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Wits University Press is strategically placed at the crossroads of African and global
knowledge production and dissemination. We are committed to publishing well-
researched, innovative books for both academic and general readers. Our areas of
focus include art and heritage, popular science, history and politics, biography, literary
studies, women’s writing and select textbooks.
African content. Global impact.
WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS CATALOGUE
2019 | 2020
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POLITICS AND POLITICAL STUDIES 7Shadow of Liberation 7Out of the Dark Night 8Necropolitics 9Governance and the Postcolony 10Democratic Marxism Series: BRICS and the New American Imperialism 11New South African Review collection 1–6 12Beyond Coloniality 13Power in Action 13Shadow State 14Thinking Freedom in Africa 14Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics 15The Politics of Custom 15
SOCIAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY 16Inequality Studies from the Global South 16Conspicuous Consumption in Africa 17Knowledge and Global Power 18Stopping the Spies 19The Rise of Africa’s Middle Class 19Race Otherwise 20It’s Only Blood 20Labour Beyond Cosatu 21Organise or Die? 21
PSYCHOLOGY 22Becoming Men 22The World Looks Like This From Here 23Being-Black-in-the-World 24
EDUCATION, HIGHER EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT 25Decolonisation in Universities 25Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences 26
Contents
BIOGRAPHY, LETTERS/MEMOIR AND TRAVEL WRITING 27Patrick van Rensburg 27In India and East Africa / E-Indiya nase East Africa 28Lie on Your Wounds 29
HISTORY 30The Social and Political Thought of Archie Mafeje 30Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet 31The Cape Radicals 32Limpopo’s Legacy 33Internal Frontiers 33Township Violence and the End of Apartheid 34Writing the Ancestral River 34
ART AND ART HISTORY 35Troubling Images 35Photography and History in Colonial Southern Africa 36Visionary Animal 37Acts of Transgression 37
CULTURAL STUDIES 38Civilising Grass 38Beneath the Surface 39Dress as Social Relations 40Reinventing Hoodia 40Radio Soundings 41Written Under the Skin 41
MEDIA STUDIES 42Babel Unbound 42Power and Loss in South African Journalism 43Tell Our Story 44Media in Postapartheid South Africa 45
LITERATURE STUDIES 46Like Family 46Death and Compassion 47Natures of Africa 47Race, Nation, Translation 48Recognition 48
AFRICAN LANGUAGES 49The African Treasury Series 49English-isiZulu / isiZulu-English Dictionary 50
PLAYS 51Bafana Republic and Other Satires 51What Remains 52Ulwembu 53Tin Bucket Drum 53Somewhere on the Border 54Tshepang 54My Life and Valley Song 54My Children! My Africa! 54Three Plays 54At this Stage 54At the Junction 54Sophiatown 54The Bram Fischer Waltz 55Die Bram Fischer Wals 55Missing 55Nothing but the Truth 55And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses 55Fools, Bells and the Habit of Eating 55Our Lady of Benoni 55Mooi Street and other Moves 55Suddenly the Storm 55
URBAN STUDIES 56Politics and Community-based Research 56I Want to Go Home Forever 57
ECOLOGY STUDIES 58Rock | Water | Life 58
NATURAL SCIENCE 59Bats of Southern and Central Africa 59Dance of the Dung Beetles 60
HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCES 61Practical Anatomy 61Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine 62
MEDICAL HUMANITIES 63Society, Health and Disease in South Africa 63
OPEN ACCESS TITLES 64These Oppressions Won’t Cease 64Changing Space, Changing City 64Psychological Assessment in South Africa 65Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences 65Racism after Apartheid 66BRICS and the New American Imperialism 66African Archaeology without Frontiers 67Gaze Regimes 67The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power 67Traumatic Stress in South Africa 68Remains of the Social 68Competition Law and Economic Regulation 68The Climate Crisis 69Eating from One Pot 69One Hundred Years of the ANC 69
SALES AND ORDERING INFORMATION 70Author/Editor Index 70Titles and Price List 73Enquiries and Contacts 78
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Politics and Political Studies
Shadow of LiberationContestation and compromise in the economic and social policy of the African National Congress, 1943-1996Vishnu Padayachee and Robert van Niekerk
Shadow of Liberation explores in intricate detail the twists,
turns, contestations and compromises of the African
National Congress’ economic and social policy-making, with
a particular emphasis on the transition era of the 1990s and
the early years of democracy. Padayachee and Van Niekerk
focus on the primary question of how and why the ANC, given
its historical egalitarian, redistributive stance, did such a
dramatic about-face in the 1990s and moved towards an
essentially market-dominated approach. Was it pushed or
did it go willingly? What role, if any, did Western governments
and international financial institutions play? And what of the
role of the late apartheid state and South African business?
Did leaders and comrades ‘sell out’ the ANC’s emancipatory
policy vision? Drawing on primary archival evidence as
well as extensive interviews with key protagonists across
the political, non-government and business spectrum, the
authors argue that the ANC’s emancipatory policy agenda
was broadly to establish a social democratic welfare state
to uphold rights of social citizenship. However, its economic
policy framework to realise this mission was either non-
existent or egregiously misguided.
Vishnu Padayachee is Distinguished
Professor and Derek Schrier and Cecily
Cameron Chair in Development Economics
at the School of Economic and Business
Sciences at the University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Robert van
Niekerk is Chair of Public Governance at
the Wits School of Governance, University
of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
October 2019 | 234 x 156 mm | 292 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-395-5 | PDF: 978-1-77614-396-2EPUB: 978-1-77614-397-9 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-398-6Subjects: Politics and government, Economics
Related title: Dominance and Decline by Susan Booysen
When the prospect of a negotiated settlement came onto the political agenda in the 1980s, one outcome of policy discussions within the ANC was the birth of the Macro Economic Research Group (MERG). This book provides the first comprehensive account of what became of MERG, once considered the ANC’s ‘trickle up’ economic plan, and sheds interesting light on a chapter of our recent history that is often forgotten. — Z. Pallo Jordan, head of ANC’s Department of Information and Publicity from 1987, cabinet minister 1994–2009, and a member of National Executive Committee of the African National Congress until 2014
POLITICS AND POLITICAL STUDIES
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Politics and Political Studies
Out of the Dark NightEssays on decolonisationAchille Mbembe
Achille Mbembe is one of the world’s most profound critics
of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the
emergence of a new wave of French critical theory. His
writings examine the complexities of decolonisation for
African subjectivities and the possibilities emerging in
its wake. In Out of the Dark Night, he offers a rich analysis
of the paradoxes of the postcolonial moment that points
toward new liberatory models of community and humanity.
In a nuanced consideration of the African experience,
Mbembe makes sweeping interventions into debates
about citizenship, identity, democracy and modernity. He
eruditely ranges across European and African thought to
provide a powerful assessment of common ways of writing
and thinking about Africa. Mbembe criticises the blinkers
of European intellectuals, analysing France’s failure to
heed postcolonial critiques of ongoing exclusions masked
by pretenses of universalism. He develops a new reading
of African modernity that further develops the notion of
Afropolitanism, a novel way of being in the world that has
arisen in decolonised Africa in the midst of both destruction
and the birth of new societies, making the case for South
Africa as its laboratory.
Achille Mbembe is a research professor in
History and Politics at the Wits Institute
for Social and Economic Research,
University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg. His books include On the
Postcolony (2001) and Critique of Black
Reason (2017).
Achille Mbembe speaks authoritatively for black life, addressing the whole world in an increasingly distinctive tone of voice. — Paul Gilroy
January 2020 | 229 x 152 mm | 288 pp | Paperback | Rights: SADC and KenyaPrint: 978-1-77614-323-8 | PDF: 978-1-77614-329-0Subjects: Philosophy, PoliticsPublication date subject to change.
Related title: Critique of Black Reason by Achille Mbembe
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Politics and Political Studies
NecropoliticsAchille Mbembe
In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe – a leader in the new
wave of Francophone critical theory – theorizes the
genealogy of the contemporary world – a world plagued
by ever-increasing inequality, militarisation, enmity, and
terror, as well as by a resurgence of racist, fascist, and
nationalist forces determined to exclude and kill. He
outlines how democracy has begun to embrace its dark
side, or what he calls its ‘nocturnal body,’ which is based
on the desires, fears, affects, relations, and violence that
drove colonialism. This shift has hollowed out democracy,
thereby eroding the very values, rights, and freedoms
liberal democracy routinely celebrates. As a result, war
has become the sacrament of our times, in a conception
of sovereignty that operates by annihilating all those
considered to be enemies of the state. Despite his dire
diagnosis, Mbembe draws on post-Foucault debates on
biopolitics, war, and race, as well as Fanon’s notion of care
as a shared vulnerability, to explore how new conceptions of
the human that transcend humanism might come to pass.
These new conceptions would allow us to encounter the
Other not as a thing to exclude, but as a person with whom
to build a more just world.
Achille Mbembe is a research professor in
History and Politics at the Wits Institute
for Social and Economic Research,
University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg. His books include On the
Postcolony (2001) and Critique of Black
Reason (2017).
The appearance of Achille Mbembe’s book, Necropolitics, will change the terms of debate within the English-speaking world. Trenchant in his critique of racism and its relation to the precepts of liberal democracy, Mbembe continues where Foucault left off, tracking the lethal afterlife of sovereign power as it subjects whole populations to what Fanon called ‘the zone of non-being.’ In these pages we find Mbembe not only engaging with biopolitics, the politics of enmity, and the state of exception, but he also opens up the possibility of a global ethic, one that relies less on sovereign power than on the transnational resistance to the spread of the death-world. — Judith Butler
November 2019 | 229 x 152 mm | 224 pp | Paperback Rights: South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho, ZimbabwePrint: 978-1-77614-327-6 Subjects: Politics, Philosophy, HistoryPublication date subject to change.
Related title: On the Postcolony by Achille Mbembe
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Politics and Political Studies
Governance and the PostcolonyViews from AfricaEdited by David Everatt
Civil society, NGOs, governments, and multilateral institu tions
all repeatedly call for improved or ‘good’ governance – yet they
seem to speak past one another. Governance is in danger of
losing all meaning precisely because it means many things
to different people in varied locations. This is especially
true in sub-Saharan Africa. Here, the post colony takes many
forms, reflecting the imperial project with painful accuracy.
Offering a set of multidisciplinary analyses of governance in
different sectors (crisis manage ment, water, food security,
universities), in different locales across sub-Saharan Africa,
and from different theoretical approaches (network to
adversarial network governance), this volume makes a useful
addition to the growing debates on ‘how to govern’. It steers
away from offering a ‘correct’ definition of governance, or
from promoting a particular position on postcoloniality. It
gives no neat conclusion, but invites readers to draw their
own conclusions based on these differing approaches to and
analyses of governance in the postcolony. As a robust, critical
assessment of power and accountability in the sub-Saharan
context, this collec tion brings together topical case studies
that will be a valuable resource for those working in the
field of African International Relations, Public Policy, Public
Management and Administration.
David Everatt is Head of the Wits School
of Governance, University of the Witwa-
tersrand, Johannesburg.
This important collection reinvigorates the conventional, hollowed-out concept of governance by insisting that power, and its accountability, is central to governance. — Colin Bundy, retired first principal of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford
August 2019 | 234 x 156 mm | 340 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-344-3 | PDF: 978-1-77614-345-0EPUB: 978-1-77614-346-7 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-347-4 Subjects: Politics, Political Studies
Related title: Fees Must Fall edited by Susan Booysen
Contributors: Caryn Abrahams, Patrick Bond, Susan Booysen, Jody Cedras, David Everatt,
William Gumede , Salim Latib, Babalwa Magoqwana, Kirti Menon, Darlene Miller, Nomalanga Mkhize,
Chelete Monyane, Bongiwe Ngcobo Mphahlele, Mike Muller, Pundy Pillay, Rebecca Pointer and
Anthoni van Nieuwkerk
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Politics and Political Studies
Democratic Marxism Series: BRICS and the New American ImperialismGlobal rivalry and resistanceEdited by Vishwas Satgar
BRICS is a grouping of the five major emerging economies
of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Volume
five in the Democratic Marxism series challenges the
mainstream understanding of BRICS and US dominance
to situate the new global rivalries engulfing capitalism. It
offers novel analyses of BRICS in the context of increasing
US induced imperial chaos, deepening environmental crisis
tendencies (such as climate change and water scarcity),
contradictory dynamics inside BRICS countries and growing
subaltern resistance.The authors revisit contemporary
thinking on imperialism and anti-imperialism, drawing on
the work of Rosa Luxemburg, one of the leading theorists
after Marx, who attempted to understand the expansionary
nature of capitalism from the heartlands to the peripheries.
The richness of Luxemburg’s pioneering work inspires
most of the volume’s contributors in their analyses of the
dangerous contradictions of the contemporary world as
well as forms of democratic agency advancing resistance.
While various forms of resistance are highlighted, among
them water protests, mass worker strikes, anti-corporate
campaigning and forms of cultural critique, this volume
grapples with the challenge of renewing anti-imperialism
beyond the NGO-driven World Social Forum and considers
the prospects of a new horizontal political vessel to build
global convergence.
It also explores the prospects of a Fifth International of
Peoples and Workers.
Contributors: Ferrial Adam, Samir Amin, Patrick Bond,
William K. Carroll, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Alexander
Gallas, Ana Garcia, Karina Kato, Nivedita Majumdar, Vishwas
Satgar and Keamogetswe Seipato
Vishwas Satgar, a democratic eco-
socialist, is an associate professor of
International Relations at the University
of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
He edits the Democratic Marxism series
and is the principal investigator for the
Emancipatory Futures Studies in the
Anthropocene project.March 2020 | 234 x 156 mm | 264 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-528-7 | PDF: 978-1-77614-563-8EPUB: 978-1-77614-564-5 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-565-2OA PDF: 978-1-77614-576-8Subjects: Politics, International Relations, SociologyPublication date subject to change.
