Work in progress papers
The Diamond Floors of Rooifontein
Jan-Bart Gewald
Towards an environmental history of a post-industrial diamond mining site in Kimberley, South Africa
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July 13, 2026
Arms and the Men
Jan-Bart Gewald
Firearms and Labour in the Context of the Diamond Fields of South Africa 1865–1879
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July 1, 2026
“Damara” cattle in Kimberley
Jan-Bart Gewald
The symbiotic relationship between industrial mining and the development of pastoralist Herero society in southern Africa, 1840 – 1920.[1]
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June 1, 2026
The Stranded Scarab
Jan-Bart Gewald
Scarred and Fading Images of an Environmental Worldview Destroyed by Settler Colonialism and Industrial Mining in the Northern Cape of South Africa
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May 11, 2026

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