Professor Henning Melber

Contact details

Name:
Professor Henning Melber
Qualifications:
PhD (Political Sciences) Habilitation (Development Studies)
Position/Fellowship type:
Senior Research Fellow
Fellowship term:
24-Jul-2015 to 31-Jan-2025
Institute:
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Home institution:
Nordic Africa Institute
Location:
PO Box 1703 SE-75147 Uppsala Sweden
Phone:
+46-(0)706794411
Email address:
Henning.Melber@nai.uu.se

Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:
Civil Rights, Colonies & Colonization, emigration & immigration, Communities, Classes, Races, Globalization & Development, History, Human rights, International Relations, Politics
Regions:
Africa
Summary of research interests and expertise:

Dag Hammarskjöld and the United Nations; (History of) Racism, Southern Africa, Namibia, Liberation Movements as Governments

Project summary relevant to Fellowship:

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Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date Details
26-Oct-2024 Colonialism, Genocide and Reparations : the German-Namibian Case

Journal articles

In: Development and Change, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 773-799

03-Sep-2024 A 'Reconciliation Agreement' that isn't one: The German-Namibia Joint Declaration on the Genocide in German South West Africa

Chapters

In: Andreas Eckl and Matthias Häussler with Martha Akawa (eds.), An Unresolved Issue: Genocide in Colonial Namibia. Windhoek: Friedrich Ebert Foundation, pp. 331-358 

04-Jul-2024 The Long Shadow of German Colonialism. Amnesia, Denialism and Revisionism

Monographs

London: Hurst, xii + 332 pp (also: New York: Oxford University Press)

27-May-2024 L'Allemagneet la Namibie: comment (ne pas) assumer le génocide

Journal articles

In: Guerres mondiales et conflits temporaire, no. 293, 2024, pp. 41-59

30-Apr-2024 Solidarität mit Zimbabwe. 40 Jahre Zimbabwe Netzwerk. Geschichte, Analysen, Perspektiven

Edited Book

In: Henning Melber (ed.), Solidarität mit Zimbabwe. 40 Jahre Zimbabwe Netzwerk. Geschichte, Analysen, Perspektiven

30-Apr-2024 Solidarität mit Zimbabwe

Chapters

Editor. Frankfurt/Main: Brandes & Apsel, 215 pp.

16-Oct-2023 Challenging Global Development. Towards Decoloniality and Justice

Edited Book

Co-editor (with Laura Camfield, Uma Kothari and Kees Biekart)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 260 pp.

16-Oct-2023 Rethinking Development and Decolonising Development Studies

Chapters

Co-author (with Kees Biekart, Laura Camfield, and Uma Kothari)

In: Henning Melber/Uma Kothari/Laura Camfield/Kees Biekart eds.), Challenging Global Development. Towards Decoloniality and Justice. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2023, pp. 1-13

10-Oct-2023 Namibia

Chapters

In: Seidu M. Alidu/Benedikt Kamski/Andreas Mehler/David Sebudububu (eds.), Africa Yearbook. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2022. Leiden: Brill 2023, pp. 518-526

24-Jul-2023 Südafrika und BRICS

Journal articles

In WeltTrends, vol. 31, no. 197, summer 2023, pp. 69-75

10-Jul-2023 Namibia - From liberation movement as government to government without liberation: Democracy under the governance of SWAPO (1990-2015).

Chapters

In: Lesley Blaauw/Dennis U. Zaire (eds.), Dominant Parties as Governments in Southern Africa. Their changing nature and its implications for democracy and democratic consolidation. Windhoek: Konrad Adenauer Foundation, pp. 45-65

26-Jun-2023 'We will not move' from the Old Location to Katutura: Forced Resettlement in Windhoek, South West Africa (1959-1968)

Articles

In: Historia, vol. 68, no. 1, 2023, pp. 54-85.

05-Jun-2023 Rassismus und Entwicklungspolitik

Chapters

In: Manuela Boatca/Karin Fischer/ Gerhard Hauck (eds), Handbuch Entwicklungsforschung. 2nd, revised and updated edition. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 311-321

10-May-2023 Namibia and South Africa’s ruling parties share a heroic history - but their 2024 electoral prospects look weak

Articles

How Swapo and the ANC respond to any further decline in electoral support will define the future of democracy in both countries.