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Politics and Political Studies
January 2018 | Paperback | Rights: World Print: 978-1-77614-055-8 | PDF: 978-1-77614-098-5EPUB: 978-1-77614-099-2 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-101-2Subjects: Sociology, Politics, EconomyVolumes 1–5 are indexed in Web of Science Book Citation Index (BKCI)
Despite the transition from apartheid to democracy,
South Africa is the most unequal country in the world. Its
extremes of wealth and poverty undermine intensifying
struggles for a better life for all. The wide-ranging essays
in volume 6 of the New South African Review demonstrate
how the consequences of inequality extend throughout
society and the political economy, crippling the quest for
social justice, polarising the politics, skewing economic
outcomes and bringing devastating environmental
consequences in their wake. Contributors survey the
extent and consequences of inequality across fields as
diverse as education, disability, agrarian reform, nuclear
geography and small towns, and tackle some of the most
difficult social, political and economic issues. How has the
quest for greater equality affected progressive political
discourse? How has inequality reproduced itself, despite
best intentions in social policy, to the detriment of the
poor and the historically disadvantaged? How have shifts
in mining and the financialisation of the economy reshaped
the contours of inequality? How does inequality reach into
the daily social life of South Africans, and shape the way
in which they interact? How does the extent and shape
of inequality in South Africa compare with that of other
major countries of the global South, which themselves are
notorious for their extremes of wealth and poverty? South
African extremes of inequality reflect increasing inequality
globally, and The crisis of inequality will speak to all those –
general readers, policy makers, researchers and students
– who are demanding a more equal world.
New South African Review collection 1–6The crisis of inequalityEdited by Gilbert M. Khadiagala, Sarah Mosoetsa, Devan Pillay and Roger Southall
Gilbert M. Khadiagala is Jan Smuts
Professor of International Relations at
the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg. Sarah Mosoetsa, Devan
Pillay and Roger Southall are all in the
Department of Sociology at the University
of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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Politics and Political Studies
Beyond ColonialityCitizenship and freedom in the Caribbean intellectual traditionAaron Kamugisha
March 2019 | 229 x 152 mm | 320 pp | Paperback | Rights: AfricaPrint: 978-1-77614-328-3 | PDF: 978-1-77614-341-2Subjects: Politics, Philosophy
Aaron Kamugisha engages with the contradictions of coloniality
and the post-colonial condition in the English ... Caribbean through
critical reading of the work of its major intellectuals. A tour de force
that demonstrates how histories embodied in the performances and
performatives of the popular and embedded in their poetics and
aesthetics produce and reveal the future. — Percy C. Hintzen, author of
Global Circuits of Blackness: Interrogating the African Diaspora
Power in ActionDemocracy, citizenship and social justiceSteven Friedman
November 2018 | 234 x 156 mm | 336 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-302-3 | PDF: 978-1-77614-303-0EPUB: 978-1-77614-304-7 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-305-4Subjects: PoliticsIndexed in Web of Science Book Citation Index (BKCI)
I very much like the message Power in Action is sending out: We cannot
and should not do without liberal democracy, or believe the narrative
that South Africa’s constitution is a sham. What we need is to go far
beyond electoral and other institutions and established practices to
make democracy really work. — Roger Southall, Emeritus Professor in
Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and
author of The New Black Middle Class (2016)
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Politics and Political Studies
Shadow StateThe politics of state captureIvor Chipkin and Mark Swilling with Haroon Bhorat, Mbongiseni Buthelezi, Sikhulekile Duma, Hannah Friedenstein, Lumkile Mondi, Camaren Peter, Nicky Prins and Mzukisi Qobo
July 2018 | 229 x 152 mm | 198 pp | Paperback | Rights: World Print: 978-1-77614-212-5 | PDF: 978-1-77614-213-2EPUB: 978-1-77614-214-9 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-266-8Subjects: Governance, PoliticsIndexed in Web of Science Book Citation Index (BKCI)
This is a compelling example of how committed academics conducting
rigorous research and analysis can help crystallize our understanding
of fundamental problems in our society. — Blade Nzimande, General
Secretary of the South African Communist Party
Thinking Freedom in AfricaToward a theory of emancipatory politics Michael Neocosmos
December 2016 | 244 x 170 mm | 650 pp | Paperback | Rights: World Print: 978-1-86814-866-0 | PDF: 978-1-86814-869-1EPUB: 978-1-86814-867-7 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-133-3Subjects: Political Theory, Philosophy, HistoryIndexed in Web of Science Book Citation Index (BKCI)
A genuine political treatise: nuanced, erudite, creative, committed ...
through an extraordinary journey through more than a thousand years
of reflection ... the theorist’s task is clear – to make an emancipatory
future unthinkable. No less than a classic of political thought is born: a
book to be read and re-read. — Lewis R. Gordon, author of What Fanon
Said and Existentia Africana
WINNER OF THE 2017 FRANTZ FANON OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD
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Politics and Political Studies
Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and PoliticsNigel C. Gibson and Roberto Beneduce
October 2017 | 229 x 153 mm | 326 pp | Paperback | Rights: AfricaPrint: 978-1-77614-051-0 Subjects: Philosophy, Psychology, Postcolonial Studies
The historical nuance and meticulous analysis make Gibson and
Beneduce’s Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics more than a work on
Fanon’s psychiatric thought. It’s a political history of psychiatry both as
a colonial and anti-colonial practice. — Lewis R. Gordon, Professor of
Philosophy and Africana Studies, University of Connecticut
The Politics of CustomChiefship, capital and the state in contemporary AfricaEdited by John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff
August 2018 | 229 x 152 mm | 368 pp | Paperback | Rights: AfricaPrint: 978-1-77614-320-7 | PDF: 978-1-77614-339-9Subjects: Politics, Anthropology, History
Chiefs have clout because their role draws on sources of sovereignty
that go beyond the conventional realm of politics to encompass kinship
networks, ritual, business, and the global economy. This book shines
new light on the interplay of tradition and modernity, showing that
chiefship is neither wholly of the state nor of the customary, but always
entangled with both. — Deborah James, London School of Economics
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Social Science and Sociology
Inequality Studies from the Global SouthEdited by Edward Webster, Imraan Valodia and David Francis
While inequality is a global problem, inequality studies are
usually undertaken in the global North. Yet the forces which
drive the production and reproduction of inequality are
universal. In this collection, contributors present a view of
contemporary inequality studies from the global South. They
show how, in many countries in the South, unprecedented
levels of inequality and poverty are not merely a socio-
economic problem, but an existential threat to the social
contract that underpins the democratic state and society
itself. They engage with conceptual, methodological and
substantive questions about how inequality is produced and
reproduced in the global South and identify the sources of
power that can address and overcome this inequality. The
interdisciplinary collection of essays in this volume engage
thematically (rather than through country case studies) with
the most pressing issues of inequality and problematise the
notion of a universal ‘inequality studies’.
Edward Webster is Distinguished
Research Professor and founder of the
Southern Centre for Inequality Studies
at the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg. He is the founder of the
the Society, Work and Development
Institute (SWOP) at the University of
the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
and directed it for twenty four years.
Imraan Valodia is Dean of the Faculty
of Commerce, Law and Management,
University of the Witwatersrand,
Johan nesburg, and Chair of the
National Minimum Wage Advisory Panel.
David Francis is the Deputy Director of
the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies
at the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg.
May 2020 | 234 x 156 mm | 280 pp | PaperbackRights: AfricaPrint: 978-1-77614-616-1 | PDF: 978-177614-617-8Subjects: Social Science, SociologyPublication date subject to change.
Related title: New South African Review 6 edited by Gilbert M. Khadiagala, Sarah Mosoetsa, Devan Pillay and Roger Southall
INEQUALITY STUDIES FROM
THE GLOBAL SOUTH
SOCIAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY
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Conspicuous Consumption in AfricaEdited by Deborah Posel and Ilana van Wyk
From early department stores in Cape Town to gendered
histories of sartorial success in urban Togo, contestations
over expense accounts at an apartheid state enterprise, elite
wealth and political corruption in Angola and Zambia, the
role of popular religion in the political intransigence of Jacob
Zuma, funerals of big men in Cameroon, youth cultures of
consumption in Niger and South Africa, queer consumption
in Cape Town, middle-class food consumption in Durban
and the consumption of luxury handcrafted beads, this
collection of essays explores the ways in which conspicuous
consumption is foregrounded in various African contexts and
historical moments. The essays in Conspicuous Consumption
in Africa put Thorstein Veblen’s concept under robust critical
scrutiny, delving into the pleasures, stresses and challenges
of consuming in its religious, generational, gendered and
racialised aspects, revealing conspicuous consumption
as a layered set of practices, textures and relations. This
volume shows how central and revealing conspicuous
consumption can be to fathoming the history of Africa’s
projects of modernity, and their global lineages and legacies.
In its grounded, up-close case studies, it is likely to feed into
current public debates on the nature and future of African
societies – South African society in particular.
Deborah Posel is a professor of Sociology
at the University of Cape Town, based
in the Institute for Humanities in
Africa, of which she was the founding
director. Ilana van Wyk is a lecturer
in Anthropology at Stellenbosch
University and former editor-in-chief of
Anthropology Southern Africa.
May 2019 | 244 x 170 mm | 256 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-364-1 | PDF: 978-1-77614-365-8 EPUB: 978-1-77614-366-5 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-367-2Subjects: Sociology, Anthropology, Cultural studies
Related title: A Church of Strangers by Ilana van Wyk
This fascinating, nuanced and persuasive volume combines sophisticated theoretical expositions with a high level of empirical inquiry. — Robert Ross, Professor of African History Emeritus, Leiden University, the Netherlands
Contributors: Joni Brenner, Sophie Chevalier, Claudia Gastrow, Pamila Gupta, Adeline Masquelier,
Jabulani Mnisi, Rogers Orock, Deborah Posel, Bradley Rink, Stephen Sparks, Nina Sylvanus, Karen
Tranberg Hansen and Ilana van Wyk
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Social Science and Sociology
Knowledge and Global PowerMaking new sciences in the SouthFran Collyer, Raewyn Connell, João Maia and Robert Morrell
Knowledge and Global Power is a ground-breaking
international study which examines how knowledge is
produced, distributed and validated globally. The former
imperial nations – the rich countries of Europe and North
America – still have a hegemonic position in the global
knowledge economy. Fran Collyer, Raewyn Connell, João
Maia and Robert Morrell, using interviews, databases
and fieldwork, show how intellectual workers respond in
three Southern tier countries, Brazil, South Africa and
Australia. The study focuses on new, socially and politically
important research fields: HIV/AIDS, climate change and
gender studies. The research demonstrates emphatically
that ‘place matters’, shaping research, scholarship and
knowledge itself. But it also shows that knowledge workers
in the global South have room to move, setting agendas and
forming local knowledge.
Fran Collyer is Associate Professor at the
University of Sydney. Raewyn Connell is
Professor Emeritus at the University of
Sydney. João Maia teaches in the School
of Social Sciences (CPDOC) at Fundação
Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro. Robert
Morrell is an historian working in research
development at the University of Cape
Town.
March 2019 | 234 x 156 mm | 240 pp | Paperback | Rights: AfricaPrint: 978-1-77614-224-8 | PDF: 978-1-77614-383-2Subjects: Sociology, Politics, Knowledge Production, Southern Theory
Related title: Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences edited by Sumaya Laher, Angelo Fynn and Sherianne Kramer
Knowledge and Global Power breaks new ground by casting a sharp light on the imaginative work of researchers in the global South though under conditions that still reflect the asymmetries of power in relation to the global North. Going forward, this book is a must-read for students in the sociology and politics of knowledge. — Jonathan Jansen, Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Stellenbosch
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Social Science and Sociology
Stopping the SpiesConstructing and resisting the surveillance state in South AfricaJane Duncan
May 2018 | 234 x 156 mm | 312 pp | Paperback | Rights: World Print: 978-1-77614-215-6 | PDF: 978-1-77614-216-3EPUB: 978-1-77614-217-0 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-265-1Subjects: Politics, Criminology
This book makes a timely contribution to the study of surveillance in
the South African context. It is important reading not only because of
the detailed information it provides about threats to citizen freedoms in
post-apartheid South Africa, but also for its constructive suggestions
for public agency and resistance. — Herman Wasserman, Professor
of Media Studies and Director: Centre for Film and Media Studies,
University of Cape Town
The Rise of Africa’s Middle ClassMyths, realities and critical engagements Edited by Henning Melber
March 2017 | 234 x 156 mm | 288 pp | Paperback | Rights: SADC and Kenya Print: 978-1-77614-082-4Subjects: Social Anthropology, Economics, Development Studies
The Rise of Africa’s Middle Class subjects recent hype about the rise of the
middle class in Africa to skeptical and critical analysis. An essential read for
all engaging with the middle classes in development debate.
— Gordon Crawford, Coventry University
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Social Science and Sociology
Race Otherwise Forging a new humanism for South AfricaZimitri Erasmus
September 2017 | 216 x 140 mm | 184 pp | Paperback | Rights: World Print: 978-1-77614-058-9 | PDF: 978-1-77614-184-5EPUB: 978-1-77614-185-2 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-251-4Subjects: Cultural Studies, Sociology, Critical Race TheoryIndexed in Web of Science Book Citation Index (BKCI)
Race Otherwise brings together the full amplitude of Zimitri Erasmus’s
thinking about how race works. It tunes into registers both personal and
social. It is not without indignation, and not … insensitive to emotion
and … the anger inside South Africa. It is a book that is not afraid of
questions of affect. Eros and love, Erasmus urges, are not separable
from the hard work of thinking. — Crain Soudien, CEO of the Human
Sciences Research Council, South Africa
June 2018 | 198 x 129 mm | 256 pp | Paperback Rights: South Africa, Botswana and Namibia Print: 978-1-77614-284-2 | PDF: 978-1-77614-340-5Subjects: Gender Studies, Women’s Writing
A necessary contribution to the conversation on gender liberation.
Dahlqvist masterfully moves between storytelling and frameworking
how stigma holds menstruators back globally, while offering tangible
solutions to many of these problems. A must read. — Kiran Gandhi,
musician, activist and free-bleeding runner at the 2015 London
Marathon
It’s Only BloodShattering the taboo of menstruationAnna Dahlqvist, translated by Alice E. Olsson
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Social Science and Sociology
Labour Beyond CosatuMapping the rupture in South Africa’s labour landscapeEdited by Andries Bezuidenhout and Malehoko Tshoaedi
July 2017 | 234 x 156 mm | 272 pp | Paperback | Rights: World Print: 978-1-77614-053-4 | PDF: 978-1-77614-150-0EPUB: 978-1-77614-151-7 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-153-1Subjects: Sociology, Political Studies, EconomicsIndexed in Web of Science Book Citation Index (BKCI)
In significant measure, this series is keeping abreast of the times and
the changes in the landscape within which trade unions [in South Africa]
are now operating. Deeply sympathetic to the project of organised
labour yet highly critical of its present trajectory in what is now a highly
charged environment, this collection deserves to attract wide attention
internationally as well as domestically. — Roger Southall, Professor
Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg
Organise or Die?Democracy and leadership in South Africa’s National Union of MineworkersRaphaël Botiveau
December 2017 | 234 x 156 mm | 360 pp | Paperback | Rights: World Print: 978-1-77614-204-0 | PDF: 978-1-77614-205-7EPUB: 978-1-77614-206-4 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-250-7Subjects: History, Politics, Labour StudiesIndexed in Web of Science Book Citation Index (BKCI)
This is a vivid, lively account … focusing on the agency of real human
actors and the events impacting on the South African labour landscape
post Marikana. It will both deepen scholarship and provoke much
debate. — Andries Bezuidenhout, University of Pretoria
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Psychology
Becoming MenBlack masculinities in a South African townshipMalose Langa
Becoming Men is the story of 32 boys from Alexandra, one
of Johannesburg’s largest townships, over a period of
twelve seminal years in which they negotiate manhood
and masculinity. Psychologist and academic Malose
Langa has documented graphically what it means to be a
young black man in contemporary South Africa. The boys
discuss a range of topics including the impact of absent
fathers, relationships with mothers, siblings and girls,
school violence, academic performance, homophobia,
gangsterism, unemployment and, in one case, prison life.
