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Rhodes University: Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, ZA

2021-01-01 to present | Professor Emeritus (History)
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GARY BAINES

Rhodes University: Grahamstown, ZA

1990-01-01 to 2020-12-31 | Professor (History)
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GARY BAINES

Education and qualifications (1)

University of Cape Town: Rondebosch, Western Cape, ZA

1990-02-15 to 2005-01-15 | PhD (Historical Studies)
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Professional activities (7)

Southern African Historical Society: n/a, ZA

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South African Journal of Cultural History: Vanderbijlpark, ZA

2019 to present | member of the Editorial Board (South African Society for Cultural History)
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GARY BAINES

Memory Studies Association: Madrid, ES

2019 to present
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GARY BAINES

Popular Culture Association American Culture Association: Granville, OH, US

2018 to present | Member
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University of Toulouse II - Le Mirail: Toulouse, FR

2015-03-01 to 2015-04-30 | Visiting Professor (Commonwealth Studies)
Invited position
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Leiden University: Leiden, NL

2011-09-01 to 2011-11-30 | Visiting Research Fellow (African Studies Centre)
Invited position
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British Commonwealth Fellowship: Exeter, GB

1999-10-01 to 2000-03-31 | Researcher (Film Studies)
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Works (50 of 60)

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Symbolic Decolonization and postal politics: sovereignty, secession and the stamps of pseudostates in sub-Saharan Africa, c.1961-1979’

Monde(s)
2024-09 | Journal article
Contributors: GARY BAINES
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GARY BAINES

Terry Smyth, Captive Fathers, Captive Children: Legacies of the War in the Far East (Bloomsbury, 2022) [book review]

British Journal for Military History
2024-09-13 | Book review
Contributors: GARY BAINES
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GARY BAINES

8. Smuts and the Politics of Segregation The Prosecution of Pass Laws Under the United Party Government

2024-08-15 | Book chapter
Contributors: Gary Baines
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Contested Commemoration and Memorialization of South Africa’s Apartheid Wars

TPalgrave Macmillan
2024-02 | Encyclopedia entry
Part of ISBN: 9783030614935
Part of ISBN: 9783030614935
Contributors: Gary Baines
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GARY BAINES
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Apartheid’s Black Soldiers: Un-National Wars and Militaries in Southern Africa. By Leonnart Bolliger. Athens, GA: Ohio University Press, 2021.

Journal of African Military History
2023 | Book review
Contributors: GARY BAINES
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GARY BAINES

Removing Rhodes from His Pedestal: De-Commemoration in Postcolonial South Africa

Sarah Gensburger & Jenny Wüstenberg (eds.), De-Commemoration: Removing Statues and Renaming Places (New York: Berghahn Books)
2023 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781805391074
Contributors: GARY BAINES
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GARY BAINES

South Africa’s Apartheid Wars

Oxford University Press
2023 | Encyclopedia entry
Contributors: GARY BAINES
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GARY BAINES

The Guerrilla and the Journalist: Exploring the Murderous Legacy of Jonas Savimbi by Fred Bridgland

Historia
2023-06-23 | Book review | Writing - original draft
Contributors: GARY BAINES
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GARY BAINES

Propagating Afrikaner nationalism: The Voortrekker stamps as icons of an ideology, c.1933–1949

Nations and Nationalism
2023-02-27 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 1354-5078
Part of ISSN: 1469-8129
Contributors: GARY BAINES
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GARY BAINES
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From Reconciliation to Contentious Co-existence: Memory Work and Wars in Post-Apartheid South Africa

The Legacy of a Troubled Past: Commemorative Politics in South Africa in the 21st Century
2022-06-07 | Book chapter
Contributors: GARY BAINES
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GARY BAINES

Luise White, Fighting and Writing: The Rhodesian Army at War and Post-War

Historia
2021-12-03 | Journal article | Author
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https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/historia/article/view/3730

Part of ISSN: 2309-8392
Contributors: GARY BAINES
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Historian: An Autobiography

Taylor & Francis
2021-03-14 | Book review
Contributors: GARY BAINES
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GARY BAINES

South African Defence Force veterans’ modes of remembering and the ethics of post-apartheid nostalgia

Memory Studies
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: GARY BAINES; Gemma barkhuizen
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GARY BAINES

Visual Narratives of the Border War in 1980s South African Print Culture

Troubling Images: Visual Culture and the Politics of Afrikaner Nationalism
2020-02-06 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781776144716
Source: Self-asserted source
GARY BAINES

Journeys of Redemption and Reconciliation: The Return of South African Defence Force Veterans to Angola

Journal of Veterans Studies
2020-01-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2470-4768
Source: Self-asserted source
GARY BAINES

A Duty to Remember (and Forget?): A Transnational Perspective on Commemorating War

Jacob & Kenneth Pearl (eds.), War and Memorials: The Age of Nationalism and the Great War
2019 | Book chapter
Contributors: GARY BAINES
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GARY BAINES

Confessions of a Conscript, Disclosures of an Historian: An Autohistoriographical Essay

Life Writing
2019-10-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1448-4528
Part of ISSN: 1751-2964
Source: Self-asserted source
GARY BAINES

The Politics of Commemoration in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Case Study of Liliesleaf Museum

South African Journal of Cultural History
2019-07-01 | Journal article
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GARY BAINES

[Post]Colonial Histories: Trauma, Memory and Reconciliation in the Context of the Angolan Civil War

