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Papers by Lize Kriel
Edinburgh University Press eBooks, May 5, 2020
ein Raum zu riesig und still? Deutsche Diakonissinnen und das Patriarchat der Berliner mission im... more ein Raum zu riesig und still? Deutsche Diakonissinnen und das Patriarchat der Berliner mission im Transvaal unter Apartheid Unverheiratete deutsche Missionarinnen, die während der ersten Jahrzehnte der Apartheid nach Südafrika kamen, fanden eine Missionsleitung vor Ort, die von älteren Männern autoritär dominiert wurde und sich weigerte, die Apartheidpolitik der im Jahre 1948 gewählten Regierung zu kritisieren. Am Beispiel einer einzelnen Missionarin aus Ostdeutschland versucht der Aufsatz, die vorhandenen Quellen zu hinterfragen und festzustellen, welche Möglichkeiten einer Frau offen standen, die in manchen Fragen die Annahmen der Missionsleitung nicht teilte.
Archives of Times Past, 2022
... Journal Title: Historia; Volume: Volume 41; Issue: Issue 2; Publication Date: 1996; Pages: 89... more ... Journal Title: Historia; Volume: Volume 41; Issue: Issue 2; Publication Date: 1996; Pages: 89 - 91; Authors: Lize Kriel; ISSN: 0018229X; Abstract: Karel Schoeman se is nie die eerste of enigste publikasie waarin negentiende-eeuse Suid-Afrikaanse foto's versamel en met byskrifie ...
The Archangel Michael in Africa, 2019
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2021
In her collection of short stories, Intruders, Mohale Mashigo (2018) draws on popular culture as ... more In her collection of short stories, Intruders, Mohale Mashigo (2018) draws on popular culture as well as local cultural memories as invested in South African folktales, to conjure up a fantastical world in which spirituality is often invoked. In this article, I consider the way in which the visual image of a woman with angelic wings designed for the book cover by artist Shubnum Khan, serves the purpose of marketing the commodity by means of connotations presumed to be familiar to potential readers, but also still suggestive enough to stimulate, rather than prescribe, the visual imagination ignited in the process of reading. I link book cover designer Peter Mendelsund’s argument that the reading imagination, although fuelled by memory, remains “loosely associative” and “not overtly coherent”, with Ingvild Gilhus’s cultural-historical appraisal of the angel’s appeal as such a malleable symbol of (increasingly, specifically) female superhuman capabilities. I argue that the cover image ...
Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Historia, 1999
Die Desember 1997-uitgawe van History and Theory fokus op die vervaardiging van die historiese be... more Die Desember 1997-uitgawe van History and Theory fokus op die vervaardiging van die historiese bewussyn, bedoelende 'n persoonlike bewus wees van die verlede as sodanig en 'n behoefte om ervarings te verstaan met verwysing na tyd, verandering en herinnering. Die kwessie onder bespreking in History and Theory is die uitgangspunt dat akademiese historici nie die verlede as hulle eksklusiewe domein kan opeis nie, want midde-in die samelewing waarin hulle staan, is elke gemeenskap voortdurend besig met die voorstelling, ordelling, interpretasie - step en herskep - van ''n verlede' op so 'n manier dat betekenis daaraan gegee kan word.
The Archangel Michael in Africa, 2019
Menschen – Bilder – Eine Welt, 2018
Sputter-deposited films of α-Fe 2 O 3 of thickness 600 nm were investigated as photoanodes for so... more Sputter-deposited films of α-Fe 2 O 3 of thickness 600 nm were investigated as photoanodes for solar water splitting and found to have photocurrents as high as 0.8 mA/cm 2 at 1.23 V vs. the reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE). Sputter-deposited films, relative to nanostructured samples produced by hydrothermal synthesis, 1,2 permit facile characterization of the role and placement of dopants. The Sn dopant concentration in the α-Fe 2 O 3 varies as a function of distance from the fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) interface and was quantified using secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) to give a mole fraction of cations of approximately 0.02 % at the electrolyte interface. Additional techniques for determining dopant density including energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and conductivity measurements are compared and discussed. Based on this multi-faceted data set, we conclude that not all dopants present in the α-Fe 2 O 3 are active. Dopant activation, rather than just increasing surface area or dopant concentration, is critical for improving metal oxide performance in water splitting. A more complete understanding of dopant activation will lead to further improvements in the design and response of nanostructured photoanodes.