Dominant themes that emerge are deep ambivalence,
self-doubt and hesitation in the boys’ approaches to
alternative masculinities that are non-violent, non-sexist
and non-risk-taking. The difficulties of negotiating the
multiple voices of masculinity are exposed as many of the
boys appear simultaneously to comply with and oppose
the prevalent norms. Providing a rich interpretation of
how emotional processes affect black adolescent boys,
Langa suggests interventions and services to support and
assist them, especially in reducing the high-risk behaviours
generally associated with hegemonic masculinity. This is
essential reading for students, researchers and scholars
of Gender Studies who wish to understand manhood and
masculinity in South Africa. Psychologists, youth workers,
lay counsellors and teachers who work with adolescent boys
will also find it invaluable.
Malose Langa is Senior Lecturer and
Associate Professor of Psychology in
the Department of Psychology, School
of Human and Community Development
at the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg. He is also a psychologist
in private practice.
April 2020 | 229 x 152 mm | 192 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-567-6 | PDF: 978-1-77614-568-3EPUB: 978-1-77614-569-0 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-570-6Subjects: Psychology, Gender and Sexuality StudiesPublication date subject to change.
Related title: The World Looks Like This From Here by Kopano Ratele
PSYCHOLOGY
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The World Looks Like This From HereThoughts on African psychologyKopano Ratele
Innovative in form and content, The World Looks Like This
From Here offers thoughts about the ideas, contestation,
urgency and desire around a psychological praxis in Africa
for Africans. Setting out a situated, pluralising framework
for researching, teaching and practising African psychology,
the book urges reflection on, and reconsideration of, how
the discipline is taught and practised on the continent.
Writing against the universal application of a Western model
of psychology, which is unreflective about its locatedness
even as it pushes Africa to the margins, Ratele urges
readers to engage and think deeply about new ways of
seeing and thinking about the self and others. He asserts
that the deliberate attempt to see the world from Africa
– to look at everything with the whole self from here –
leads to heightened consciousness about ways of being
in the world, and enhances the capacity for healing. This
lyrical, philosophical and poetic treatise is a cogent and
timely response to the call for the decolonisation of social
sciences and other disciplines.
Kopano Ratele is a professor in the
Institute for Social and Health Sciences at
the University of South Africa (Unisa) and
a researcher in the South African Medical
Research Council–Unisa Violence, Injury
and Peace Research Unit.
September 2019 | 203 x 127 mm | 248 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-390-0 | PDF: 978-1-77614-391-7EPUB: 978-1-77614-392-4 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-393-1Subjects: Psychology, Philosophy
Related title: What Fanon Said by Lewis Gordon
This book builds a case for thinking and doing psychology differently in and for Africa. Its strength lies in the author’s arguments on psychology as a colonial discipline and what it does as it is transported to the African continent. — Associate Professor Floretta Boonzaier, Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town
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Psychology
Being-Black-in-the-WorldNew EditionN. Chabani Manganyi
Being-Black-in-the-World is a collection of essays by N.
Chabani Manganyi, one of South Africa’s most eminent
intellectuals and social and political observers. First
published in 1973 at a time of global socio-political change
and renewed resistance to the brutality of apartheid rule,
this edition includes a foreword by Garth Stevens, notes by
Graham Hayes, as well as an afterword by Njabulo Ndebele.
In this book, Manganyi attempts to make sense of black
subjectivity and the persistence of white insensitivity to
black suffering. Like Fanon in Black Skins, White Masks,
Manganyi expresses the vileness of the racist order and its
effect on the human condition. Each of these short essays
can be read as self-contained reflections on what it meant
to be black during the apartheid years. Manganyi is a master
of understatement, yet this does not stop him from making
incisive political criticisms of black subjugation under
apartheid. While the essays in this book are clearly situated
in the material and social conditions of the time, they also
have a timelessness that speaks to our contemporary
concerns regarding black subjectivity, affectivity and
corporeality; the persistence of a racial (and racist) order;
and the possibilities of a renewed decolonial project.
N. Chabani Manganyi is one of South
Africa’s most eminent intellectuals
and an astute social and political
observer. He has had a distinguished
career in psychology, education and in
government, and has written widely on
subjects relating to ethno-psychiatry,
autobiography, black artists and race.
September 2019 | 203 x 127 mm | 168 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-368-9 | PDF: 978-1-77614-369-6EPUB: 978-1-77614-370-2 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-371-9Subjects: Psychology, Philosophy
Related title: Apartheid and the Making of a Black Psychologist by N. Chabani Manganyi
In 1973, Chabani Manganyi’s essays raised provocative questions that spoke to the issues of the time, and to his own unique relationship to them. Such a questioning approach remains essential to exploring being human today. — Gerhard Maré, Professor Emeritus, University of KwaZulu-Natal, and author of Declassified: Moving beyond the dead end of race in South Africa
Notes by Grahame Hayes. Foreword by Garth Stevens. Afterword by Njabulo S. Ndebele
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Education, Higher Education and Development
Jonathan Jansen is Distinguished
Professor of Education at the University
of Stellenbosch, South Africa, and
President of the South African Academy
of Science. He is a prolific writer and well-
known educationist in South Africa.
Decolonisation in UniversitiesThe politics of knowledgeEdited by Jonathan Jansen
Shortly after the giant bronze statue of Cecil John Rhodes
came down at the University of Cape Town, student protestors
called for the decolonisation of universities. It was a word
hardly heard in South Africa’s struggle lexicon and many asked:
What exactly is decolonisation? This edited volume brings
together the best minds in curriculum theory to address this
important question. In the process, several critical questions
are raised: Is decolonisation simply a slogan for addressing
other pressing concerns on campuses and in society? What
is the colonial legacy with respect to curriculum and can it
be undone? How is the project of curriculum decolonisation
similar to, or different from, the quest for postcolonial
knowledge, indigenous knowledge or a critical theory of
knowledge? What does decolonisation mean in a digital
age where relationships between knowledge and power are
shifting? The book combines strong conceptual analyses
with novel case studies of attempts to ‘do decolonisation’ in
settings as diverse as South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania and
Mauritius. Such a comparative perspective enables reasonable
judgements to be made about the prospects for institutional
take-up within the curriculum of century-old universities.
August 2019 | 244 x 170 mm | 298 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-335-1 | PDF: 978-1-77614-336-8EPUB: 978-1-77614-337-5 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-338-2Subjects: Education, Politics
Related title: Citizen and Subject by Mahmood Mamdani
EDUCATION, HIGHER EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Contributors: Jess Auerbach, Mlungisi Dlamini, Jaamia Galant, Ursula Hoadley, Jonathan Jansen, André
Keet, Lis Lange, Lesley Le Grange, Mahmood Mamdani, Achille Mbembe, Shireen Motala, Piet Naude,
Yusuf Sayed, Brenda Schmahmann and Crain Soudien
This is a long-awaited, incisive and insightful book on decolonising knowledge in university curricula, drawing on key thinkers in the area. It will have immense impact on theory and practice beyond the borders of South Africa. — Shirley Anne Tate, Professor of Race and Education and Director of the Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality, Carnegie School of Education
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Education, Higher Education and Development
Sumaya Laher is an associate professor
in Psychology at the University of the
Witwatersrand. Angelo Fynn is a senior
Psychology lecturer at the University
of South Africa. Sherianne Kramer is a
Social Science lecturer at the Amsterdam
University College.
Transforming Research Methods in the Social SciencesCase studies from South AfricaEdited by Sumaya Laher, Angelo Fynn and Sherianne Kramer
Social science researchers in the global South, and in South
Africa particularly, utilise research methods in innovative ways
in order to respond to contexts characterised by diversity,
racial and political tensions, socio-economic disparities
and gender inequalities. These methods often remain
undocumented – a gap that this book starts to address. Written
by experts from various methodological fields, Transforming
Research Methods in the Social Sciences is a comprehensive
collation of original essays and cutting-edge research that
demonstrates the variety of novel techniques and research
methods available to researchers responding to these
context-bound issues. It is particularly relevant for study
and research in the fields of Applied Psychology, Sociology,
Ethnography, Biography and Anthropology. In addition to their
unique combination of conceptual and application issues,
the chapters include discussions on ethical considerations
relevant to the method in similar global South contexts.
Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences has
much to offer to researchers, professionals and others involved
in social science research both locally and internationally.
March 2019 | 244 x 170 mm | 528 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-275-0 | PDF: 978-1-77614-355-9EPUB: 978-1-77614-356-6 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-357-3OA PDF: 978-1-77614-276-7Subjects: Psychology, Higher Education
Related title: Psychological Assessment in South Africa edited by Kate Cockcroft and Sumaya Laher
Contributors: Elizabeth Archer, Brendon Barnes, Floretta Boonzaier, Brett Bowman, Kate
Cockcroft, David Edwards, Gillian Finchilescu, Paul J.P. Fouché, Angelo Fynn, Thomas Geffen, Paul
L. Goldschagg, Saraswathie Govender, Lynlee Howard-Payne, Debra Kaminer, Shose Kessi, Peace
Kiguwa, Sherianne Kramer, Sumaya Laher, Despina Learmonth, Malose Makhubela, Jacobus Gideon
Maree, Solomon Mashegoane, Saloshni Muthal, Kathryn Anne Nel, Michael Pitman, Tracey Prenter,
Kopano Ratele, Diana Sanchez-Betancourt, Jeanette Schmid, Joseph Seabi, Mohamed Seedat, Ann
B. Shuttleworth-Edwards, Goodman Sibeko, Ian Siemers, Dan J. Stein, Lu-Anne Swart, Roelf van
Niekerk, Elmé Vivier and Kevin A. Whitehead
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Biography, Letters/Memoir and Travel Writing
Patrick van RensburgRebel, visionary and radical educationist, a biographyKevin Shillington
Born in KwaZulu-Natal into what he described as ‘a very
ordinary South African family that believed in the virtue
of racism’, Patrick van Rensburg was to become a rebel
with several causes. In his case they were, initially, the
fight against apartheid and, later, a unique contribution to
education, which, as he would tell his audience when he
accepted the prestigious Right Livelihood Award, ‘as I saw
it then, was a necessary tool of development’. Exiled from
South Africa because of his involvement in the boycott
campaign in London that gave birth to the Anti-Apartheid
Movement, Van Rensburg went to Serowe in Botswana (then
Bechuanaland), where he founded co-operatives, provided
vocational training and was one of the earliest people to
espouse the discipline of development studies. Perhaps his
best-known legacies were Swaneng Hill School, in which
he involved his pupils in building their school, running it,
providing their own food and making their own equipment
and furniture; and ’brigades’ to provide an educational
home for primary school ‘dropouts’ through a curriculum
that combined theory and practice, mental and manual
labour. This sensitive and compelling biography does justice
to a giant of a man, controversial throughout his life but
undeniably a hero.
Kevin Shillington is an independent
historian and biographer who holds
a PhD in African History from the
University of London. His recent books
include Albert René: the Father of Modern
Seychelles (2014) and History of Africa,
4th edition (2019).
July 2020 | 234 x 156 mm | 344 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-604-8 | PDF: 978-1-77614-605-5EPUB: 978-1-77614-606-2 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-607-9Subjects: Biography, Education, HistoryPublication date subject to change.
Related title: Between Worlds by Linda Chisholm
BIOGRAPHY, LETTERS/MEMOIR AND TRAVEL WRITING
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Biography, Letters/Memoir and Travel Writing
In India and East Africa / E-Indiya nase East AfricaA travelogue in isiXhosa and EnglishDavidson Don Tengo Jabavu, translated by Cecil Wele ManonaEdited by Tina Steiner, Mhlobo W. Jadezweni, Catherine Higgs and Evan M. Mwangi
In November 1949 D.D.T. Jabavu, the South African
politician and professor of African languages at Fort Hare
University, set out on a four-month trip to attend the World
Pacifist Meeting in India. He wrote an isiXhosa account
of his journey which was published in 1951 by Lovedale
Press. This new edition republishes the travelogue in the
original isiXhosa, with an English translation by the late
anthropologist Cecil Wele Manona. The travelogue contains
reflections on Jabavu’s social interactions during his
travels, and on the conference itself, where he considered
what lessons Gandhian principles might yield for South
Africans engaged in struggles for freedom and dignity. His
commentary on non-violent resistance, and on the dangers
of nationalism and racism, enriches the existing archive
of intellectual exchanges between Africa and India from
a black South African perspective. The volume includes
chapters by the editors that examine the networks of
international solidarity – from post-independence India to
the anti-colonial struggle in East Africa and the American
civil rights movement – which Jabavu helped to strengthen,
biographical sketches of Jabavu and of Manona, and an
afterword that reflects on the historical and political
significance of making African-language texts available to
readers across Africa.
D.D.T. Jabavu was a writer, political
activist and professor for Latin and
African Languages at the University of
Fort Hare. Cecil Wele Manona was an
anthropologist and Senior Research
Officer at the Institute of Social and
Economic Research (ISER) at Rhodes
University. Tina Steiner is an associate
professor in the English Department
at Stellenbosch University. Mhlobo W.
Jadezweni teaches isiXhosa at Rhodes
University. Catherine Higgs is Professor
of History and Head of the Department
of History and Sociology at the University
of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus.
Evan M. Mwangi is an associate professor
of English and comparative literature at
Northwestern University, Illinois.
February 2020 | 229 x 152 mm | 248 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-476-1 | PDF: 978-1-77614-477-8EPUB: 978-1-77614-478-5 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-479-2Subjects: Biography, Travel writing, Literature Studies, African HistoryPublication date subject to change.