08-May-2023 African middle classness, politics and protest: on the context of this issue

Journal articles

With Antje Daniel and Florian Stoll. In: Journal of Contemporary African Studies, vol. 41, no. 1, 2023, pp. 1-12

08-May-2023 Explorations into middle class urbanites, social movements and political dynamics: impressions from Namibia’s capital Windhoek

Journal articles

In: Journal of Contemporary African Studies, vol. 41, no. 1, 2023, pp. 94-105

02-Mar-2023 Citizenship Matters. Explorations into the Citizen-State Relationship in Africa.

Journal articles

With Jesper Bjarnesen, Cristiano Lanzano and Patience Mususa. In: Forum for Development Studies, vol. 50, no. 1, 2023, pp. 35-58

28-Feb-2023 Polylog im Schatten afrikanischer Perspektiven oder: afrikanische Perspektiven im Schatten?

Chapters

In: Franz Gmainer-Pranzl/Lara Hofner (eds), Polylog als Aufklärung? Interkulturell-philosophische Impulse. Wien: Facultas, pp. 123-138

20-Dec-2022 Ein “Versöhnungsabkommen“, das keines ist. Die deutsch-namibische Gemeinsame Erklärung zum Völkermord in Deutsch-Südwestafrika

Journal articles

In: Zeitschrift für Genozidforschung, vol. 20, no. 2, 2022, pp. 290-305

12-Dec-2022 Abdullah Ibrahim: The healing power of music

Chapters

In: Narnia Bohler-Muller/Vasu Reddy/Gregory Houston/Maxi Schoeman/Heather Thuynsma (eds.), The Texture of Dissent: Defiant Public Intellectuals in South Africa. Pretoria: HSRC Press, pp. 190-194

12-Dec-2022 Sibongile Khumalo: African nightingale

Chapters

In: Narnia Bohler-Muller/Vasu Reddy/Gregory Houston/Maxi Schoeman/Heather Thuynsma (eds.), The Texture of Dissent: Defiant Public Intellectuals in South Africa. Pretoria: HSRC Press 2022, pp. 200-203

12-Dec-2022 Brenda Fassie: MaBrrr, the African Madonna

Chapters

In: Narnia Bohler-Muller/Vasu Reddy/Gregory Houston/Maxi Schoeman/Heather Thuynsma (eds.), The Texture of Dissent: Defiant Public Intellectuals in South Africa. Pretoria: HSRC Press 2022, pp. 209-212

05-Dec-2022 Colonialism, reconciliation and education – learning from the past for the future – a keynote

Journal articles

In: Journal of Namibian Studies, no. 32, 2022, pp. 165-172

24-Nov-2022 Namibia’s Resource Based Economy: Protection versus Exploitation on Nature.

Chapters

In: Charles M. Fombad/Nico Steytler (eds.), Constitutionalism and the Economy in Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 288-309

20-Oct-2022 Namibia

Chapters

In: Albert K. Awedoba/Benedikt Kamski/Andreas Mehler/David Sebudubudu (eds), Africa Yearbook, volume 18. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara 2021. Leiden and Boston: Brill, pp. 515-523

10-Oct-2022 Jenseits von Mbembe – Geschichte, Erinnerung, Solidarität.

Edited Book

Co-editor (with Matthias Böckmann, Matthias Gockel and Reinhart Kößler). Berlin, Metropol, 358 pp.

10-Oct-2022 Jenseits der Mbembe-Debatte – Geschichte, Erinnerung, Solidarität.

