{"id":5276,"date":"2019-07-02T21:13:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T19:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/spu\/?p=5276"},"modified":"2019-09-05T09:59:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T07:59:39","slug":"french-accolade-for-spu-liberation-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/french-accolade-for-spu-liberation-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"French accolade for SPU liberation expert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SPU\u2019s Head of Department of Heritage Studies, Dr Garth Benneyworth is part of an international team whose work has been included in a recently-published book, <a href=\"http:\/\/icmigrations.fr\/2019\/02\/19\/clara-lecadet-et-j-f-de-hasque-dir-apres-les-camps-traces-memoires-et-mutations-des-camps-de-refugies-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Life in the Camp<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book covers issues of forced migration and internment of\ncivilians, post the second world war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Benneyworth says the significance of his chapter, titled Traces and Memory, which was produced in English, sets the context for concentration camps for the 20th-century and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The aim of the work is to provide a further understanding of\nthe history and meaning of black concentration camps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He explains that only in the last two decades has this issue\nbeen incorporated in the historiography of the war in the context of civilian\nwartime internment and forced wartime labour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The publication also includes findings from his\narchaeological project on the Kimberley and Dry Harts black concentration camps\nundertaken during 2001 &#8211; 2008, the first-ever archaeological surveys of such\ncamps in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His specialisation is in war studies and the heritage of\nconflict with a focus on the armed struggle of the liberation movement and the\nSouth African War and in particular, the black concentration camps of that\nconflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Benneyworth has published two books, four book chapters\nand 15 articles, aside from developing museum exhibitions in South Africa and\nFrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For further details of Life in the Camp which consists of 16\nchapters, written by 48 authors, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2I5dM1v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2I5dM1v<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPU\u2019s Head of Department of Heritage Studies, Dr Garth Benneyworth is part of an international team whose work has been included in a recently-published book, Life in the Camp. 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