Tydskrif vir letterkunde, 2006
South African Historical Journal, 2009
ABSTRACT In this article we take up Dorothy Hodgson's appeal for a stronger gender analy... more ABSTRACT In this article we take up Dorothy Hodgson's appeal for a stronger gender analysis of the process of missionisation by revisiting Adrian Hastings's 1993 essay in which he argued that 'again and again in a mission history… the early significant baptisms were ...
Journal of Southern African Studies, 2012
This study explores the possibilities of extracting biographies of 'ordinary Africans', especiall... more This study explores the possibilities of extracting biographies of 'ordinary Africans', especially women, from the epistolary networks of a transcontinental Lutheran community of readers. Due to the enthusiastic efforts of a number of German deaconesses, women from British colonial Africa whose narrations might otherwise not have been recorded, participated in conversations with women in Nazi, and thereafter West as well as East Germany. Mission evidence supports the argument that in colonial Africa religion opened up one of the few spaces for African and European women to collaborate in an otherwise segregated society. While the network was initiated in the name of their common faith and sustained with German church funding (and British colonial infrastructure), the content of the letters was far from restricted to religious matters. The article contends that these epistles reflected an awareness amongst rural female African participants of their position in a much larger geopolitical space-and even a world church. Thus the label 'ordinary' refers to the status of the African women writers in their local communities and church congregations rather than their horizons of expectation. Their fragmentary biographies or life-histories, from both colonial Tanganyika and the Transvaal, need to be viewed within the context of their interaction with their German facilitators and the members of the female Christian reading community in Europe-who were the intended audience envisaged by the African women narrators. The overwhelming majority of non-western participants in the missionary enterprise are nameless: 'native agent,' or 'bible woman,' or 'native teacher' is how they appear in the missionary records, and in the missionary narratives of white, male, clerical heroism. It is almost impossible to restore the full extent of non-western agency in the building of Christian institutions in the British empire, and the British imperial sphere of influence, but any accurate history must repeatedly look for and acknowledge those acts of participation. Jeffrey Cox 1
South African Journal of Cultural History, 2006
... Abstract Information. Capturing the soul. The Vhavenda and the missionaries, 1870-1900, Alan ... more ... Abstract Information. Capturing the soul. The Vhavenda and the missionaries, 1870-1900, Alan Kirkaldy : book review. Journal Title: South African Journal of Cultural History; Volume: Volume 20; Issue: Issue 2; Publication Date: 2006; Pages: p.220 - 223; Authors: Lize Kriel; ...
Abstract: With the film Goodbye Lenin, audiences the world over were enchanted by the humoristic ... more Abstract: With the film Goodbye Lenin, audiences the world over were enchanted by the humoristic depiction of citizens of the former German Democratic Republic entering the post-Cold War world. With a more recent production, The lives of others, many filmgoers were left with an ...
Historia, 1999
Abstract: The text published as is the section of Berlin missionary Christoph Sonntag's dair... more Abstract: The text published as is the section of Berlin missionary Christoph Sonntag's dairy, which describes the Boer conquest of the Bahananwa of Blauberg during the winter of 1894 in the Northern Province of present-day South Africa. The actual transcription of the diary ...
Historia, 2008
Abstract: This article traces the way Sister Anneliese Dörfer, a German deaconess, recorded and r... more Abstract: This article traces the way Sister Anneliese Dörfer, a German deaconess, recorded and reported on constructions of gender and race during her thirty-year long interaction with Africans in the service of the Berlin Mission Society, first in British East Africa (1936-1940) ...