Chapters

With Matthias Böckmann, Matthias Gockel and Reinhart Kößler. In: Matthias Böckmann/Matthias Gockel/Reinhart Kößler/Henning Melber (eds.), Jenseits von Mbembe, Berlin: Metropol, pp. 9-22

10-Oct-2022 Koloniale Amnesie, Verdrängung und Asymmetrie. (Post-)Koloniale Katerstimmung Made in Germany

Chapters

In: Matthias Böckmann/Matthias Gockel/Reinhart Kößler/Henning Melber (eds.), Jenseits von Mbembe, Berlin: Metropol, pp. 317-336

15-Sep-2022 Germany and reparations: the reconciliation agreement with Namibia

Journal articles

In: The Round Table, vol. 111, no. 4, 2022, pp. 475-488

10-Sep-2022 Zum Völkermord in Deutsch-Südwestafrika

In: Henning Melber/Kristin Platt (eds), Koloniale Vergangenheit – postkoloniale Zukunft? Frankfurt/Main: Brandes & Apsel, pp. 41-54

10-Sep-2022 Koloniale Vergangenheit – postkoloniale Zukunft? Die deutsch-namibischen Beziehungen neu denken.

Edited Book

Co-editor (with Kristin Platt). Frankfurt/Main: Brandes & Apsel, 252 pp. 

30-Jun-2022 Africa’s Middle Classes

Journal articles

Africa Spectrum, vol. 57, no. 2, 2022, pp. 204-219

20-Apr-2022 Namibia since Independence

Articles

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford University Press

04-Mar-2022 The Struggle Continues: Namibia’s Enduring Land Question.

Chapters

In: Freedom Mazwi, George Tonderai Mudimu and Kirk Helliker (eds): Capital Penetration and the Peasantry in Southern and Eastern Africa. Neoliberal Restructuring. Cham: Springer, pp. 79-99

01-Feb-2022 Populism in Southern Africa Under Liberation Movements as Governments: The Cases of Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe

Chapters

In: Michael Oswald (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Populism. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer, pp. 497-509

30-Dec-2021 “One Namibia, One Nation”? Social Cohesion under a Liberation Movement as Government in Decline

Articles

In: Stichproben. Vienna Journal of African Studies, vol. 21, no. 41, pp. 129-158

29-Nov-2021 Selective commemoration: coming to terms with German colonialism.

Chapters

With Reinhart Kössler, in Tatjana Louis/Mokgadi Molope/Stefan Peters (eds), Dealing with the Past in Latin America, Southern Africa and Germany. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 87-106

01-Nov-2021 Namibia

Chapters

In: Albert K. Awedoba/Benedikt Kamski/Andreas Mehler/David Sebudubudu (eds), Africa Yearbook, volume 17. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara 2020. Leiden and Boston: Brill 2021, pp. 508-516

15-Oct-2021 Development

Chapters

In: Ulf Engel (ed.), Yearbook on the African Union. Volume 1 (2020). Leiden: Brill 2021, pp. 51-67

11-Oct-2021 Kritik des deutschen Kolonialismus. Postkoloniale Sicht auf Erinnerung und Geschichtsvermittlung.

Edited Book

Co-editor (with Wolfgang Geiger). Frankfurt/Main: Brandes & Apsel

01-Oct-2021 “La mort est un maître d’Allemagne”

Chapters

In: Penser les génocides. Les chercheurs face aux génocides et crimes de masse. Paris: CNRS 2021, pp. 27-34

01-Jun-2021 Namibia’s Regional and Local Authorities Elections 2020: Democracy beyond SWAPO

Articles

In: Journal of Namibian Studies, no. 29, 2021, pp. 73-83

01-Jun-2021 Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte als Gegenwart: Land und Entwicklung in Namibia

Journal articles

Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 10-25

18-May-2021 Competitive Authoritarianism in a Constitutional Democracy: The Case of SWAPO in Namibia

Chapters

In: Charles M. Fombad/Nico Steytler (eds), Democracy, Elections, and Constitutionalism in Africa. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 161-185

22-Mar-2021 Zimbabwe’s Foreign Policy Under Mnangagwa (with RogerSouthall)

Journal articles

Journal of Asian and African Studies, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 234-250

31-Dec-2020 In the Shadow of Apartheid: The Windhoek Old Location

Journal articles

Southern Journal for Contemporary History, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 33-58

07-Dec-2020 Die Welt aus der Perspektive der Entwicklungssoziologe. Festschrift für Dieter Neubert

Edited Book

Co-editor (with Artur Bogner, Reinhart Kößler and Rüdiger Korff,) Baden-Baden: Nomos