Related title: Sol Plaatje edited by Brian Willan
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Biography, Letters/Memoir and Travel Writing
Lie on Your WoundsThe prison correspondence of Robert Mangaliso SobukweSelected and edited by Derek Hook
Robert Sobukwe, the founder and first leader of the Pan
Africanist Congress (PAC), was silenced throughout his life, a
condition which has been extended into the post-apartheid
present. This book, comprising approximately 300 letters,
provides access to his words via the single most poignant
resource of Sobukwe’s own voice that exists: his prison
letters. Not only do the letters evince Sobukwe’s storytelling
abilities, they convey the complexity of a man who defied
easy categorisation. More than this: they are testimony
both to the desolate conditions of his imprisonment and
to Sobukwe’s unbending commitment to the cause of
African liberation. Although jailed for nine years, including
a six-year period of near complete solitary confinement on
Robben Island, Sobukwe was better known during, rather
than after apartheid. Given his antagonistic views to both
white liberalism and the African National Congress (ANC), it
is unsurprising that he has been subjected to a ‘consensus
of forgetting’. With the changing political climate of recent
years, the decline of the ANC’s hegemonic hold on power, the
re-emergence of Black Consciousness and Africanist political
discourse and the growth of student protests, Sobukwe is
being looked to as a leader once again.
Derek Hook is an associate professor
of Psychology at Duquesne University in
Pittsburgh, USA, and a research affiliate in
Psychology at the Universities of Pretoria
and the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He
is the author of Critical Psychology of the
Postcolonial: The mind of apartheid and
Steve Biko (2012).
January 2019 | 234 x 156 mm | 360 pp | Paperback | Rights: World Print: 978-1-77614-240-8 | PDF: 978-1-77614-241-5EPUB: 978-1-77614-242-2 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-272-9Subjects: History, Biography
I should like to have a bedspread of my own, certainly. But I do not think a small carpet will be necessary. I have a felt mat here for my feet. Nor will the pictures be necessary, Benjie. You see, all these, after a time, become part of the environment. And it is a jail environment. And there is something within me which does not wish to forget it either. — Robert Sobukwe to Benjamin Pogrund, 12 April 1967
Related title: Memory Against Forgetting by Rusty Bernstein
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History
The Social and Political Thought of Archie MafejeBongani Nyoka
Social scientist Archie Mafeje, who was born in the Eastern
Cape but lived most of his scholarly life in exile, was one
of Africa’s most prominent intellectuals. This ground-
breaking work is the first of its kind to consider the
entire body of Mafeje’s oeuvre and offers a much-needed
engagement with his ideas. The most inclusive and critical
treatment to date of Mafeje as a thinker and researcher,
the book analyses his overall scholarship and his role as a
theoretician of liberation and revolution. Author Bongani
Nyoka’s main argument is that Mafeje’s superb scholarship
developed out of his experience as an oppressed black
person and his early political education, which merged
with his university training to turn him into a formidable
cutting-edge intellectual force. There are three main parts
to the book. Part I evaluates Mafeje’s critique of the social
sciences, part II focuses on his work on land and agrarian
issues in sub-Saharan Africa and part III deals with his work
on revolutionary theory and politics. The book engages
in the act of knowledge decolonisation, making a unique
contribution to South Africa’s sociological, historical and
political studies.
Bongani Nyoka is a senior researcher
fellow at the Johannesburg Institute
for Advanced Study, University of
Johannesburg, and a 2013 laureate of
Codesria (the Council for the Development
of Social Science Research in Africa,
based in Senegal).
August 2020 | 234 x 156 mm | 288 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-594-2 | PDF: 978-1-77614-595-9EPUB: 978-1-77614-596-6 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-597-3Subjects: History, Politics, Social TheoryPublication date subject to change.
Related title: The Cape Radicals by Crain Soudien
In 1937 a group of young Capetonians, socialist intellectuals from the Workers’ Party of South Africa and the Non-European Unity Movement, embarked on a remarkable public education and cultural project they called the New Era Fellowship (NEF).
Taking a position of non-collaboration and non-racialism, the NEF played a vital role in challenging society’s responses to events ranging from the problem of taking up arms during the Second World War for an empire intent on stripping black people of their human rights to the Hertzog Bills, which foreshadowed apartheid.
The group included some of the city’s most inspiring scholar-activists, whose aim was to disrupt and challenge not only prevailing political narratives but the very premises – class and race – on which they were based.
By the 1950s their ideas had spread to a second generation of talented individuals who would disseminate them in the high schools of Cape Town. In time, some would exert their influence on national politics beyond the confines of the Cape.
This book is a testament to the NEF’s position at the forefront of redefining the discourses of racialism and nationalism in South Africa.
Crain Soudien is a sociologist and educationist, Chief Executive Officer of the Human Sciences Research Council and an Honorary Professor at Nelson Mandela University. He is the author of Realising the Dream: Unlearning the Logic of Race in the South African School (2012).
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A wonderful book, in equal parts inspiring and riveting. Crain Soudien brings alive the courageous and deeply imaginative intellectual-political work undertaken ... by a group of brilliant Cape activists … [His] combination of fine-grained historical research, careful analysis, anecdote and character study offer a mesmerising reading of a group of people teeming with ideas about how to change the world. — Nadia Davids, Author
This very readable book is an important contribution to discussions about intellectuals and theories of identity in racialised societies.— Allison Drew, Honorary Professor University of Cape Town, Professor Emerita University of York
This is a seminal text on seminal thought. It tells of dissidence infused with a rare quality: consistency between what one thinks and the way one lives.— Zimitri Erasmus, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand
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Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect DietEating with the world in mindNico Slate
Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as a holistic approach
to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was
intimately tied to his beliefs. His key values of non-violence,
religious tolerance, and rural sustainability developed in
coordination with his dietary experiments. His repudiation
of sugar, chocolate, and salt expressed his opposition
to economies based on slavery, indentured labor, and
imperialism. Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet sheds new
light on important periods in Gandhi’s life as they relate to
his developing food ethic: his student years in London, his
politicisation as a young lawyer in South Africa, the 1930
Salt March challenging British colonialism, and his fasting
as a means of self-purification and social protest during
India’s struggle for independence. What became the pillars
of Gandhi’s diet – vegetarianism, limiting salt and sweets,
avoiding processed food, and fasting – anticipated many
of the debates in 21st-century food studies, and presaged
the necessity of building healthier and more equitable food
systems.
Nico Slate is Professor of History at
Carnegie Mellon University. He is the
author of Colored Cosmopolitanism and
editor of Black Power beyond Borders.
July 2019 | 229 x 152 mm | 262 pp | Paperback | Rights: AfricaPrint: 978-1-77614-487-7 | PDF: 978-1-77614-488-4Subjects: History
Related title: Eating from One Pot by Sarah Mosoetsa
A wonderful book that focuses on the issue of Gandhi’s obsessive preoccupation with diet reform and food in general, pointing out how intricately meshed were the Mahatma’s ideas and practices concerning eating, morality, ethics, and political activism. — Joseph Alter, author of Gandhi’s Body: Sex, Diet, and the Politics of Nationalism
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The Cape RadicalsIntellectual and political thought of the New Era Fellowship, 1930s-1960sCrain Soudien
In 1937 a group of young Capetonians, socialist intellectuals
from the Workers’ Party of South Africa and the Non-
European Unity Movement, among them Isaac Tabata, Ben
Kies, A.C. Jordan, Phyllis Ntantala and Mda Mda, embarked
on a public education and cultural project they called
the New Era Fellowship (NEF). Taking a position of non-
collaboration and non-racialism, the NEF played a vital role
in challenging society’s responses to events ranging from
the problem of taking up arms during the Second World
War for an empire intent on stripping black people of their
human rights to the Hertzog Bills, which foreshadowed
apartheid. The group included some of the city’s most
talented scholar-activists, whose aim was to disrupt and
challenge not only prevailing political narratives but the
very premises – class and race – on which they were based.
By the 1950s their ideas had spread to a second generation
of talented individuals who would disseminate them in the
high schools of Cape Town. In time, some would exert their
influence on national politics beyond the confines of the
Cape. The Cape Radicals is a testament to the NEF’s position
at the forefront of redefining the discourse of racialism and
nationalism in South Africa.
Crain Soudien is an educationist and
sociologist, Chief Executive Officer of the
Human Sciences Research Council and
an Honorary Professor at Nelson Mandela
University. He is the author of Realising
the Dream: Unlearning the Logic of Race in
the South African School (2012).
June 2019 | 229 x 152 mm | 232 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-317-7 | PDF: 978-1-77614-348-1EPUB: 978-1-77614-349-8 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-350-4Subjects: African History, Politics
In 1937 a group of young Capetonians, socialist intellectuals from the Workers’ Party of South Africa and the Non-European Unity Movement, embarked on a remarkable public education and cultural project they called the New Era Fellowship (NEF).
Taking a position of non-collaboration and non-racialism, the NEF played a vital role in challenging society’s responses to events ranging from the problem of taking up arms during the Second World War for an empire intent on stripping black people of their human rights to the Hertzog Bills, which foreshadowed apartheid.
The group included some of the city’s most inspiring scholar-activists, whose aim was to disrupt and challenge not only prevailing political narratives but the very premises – class and race – on which they were based.
By the 1950s their ideas had spread to a second generation of talented individuals who would disseminate them in the high schools of Cape Town. In time, some would exert their influence on national politics beyond the confines of the Cape.
This book is a testament to the NEF’s position at the forefront of redefining the discourses of racialism and nationalism in South Africa.
Crain Soudien is a sociologist and educationist, Chief Executive Officer of the Human Sciences Research Council and an Honorary Professor at Nelson Mandela University. He is the author of Realising the Dream: Unlearning the Logic of Race in the South African School (2012).
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A wonderful book, in equal parts inspiring and riveting. Crain Soudien brings alive the courageous and deeply imaginative intellectual-political work undertaken ... by a group of brilliant Cape activists … [His] combination of fine-grained historical research, careful analysis, anecdote and character study offer a mesmerising reading of a group of people teeming with ideas about how to change the world. — Nadia Davids, Author
This very readable book is an important contribution to discussions about intellectuals and theories of identity in racialised societies.— Allison Drew, Honorary Professor University of Cape Town, Professor Emerita University of York
This is a seminal text on seminal thought. It tells of dissidence infused with a rare quality: consistency between what one thinks and the way one lives.— Zimitri Erasmus, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand
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This very readable book is an important contribution to discussions about intellectuals and theories of identity in racialised societies. — Allison Drew, Honorary Professor, University of Cape Town and Professor Emeritus, University of York
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Limpopo’s LegacyStudent politics and democracy in South AfricaAnne K. Heffernan
March 2019 | 234 x 156 mm | 270 pp | PaperbackRights: South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and SwazilandPrint: 978-1-77614-325-2Subjects: History, Politcs
An outstanding, detailed history of student politics in Turfloop and
Limpopo Province from 1960 to date. ... a must for History, Political
Studies, and Sociology courses. — Keith Gottschalk, University of the
Western Cape
February 2018 | 229 x 152 mm | 360 pp | Paperback | Rights: AfricaPrint: 978-1-77614-210-1 | PDF: 978-1-77614-211-8Subjects: Politics, Sociology, History
Internal Frontiers reveals how insurgent intellectuals such as Anton
Lembede and Albert Luthuli – influenced by India’s independence
movement and the challenges of building solidarity with Natal’s Indian
diaspora – conceived a vision of the nation ‘from below’ that affirmed
African agency while also embracing a diverse, multi-ethnic political
community. — Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The black
radical imagination
Internal FrontiersAfrican nationalism and the Indian diaspora in twentieth-century South AfricaJon Soske
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History
Township Violence and the End of ApartheidWar on the ReefGary Kynoch
October 2018 | 234 x 156 mm | 240 pp | PaperbackRights: South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and SwazilandPrint: 978-1-77614-322-1Subjects: History, Politics
A powerful re-reading of modern South African history following
apartheid that examines the violent transformation during the
transition era and how this was enacted in the African townships of the
Witwatersrand. — Roger Southall, Emeritus Professor of Sociology,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
March 2018 | 229 x 152 mm | 220 pp | Paperback | Rights: World Print: 978-1-77614-187-6 | PDF: 978-1-77614-188-3EPUB: 978-1-77614-189-0 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-264-4Subjects: History, Memoir, Sociology, EnvironmentIndexed in Web of Science Book Citation Index (BKCI)
Jacklyn Cock has made the story of a small and fairly insignificant
river into a metonym of the biological glories of South Africa and the
ecological devastation they have endured, and continue to endure.
The result is at once lyrical and trenchant. As a history rooted in the
landscape of South Africa, it has few peers, and no superiors. — Robert
Ross, Leiden University
Writing the Ancestral RiverA biography of the KowieJacklyn Cock
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Art and Art History
Troubling ImagesVisual culture and the politics of Afrikaner nationalismEdited by Federico Freschi, Brenda Schmahmann and Lize van Robbroeck
Focusing on manifestations of Afrikaner nationalism in
paintings, sculptures, monuments, buildings, cartoons,
photographs, illustrations and exhibitions, Troubling
Images offers a critical account of the role of art and
visual culture in the construction of a unified Afrikaner
imaginary, which helped secure hegemonic claims to the
nation-state during South Africa’s apartheid years. This
insightful volume examines the implications of metaphors
and styles deployed in visual culture, and considers how
the design, production, collecting and commissioning
of objects, images and architecture were informed by
Afrikaner nationalist imperatives and ideals. While some
chapters focus only on instances of adherence to Afrikaner
nationalism, others consider articulations of dissent and
criticism. By ‘troubling’ these images: looking at them,
teasing out their meanings, and connecting them to a
political and social project that still has a major impact on
the present moment, the authors engage with the ways in
which an Afrikaner nationalist inheritance is understood
and negotiated in contemporary South Africa. Troubling
Images adds to current debates about the histories and
ideological underpinnings of nationalism and is particularly
relevant in the current context of globalism and diaspora,
resurgent nationalisms and calls for decolonisation.
Federico Freschi is a Professor and the
Executive Dean of the Faculty of Art,
Design and Architecture at the University
of Johannesburg. Brenda Schmahmann
is a Professor and SARCHI Chair in South
African Art and Visual Culture at the
University of Johannesburg. Lize van
Robbroeck is Professor in Visual Studies
at Stellenbosch University’s Visual Arts
Department.
February 2020 | 244 x 170 mm | 336 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-471-6 | PDF: 978-1-77614-472-3EPUB: 978-1-77614-473-0 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-474-7Subjects: Cultural studies, African historyPublication date subject to change.
