Miniatures Episode 12: Navigating the Borderlands - Everyday Shopping Practices with Dr Nedson Pophiwa

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Miniatures: Small Stories - Big Histories

Miniatures Podcast

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Welcome to Miniatures, the Podcast for the History of Everyday Life. We show how the big picture in history is best seen through the assemblage of individual and local stories, what the German historian Alf Lüdtke called ‘miniatures’. We discuss all aspects of the history of everyday life, microhistory, and ‘history from below’, featuring interviews and discussion with experts in the field. Between 2020 and 2024 this podcast was supported by the European Research Council as part of the 'Dictatorship as Experience Project' at the University of St Andrews.

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Miniatures Episode 12: Navigating the Borderlands - Everyday Shopping Practices with Dr Nedson Pophiwa

Miniatures: Small Stories - Big Histories

51 minutes 8 seconds

1 year ago

Miniatures Episode 12: Navigating the Borderlands - Everyday Shopping Practices with Dr Nedson Pophiwa

Just why do people travel thousands of kilometers to go to the shops? Dr Ushehwedu Kufakurinani is joined by Dr Nedson Pophiwa to delve into the fascinating world of shopping at the borderlands. Dr Pophiwa takes us to the Zimbabwe-South Africa border towns of Beitbridge and Musina, exposing the realities of cross-border shopping, the complex networks of transport and trade, and the methodological challenges of gathering data at the border.

This podcast was originally published on 27th November 2023 as part of the ERC research project ‘Dictatorship as experience: A comparative history of everyday life and the ‘lived experience’ of dictatorship in Mediterranean Europe (1922-1975)’ led by Prof. Kate Ferris at the University of St Andrews. To learn more about the wider project, visit: ⁠arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/everyday-dictatorship/⁠

Hosted by: Dr Ushehwedhu Kufakurinani

Produced by: Islay Shelbourne

Music by: Oi Palaiológoi (Violin - Roddy Beaton, Outi - David Hughes)