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Diana Jeater

Professor Diana Jeater
DPhil (Oxon); FRHistS

Publications

Selected publications

  1. Nehanda (Journal article - 2021)
  2. Can spirits play a role in peace and reconciliation projects? Perspectives on traditional reconciliation in Zimbabwe (Journal article - 2020)
  3. Ngozi spirits and healing the nation at the grassroots (Chapter - 2019)
  4. Academic Standards or Academic Imperialism? Zimbabwean perceptions of hegemonic power in the global construction of knowledge (Journal article - 2018)
  5. Can’t pay, won’t pay: occult conflicts over neoliberal social relations in contemporary Zimbabwe (Journal article - 2017)
  6. Masculinity, Marriage and the Bible: New Pentecostalist masculinities in Zimbabwe (Chapter - 2016)
  7. Citizen, Witch or Non-person? Contested concepts of personhood, political violence and reconciliation in Zimbabwe’ (Chapter - 2013)
  8. Law, Language, and Science The Invention of the Native Mind in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1930 (Book - 2006)
  9. Imagining Africans: Scholarship, fantasy, and science in colonial administration, 1920s Southern Rhodesia (Journal article - 2005)
  10. Speaking like a native: Vernacular languages and the state in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1935 (Journal article - 2001)
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2023

2022

Conversation with Diana Jeater

Makoni, S., Kaiper-Marquez, A., & Mokwena, L. (2022). Conversation with Diana Jeater. In The Routledge Handbook of Language and the Global South/s (pp. 180-186). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003007074-17

DOI
10.4324/9781003007074-17
Chapter

2021

2020

2019

Promoting Diversity and Equality in Undergraduate Teaching

Heath, D. L., & Jeater, D. (2019). Promoting Diversity and Equality in Undergraduate Teaching. University of Liverpool.

Presentation material

2018

‘Theory’ as the Practice of Asking Questions: Moving Second Year History Undergraduates from Knowledge Acquisition to Knowledge Construction in a UK University

Jeater, D. (2018). ‘Theory’ as the Practice of Asking Questions: Moving Second Year History Undergraduates from Knowledge Acquisition to KnowledgeConstruction in a UK University. In F. Neumann, & L. Shopkow (Eds.), Teaching History, Learning History, Promoting History. Papers from the Bielefeld Conference on Teaching History in Higher Education (pp. 77-93). Frankfurt: Wochenschau Wissenschaft. Retrieved from http://www.wochenschau-verlag.de/

Chapter

2017

Can’t pay, won’t pay: occult conflicts over neoliberal social relations in contemporary Zimbabwe

Jeater, D., & Mashinge, J. L. (2017). Can’t pay, won’t pay: occult conflicts over neoliberal social relations in contemporary Zimbabwe. Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 2(2-3), 263-278. doi:10.1080/23802014.2017.1314770

DOI
10.1080/23802014.2017.1314770
Journal article

Black and White Cinema, politics and the arts in Zimbabwe FOREWORD

Jeater, D. (2017). Black and White Cinema, politics and the arts in Zimbabwe FOREWORD. In BLACK AND WHITE: CINEMA, POLITICS AND THE ARTS IN ZIMBABWE (pp. XI-XIV). Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/

Chapter

2016

Terence Ranger, 1929-2015 OBITUARY

Jeater, D. (2016). Terence Ranger, 1929-2015 OBITUARY. HISTORY WORKSHOP JOURNAL, (81), 306-315. doi:10.1093/hwj/dbw008

DOI
10.1093/hwj/dbw008
Journal article

Black and White

Piotrowska, A. (n.d.). Black and White. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315745473

DOI
10.4324/9781315745473
Book

Masculinity, Marriage and the Bible: New Pentecostalist masculinities in Zimbabwe

Jeater, D. (2016). Masculinity, Marriage and the Bible: New Pentecostalist masculinities in Zimbabwe. In A. Cornwall, F. G. Karioris, & N. Lindisfarne (Eds.), Masculinities Under Neoliberalism (pp. 165-182). London: Zed Books. Retrieved from https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo24182877.html

Chapter

2015

A Reflection on Epistemology and Ideas about the Spirit in Terence Ranger's Work

Jeater, D. (2015). A Reflection on Epistemology and Ideas about the Spirit in Terence Ranger's Work. JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN STUDIES, 41(5), 1128-1131. doi:10.1080/03057070.2015.1083282