Edinburgh University Press eBooks, May 5, 2020
ein Raum zu riesig und still? Deutsche Diakonissinnen und das Patriarchat der Berliner mission im... more ein Raum zu riesig und still? Deutsche Diakonissinnen und das Patriarchat der Berliner mission im Transvaal unter Apartheid Unverheiratete deutsche Missionarinnen, die während der ersten Jahrzehnte der Apartheid nach Südafrika kamen, fanden eine Missionsleitung vor Ort, die von älteren Männern autoritär dominiert wurde und sich weigerte, die Apartheidpolitik der im Jahre 1948 gewählten Regierung zu kritisieren. Am Beispiel einer einzelnen Missionarin aus Ostdeutschland versucht der Aufsatz, die vorhandenen Quellen zu hinterfragen und festzustellen, welche Möglichkeiten einer Frau offen standen, die in manchen Fragen die Annahmen der Missionsleitung nicht teilte.
Archives of Times Past, 2022
... Journal Title: Historia; Volume: Volume 41; Issue: Issue 2; Publication Date: 1996; Pages: 89... more ... Journal Title: Historia; Volume: Volume 41; Issue: Issue 2; Publication Date: 1996; Pages: 89 - 91; Authors: Lize Kriel; ISSN: 0018229X; Abstract: Karel Schoeman se is nie die eerste of enigste publikasie waarin negentiende-eeuse Suid-Afrikaanse foto's versamel en met byskrifie ...
The Archangel Michael in Africa, 2019
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2021
In her collection of short stories, Intruders, Mohale Mashigo (2018) draws on popular culture as ... more In her collection of short stories, Intruders, Mohale Mashigo (2018) draws on popular culture as well as local cultural memories as invested in South African folktales, to conjure up a fantastical world in which spirituality is often invoked. In this article, I consider the way in which the visual image of a woman with angelic wings designed for the book cover by artist Shubnum Khan, serves the purpose of marketing the commodity by means of connotations presumed to be familiar to potential readers, but also still suggestive enough to stimulate, rather than prescribe, the visual imagination ignited in the process of reading. I link book cover designer Peter Mendelsund’s argument that the reading imagination, although fuelled by memory, remains “loosely associative” and “not overtly coherent”, with Ingvild Gilhus’s cultural-historical appraisal of the angel’s appeal as such a malleable symbol of (increasingly, specifically) female superhuman capabilities. I argue that the cover image ...
Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Historia, 1999
Die Desember 1997-uitgawe van History and Theory fokus op die vervaardiging van die historiese be... more Die Desember 1997-uitgawe van History and Theory fokus op die vervaardiging van die historiese bewussyn, bedoelende 'n persoonlike bewus wees van die verlede as sodanig en 'n behoefte om ervarings te verstaan met verwysing na tyd, verandering en herinnering. Die kwessie onder bespreking in History and Theory is die uitgangspunt dat akademiese historici nie die verlede as hulle eksklusiewe domein kan opeis nie, want midde-in die samelewing waarin hulle staan, is elke gemeenskap voortdurend besig met die voorstelling, ordelling, interpretasie - step en herskep - van ''n verlede' op so 'n manier dat betekenis daaraan gegee kan word.
The Archangel Michael in Africa, 2019
Menschen – Bilder – Eine Welt, 2018
Sputter-deposited films of α-Fe 2 O 3 of thickness 600 nm were investigated as photoanodes for so... more Sputter-deposited films of α-Fe 2 O 3 of thickness 600 nm were investigated as photoanodes for solar water splitting and found to have photocurrents as high as 0.8 mA/cm 2 at 1.23 V vs. the reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE). Sputter-deposited films, relative to nanostructured samples produced by hydrothermal synthesis, 1,2 permit facile characterization of the role and placement of dopants. The Sn dopant concentration in the α-Fe 2 O 3 varies as a function of distance from the fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) interface and was quantified using secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) to give a mole fraction of cations of approximately 0.02 % at the electrolyte interface. Additional techniques for determining dopant density including energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and conductivity measurements are compared and discussed. Based on this multi-faceted data set, we conclude that not all dopants present in the α-Fe 2 O 3 are active. Dopant activation, rather than just increasing surface area or dopant concentration, is critical for improving metal oxide performance in water splitting. A more complete understanding of dopant activation will lead to further improvements in the design and response of nanostructured photoanodes.
