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SUMMARY:EKH Seminar - Calumet Links
DESCRIPTION:Contact: gabriel.brea-martinez@ekh.lu.se\n\nCalumet Links at th
 e University of Stellenbosch and visiting researcher at EKH\, will present
  a seminar titled:Reframing Indigenous Decline: The Khoesan between Ecolog
 ical Stress and Colonial ExpansionCalumet Links webpage (sun.ac.za)Abstrac
 t:This paper revisits the long-debated decline of the Khoesan in the early
  Cape Colony. Traditional historiography has framed their fate as a straig
 htforward consequence of European colonial expansion\, while revisionist s
 cholarship emphasizes indigenous resistance and agency. Yet both perspecti
 ves often lack systematic empirical grounding. We argue that the Khoesan
 ’s decline was not solely the product of dispossession but also reflecte
 d deeper structural and ecological vulnerabilities. Using a novel integrat
 ion of VOC archival records with environmental data (dendrochronological a
 nd speleothem proxies)\, we trace how recurring droughts\, epidemic shocks
 \, and trade disruptions intersected with colonial encroachment to weaken 
 indigenous coping systems. Preliminary evidence from textual corpora highl
 ights shifting references to conflict\, disease\, and indigenous groups\, 
 while environmental reconstructions reveal repeated climatic stress. Our f
 indings suggest that by 1652 Khoesan society was already experiencing grad
 ual economic and demographic fragility\, which colonial interventions then
  amplified. The analysis reframes Khoesan decline as a joint outcome of en
 dogenous vulnerabilities and exogenous shocks\, offering a template for re
 assessing indigenous experiences of decline in other colonial contexts. In
  doing so\, the paper bridges economic\, environmental\, and archival hist
 ory\, contributing both to debates on the role of indigenous agency and to
  wider discussions on the dynamics of colonial encounters.\n\nMore informa
 tion about the event: https://www.lusem.lu.se/calendar/ekh-seminar-calumet
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LOCATION:Alfa1:1104\, Scheelevägen 15B\, 223 63 Lund
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