --- Südafrika, 1500-1899 --- Südafrika, 1899-1961 --- Kolonialreiche --- Kolonialismus --- Mythologie --- Menschen- und Bürgerrechte --- Entkolonialisierung --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Afrika

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In 1856 and 1857, in response to a prophet's command, the Xhosa people of southern Africa killed their cattle and ceased planting crops; the resulting famine cost tens of thousands of lives. Much like other millenarian, anticolonial movements-such as the Ghost Dance in North America and the Birsa Munda uprising in India-these actions were meant to transform the world and liberate the Xhosa from oppression. Despite the movement's momentous failure to achieve that goal, the event has continued to exert a powerful pull on the South African imagination ever since. It is these afterliv

South Africa --- History --- Politics and government --- colonial, colonialism, postcolonial, anticolonial, south africa, regional, african, 1800s, history, historical, academic, scholarly, justice, xhosa, tribe, tribal, famine, death, tragedy, ghost dance, birsa munda, uprising, equality, prophecy, interdisciplinary, oppression, liberation, intertextuality, politics, political, government, 19th, 20th, century, apartheid, race, racism.

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Power resources --- Environmental sciences --- Jargon (Terminology) --- Technology --- Material culture. --- Environmental sciences. --- Power resources. --- Social aspects. --- Jargon (Terminology). --- Material culture --- Social aspects --- Buzzwords --- Gobbledygook --- Environmental science --- Energy --- Energy resources --- Power supply --- Culture --- Folklore --- Slang --- Terms and phrases --- Science --- Natural resources --- Energy harvesting --- Energy industries --- Power resources - Terminology --- Environmental sciences - Terminology --- Technology - Social aspects

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The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. Utopia/Dystopia offers a fresh approach to these ideas. Rather than locate utopias in grandiose programs of future totality, the book treats these concepts as historically grounded categories and examines how individuals and groups throughout time have interpreted utopian visions in their daily present, with an eye toward the future. From colonial and postcolonial Africa to pre-Marxist and Stalinist Eastern Europe, from the social life of fossil fuels to dreams of nuclear power, and from everyday politics in contemporary India to imagined architectures of postwar Britain, this interdisciplinary collection provides new understandings of the utopian/dystopian experience. The essays look at such issues as imaginary utopian perspectives leading to the 1856-57 Xhosa Cattle Killing in South Africa, the functioning racist utopia behind the Rhodesian independence movement, the utopia of the peaceful atom and its global dissemination in the mid-1950's, the possibilities for an everyday utopia in modern cities, and how the Stalinist purges of the 1930's served as an extension of the utopian/dystopian relationship. The contributors are Dipesh Chakrabarty, Igal Halfin, Fredric Jameson, John Krige, Timothy Mitchell, Aditya Nigam, David Pinder, Marci Shore, Jennifer Wenzel, and Luise White.

Dystopias --- Utopias --- Anti-utopias --- History.

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