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“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.