12-Oct-2020 Namibia

Chapters

In: Albert K. Awedoba/Benedikt Kamski/Andreas Mehler/David Sebudubudu (eds), Africa Yearbook, volume 16. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara 2019. Leiden and Boston: Brill, pp. 506-514

20-Aug-2020 Germany and Namibia: Negotiating Genocide

Journal articles

Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 502-514

26-Jun-2020 Geingob 2.0. Namibia’s new government

Journal articles

Journal of Namibian Studies, no. 27, pp. 101-121

20-Feb-2020 Namibia’s parliamentary and presidential elections: the honeymoon is over

Journal articles

The Round Table, vol. 109, no. 1, pp. 13-22

03-Jan-2020 Sam Nujoma: Lebenslänglich Freiheitskämpfer.

Chapters

In: Michael Epkenhans/Ewald Frie (eds), Politiker ohne Amt. Von Metternich bis Helmut Schmidt. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, pp. 239-256

02-Dec-2019 Global governance and human rights: South Africa and the United Nations

Chapters

In: Vasu Reddy/Heather Thuynsma (eds), The undiscovered country. Essays in honour of Maxi Schoeman. Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies 2019, pp. 49-66

01-Nov-2019 No Rainbow yet in Sight: Southern Africa under Liberation Movements as Governments.

Journal articles

The Round Table, vol. 108, no. 5, pp. 531-541

15-Oct-2019 Deutschland und Afrika. Anatomie eines komplexen Verhältnisses

Edited Book

Frankfurt/Main: Brandes & Apsel. Including own chapters on Das Deutsche Afrika, pp. 7-21 and Herausforderungen deutscher Dekolonisierung, pp. 209-219

10-Oct-2019 Africa Yearbook, volume 15. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara 2018

Edited Book

(Co-editor, with Victor Adetula, Benedikt Kamski and Andreas Mehler). Leiden: Brill Including own chapters on Southern Africa, pp. 415-423 and Namibia, pp. 487-495 and a co-authored chapter (with co-editors) on Sub-Saharan Africa, pp. 3-15

01-Jul-2019 Auf der Suche nach “Entwicklung”. Ein Abgesang auf eine Begriffsverwirrung.

Chapters

In: Michaela Fink, Jonas Metzger and Anne Zulauf (eds), Was wird aus der Hoffnung? Interdisziplinäre Denkanstöße für neue Formen des Miteinanders. Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag, pp. 105-115

15-Apr-2019 Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations and the Decolonisation of Africa.

Monographs

London: Hurst

10-Apr-2019 Elmar Altvater (1938-2018)

Chapters

In: David Simon (ed), Key Thinkers on Development. Second (expanded) edition. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 18-23

10-Apr-2019 Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961)

Chapters

In: David Simon (ed), Key Thinkers on Development. Second (expanded) edition. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 195-200

10-Apr-2019 Inge Kaul (1944-)

Chapters

In: David Simon (ed), Key Thinkers on Development. Second (expanded) edition. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 234-239

05-Apr-2019 Populism in Southern Africa under liberation movements as governments.

Journal articles

In: Review of African Political Economy, vol. 45, no. 158, 2018, pp. 678-686

30-Mar-2019 China in Namibia: An ’All-Weather-Friendship’ Examined.

Journal articles

In: afriche e orienti, vol. 20, nos. 1-2, 2018, pp. 7-23

20-Mar-2019 Colonialism, Land, Ethnicity, and Class: Namibia after the Second National Land Conference

Journal articles

In: Africa Spectrum, vol. 54, no. 1, 2019, pp. 73-86

01-Feb-2019 Knowledge Production, Ownership and the Power of Definition: Perspectives on and from Sub-Saharan Africa.

Chapters

In: Isa Baud/Elisabetta Basile/Tiina Kontinen/Susanne von Itter (eds), Building Development Studies for the New Millennium. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 265-287

15-Dec-2018 Looking East/Going South: The Namibian-Chinese “All Weather Friendship”

Journal articles

Stichproben. Vienna Journal of African Studies, no. 35, pp. 25-50

01-Nov-2018 Völkermord – Anerkennung ohne Entschuldigung und Entschädigung? Verwicklungen in verwobener Geschichte

Chapters

Co-authored with Reinhart Kössler. In: Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst/Joachim Zeller (eds), Deutschland postcolonial? Die Gegenwart der imperialen Vergangenheit. Berlin: Metropol Verlag, pp. 223-242

15-Oct-2018 Africa Yearbook, volume 14. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara 2017

Edited Book

Leiden: Brill

30-Aug-2018 United in Separation? Lozi Secessionism in Zambia and Malawi.