DOI
10.1080/03057070.2015.1083282
Journal article

2014

Data, Data Everywhere, But Not a Byte to Think <i>The Pitfalls of Increased Access to Digital Resources in University History Departments in Zimbabwe</i>

Jeater, D. (2014). Data, Data Everywhere, But Not a Byte to Think <i>The Pitfalls of Increased Access to Digital Resources in University History Departments in Zimbabwe</i>. In Unknown Book (pp. 61-77). doi:10.1163/9789004279148_005

DOI
10.1163/9789004279148_005
Chapter

2013

Citizen, Witch or Non-person? Contested concepts of personhood, political violence and reconciliation in Zimbabwe’

Jeater, D. (2013). Citizen, Witch or Non-person? Contested concepts of personhood, political violence and reconciliation in Zimbabwe’. In D. Kaulemu (Ed.), Imagining Citizenship in Zimbabwe (pp. 124-137). Bonn and Harare: Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

Chapter

2012

Stuff Happens, and People Make it Happen: Theory and Practice in the Work of Terence Ranger

Jeater, D. (2012). Stuff Happens, and People Make it Happen: Theory and Practice in the Work of Terence Ranger. HISTORY WORKSHOP JOURNAL, (73), 193-210. doi:10.1093/hwj/dbr032

DOI
10.1093/hwj/dbr032
Journal article

2011

The Transformation of Imperial Administrators into African Rulers in Colonial Natal

Jeater, D. (2011). The Transformation of Imperial Administrators into African Rulers in Colonial Natal. Journal of Southern African Studies, 37(4), 870-872. doi:10.1080/03057070.2011.617939

DOI
10.1080/03057070.2011.617939
Journal article

2006

Law, Language, and Science The Invention of the Native Mind in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1930

Jeater, D. (2006). Law, Language, and Science The Invention of the Native Mind in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1930. Greenwood Publishing Group.

Book

The British Empire and African Women in the Twentieth Century

Jeater, D. (2006). The British Empire and African Women in the Twentieth Century. In Black Experience and the Empire (pp. 228-256). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199290673.003.0009

DOI
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199290673.003.0009
Chapter

2005

Imagining Africans: Scholarship, fantasy, and science in colonial administration, 1920s Southern Rhodesia

Jeater, D. (2005). Imagining Africans: Scholarship, fantasy, and science in colonial administration, 1920s Southern Rhodesia. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES, 38(1), 1-26. Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/

Journal article

2001

Speaking like a native: Vernacular languages and the state in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1935

Jeater, D. (2001). Speaking like a native: Vernacular languages and the state in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1935. JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY, 42(3), 449-468. doi:10.1017/S0021853701007988

DOI
10.1017/S0021853701007988
Journal article

2000

“Their idea of Justice is so peculiar”: Southern Rhodesia 1890-1923

Jeater, D. (2000). “Their idea of Justice is so peculiar”: Southern Rhodesia 1890-1923. In P. Coss (Ed.), The Moral World of the Law (pp. 178-195). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Chapter

No place for a woman: Gwelo town, Southern Rhodesia, 1894-1920

Jeater, D. (2000). No place for a woman: Gwelo town, Southern Rhodesia, 1894-1920. JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN STUDIES, 26(1), 29-42. doi:10.1080/030570700108360

DOI
10.1080/030570700108360
Journal article

1995

Book reviews

Alexander, P., Crehan, K., Finnegan, R., Lyons, T., Jeater, D., Middleton, K., . . . Young, E. T. (1995). Book reviews. Journal of Southern African Studies, 21(4), 669-687. doi:10.1080/03057079508708473

DOI
10.1080/03057079508708473
Journal article

The way you tell them

Jeater, D. (1995). The way you tell them. African Studies, 54(2), 1-15. doi:10.1080/00020189508707826

DOI
10.1080/00020189508707826
Journal article

1993

Tears of the Dead: The social biography of an African family

JEATER, D. (1993). Tears of the Dead: The social biography of an African family. African Affairs, 92(367), 305-307. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098622

DOI
10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098622
Journal article

Marriage, Perversion, and Power The Construction of Moral Discourse in Southern Rhodesia, 1894-1930

Jeater, D. (1993). Marriage, Perversion, and Power The Construction of Moral Discourse in Southern Rhodesia, 1894-1930. Oxford University Press on Demand.

Book

1992

‘Dance, Civet Cat’: Child labour in the Zambesi Valley

JEATER, D. (1992). ‘Dance, Civet Cat’: Child labour in the Zambesi Valley. African Affairs, 91(363), 278-280. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098495

DOI
10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098495
Journal article