Related title: Picturing Change by Brenda Schmahmann
Contributors: Gary Baines, Federico Freschi, Michael Godby, Albert Grundlingh, Jonathan D. Jansen,
Katharina Jörder, Lou-Marié Kruger, Brenda Schmahmann, Theo Sonnekus, Peter Vale, Lize van
Robbroeck and Liese van der Watt
ART AND ART HISTORY
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Photography and History in Colonial Southern AfricaShades of empireLorena Rizzo
Photography and History in Colonial Southern Africa is a rich
and in-depth study of the relationship between photography
and colonial history at the turn of the twentieth century.
Lorena Rizzo highlights the ways in which photographic
images cut across conventional institutional boundaries
and complicate rigid distinctions between the private and
the public, the political and the aesthetic, the colonial and
the vernacular, and the subject and the object. Rizzo argues
that rather than understanding photographs primarily as a
means of preserving and recreating the past in the present,
we can also value them for how they evoke at once the
need for and the limits of historical reconstruction. The
work is rich in detail. Readers will encounter photographs
that range from prison albums from late nineteenth
century Cape Town; police photographs from German
Southwest Africa (Namibia) in the early twentieth century;
studio portraits commissioned by African women and men
who applied for identity documents, travel permits and
passports in the 1920s and 1930s; South African dompas
photographs from the 1950s and 1960s; to African women
collections assembled in the locations of Windhoek and
Usakos in central Namibia; and aerial photography in the
Eastern Cape in the mid-twentieth century.
Lorena Rizzo is a senior researcher,
lecturer and the co-chair of the Centre for
African Studies at the University of Basel.
She is a historian of Namibia and South
Africa, with a special interest in gender
and visual history.
October 2019 | 234 x 156 mm | 304 pp | Paperback | Rights: AfricaPrint: 978-1-77614-481-5 | PDF: 978-1-77614-482-2Subjects: Art History, Historiography
Related title: Hidden Histories of Gordonia by Martin Legassick
... [this book] ... achieves its aims in offering up new and at times, innovative, readings of the ways that these photographs and photographic collections produce entangled colonial, empire and other often unintended pasts. — Professor Gary Minkley, NRF SARChI Chair in Social Change, University of Fort Hare
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Art and Art History
Visionary AnimalRock art from southern AfricaRenaud Ego, translated by Deke Dusinberre
January 2019 | 255 x 196 mm | 304 pp | Hardback | Rights: World Print: 978-1-77614-226-2 | PDF: 978-1-77614-232-3EPUB: 978-1-77614-233-0 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-271-2Key words: Art History, Archaeology
This is a magnificent book, at once both a poetic and a scholarly
reclamation of the authority and integrity of the art in San painting.
Renaud Ego has done what no one writing about these images has
managed to do before, and that is to explode the boundaries that have
contained and constrained rock art research in this country. In his
extraordinary prose, and beautiful photographs, he reanimates the
paintings for us, reminding us that the pervasive forms of academic
iconographical analysis have ‘decomposed’ them, stripping them of their
vibrant wholeness. It is a deeply moving publication. — Pippa Skotnes,
Michaelis Professor of Fine Art: Centre for Curating the Archive,
University of Cape Town and the author of Unconquerable Spirit:
George Stow’s History Paintings of the San (2008).
Acts of TransgressionContemporary live art in South AfricaEdited by Jay Pather and Catherine Boulle
February 2019 | 244 x 170 mm | 336 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-279-8 | PDF: 978-1-77614-280-4EPUB: 978-1-77614-281-1 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-282-8 Subjects: Performance Art, Theatre
This collection of essays coheres around conceptual themes that link
the instability, volatility, precarity, and excess of live art itself to the
instability, volatility, precarity, and excess of the contemporary moment
in South Africa. — Catherine M. Cole, Professor of Drama, University of
Washington
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Cultural Studies
Civilising GrassThe art of the lawn on the South African highveldJonathan Cane
Civilising Grass is a socio-cultural analysis of the lawn on the
South African highveld, exploring the complex relationship
between landscape and power in the country’s colonial,
modernist and post-apartheid eras. Drawing from eco-
criticism, queer theory, art history and postcolonial studies,
this book offers a lively and provocative reading of texts and
illustrations to reveal the racial and gendered aspects of
‘natural’ environments. It argues that the lawn, an ordinary
and often overlooked feature of South African everyday life,
is neither natural nor innocent. Rather, like other colonial
landscapes, the lawn functions as a site of commonplace
violence, of oppression, dispossession and segregation. This
book explores an eclectic archive of artistic, literary and
architectural lawns between 1886 and 2017, analysing poems,
maps, gardening blogs, adverts, ethnographies and ephemera,
as well as literature by Koos Prinsloo, Marlene van Niekerk and
Ivan Vladislavić. In addition, Civilising Grass includes colour
reproductions of lawn artworks by David Goldblatt, Lungiswa
Gqunta, Pieter Hugo, Anton Kannemeyer, Sabelo Mlangeni,
Moses Tladi and Kemang Wa Lehulere. Examination of these
and other works reveals the organic relationship between lawn
and wildness, and between lawn and human/non-human actors
– thereby providing rich and unexpected insights into South
African society past and present.
Jonathan Cane is an art historian
and a postdoctoral fellow at the
Wits City Institute, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
July 2019 | 234 x 156 mm | 268 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-310-8 | PDF: 978-1-77614-311-5EPUB: 978-1-77614-312-2 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-313-9Subjects: Literary Studies, Ecocriticism, Art history
Related title: Natures of Africa edited by Fiona Moolla
Civilising Grass is compelling in its interdisciplinary and scholarly breadth, its sophisticated use of critical theory, and its persuasive analysis of cultural objects. This book makes a significant contribution to the study of the political relevance of landscapes and their representations, as well as to the study of South African society and culture. — Byron Caminero-Santangelo, Professor of English and Environmental Studies, University of Kansas, and author of Different Shades of Green: African Literature, Environmental Justice and Political Ecology
CULTURAL STUDIES
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Cultural Studies
Beneath the SurfaceA transactional history of skin lightnersLynn M. Thomas
For more than a century, skin lighteners have been a
ubiquitous feature of global popular culture — embraced
by consumers even as they were fiercely opposed by
medical professionals, consumer health advocates, and
anti-racist thinkers and activists. In Beneath the Surface,
Lynn M. Thomas constructs a transnational history of
skin lighteners in South Africa and beyond. Analysing a
wide range of archival, popular culture, and oral history
sources, Thomas traces the changing meanings of skin
colour from precolonial times to the postcolonial present.
From indigenous skin-brightening practices and the rapid
spread of lighteners in South African consumer culture
during the 1940s and 1950s to the growth of a billion-dollar
global lightener industry, Thomas shows how the use of
skin lighteners and experiences of skin color have been
shaped by slavery, colonialism, and segregation, as well as
consumer capitalism, visual media, notions of beauty, and
protest politics. In teasing out lighteners’ layered history,
Thomas theorises skin as a site for anti-racist struggle and
lighteners as a technology of visibility that both challenges
and entrenches racial and gender hierarchies.
Lynn M. Thomas is Professor of History
at the University of Washington, co-
editor of The Modern Girl Around the
World, and author of Politics of the Womb.
Beneath the Surface is nothing short of a tour de force. Lynn M. Thomas’s ‘layered history’ does justice to the immensely difficult subject of skin lighteners. Carefully attending to the complex politics of race and color that are grounded in skin, Thomas at once provides a vibrant history of South Africa and a global history of commodity, beauty, and the body. This landmark study sets a new standard in the field. — Julie Livingston, author of Self-Devouring Growth: A planetary parable as told from Southern Africa
January 2020 | 229 x 152 mm | 368 pp | PaperbackRights: South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho, ZimbabwePrint: 978-1-77614-615-4 Subjects: Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Feminism and Women’s Studies, African HistoryPublication date subject to change.
Related title: Written Under the Skin by Carli Coetzee
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Cultural Studies
June 2018 | 229 x 152 mm | 232 pp | Paperback | Rights: AfricaPrint: 978-1-77614-223-1 | PDF: 978-1-77614-225-5Subjects: Science and Technology Studies, Indigenous Studies, Intellectual Property
Reinventing Hoodia provides a well-researched, critically engaged
account of a fascinating contested object of indigenous knowledge and
intellectual property. Its illuminating account of hoodia across a range
of scales makes significant conceptual and empirical contributions to
feminist legal studies and to the history and philosophy of science.
— Anne Pollock, author of Medicating Race: Heart disease and durable
preoccupations with difference
Reinventing HoodiaPeoples, plants and patents in South AfricaLaura A. Foster
Dress as Social RelationsAn interpretation of Bushman dressVibeke Maria Viestad
August 2018 | 254 x 210 mm | 208 pp | Paperback | Rights: World Print: 978-1-77614-191-3 | PDF: 978-1-77614-192-0EPUB: 978-1-77614-193-7 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-267-5Subjects: Material Culture, AnthropologyIndexed in Web of Science Book Citation Index (BKCI)
This book makes a unique and significant contribution to Khoe-San
research and cultural studies in general because it focuses squarely on
the socio-cultural significance of dress and draws on important artefact
collections about which very little has been published.
— Jeremy Hollmann, Research Associate, Rock Art Research Institute,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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Cultural Studies
February 2019 | 234 x 156 mm | 190 pp | Paperback Rights: South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and SwazilandPrint: 978-1-77614-326-9Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies
Written under the Skin calls for new ways of reading South African
history. It proposes protocols of care – cautious, ethical, vigilant
– to guide these new ways of reading. There is in this book a moral
urgency and an ethical injunction that demand our attention. We dare
not ignore this book. — Jacob S. T. Dlamini, Assistant Professor of
History, Princeton University
Written Under the SkinBlood and intergenerational memory in South AfricaCarli Coetzee
Radio SoundingsSouth Africa and the black modernLiz Gunner
March 2019 | 229 x 152 mm | 240 pp | Paperback | Rights: SADC and KenyaPrint: 978-1-77614-321-4 | PDF: 978-1-77614-343-6Subjects: Literary Studies, History
This is the book we have all been waiting for – the first major volume on
South Africa’s most widely-consumed medium: black radio. Focused on Zulu
radio drama (and more), this elegant book bursts with insights and bustles
with memorable characters. A monumental achievement, it re-defines
South African cultural history and will be read for decades to come. —
Isabel Hofmeyr, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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Media Studies
Babel UnboundRage, reason and rethinking public lifeEdited by Lesley Cowling and Carolyn Hamilton
The notion that societies mediate issues through certain
kinds of engagement is at the heart of imaginings of
democracy and often centres on the ideal of the public
sphere. But this imagined foundation of how we live
collectively appears to have suffered a dramatic collapse
across the world, with many democracies apparently
unable to solve problems through talk – or even to agree
on who speaks, in what ways and where. In the ten essays
in this timely, original and sophisticated collection, writers
from southern Africa combine theoretical analysis with
the examination of historical cases and contemporary
developments to demonstrate that forms of publicness are
multiple, mobile and varied. They propose new concepts and
methodologies to analyse how public engagements work
in society. The book examines charged examples from the
global South, such as the centuries old Timbuktu archive,
Nelson Mandela as a powerful absent presence in 1960s
public life, and the challenges to the terms of contemporary
debate around the student activism of #rhodesmustfall
and #feesmustfall. These show how issues of public
discussion span both archive and media, verbal debates
in formal spaces and visual performances that circulate in
unpredictable ways.
Lesley Cowling is an Associate Professor
of Journalism at the University of
the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
and an associate researcher at the
Archive and Public Culture Research
Initiative at the University of Cape Town.
Carolyn Hamilton is the South African
Research Chair in Archive and Public
Culture at the University of Cape Town.
May 2020 | 234 x 156 mm | 312 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-589-8 | PDF: 978-1-77614-590-4EPUB: 978-1-77614-591-1 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-592-8Subjects: Media Studies, Cultural StudiesPublication date subject to change.
Related title: Media in Postapartheid South Africa by Sean Jacobs
MEDIA STUDIES
Contributors: Rory Bester, Lesley Cowling, Anthea Garman, Carolyn Hamilton, Indra de Lanerolle,
Susana Molins Lliteras, Nomusa Makhubu, Litheko Modisane, Pascal Newbourne Mwale and
Camalita Naicker
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Power and Loss in South African JournalismNews in the age of social mediaGlenda Daniels
This timely book analyses the crisis and chaos of journalism
in contemporary South Africa at a period when the media
and their role are frequently at the centre of public debate.
The transition to digital news has been messy, random
and unpredictable. The spread of news via social media
platforms has given rise to political propaganda, fake news
and a flattening of news to banality and gossip. Media
companies, however, continue to shrink newsrooms, ousting
experienced journalists in favour of ‘content producers’.
On a positive note, Daniels writes of the contribution of
investigative journalists to exposing corruption and sees
new opportunities emerging, which may well be a model for
the future of non-profit, public-funded journalism. Engaging
and dynamic, the book argues for the power of public
interest journalism, including investigative journalism, and
a diversity of voices and positions to be reflected in the
news. It addresses the gains and losses from decolonial
and feminist perspectives and advocates for a radical
shift in the way power is constituted by the media in the
South African postcolony. A valuable introduction to the
confusion that confronts journalism students, it has much
to offer practicing media professionals. Daniels uses her
years of experience as a newspaper journalist to write with
authority and illuminate complex issues about newsroom
politics. Interviews with alienated media professionals and a
semi-autobiographical lens add a personal element that will
appeal to readers interested in the inner life of the media.
Glenda Daniels is an Associate Professor
in Media Studies at the University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is
the author of Fight for Democracy and
co-author of Glass Ceilings.
July 2020 | 229 x 152 mm | 256 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-599-7 | PDF: 978-1-77614-600-0EPUB: 978-1-77614-601-7 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-602-4Subjects: Media Studies, Cultural StudiesPublication date subject to change.
Related title: Fight for Democracy by Glenda Daniels
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Tell Our StoryMultiplying voices in the news mediaJulie Reid and Dale T. McKinley
The dominant news media are often accused of reflecting
an ‘elite bias’, privileging and foregrounding the interests of
a small segment of society while ignoring the narratives of
the majority. The authors of Tell Our Story investigate this
problem and offer a hands-on demonstration of listening
journalism and research in practice. In the process they
dismiss the idea that some groups are voiceless, arguing
that what is often described in such terms is mostly
a matter of those groups being deliberately ignored.
Focusing their attention on three very different South
African communities they delve into the life and struggle
narratives of each, exposing the divide between the stories
told by the people who actually live in the communities and
the way in which those stories have been understood and
shaped by the media. The three communities are those
living in the Glebelands hostel complex in Durban where
over 100 residents have been killed in politically motivated
violence in the past few years; the Xolobeni community on
the Wild Coast, which has been resisting the building of a
new toll road and a dune-mining venture; and Thembelihle,
a settlement south-west of Johannesburg that has been
resisting removal for many years. The book concludes with
a set of practical guidelines for journalists on the practice
of listening journalism.
