Jonathan Hyslop

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Jonathan Hyslop

Professor of Sociology and Africana & Latin American Studies, Emeritus

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Sociology and Anthropology , Africana and Latin American Studies

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Education
  • BA (Hons) Oxford University 1976
  • MA Birmingham 1980
  • PhD University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 1991
Teaching Experience
  • University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 1985-2010
  • University of Pretoria, 2010-2012
Interests
  • Modern Southern Africa 
  • Labor History 
  • The British Empire
  • Maritime History and Sociology
  • The History and Sociology of  War
  • World War I and World War II
  • Teaching Social Theory
Distinctions
  • 2018 Travel Talent Award, Humboldt University, Berlin.
  • 2016-2017 Fellow, Re:work, Humboldt University, Berlin.
  • 2007-08 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Selected Publications
  • J. Hyslop, “The Politics of Disembarkation: Empire, Shipping and Labor in the Port of Durban 1897-1947”, International Labor and Working Class History, 93, 2018, 176-200.
  • J. Hyslop, “Johannesburg’s Green Flag: The Contemporaneity of the Easter Rising and the 1922 Rand Rebellion”, in E. Dal Largo, R. Healey and G. Barry eds., 1916 in Global Context: An Anti-Imperial Moment, London, Routledge, 2018), 76-90.
  • J. Hyslop, “German Seafarers, Anti-Fascism and the Anti-Stalinist Left: the 'Antwerp Group’ and Edo Fimmen’s International Transport Workers Federation, 1933-1940”, Global Networks https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/glob.12212
  • J. Hyslop, “The Lady in White: British Imperial Loyalism and Women’s Volunteerism in Second World War Durban”, Journal of Natal and Zulu History, 32:1, 2018, 38-54 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02590123.2018.1462045
  • J. Hyslop, “Southampton to Durban on the Union Castle Line: An Imperial Shipping Company and the limits of globality c. 1900-1939”, Journal of Transport History, published online, 2017. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022526617698151
  • J. Hyslop, “The War on War League: A South African Pacifist Movement, 1914-1915”, Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies, 44:1, 2016, 22-34.
  • J. Hyslop, “The Experience of War and the Making of a Historian: E.P. Thompson on Military Power, the Colonial Revolution and Nuclear Weapons”, South African Historical Journal, 68:3, 2016, 267-285.
  • J. Hyslop, “E.P. Thompson in South Africa: The Practice and Politics of Social History in an Era of Revolt and Transition, 1976-2012”, International Review of Social History, 61:1, 2016, 95-116.
  • J. Hyslop, “South Africa and Scotland in the First World War”, in David Forsyth and Wendy Ugolini eds., A Global Force: War, Identities and Scotland’s Diaspora (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2016), 151-167.
  • J. Hyslop, “Durban as a Portal of Globalization: Mines, Railways, Docks and Steamships in the Empire of Otto Siedle’s Natal Direct Line, 1879-1929”, Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, 26:1, 2015, 35-50.
  • J. Hyslop, “Oceanic Mobility and Settler-Colonial Power: Policing the Global Maritime Labour Force in Durban Harbour c. 1890-1910”, Journal of Transport History, 36:2, 2015, 248-267.
  • J. Hyslop, “A British Strike in an African Port: The Mercantile Marine and Dominion Politics in Durban, 1925”, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 43:5, 2015, 882-902.
  • J. Hyslop, "The Strange Death of Liberal England and the Strange Birth of Illiberal South Africa: British Trade Unionists, Indian Labourers and Afrikaner Rebels, 1910-1914", Labour History Review, 79:1, 2014, 97-120.
  • J. Hyslop, "Mandela on War", in R. Barnard (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014), 162-181.
