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Contact Details:
Office: G.01 26 St Michael's Park
Phone: +44 (0)117 928 7425
Email: robert.skinner@bristol.ac.uk
Consultation Hours: Please sign up for a meeting here.
I work on the social and political history of South Africa, but I am particularly interested in the relations between South Africa and the rest of the world over the course of the past century. I am also interested in the connections between local and global activism, and ways of fostering collaborative research between academics and activist communities. I am a member of the Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives Committee, and was a co-investigator on the recent AHRC-funded project, Know Your Bristol On The Move.
Research
I have recently completed a general history of South Africa since 1800, Modern South Africa in World History (Bloosmbury, May 2017) which sets national developments within a global framework that moves beyond 'imperialism'. I am also currently working on a series of projects that explore transnational connections between Africa and 'the West' in the 1960s-1970s, drawing together anti-colonial and anti-nuclear activism with emerging campaigns around human rights.
My first book, The Foundations of Anti-Apartheid (Palgrave, 2010), examined the emergence of anti-apartheid in the 1950s through the creation of interlinked networks of activists that connected South Africa, Britain and the United States.
Teaching
I teach a range of units across the History programme, including units focussed on the history of modern South Africa, post-colonial African politics and culture, and have recently developed a new unit exploring food in global history.
Research Supervision
I welcome proposals to supervise research on transnational activism, and more specifically on anti-apartheid, anti-colonial and solidarity movements, as well as general twentieth-century South African history.
Structured keywords and research groupings
- Centre for Black Humanities
Keywords
- South African History
- Global History
- Activism
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Projects
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A Brigstow Institue Project: The life and death of food chickens
Mullan, S. M., Skinner, R., Flack, A. J. P. & Hurley, P.
17/07/17 → 16/07/18
Project: Research
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Know Your Bristol On The Move
Bickers, R., Cole, T., Piccini, A. A., McLellan, J., Skinner, R., Williams, J. A., Miller, K. F., Smith, P. J., Jones, M. A., Routledge , J. & Insole, P.
1/10/13 → 1/10/15
Project: Research
Research output
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Struggles on the page: British Antiapartheid and Radical Scholarship
Skinner, R. A., 2014, In: Radical History Review. 2014, 119, p. 216-231 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Humanitarianism and Empire: New Research Agendas
Lester, A. & Skinner, R., Dec 2012, In: Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 40, 5, p. 693 711 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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The Foundations of Anti-Apartheid - Liberal Humanitarians and Transnational Activists in Britain and the United States, c. 1946-64
Skinner, R., 2010, Palgrave Macmillan. 280 p.Research output: Book/Report › Authored book
Activities
- 1 Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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History Workshop Theory and Methodology Series
Rob Skinner (Participant)
15 Feb 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course