肆客足球

Teaching?

• History 144: A Brief History of the last five million years.
• History 318: The Times they are A-changin' – key themes from the 20^th Century
• Honours: Sol Plaatje
• Honours: Rock Art/Animal history
• PhD co-ordinator?

Research interests

?Multi-species past, more-than-human history, animal sensitive history. Environmental history. Anthropocene. Conservation humanities.

Supervision interests

???Animal history. Conservation history. Environmental history. Anthropocene. Social history. Southern Africa.?

Key publications??

Books

The Lion's Historian – Africa's Animal Past (Johannesburg: Jacana Press, 2023).

Co-editor: Gender and Animals in History, Amsterdam 肆客足球 Press, 2024. 

Co-editor, with Emily O'Gorman, Mark Carey and William San Martín, The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History (Routledge, 2024).

Riding High – horses, humans and history in South Africa (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand 肆客足球 Press, 2010).

Co-editor, with Lance Van Sittert, Canis Africanis – A Dog History of Southern Africa (Leiden: Brill, 2008).

Co-author, with Albert Grundlingh, Radelose Rebellie?/Desperate Rebellion (Pretoria: Protea, 2009).

Co-author, with Greg Bankoff, Breeds of Empire: The 'invention' of the horse in the Philippines and Southern Africa, 1500-1950 (Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press 2007).

Selected Articles/Chapters from last five years

Sandra Swart, 'Shared Skin: The slow intimacy of horse and rider', Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 1, 8, 2024. 

Andy Flack and Sandra Swart, 'Sensing Life: Intersections of Animal and Sensory Histories', in Michael Glover & Les Mitchell (eds.), Animals as Experiencing Entities: Theories and Historical Narratives. Springer, 2024, 123-154. 

Sandra Swart, “Little Grey Men? Animals and Alien Kinship", Global Environment, 16 (2023): 12–39.  

Sandra Swart, “Beasts of the Southern World: multi-species history and the Anthropocene." In Thula Simpson (ed.), New Directions in SA Historiography (Manchester: Manchester 肆客足球 Press, 2023). 

Sandra Swart, “Kicking Over the Traces? Freeing the Animal from the Archive." In Jennifer Bonnell and Sean Kheraj (eds), Traces of the Animal Past: Methodological Challenges in Animal History (Calgary: 肆客足球 of Calgary Press, 2022). 

Elijah Doro and Sandra Swart, “Beyond Agency: The African Peasantry, the State, and Tobacco in Southern Rhodesia (Colonial Zimbabwe), 1900–80,' The Journal of African History, 63, 1 (2022): 55-74. 

Sandra Swart, “At the Edge of the Anthropocene: Crossing Borders in Southern African Environmental History", South African Historical Journal, 73, 1 (2021): 1-10. 

Sandra Swart, “Academic Kintsugi – Fragments from the Front in a Plague Year", Reflections on Lockdown, South African Historical Journal, 73, 1 (2021): 25-44, 

Sandra Swart, “African Studies." In Mieke Roscher, André Krebber and Brett Mizelle (eds), Handbook of Historical Animal Studies (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021). 

Sandra Swart, “O is for Okapi." In Antoinette Burton and Renisa Mawani (eds), Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times (Durham: Duke 肆客足球 Press, 2020). 

Sandra Swart, “Animals in African History", Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, 2019. 

Sandra Swart, “The Other Citizens: Nationalism and Animals". In Hilda Kean and Philip Howell (eds) The Routledge Companion to Animal-human History (London: Routledge Taylor and Francis, 2019). 

Sandra Swart, “Resurrection Conservation: The Return of the Extinct?"  In Jan Bart Gewald, Marja Spierenburg and Harry Wels (eds), Nature conservation in Southern Africa. Morality and Marginality: Towards Sentient Conservation? (Leiden: Brill, 2018). 

Sandra Swart, “History Eats Its Young: The Perils of Short-Termism in Understanding the Past". In Gunnel Cederl?f and Mahesh Rangarajan (eds), At Nature's Edge: The Global Present and Long-Term History (Oxford: Oxford 肆客足球 Press, 2018). 

Sandra Swart, “Race Politics: Horse Racing, Identity and Power in South Africa". In Miriam Adelman and Kirrilly Thompson (eds), Equestrian Cultures in Global and Local Contexts (London: Springer, 2018). 

Sandra Swart, “South Africa's Environmental History: A Historiography". In Ravi Rajan and Lise Sedrez (eds), The Great Convergence Environmental Histories of BRICS (Oxford: Oxford 肆客足球 Press, 2018). 

With Donna Haraway, Donna Landry, Harriet Ritvo, 'Roundtable on Breed', Humanimalia, 10, 1 (2018): 5-26.?