Julie Reid is based at the Department
of Communication Science, University
of South Africa. Dale T. McKinley is
an independent writer, researcher
and lecturer as well as Research and
Education Officer for the International
Labour, Research and Information Group.
May 2020 | 229 x 152 mm | 216 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-577-5 | PDF: 978-1-77614-578-2EPUB: 978-1-77614-579-9 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-580-5Subjects: Media Studies, Cultural StudiesPublication date subject to change.
Related title: Power in Action by Steven Friedman
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Media in Postapartheid South AfricaPostcolonial politics in the age of globalisationSean Jacobs
In Media in Postapartheid South Africa, author Sean Jacobs
turns to media politics and the consumption of media as a
way to understand recent political developments in South
Africa and their relations with the African continent and
the world. Jacobs looks at how the mass media defines the
physical and human geography of the society and what it
means for comprehending changing notions of citizenship
in postapartheid South Africa. Jacobs claims that the media
have unprecedented control over the distribution of public
goods, rights claims, and South Africa’s integration into
the global political economy in ways that were impossible
under the state-controlled media that dominated the
apartheid years. Jacobs takes a probing look at television
commercials and the representation of South Africans,
reality television shows and South African continental
expansion, soap operas and postapartheid identity
politics, and the internet as a space for reassertions and
reconfigurations of identity. As South Africa becomes more
integrated into the global economy, Jacobs argues that
local media have more weight in shaping how consumers
view these products in unexpected and consequential ways.
Sean Jacobs is Associate Professor of
International Affairs at The New School in
New York City. He is founder and editor of
Africa is a Country.
Sean Jacobs proposes a new agenda for the study of culture in contemporary South Africa by focusing on media infrastructures that condition, select, and edit the sorts of information that are available. Jacobs’s work will be read for its revelations about the nature of citizenship and public engagement in our media saturated age. — Daniel R. Magaziner, author of The Law and the Prophets: Black Consciousness in South Africa, 1968–1977
July 2019 | 229 x 152 mm | 208 pp | Paperback | Rights: SADC and KenyaPrint: 978-1-77614-489-1 | PDF: 978-1-77614-490-7Subjects: Media Studies, Cultural Studies
Related title: Stopping the Spies by Jane Duncan
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Literature Studies
Like FamilyDomestic workers in South African history and literatureEna Jansen
More than a million black South African women are domestic
workers. These nannies, housekeepers and chars continue
to occupy a central place in South African society. But it
is an ambivalent position. Precariously situated between
urban and rural areas, rich and poor, white and black, these
women are at once intimately connected and at a distant
remove from the families they serve. ‘Like family’ they may
be, but they and their employers know they can never be
real family. Ena Jansen offers a historical perspective
that shows how domestic worker relations in South Africa
were shaped by the institution of slavery at the Cape. To
support her argument, Jansen examines the representation
of domestic workers in a diverse range of texts in English
and Afrikaans. Later texts by black authors offer wry and
subversive insights into the madam/maid nexus, capturing
paradoxes relating to shifting power relationships. Soos
familie, the award-winning Afrikaans predecessor of the
updated Like Family, was published in 2015 and the highly-
acclaimed Dutch translation Bijna familie in 2016.
Ena Jansen was professor of South
African literature at the University of
Amsterdam until 2016. She obtained
her PhD at the University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg where she
lectured for 16 years. She lives in Cape
Town and Amsterdam.
April 2019 | 234 x 156 mm | 382 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-351-1 | PDF: 978-1-77614-352-8EPUB: 978-1-77614-353-5 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-354-2Subjects: Literature Studies, Historiography
Related title: Losing the Plot by Leon de Kock
Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, Like Family provides rich insights into the ‘contact zone’ of domestic service that paradoxically involves both intimacy and distance. In doing so, Jansen deepens our understanding of how the institution both reflects and reproduces the savage inequalities on which our society continues to be based. — Jacklyn Cock, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand and author of Maids and Madams: A Study in the Politics of Exploitation
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Literature Studies
Death and CompassionThe elephant in southern African literatureDan Wylie
November 2018 | 229 x 152 mm | 280 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-218-7 | PDF: 978-1-77614-219-4EPUB: 978-1-77614-220-0 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-269-9 Subjects: Animal Studies, Literature, Ecocriticism, HistoryIndexed in Web of Science Book Citation Index (BKCI)
Dan Wylie combines a lifetime of experience and meditation with
specialist knowledge of debates in ecocriticism and animal studies.
— F. Fiona Moolla, Department of English, University of the
Western Cape
Natures of AfricaEcocriticism and animal studies in contemporary cultural formsEdited by F. Fiona Moolla
June 2016 | 230 x 150 mm | 288 pp | Paperback | Rights: Africa Print: 978-1-86814-913-1 | PDF: 978-1-86814-916-2EPUB: 978-1-86814-914-8 | Mobi: 978-1-86814-917-9Subjects: Literature Studies, EcocriticismIndexed in Web of Science Book Citation Index (BKCI)
One of the first edited volumes to encompass transdisciplinary
approaches to a number of cultural forms, including fiction, non-
fiction, oral expression and digital media, to show how nature in Africa
is represented, celebrated, mourned or commoditised. The volume
features new research from East Africa and Zimbabwe, as well as the
ecocritical and eco-activist ‘powerhouses’ of Nigeria and South Africa.
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Literature Studies
Race, Nation, TranslationSouth African essays 1990–2013Zoë Wicomb, edited by Andrew van der Vlies
November 2018 | 234 x 156 mm | 368 pp | Paperback | Rights: South AfricaPrint: 978-1-77614-324-5 | PDF: 978-1-77614-342-9Subjects: Literary Studies, Cultural Studies
This collection establishes Wicomb as a leading critical commentator on
and scholar of South African national politics and its cultural forms. The
essays are outstanding. They present the most incisive, challenging and
dexterous interventions in the South African cultural field and ask the kinds
of questions that cut to the quick of the issues at stake in them. — Meg
Samuelson, University of Adelaide
May 2017 | 229 x 152 mm | 288 pp | Paperback | Rights: Southern Africa
Print: 978-1-77614-036-7 | PDF: 978-1-77614-037-4
Subjects: Short Stories, English Literature
This anthology of short stories is a welcome volume that presents the
state of the South African literary field with generosity and imagination.
— Imraan Coovadia, author of Tales of the Metric System (2014)
Recognition An anthology of South African short storiesEdited by David Medalie
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African Languages
The African Treasury Series is a premier collection of
texts by South Africa’s pioneers of African literature and
written in indigenous languages. First published by Wits
University Press in the 1930s, the series provided a voice for
the voiceless and celebrated African culture, history and
heritage. It continues to make a contribution by supporting
current efforts to empower and develop the status of
African languages in South Africa. From the ‘father of Nguni
literature’, B.W. Vilakazi, comes a book of poetry which
was included in a list of the best 100 African books of the
twentieth century. The other five books in the initial series
are a historical drama in Setswana by L.D. Raditladi, Sol T.
Plaatje’s Setswana translation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar,
Elliot Zondi’s isiZulu play about Shaka, and two works – a
play and a collection of sketches and essays – by S. Machabe
Mofokeng, who is regarded as one of the greatest essayists
and dramatists writing in Sesotho.
The African Treasury SeriesS. Machabe Mofokeng, Sol T. Plaatje, L.D. Raditladi, B.W. Vilakazi and Elliot Zondi
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Related title: Abantu Besizweby S.E.K. Mqhayi, edited by Jeff Opland
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African Languages
English-isiZulu / isiZulu-English DictionaryFourth EditionCompiled by C.M. Doke, D.M. Malcolm, J.M.A. Sikakana and B.W. Vilakazi
This was the first English-isiZulu / isiZulu-English dictionary
published in South Africa, initially undertaken in the 1940s
by the University of the Witwatersrand lecturers, C.M. Doke
and B.W. Vilakazi. Vilakazi was the first poet published in
isiZulu and his collection, Amal’eZulu, is considered one of
the most significant African books of the twentieth century.
This dictionary has long been recognised as the standard
work in the field. The aim of this dictionary is twofold: to
meet the needs of the English speakers who wish to know
how to render the English into isiZulu, and to meet the
needs of the isiZulu speakers who wish to know the meaning
and idiomatic use of English words. Various revisions were
undertaken over the years. Included in this revised edition
are the historical prefaces and introduction. These reflect
the historical development of the dictionary and have not
been altered so as to preserve a sense of continuity.
A newly revised isiZulu orthography has been introduced
in this Fourth Edition in line with the approved PanSALB
(2008) orthography. The revision of some aspects of
the orthography was undertaken under the auspices of
the Wits Language School. This dictionary provides an
invaluable resource for students of isiZulu, for isiZulu-
speaking students of English, and for linguists working in
the isiZulu language.
C. M. Doke was a linguist and lecturer
at the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg. D. M. Malcolm was a
linguist and so was J. M. A. Sikakana.
B. W. Vilakazi was a South African poet,
novelist, and lecturer at the University of
the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
2014 | 235 x 136 mm | 1291 pp | Paperback | Rights: WworldPrint: 978-1-86814-738-0 | PDF: 978-1-86814-739-7Mobi: 978-17-7614-254-5
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Plays
Bafana Republic and Other Satires A collection of monologues and revuesMike van Graan
The seed of this collection was sown in 2007 when South
Africa won the right to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The
debate about huge amounts of public funds being spent on
a ‘vanity project’ instead of being used to improve the lives
of the majority of the country’s citizens inspired Mike van
Graan, one of South Africa’s leading contemporary political
playwrights, to use sport as an entry point for satirical
commentary. Van Graan follows this with piercing attention
towards matters of the state. With themes ranging from the
World Cup to the political football of land, from the violent
abuse of women to state capture, this selection of satirical
sketches takes readers on a rollercoaster trip through
many of the issues that face democratic South Africa.
The sketches come from six one-person revues, Bafana
Republic (2007), Bafana Republic: Extra Time (2008), Bafana
Republic: Penalty Shootout (2009), Pay Back the Curry (2016),
State Fracture (2017) and Land Acts (2018). Van Graan uses
a potent mix of comedy, poetry and drama to make points
that hit hard at core issues which twenty-first-century
South Africans are struggling with. Readers will laugh and
cringe and sometimes cry, but one thing they will not be
able to do is remain unaffected.
Mike van Graan, President of the
African Cultural Policy Network, is an
award-winning playwright. His recent
plays include commissioned works When
Swallows Cry (Ibsen International) and
Little Red Riding Hood and the Big, Bad
Metaphors (University of Pretoria).
June 2020 | 229 x 152 mm | 192 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-586-7 | PDF: 978-1-77614-587-4 Mobi: 978-1-77614-588-1Subjects: Play Scripts, Drama, Theatre StudiesPublication date subject to change.
Related title: Acts of Transgression edited by Catherine Boulle and Jay Pather
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Plays
What RemainsA play in one actNadia Davids with notes on the choreography by Jay Pather
What Remains is a fusion of text, dance and movement to
tell a story about the unexpected uncovering of a slave
burial ground in Cape Town, the archaeological dig that
follows and a city haunted by the memory of slavery. When
the bones emerge from the ground, everyone in the city
– slave descendants, archaeologists, citizens, property
developers - is forced to reckon with a history sometimes
remembered, sometimes forgotten. Loosely based on the
events at Prestwich Place, What Remains is a path between
memory and magic, the uncanny and the known, waking
and dreaming. Four figures – The Archaeologist, The Healer,
The Dancer and The Student – move between bones and
books, archives and madness, paintings and protest, as they
struggle to reconcile the past with the now.Nadia Davids is a writer, theatre-maker
and scholar. Her plays At Her Feet, Cissie
and What Remains have won various Fleur
de Cap Theatre awards. She is an associate
professor at the University of Cape Town.
Jay Pather is a choreographer, curator and
academic. He is Director of the Institute
for Creative Arts at the University of Cape
Town (UCT) and Associate Professor in
UCT’s Centre for Theatre, Dance and
Performance Studies.
Nadia Davids
With notes on the choreography by Jay Pather
What RemainsA Play in One Act
What Remains is destined to become a South African classic. Nadia Davids’s transformative play digs up bones and reaches for the sacred. It dramatises the timeless dance between memory and ‘progress’ in a way that is also a fierce critique of the present moment. Like the best drama, it is universal because Davids roots it so precisely in the experience of her time - post-apartheid South Africa - and place: her beloved Cape Town. – Mark Gevisser, author of Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir
What Remains excavates a tragic history, mining beauty, no less than poetry, from a slave burial ground. This heart-breaking dance on the page, cries out to be performed. With Pather’s choreographic notes, it promises to be a triumph. – Zoë Wicomb, Emeritus Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
On a still, cool day in the east of a city by the sea, three sounds only: a bulldozer’s engine, a forgotten song, a canon that tells the time. Behind the bulldozer, a sign: Luxury Mall Coming Soon. As the vehicle moves in to the clear ground, it strikes at something unexpected…
What Remains is a fusion of text, dance and movement to tell a story about the unexpected uncovering of a slave burial ground in Cape Town, the archaeological dig that follows and a city haunted by the memory of slavery. When the bones emerge from the ground, everyone in the city – slave descendants, archaeologists, citizens, property developers – is forced to reckon with a history sometimes remembered, sometimes forgotten.
Loosely based on the events at Prestwich Place, What Remains forges a path between memory and magic, the uncanny and the known, waking and dreaming. Four figures – The Archaeologist, The Healer, The Dancer and The Student – move between bones and books, archives and madness, paintings and protest, as they struggle to reconcile the past with the now.
Nadia Davids is a writer, theatre-maker and scholar. Her plays, At Her Feet, Cissie and What Remains have won Fleur du Cap Theatre awards. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Jay Pather is a choreographer, curator and academic. He is Director of the Institute for Creative Arts at UCT and Associate Professor in UCT’s Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies.