History: Reviews of New Books
2019-05-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0361-2759
Part of ISSN: 1930-8280
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GARY BAINES

Writing Veterans’ History: A Conversation on the Twentieth Century

2019-04-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0729-2473
Part of ISSN: 2042-4345
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GARY BAINES

Legacies of South Africa’s Apartheid Wars

Oxford University Press
2019-02-25 | Encyclopedia entry
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GARY BAINES

The Arsenal of Securocracy: Pretoria’s provision of arms and aid to Salisbury, c.1974–1980

2019-02-15 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0258-2473
Part of ISSN: 1726-1686
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GARY BAINES

Retracing memories of war: South African military veterans as tourists in Angola

War Veterans and the World after 1945: Cold War Politics, Decolonization, Memory
2018 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-85050232520

Contributors: Baines, G.
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GARY BAINES via Scopus - Elsevier

South African Defence Force Veterans' Modes of Remembering and the Ethics of Post-Apartheid Nostalgia

Memory Studies
2018-02-01 | Journal article
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GARY BAINES

Commemorating Solomon Mahlangu: The making and unmaking of a “struggle” icon

Public Art in South Africa: Bronze Warriors and Plastic Presidents
2017 | Book chapter
EID:

9780253030108

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GARY BAINES

An African Volk: The Apartheid Regime and the Search for Survival

Taylor & Francis
2017-12-14 | Book review
Contributors: GARY BAINES
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GARY BAINES

Memoir Writing as Narrative Therapy: A South African Border War Veteran’s Story

War Stories: The War Memoir in History and Literature
2016 | Book chapter
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GARY BAINES

SADF soldiers’ silences: Institutional, consensual and strategic

Acta Academica
2015 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84939232839

Contributors: Baines, G.
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GARY BAINES via Scopus - Elsevier

South Africa’s ‘Border War’: Contested Narratives and Conflicting Memories

Bloomsbury
2014 | Book
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GARY BAINES

Lionising De la Rey: Afrikaner identity politics and performative nostalgia in post-apartheid South Africa

African Identities
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84890857500

Contributors: Baines, G.
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GARY BAINES via Scopus - Elsevier

Military Veterans as Victims

Victimology in South Africa
2013 | Book chapter
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GARY BAINES

A battle for perceptions: Revisiting the cassinga controversy in Southern Africa

Theatres of Violence: Massacre, Mass Killing, and Atrocity Throughout History
2012 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-84917499419

Contributors: Baines, G.
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GARY BAINES via Scopus - Elsevier

Afterword

Somewhere on the Border
2012 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781868145966
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GARY BAINES
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Replaying cuito cuanavale

History Today
2012 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84866905710

Contributors: Baines, G.
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GARY BAINES via Scopus - Elsevier

Vietnam Analogies and Metaphors: The Cultural Codification of South Africa's Border War

Safundi
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84859918802

Contributors: Baines, G.
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GARY BAINES via Scopus - Elsevier

The Saga of South African POWs in Angola 1975-1982

Scientia Militaria - South African Journal of Military Studies
2012-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2224-0020
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GARY BAINES
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Confessing Complicity and Embracing Victimhood: Negotiating the Meaning of the Border War in Post-Apartheid South Africa

The New Order of War
2010 | Book chapter
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GARY BAINES

South Africa: Remembering Sharpeville

History Today
2010 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-79951712611

Contributors: Baines, G.
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GARY BAINES via Scopus - Elsevier

Apocalypticism in American Folk Music

2009 | Book chapter
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Site of struggle: The Freedom Park fracas and the divisive legacy of South Africa's Border War/Liberation Struggle

Social Dynamics
2009 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-77649151699

Contributors: Baines, G.
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GARY BAINES via Scopus - Elsevier

Songs of fate, hope and oblivion: Bob Dylan’s dystopianism and apocalypticism

The End All Around Us: Apocalyptic Texts and Popular Culture
2009 | Book chapter
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GARY BAINES

South Africa's forgotten war

History Today
2009 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-68549118902

Contributors: Baines, G.
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GARY BAINES via Scopus - Elsevier

Popular Music and Negotiating Whiteness in South Africa

Composing Apartheid: Music For and Against Apartheid
2008 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781868146987
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GARY BAINES
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Beyond the Border War

Unisa Press
2008 | Edited book
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GARY BAINES

Introduction: Challenging the Boundaries, Breaking the Silences

Beyond the Border War: New Perspectives on Southern Africa’s Late Cold War Conflicts
2008 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781868884568
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GARY BAINES

The master narrative of South Africa's liberation struggle: Remembering and forgetting June 16, 1976

International Journal of African Historical Studies
2007 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-60949901209

Contributors: Baines, G.
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GARY BAINES via Scopus - Elsevier

The Politics of Public History in Post-Apartheid South Africa

History making and present day politics: the meaning of collective memory in South Africa
2007 | Book chapter
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GARY BAINES

Coming to terms with the past: Soweto, June 16th 1976

History Today
2006 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-34347308194

Contributors: Baines, G.
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GARY BAINES via Scopus - Elsevier

Racist Hate Speech in South Africa’s Fragile Democracy: The Case of Ngema’s AmaNdiya

Popular Music Censorship in Africa
2006 | Book chapter
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GARY BAINES

Narratives of New Brighton: Representations of the Port Elizabeth Township in Official Discourse, Cultural Memory, and Public History

2005 | Journal article
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8EE528B13667445B852573CD0077DF3C

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GARY BAINES via MLA International Bibliography
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