Tydskrif vir letterkunde, 2006
South African Historical Journal, 2009
ABSTRACT In this article we take up Dorothy Hodgson's appeal for a stronger gender analy... more ABSTRACT In this article we take up Dorothy Hodgson's appeal for a stronger gender analysis of the process of missionisation by revisiting Adrian Hastings's 1993 essay in which he argued that 'again and again in a mission history… the early significant baptisms were ...
Journal of Southern African Studies, 2012
This study explores the possibilities of extracting biographies of 'ordinary Africans', especiall... more This study explores the possibilities of extracting biographies of 'ordinary Africans', especially women, from the epistolary networks of a transcontinental Lutheran community of readers. Due to the enthusiastic efforts of a number of German deaconesses, women from British colonial Africa whose narrations might otherwise not have been recorded, participated in conversations with women in Nazi, and thereafter West as well as East Germany. Mission evidence supports the argument that in colonial Africa religion opened up one of the few spaces for African and European women to collaborate in an otherwise segregated society. While the network was initiated in the name of their common faith and sustained with German church funding (and British colonial infrastructure), the content of the letters was far from restricted to religious matters. The article contends that these epistles reflected an awareness amongst rural female African participants of their position in a much larger geopolitical space-and even a world church. Thus the label 'ordinary' refers to the status of the African women writers in their local communities and church congregations rather than their horizons of expectation. Their fragmentary biographies or life-histories, from both colonial Tanganyika and the Transvaal, need to be viewed within the context of their interaction with their German facilitators and the members of the female Christian reading community in Europe-who were the intended audience envisaged by the African women narrators. The overwhelming majority of non-western participants in the missionary enterprise are nameless: 'native agent,' or 'bible woman,' or 'native teacher' is how they appear in the missionary records, and in the missionary narratives of white, male, clerical heroism. It is almost impossible to restore the full extent of non-western agency in the building of Christian institutions in the British empire, and the British imperial sphere of influence, but any accurate history must repeatedly look for and acknowledge those acts of participation. Jeffrey Cox 1
South African Journal of Cultural History, 2006
... Abstract Information. Capturing the soul. The Vhavenda and the missionaries, 1870-1900, Alan ... more ... Abstract Information. Capturing the soul. The Vhavenda and the missionaries, 1870-1900, Alan Kirkaldy : book review. Journal Title: South African Journal of Cultural History; Volume: Volume 20; Issue: Issue 2; Publication Date: 2006; Pages: p.220 - 223; Authors: Lize Kriel; ...
Abstract: With the film Goodbye Lenin, audiences the world over were enchanted by the humoristic ... more Abstract: With the film Goodbye Lenin, audiences the world over were enchanted by the humoristic depiction of citizens of the former German Democratic Republic entering the post-Cold War world. With a more recent production, The lives of others, many filmgoers were left with an ...
Historia, 1999
Abstract: The text published as is the section of Berlin missionary Christoph Sonntag's dair... more Abstract: The text published as is the section of Berlin missionary Christoph Sonntag's dairy, which describes the Boer conquest of the Bahananwa of Blauberg during the winter of 1894 in the Northern Province of present-day South Africa. The actual transcription of the diary ...
Historia, 2008
Abstract: This article traces the way Sister Anneliese Dörfer, a German deaconess, recorded and r... more Abstract: This article traces the way Sister Anneliese Dörfer, a German deaconess, recorded and reported on constructions of gender and race during her thirty-year long interaction with Africans in the service of the Berlin Mission Society, first in British East Africa (1936-1940) ...