Chapters

Co-authored with Wolfgang Zeller. In: Lotje de Vries, Pierre Englebert, Mareike Schomerus (eds), Secessionism in African Politics: Aspiration, Grievance, Performance, Disenchantment. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2018, pp. 293-328

01-Jun-2018 Knowledge Production and Decolonisation – Not Only African Challenges

Journal articles

 Strategic Review for Southern Africa

01-Apr-2018 The shifting grounds of emancipation: From the anti-colonial struggle to a critique of post-colonial society

Chapters

 UNAM Press

01-Dec-2017 Heroic narratives, patriotic history and Namibian politics: The case of (Herman) Andimba Toivo Ya Toivo (1924-2017)

Journal articles

 Journal of Namibian Studies

01-Dec-2017 Genocide Matters. Negotiating a Namibian-German Past in the Present

Journal articles

 Stichproben. Vienna Journal for African Studies

01-Oct-2017 Namibia. Gesellschaftspolitische Erkundungen seit der Unabhängigkeit.

Monographs

 Brandes & Apsel (2nd, enlarged edition) 

01-Oct-2017 Explorations into modernity, colonialism and genocide: Revisiting the past in the present

Journal articles

 acta academica

01-Oct-2017 Explorations into modernity, colonialism and genocide: Revisiting the past in the present

Journal articles

 acta academica

01-May-2017 Völkermord - und was dann? Zur Politik deutsch-namibischer Vergangenheitsbearbeitung

Monographs

 Brandes & Apsel

01-May-2017 Africa Yearbook, volume 13. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara 2016

Edited Book

 Brill

01-May-2017 China and Namibia: an All-Weather Friendship Investigated

Chapters

 Palgrave MacMillan

01-May-2017 Agency

Chapters

 J.B. Metzeler

01-May-2017 Why we need a Constitution

Chapters

 Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

01-May-2017 Mediating Decolonization. Dealing with conflict parties - the long way to Namibia's transition to independence

Chapters

 Nomos/Bloomsbury

01-May-2017 Struggle Mentality versus Democracy: The case of SWAPO of Namibia

Chapters

 Routledge

01-May-2017 The African Middle Classes - in the middle of what?

Journal articles

 in ROAPE Taylor and Francis

01-May-2017 Changing of the Guard? An

Journal articles

 in African Affairs 

01-May-2017 How Democratic is Namibia's Democracy?

Journal articles

 in Taiwan Journal of Democracy

01-May-2017 Mission Impossible: Hammarskjöld and the UN Mandate for the Congo (1960-1961)

Journal articles

 in Africa Security, Tayler and Francis

01-Oct-2016 Rassismus und Entwicklungspolitik

Chapters

 Springer

01-Oct-2016 Wieviel Klasse hat die afrikanische

Chapters

 Nomos

01-Oct-2016 Update: Journey for Truth - From

Chapters

 Hurst

01-Oct-2016 Africa Yearbook, volume 12. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara 2015

Edited Book

 Brill

01-Oct-2016 The Rise of Africa's Middle Class

Edited Book

 Zed

01-Oct-2015 Africa Yearbook. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2014.

Edited Book

Co-editor (with Sebastian Elischer, Rolf Hofmeier and Andreas Mehler). Leiden: Brill

01-Mar-2015 Namibia. Gesellschaftspolitische Erkundungen seit der Unabhängigkeit.

Monographs

Frankfurt/Main: Brandes & Apsel

01-Dec-2014 Understanding Namibia. The trials of Independence.

Monographs

London: Hurst and Johannesburg: Jacana (also New York: Oxford University Press 2015)

01-May-2014 Peace Diplomacy, Global Justice and Inter-national Agency. Rethinking Human Security and Ethics in the Spirit of Dag Hammarskjöld

Edited Book

Co-editor (with Carsten Stahn). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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