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Ana Carolina Schveitzer

@anaschveitzer.bsky.social

PhD Student | African History | Humboldt University My research focuses on the connections between photography, labour, and German colonialism in Africa.

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I am so happy to share that yesterday, I defended my dissertation.

Ambivalent Spaces: Photography and Work in German Colonial Africa (1884-1918)

African Studies/ @humboldtuni.bsky.social

29.04.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dissertation submitted.
I can't believe this has finally happened!
(and yes, I will share this news on all my social media profiles)

20.11.2024 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is an outcome of my research stay at the @ghilondon.bsky.social last year.

15.05.2024 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Visualizing Labour in German East Africa: Photographic Images and their Circulation Thirty years ago, in 1993, Cambridge University Library acquired a substantial quantity of materials from the Commonwealth and Britain’s former colonial territories. This repository originally came fr...

How was labour in Africa under colonialism framed and archived? How did photographs from the colonial past cross borders? In this short text, I address these two questions by examining my findings during research at @camhistory.bsky.social.

ghil.hypotheses.org/2332

15.05.2024 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1