  • J. Hyslop, “Zulu Sailors in the Steamship Era: The African Modern in the World Voyage Narratives of Fulunge Mpofu and George Magodini, 1916-1924”, in K. Reid and F. Paisley (eds.), Critical Perspectives on Colonialism: Writing the Empire from Below (London, Routledge, 2014), 123-140.
  • J. Hyslop, “’Segregation has fallen on evil days’: Smuts’ South Africa, Global War and Transnational Politics, 1939-1946”, Journal of Global History, 7:3, 2012, 438-460.
  • J. Hyslop, “The Invention of the Concentration Camp: Cuba, Southern Africa and the Philippines 1896-1907”, South African Historical Journal, 63:2, 2011, 251-276.
  • J. Hyslop, “An ‘Eventful’ History of Hind Swaraj: Gandhi Between the Battle of Tsushima and the Union of South Africa”, Public Culture, 23:2, 2011, 299-319.
  • J. Hyslop, “Gandhi: The Transnational Making of a Public Figure”, in J. Brown and A. Parel eds., The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011).
  • J. Hyslop, “Scottish Labour, Race and Southern African Empire c.1880-1922: A Reply to Kenefick”, International Review of Social History, 55:1, 2010, 53-84.
  • J. Hyslop, “Martial Law and Military Power in the Construction of the South African State: Jan Smuts and the ‘Solid Guarantee of Force’ 1899-1924”, Journal of Historical Sociology, 22:2, 2009, 235-268.
  • J. Hyslop, “Steamship Empire: African, Asian and British Sailors in the Merchant Marine c.1880-1940”, Journal of Asian and African Studies, 44:1, February 2009, 49-68.
  • J. Hyslop, “Guns, Drugs and Revolutionary Propaganda: Indian sailors and Smuggling in the 1920s”, South African Historical Journal, 61:4, 2009, 838-846.
  • J. Hyslop, “Gandhi, Mandela and the African Modern” in A. Mbembe and S. Nuttall (eds.), Johannesburg – The Elusive Metropolis (Durham N.C., Duke University Press, 2008).
  • J. Hyslop, “The World Voyage of James Keir Hardie: Indian Nationalism, Zulu Insurgency and the British Labour Diaspora 1907-1908”, Journal of Global History, 1, 2006, 343-362.
  • J. Hyslop, “Making Scotland in South Africa: Charles Murray, the Transvaal’s Aberdeenshire Poet” in D. Lambert and A. Lester (eds.), Imperial Careers Across the British Empire (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006).
  • J. Hyslop, “Colonial Intellectuals at the End of Empire: Manning Clark’s Australia and Guy Butler’s South Africa”, Kleio, 38:1, 2006, 25-39.
  • J. Hyslop, “An Anglophone Intellectual, the Second World War and the Coming of Apartheid: Guy Butler in the 1940s”, in S. Dubow and A. Jeeves (eds.), South Africa’s 1940s: Worlds of Possibilities (Johannesburg, Double Storey, 2005).
  • J. Hyslop, “Political Corruption: Before and After Apartheid”, Journal of Southern African Studies, 31:4, 2005, 773-789.
  • J. Hyslop, “Shopping During A Revolution: Entrepreneurs, Retailers and ‘White’ Identity During the Democratic Transition”, Historia, 50:1, 2005, 173-190.
  • J. Hyslop, “The White Poor at the End of Apartheid”, Itinerario, 27:3/4, 2003, 226-242.
  • J. Hyslop, “A Scottish Socialist Reads Carlyle in Johannesburg Prison, June 1900: Reflections on the Literary Culture of the Imperial Working Class”, Journal of Southern African Studies, 29:3, 2003, 639-655.
  • J. Hyslop, “Cape Town Highlanders, Transvaal Scottish: Military ‘Scottishness’ and Social Power in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century South Africa”, South African Historical Journal, 47, 2002, 96-114.
  • J. Hyslop, “A Ragged Trousered Philanthropist and the Empire: Robert Tressell in South Africa”, History Workshop Journal, 51, 2001, 64-86.
  • J. Hyslop, “Why did Apartheid’s Supporters Capitulate? ‘Whiteness’, Class and Consumption in Urban South Africa 1985-1995", Society in Transition, 31:1, 2000, 36-44.
  • J. Hyslop, “The Imperial Working Class Makes Itself ‘White’: White Labourism in Britain, Australia and South Africa Before the First World War”, Journal of Historical Sociology, 12:4, 1999, 398-421.