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Women’s Activism in the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1986-1994 (2022)
Journal Article
Law, K. (2023). Women’s Activism in the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1986-1994. Historical Journal, 66(1), 258-279. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X22000310

Laying the groundwork for a new way to think through the history of British anti-apartheid activity, this article examines the liminal space between anti-racist and feminist activity through a case study of Leeds Women Against Apartheid. Founded in 1... Read More about Women’s Activism in the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1986-1994.

‘Travelling Towards Transculturalism? Statues, Remembrance, and Mourning in Bloemfontein, South Africa (2021)
Book Chapter
Law, K. (2021). ‘Travelling Towards Transculturalism? Statues, Remembrance, and Mourning in Bloemfontein, South Africa. In G. F. Fisher, & D. Robinson (Eds.), Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine (135-146). Anthem Press

‘We wanted to be free as a nation, and we wanted to be free as women’: Decolonisation, Nationalism and Women's Liberation in Zimbabwe, 1979–85 1 (2020)
Journal Article
Law, K. (2021). ‘We wanted to be free as a nation, and we wanted to be free as women’: Decolonisation, Nationalism and Women's Liberation in Zimbabwe, 1979–85 1. Gender and History, 33(1), 249-268. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12491

This article examines one of the most intractable problems that a newly independent nation encounters; the dissonance between the rhetoric of a revolutionary movement and its subsequent treatment of women in nationalist and supposedly decolonial proj... Read More about ‘We wanted to be free as a nation, and we wanted to be free as women’: Decolonisation, Nationalism and Women's Liberation in Zimbabwe, 1979–85 1.

Pattern, Puzzle, and Peculiarity: Rhodesia’s UDI and Decolonisation in Southern Africa (2017)
Journal Article
Law, K. (2017). Pattern, Puzzle, and Peculiarity: Rhodesia’s UDI and Decolonisation in Southern Africa. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 45(5), 721-728. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2017.1370219

Struggles within the struggle: Diana Mitchell, opposition politics, liberalism and women's liberation, 1965-1979 (2015)
Book Chapter
Law, K. (2015). Struggles within the struggle: Diana Mitchell, opposition politics, liberalism and women's liberation, 1965-1979. In Gendering the Settler State: White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980, 95-140. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Gendering the Settler State White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980 (2015)
Book
LAW, K. (2015). Gendering the Settler State White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980. New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

White women cut an ambivalent figure in the transnational history of the British Empire. They tend to be remembered as malicious harridans personifying the worst excesses of colonialism, as vacuous fusspots, whose lives were punctuated by a series of... Read More about Gendering the Settler State White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980.

“Mostly we are white and alone”: identity, anxiety and the past in some white Zimbabwean memoirs (2014)
Journal Article
Law, K. (2016). “Mostly we are white and alone”: identity, anxiety and the past in some white Zimbabwean memoirs. Journal of Historical Sociology, 29(3), 297-318. https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12090

Using the space created by the land invasions, over the last ten years or so there has been a proliferation of exile memoirs written by white Zimbabweans living in the diaspora, which foreground colonial nostalgia and postcolonial anxiety. This artic... Read More about “Mostly we are white and alone”: identity, anxiety and the past in some white Zimbabwean memoirs.

Influence in British Colonial Africa (2014)
Book Chapter
Law, K., & Jackson, A. (2014). Influence in British Colonial Africa. In G. Kennedy, & C. Tuck (Eds.), British Propaganda and Wars of Empire: Influencing Friend and Foe 1900–2010 (97-122). Farnham: Ashgate Publishing

In the lexicon of European de-colonisation, counter-insurgency campaigns were fought against anti-imperialism across the periphery of empire from Vietnam to Algeria and from Kenya to Malaya. British propagandists hoped to persuade the inhabitants of... Read More about Influence in British Colonial Africa.