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What Remains is destined to become a South African classic. Nadia Davids’s transformative play digs up bones and reaches for the sacred. It dramatises the timeless dance between memory and ‘progress’ in a way that is also a fierce critique of the present moment. Like the best drama, it is universal because Davids roots it so precisely in the experience of her time – post-apartheid South Africa – and place: her beloved Cape Town. — Mark Gevisser, author of Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir
September 2019 | 190 x 120 mm | 84 pp | Paperback Rights: South Africa; direct orders only in Lesotho, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zimbabwe. Print: 978-1-77614-277-4 | PDF: 978-1-77614-278-1Subjects: Play Scripts, Drama, Theatre Studies
Related title: Tshepang by Lara Foot Newton
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Plays
UlwembuEmpatheatre and The Big Brotherhood
June 2018 | 190 x 125 mm | 108 pp | Paperback | Rights: World Print: 978-1-77614-195-1 | PDF: 978-1-77614-196-8 Mobi: 978-1-77614-268-2Subjects: Playscripts, Theatre Studies, Drama
Directed with a muscularity and sense of conviction, this beautifully
researched and deeply felt performance takes advocacy theatre ... to
a level that is considerably deeper and theatrically more developed. —
Robyn Sassen, My View
October 2016 | 190 x 125 mm | 80 pp | Paperback | Rights: World Print: 978-1-86814-972-8 | PDF: 978-1-86814-973-5Mobi: 978-1-77614-263-7Subjects: Playscripts, Theatre Studies, Drama
A timeless story with universal appeal, one that Ben Okri and George
Orwell could have written if they had put their heads together. — The Star
Tin Bucket DrumA playNeil Coppen
WINNER OF THE ENGLISH ACADEMY OF SOUTHERN AFRICA OLIVE SCHREINER PRIZE FOR DRAMA (2018)
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Plays
My Life and Valley SongAthol Fugard
SophiatownJunction Avenue Theatre Company
At the JunctionJunction Avenue Theatre Company
Three PlaysCraig Higginson
My Children! My Africa!Athol Fugard, edited by Stephen Gray
TshepangLara Foot Newton
Somewhere on the BorderAnthony Akerman
At this StageEdited by Greg Homann
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Plays
Nothing but the TruthJohn Kani
Suddenly the StormPaul Slabolepszy
The Bram Fischer WaltzHarry Kalmer
Die Bram Fischer WalsHarry Kalmer
MissingJohn Kani
Mooi Street and other MovesPaul Slabolepszy
Fools, Bells and the Habit of EatingZakes Mda
And the Girls in their Sunday DressesZakes Mda
Our Lady of BenoniZakes Mda
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Urban Studies
Politics and Community-based ResearchPerspectives from Yeoville Studio, JohannesburgEdited by Claire Bénit-Gbaffou, Sarah Charlton, Sophie Didier and Kirsten Dörmann
Politics and Community-based Research: Perspectives from
Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg offers a substantive and
compelling analysis for a diverse readership interested
in urban politics, community mapping and the built
environment. The book draws on a critical reflection
of Yeoville Studio, a research project conducted by the
University of the Witwatersrand academics from a diversity
of disciplinary backgrounds, together with community
partners and postgraduate students. A collection of
vignettes portraying people and places in Yeoville
interwoven with theoretically analytical chapters, it explores
the politics of community research at a neighbourhood
scale in its multiple facets, and will resonate with similar
contested and complex neighbourhoods across the world.
The mix of analysis, vignettes, photographs, architectural
design and graphics builds the discussion in engaging, rich
and integrated ways, to capture the many participatory
approaches taken to this city-community studio.
Contributors: Abdul Abed, Ophélie Arrazouaki, Claire Bénit-
Gbaffou, Sarah Charlton, William Dewar, Sophie Didier,
Kirsten Dörmann, Sally Gaule, Pauline Guinard, Willy-Claude
Hebandjoko, Obvious Katsaura, Heinz Klug, Neil Klug,
Mamokete Matjomane, Mpho Matsipa, Simon Sizwe Mayson,
Solam Mkhabela, Eulenda Mkwanazi, Potsiso Phasha, Clara
Pienaar-Lewis, Nicolette Pingo, Naomi Roux, Maria Suriano
and Shahid Vawda
Claire Bénit-Gbaffou is an associate
professor at Aix-Marseille University and
a visiting researcher at the Centre for
Urbanism and Built Environment Studies
(CUBES) in the School of Architecture
and Planning at the University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Sarah
Charlton is an associate professor in
the School of Architecture and Planning
at the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg. Sophie Didier is a
professor at the Paris School of Planning,
University Paris-Est, France and a
researcher at Lab’Urba. Kirsten Dörmann
is a lecturer in the School of Architecture
and Planning at the University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
October 2019 | 244 x 170 mm | 432 pp | Hardback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-384-9 | PDF: 978-1-77614-385-6EPUB: 978-1-77614-386-3 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-387-0 Subjects: Urban studies ,Urban planning and development, Sociology
Related title: Changing Space, Changing City edited by Graeme Gotz, Philip Harrison, Alison Todes and Chris Wray
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Urban Studies
I Want to Go Home ForeverStories of becoming and belonging in South Africa’s great metropolisEdited by Loren B. Landau and Tanya Pampalone
Generations of people from across the world have turned
metal from the depths of the earth into Africa’s wealthiest,
most dynamic and diverse urban centre, a mega-city where
a democratic South Africa is being made. Yet for newcomers
and locals, the golden possibilities of Johannesburg are
tinged with dangers and difficulties. I Want to Go Home
Forever presents 13 stories of people looking to make a
successful life in a place they can call home. Told in their
own words, they are the stories of South Africans, some
Gauteng-born, others from neighbouring provinces, striving
to realise the promises of democracy. They are also the
stories of newcomers, from neighbouring countries and from
as far afield as Pakistan and Rwanda, seeking a secure future
in those very promises. Collected by researchers, journalists
and writers, the narratives give voice to responses arising
from a space of outrage and hope, violence and solidarity.
They speak of intersections between people and their past,
and of how, in the making of selves and the other, they are
also shaping South Africa. Underlying them all is a nostalgia
for an imagined future that can never be realised. These are
stories of forever seeking a place called home.
Loren B. Landau is the South African
Research Chair in Human Mobility and the
Politics of Difference at the African Centre
for Migration & Society, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Tanya
Pampalone is Managing Editor of the
Global Investigative Journalism Network.
These are raw, honest personal stories – some heart-breaking, some up-lifting. Beautifully told, each story is a study of journey-making. — Sisonke Msimang, activist and author of Always Another Country
August 2018 | 216 x 140 mm | 260 pp | Paperback | Rights:WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-221-7 | PDF: 978-1-77614-222-4EPUB: 978-1-77614-231-6 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-270-5Subjects: Migration Studies, Memoir
Related title: Go Home or Die Here edited by Shireen Hassim, Tawana Kupe and Eric Worby
Contributors: Estiphanos Worku Abeto, Ragi Bashonga, Suzy Bernstein, Ryan Brown, Madelene
Cronje, Karabo Kgoleng, Azam Khan, Esther Khumalo, Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, Charalabos (Harry)
Koulaxizis, Loren Landau, Kopano Lebolo, Mark Lewis, Lucas Machel, Eliot Moleba, Manyathela
Mvelase, Alphonse Nahimana, Duduzile Ndlovu, Lufuno Ngogoro, Chichi Ngozi, Oupa Nkosi,
Nombuyiselo Ntlane, Thandiwe Ntshinga, Tanya Pampalone, Nedson Pophiwa, Greta Schuler,
Kwanele Sosibo, Papi Thetele, Ntombi Theys and Tanya Zack
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Ecology Studies
Rock | Water | LifeEcology and humanities for a decolonial South AfricaLesley Green
In Rock | Water | Life Lesley Green examines the
interwoven realities of inequality, racism, colonialism,
and environmental destruction in South Africa, calling
for environmental research and governance to transition
to an ecopolitical approach that could address South
Africa’s history of racial oppression and environmental
exploitation. Green analyses conflicting accounts of nature
in environmental sciences that claim neutrality amid
ongoing struggles for land restitution and environmental
justice. Offering in-depth studies of environmental conflict
in contemporary South Africa, Green addresses the
history of contested water access in Cape Town; struggles
over natural gas fracking in the Karoo; debates about
decolonising science; the potential for a politics of soil in
the call for land restitution; urban baboon management, and
the consequences of sending sewage to urban oceans.
Lesley Green is founding director of
Environmental Humanities South at
the University of Cape Town, editor of
Contested Ecologies and co-author of
Knowing the Day, Knowing the World.
In Rock | Water | Life, Lesley Green identifies questions and materials where new ways of Earth governance and African well-being are acutely at stake: wounded contemporary soils, which bind multispecies human and nonhuman worlds; cement, one of the planet’s biggest contributors to global warming; carbon, which both joins and threatens Gaian critters and their ecologies and economies; and oil and uranium. Each materiality is rooted in geophysical complexities and in sub-Saharan African thought and cosmologies. Green’s book is important to anyone who cares about the centrality of African environmental matters in their situated complexity. Green searches powerfully for decolonizing ways to live on a damaged planet. — Donna J. Haraway
April 2020 | 229 x 152 mm | 288 pp | Paperback Rights: South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho, ZimbabwePrint: 978-1-77614-614-7 Subjects: Ecocriticism, Science and Technology StudiesPublication date subject to change.
Related title: The Climate Crisis edited by Vishwas Satgar
ECOLOGY STUDIES
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Natural Science
Bats of Southern and Central Africa A biogeographic and taxonomic synthesis, second editionAra Monadjem, Peter John Taylor, F.P.D. (Woody) Cotterill and M. Corrie Schoeman
This revised edition of a book first published in 2010
supplements the original account of the 116 bat species
then known to be found in Southern and Central Africa with
an additional eight newly-described species. The chapters
on evolution, biogeography, ecology and echolocation have
been updated, citing dozens of recently published papers.
The book covers the latest systematic and taxonomic
studies, ensuring that the names and relationships of bats
in this new edition reflect current scientific knowledge. The
species accounts provide descriptions, measurements and
diagnostic characters as well as detailed information about
the distribution, habitat, roosting habits, foraging ecology
and reproduction of each species. The updated species
distribution maps are based on 6 100 recorded localities.
A special feature of the 2010 publication was the mode of
identification of families, genera and species by way of
character matrices rather than the more generally used
dichotomous keys. Since then these matrices have been
tested in the field and, where necessary, slightly altered
for this edition. New photographs fill in gaps and updated
sonograms aid with bat identification in acoustic surveys.
The bibliography, which now contains more than 700
entries, will be an invaluable aid to students and scientists
wishing to track down original research.
Ara Monadjem is Professor in the
Department of Biological Sciences at
the University of eSwatini. Peter John
Taylor is Professor in the School of
Mathematical and Natural Sciences at
the University of Venda. Fenton Cotterill
is a research fellow with the National
Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project.
M Corrie Schoeman is Honorary Associate
Professor in the School of Life Sciences
at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
June 2020 | 244 x 170 mm | 640 pp | Hardback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-582-9 | PDF: 978-1-77614-583-6 EPUB: 978-1-77614-584-3 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-585-0Subjects: Natural Sciences, ZoologyPublication date subject to change.
Related title: Parrots of Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands by Mike Perrin
NATURAL SCIENCE
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Natural Science
Dance of the Dung BeetlesTheir role in our changing worldMarcus Byrne and Helen Lunn
In this sweeping history of more than 3 000 years, beginning
with Ancient Egypt, the authors capture the diversity of dung
beetles and their unique behaviour patterns. Dung beetles’
fortunes have followed the shifts from a world dominated
by a religion that symbolically incorporated them into some
of its key concepts of rebirth, to a world in which science
has largely separated itself from religion and alchemy.
With over 6 000 species found throughout the world, these
unassuming, but remarkable creatures are fundamental to
some of humanity’s most cherished beliefs and have been
ever present in religion, art, literature, science and the
environment. They are at the centre of current gene research,
play an important role in keeping our planet healthy, and
some nocturnal dung beetles have been found to navigate by
the starry skies. Outlining the development of science from
the point of view of the humble dung beetle is what makes
this charming story of immense interest to general readers
and entomologists alike.
Marcus Byrne is Professor in the School
of Animal, Plant and Environmental
Science at the University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He has
studied dung beetles for more than
30 years. Helen Lunn has a PhD in
Musicology and has a wide research base.
She has worked in both academic and
popular writing environments.
April 2019 | 229 x 152 mm | 240 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-234-7 | PDF: 978-1-77614-235-4EPUB: 978-1-77614-236-1 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-274-3Subjects: Natural Science, History
Related title: Riding High by Sandra Swart
This book will leave you with a deeper appreciation of nature and our relationship to other living creatures. It will forever leave an image in your mind of a little beetle with a peaked cap glued onto its shiny, earless head … unable to see the sun and thus meandering pointlessly with their dung balls. — Sandra Swart, Professor of History, University of Stellenbosch
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Health and Medical Sciences
Practical AnatomyThe human body dissected, second editionJules Kieser and John Allan, edited by Erin Hutchinson, Jason Hemingway and Desiré Brits
Practical Anatomy is designed to enable novice anatomists
to grasp the biological background of the human anatomy
while understanding its complexity within the clinical
context. As a guide to the dissection of the human cadaver,
it provides an account of the biological and systemic
foundations of the human body. In keeping with the
tradition of its predecessor, this revised edition is primarily
aimed at undergraduate allied health sciences and medical
students who are encountering dissection for the first
time and are intimidated by the volume of information
to be understood. In addition, some dissections of more
complex regions of the anatomy have been integrated into
the text for more advanced students. This version has
built on the solid foundation of the first edition of Practical
Anatomy and Man’s Anatomy, incorporating all the features
unique to these texts while updating the methodology and
including the latest anatomical terminology as outlined in
the Terminologia Anatomica. The text and illustrations have
been simplified to provide a clear, concise and accessible
dissection guide.
Erin F. Hutchinson is a senior lecturer
in the School of Anatomical Sciences
at the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg. Jason Hemingway is
a lecturer in the School of Anatomical
Sciences at the University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Desiré Brits is a senior lecturer in
the School of Anatomical Sciences at
the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg.
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Related title: Molecular Medicine for Clinicians edited by Barry Mendelow, Michele Ramsay, Nanthakumarn Chetty and Wendy Stevens
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Wits Journal of Clinical MedicineEdited by Pravin Manga
The Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine is a peer-reviewed
scientific research journal published tri-annually. It was
established to provide a forum to showcase scientific
research from the School of Clinical Medicine at the
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and from
the Clinical Medicine Departments in other institutions in
South Africa and internationally. The journal particularly
aims to provide an opportunity for emerging researchers
to publish their work on an open access basis and sets
out to be the primary diffusion portal for clinical medical
scientists from Southern Africa.The editorial policy of the
journal is guided by scientific quality and integrity, and all
publications are peer reviewed. Though all submissions are
welcome, it is especially new academics that are starting
out, including students, fellows and junior consultants,
who are encouraged to submit their research. Getting
research published can be challenging and expensive, with
an ever increasing number of open access journals. The
Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine offers free publication
opportunities for junior staff to establish a publication
record and develop an academic record. The Wits Journal
for Clinical Medicine also provides a space where the
various Departmental Research Day abstracts can be
shared. This allows the whole school to see what is
happening in different departments.
The Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2618-0189; eISSN
2618-0197) can be downloaded from:
https://journals.co.za/content/journal/wjcm
Pravin Manga is an emeritus professor
at the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg. He specialised in
Cardiology and was the Academic Head
of Cardiology at the University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg from 1995
to 2016. He was the Past President of
the Southern Africa Cardiac Society. He
also served as the Academic Head of
Internal Medicine at Wits University from
2014 to 2016.
February 2019; August 2019; November 2019297 x 210 mm | 56 pp | Digital | Rights: WorldPrint: ISSN 2618-0189 | PDF: eISSN 2618-0197
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Medical Humanities
Society, Health and Disease in South AfricaLeah Gilbert, Liz Walker, Silvie Cooper, Kezia Lewins, Rajohane Matshedisho, Lorena Nunez-Carrasco and Terry-Ann Selikow
The onset of the quadruple burden of disease in South Africa,
the challenges faced by the medical establishment to curtail
the rapid growth of multiple epidemics, the inadequate
response by the state to various inequities in the health
system, and the public debates associated with it have all
combined to draw attention to the sociological aspects of
health and disease. Sociology as a resource of knowledge
and a unique analytical and conceptual perspective can be
used to understand, explain and positively influence the
course of health and disease in South African society and our
responses to it. Health Practitioners and scholars need to
be equipped with the skills to critically evaluate research
and debates in their profession, to be able to adapt to
changes and contribute to the development of knowledge
and best practice. This reader will provide relevant content
and assist in the development of the analytical capacities
and conceptual skills needed. Society, Health and Disease
in South Africa is authored by experienced educators
and researchers in the fields of Sociology, Social Work,
Anthropology, healthcare policy and practice.
All the authors have been actively
engaged in teaching health science
students for many years and all are
associated with the Department
of Sociology, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
February 2019 | 297 x 210 mm | 368 pp | Paperback | Rights: South AfricaPrint: 978-1-77614-314-6 | PDF: 978-1-77614-315-3Subjects: Sociology, Public Health
Related title: Psychological Assessment in South Africa edited by Kate Cockcroft and Sumaya Laher
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Open Access Titles
These Oppressions Won’t CeaseAn anthology of the political thought of the Cape Khoesan, 1777-1879A selection of source documentation in Dutch Robert Ross
November 2017 | 234 x 156 mm | 233 pp | DigitalOA PDF: 978-1-77614-209-5Subjects: History, South Africa, Pre-colonial, Politics and Government
Robert Ross recently retired as Professor of African History at Leiden
University in the Netherlands. He is the author of numerous books on
the history of southern Africa, notably the Cape Colony, including most
recently The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa (2014). He was also
one of the editors of both volumes of The Cambridge History of South
Africa (2010 and 2011).
October 2018 | 240 x 170 mm | 232 pp | Digital | Rights: WorldOA EPUB: 978-1-77614-447-1 | OA PDF: 978-1-77614-239-2 Subjects: Urban Planning, Sociolgy
Philip Harrison is the South African Research Chair in Development
Planning and Modelling at the University of the Witwatersrand in
Johannesburg and a member of the National Planning Commission
and other advisory structures to government. Graeme Gotz is the
director of research at the Gauteng City-Region Observatory in
Johannesburg. Alison Todes is a professor of urban and regional
planning in the School of Architecture and Planning at University of
the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Chris Wray was a senior systems
analyst and manager at the Gauteng City-Region Observatory in
Johannesburg.
Changing Space, Changing CityJohannesburg after apartheid, Open Access SelectionEdited by Philip Harrison, Graeme Gotz, Alison Todes and Chris Wray
OPEN ACCESS TITLES
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Open Access Titles
Psychological Assessment in South AfricaResearch and applicationsEdited by Sumaya Laher and Kate Cockcroft
March 2019 | 245 x 167 mm | 592 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-86814-578-2 | PDF: 978-1-86814-579-9EPUB:978-1-86814-945-2 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-132-6 OA PDF: 978-1-77614-358-0Subjects: Psychology, Assessment
Sumaya Laher is an associate professor in the Department of
Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Kate Cockcroft is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
March 2019 | 244 x 170 mm | 528 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-275-0 | PDF: 978-1-77614-355-9EPUB:978-1-77614-356-6 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-357-3 OA PDF: 978-1-77614-276-7Subjects: Higher Education, Sociology, Social Sciences, Research Methods
Sumaya Laher is an associate professor in Psychology at the University of the
Witwatersrand. Angelo Fynn is a senior Psychology lecturer at the University of
South Africa. Sherianne Kramer is a Social Science lecturer at the Amsterdam
University College.
Transforming Research Methods in the Social SciencesCase studies from South AfricaEdited by Sumaya Laher, Angelo Fynn and Sherianne Kramer
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Open Access Titles
Racism after ApartheidChallenges for Marxism and anti-racismEdited by Vishwas Satgar
March 2019 | 230 x 150 mm | 288 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-306-1 | PDF: 978-1-77614-307-8EPUB: 978-1-77614-308-5 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-309-2OA PDF: 978-1-77614-359-7Subjects: Politics, Sociology, Critical Race Studies
Vishwas Satgar is a democratic eco-socialist, activist and Associate
Professor of International Relations at the University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
BRICS and the New American ImperialismGlobal rivalry and resistanceEdited by Vishwas Satgar
March 2020 | 234 x 156 mm | 264 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-528-7 | PDF: 978-1-77614-563-8EPUB: 978-1-77614-564-5 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-565-2OA PDF: 978-1-77614-576-8Subjects: Politics, International Relations, SociologyPublication date subject to change.
Vishwas Satgar, a democratic eco-socialist, is an associate professor
of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg. He edits the Democratic Marxism series and is the
principal investigator for the Emancipatory Futures Studies in the
Anthropocene project.
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Open Access Titles
African Archaeology without Frontiers Papers from the 2014 PanAfrican Archaeological Association CongressEdited by Karim Sadr, Amanda Esterhuysen and Christine Sievers
Gaze RegimesFilm and feminisms in Africa Edited by Jyoti Mistry and Antje Schuhmann
The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political PowerSusan Booysen
December 2016 | 244 x 170 mm | 264 pp | Paperback | Rights: World Print: 978-1-77614-034-3 | PDF: 978-1-77614-035-0EPUB: 978-1-77614-161-6 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-163-0OA PDF: 978-1-77614-149-4Subjects: Archaeology, Palaeoanthropology
June 2015 | 240 x 150 mm | 264 pp | Paperback | Rights: World Print: 978-1-86814-856-1 | PDF: 978-1-86814-859-2EPUB: 978-1-86814-857-8 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-048-0 OA PDF: 978-1-77614-165-4Subjects: Film/Theatre, Feminism, Cultural StudiesIndexed in Web of Science Book Citation Index (BKCI)
January 2011 | 240 x 170mm | 536 pp | Paperback | Rights: World Print: 978-1-86814-542-3 | PDF: 978-1-86814-553-9 EPUB: 978-1-86814-781-6 | Mobi: 978-1-86814-930-8 OA PDF: 978-1-77614-166-1 Subjects: Political Parties, South Africa, Government Indexed in Web of Science Book Citation Index (BKCI)
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Open Access Titles
Traumatic Stress in South AfricaDebra Kaminer and Gillian Eagle
Remains of the SocialDesiring the post-apartheidEdited by Maurits van Bever Donker, Ross Truscott, Premesh Lalu and Gary Minkley
Competition Law and Economic RegulationAddressing market power in southern Africa Edited by Jonathan Klaaren, Simon Roberts and Imraan Valodia
2010 | 220 x 150 mm | 232 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-86814-509-6 | PDF: 978-1-86814-682-6Mobi: 978-1-86814-904-9 | EPUB: 978-1-86814-836-3 OA PDF: 978-1-77614-167-8Subjects: Psychology, Social SciencesIndexed in the Web of Science Book Citation Index (BKCI)
March 2017 | 234 x 156 mm | 334 pp | Paperback | Rights: World Print: 978-1-77614-030-5 | PDF: 978-1-77614-031-2 EPUB: 978-1-77614-032-9 Mobi: 978-1-77614-108-1 OA PDF: 978-1-77614-038-1Subjects: Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, PhilosophyIndexed in the Web of Science Book Citation Index (BKCI)
July 2017 | 240 x 170 mm | 384 pp | Paperback | Rights: World Print: 978-1-77614-090-9 | PDF: 978-1-77614-091-6EPUB: 978-1-77614-168-5 Mobi: 978-1-77614-246-0 OA PDF: 978-1-77614-200-2 Subjects: Economics, Law, Competition LawIndexed in the Web of Science Book Citation Index (BKCI)
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Open Access Titles
The Climate CrisisSouth African and global democratic eco-socialist alternativesEdited by Vishwas Satgar
Eating from One PotThe dynamics of survival in poor South African households Sarah Mosoetsa
One Hundred Years of the ANCDebating liberation histories todayEdited by Arianna Lissoni, Jon Soske, Natasha Erlank, Noor Nieftagodien and Omar Badsha
October 2018 | 230 x 150 mm | 368 pp | Paperback | Rights: World Print: 978-1-77614-054-1 | PDF: 978-1-77614-207-1 EPUB: 978-1-77614-208-8 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-245-3OA PDF: 978-1-77614-330-6Subjects: Climate Change, Economics, MarxismIndexed in the Web of Science Book Citation Index (BKCI)
2018 | 220 x 150 mm | 192 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-86814-533-1 | PDF: 978-1-86814-627-7EPUB: 978-1-86814-786-1 | Mobi: 978-1-86814-928-5 OA PDF: 978-1-77614-286-6Subjects: AnthropologyIndexed in the Web of Science Book Citation Index (BKCI)
2018 | 244 x 170 mm | 264 pp | Paperback | Rights: World Print: 978-1-86814-573-7 | PDF: 978-1-86814-600-0 EPUB: 978-1-86814-848-6 | Mobi: 978-1-86814-894-3 OA PDF: 978-1-77614-287-3Subjects: Archaeology, PalaeoanthropologyIndexed in the Web of Science Book Citation Index (BKCI)
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Author/Editor Index
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Akerman Anthony 54
Allan John 61
Badsha Omar 69
Beneduce Roberto 15
Bénit-Gbaffou Claire 56
Bernstein Rusty 29
Bezuidenhout Andries 21
Bhorat Haroon 14
Booysen Susan 7, 10, 67
Botiveau Raphaël 21, 63
Boulle Catherine 37
Buthelezi Mbongiseni 14
Byrne Marcus 60
Cane Jonathan 38
Charlton Sarah 56
Chetty Nanthakumarn 61
Chipkin Ivor 14
Chisholm Linda 27
Cock Jacklyn 34
Cockcroft Kate 26, 65
Coetzee Carli 39, 41
Collyer Fran 18
Comaroff Jean 15
Comaroff John L. 15
Connell Raewyn 18
Cooper Silvie 62
Coppen Neil 53
Cotterill F.P.D. (Woody) 59
Cowling Lesley 42
SURNAME NAME PAGE
Dahlqvist Anna 20
Daniels Glenda 43
Davids Nadia 52
De Kock Leon 46
Didier Sophie 56
Doke C.M. 50
Dörmann Kirsten 56
Duma Sikhulekile 14
Duncan Jane 19
Eagle Gillian 68
Ego Renaud 37
Empatheatre and The Big Brotherhood 53
Erasmus Zimitri 20
Erlank Natasha 69
Esterhuysen Amanda 67
Everatt David 10
Foot Newton Lara 52, 54
Foster Laura A. 40
Francis David 16
Freschi Federico 35
Friedenstein Hannah 14
Friedman Steven 13
Fugard Athol 54
Fynn Angelo 26, 65
Gibson Nigel C. 15
Gilbert Leah 62
Gordon Lewis 23
Gotz Graeme 64
Green Lesley 58
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SURNAME NAME PAGE
Gunner Liz 41
Hamilton Carolyn 42
Harrison Philip 64
Hassim Shireen 57
Heffernan Anne K. 33
Higginson Craig 54
Homann Greg 54
Hook Derek 29
Jabavu Davidson Don Tengo 28
Jacobs Sean 45
Jansen Ena 46
Jansen Jonathan D. 25
Junction Avenue Theatre Company 54
Kalmer Harry 54
Kaminer Debra 68
Kamugisha Aaron 13
Kani John 54
Khadiagala Gilbert M. 12
Kieser Jules 61
Klaaren Jonathan 68
Kramer Sherianne 26, 65
Kupe Tawana 57
Kynoch Gary 34
Laher Sumaya 26, 65
Lalu Premesh 68
Landau Loren 57
Langa Malose 22
Legassick Martin 36
Lewins Kezia 62
SURNAME NAME PAGE
Lissoni Arianna 69
Lunn Helen 60
Maia João 18
Malcolm D.M. 50
Manga Pravin 63
Manganyi N. Chabani 24
Matshedisho Rajohane 62
Mbembe Achille 8, 9
McKinley Dale T. 44
Mda Zakes 55
Medalie David 48
Melber Henning 19
Mendelow Barry 61
Minkley Gary 68
Mofokeng S. Machabe 49
Mistry Jyoti 67
Monadjem Ara 59
Mondi Lumkile 14
Moolla Fiona F. 47
Morrell Robert 18
Mosoetsa Sarah 12, 69
Mqhayi S.E.K 49
Neocosmos Michael 14
Nieftagodien Noor 69
Nunez-Carrasco Lorena 62
Nyoka Bongani 30
Opland Jeff 49
Padayachee Vishnu 7
Pampalone Tanya 57
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Pather Jay 37, 52
Perrin Mike 59
Peter Camaren 14
Pillay Devan 12
Plaatje Sol T. 28, 49
Posel Deborah 17
Prins Nicky 14
Qobo Mzukisi 14
Ramsay Michele 61
Ratele Kopano 22, 23
Raditladi L.D. 49
Reid Julie 44
Rizzo Lorena 36
Ross Robert 64
Sadr Karim 67
Satgar Vishwas 11, 66, 69
Schmahmann Brenda 35
Schoeman M. Corrie 59
Schuhmann Antje 67
Selikow Terry-Ann 62
Shillington Kevin 27
Sikakana J.M.A. 50
Sievers Christine 67
Slabolepszy Paul 55
Slate Nico 31
Soske Jon 33, 69
Soudien Crain 32
Southall Roger 12
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Stevens Wendy 61
Swart Sandra 60
Swilling Mark 14
Taylor Peter John 59
Thomas Lynn M. 39
Todes Alison 64
Trusscott Ross 68
Tshoaedi Malehoko 21
Valodia Imraan 16, 68
Van Bever Donker Maurits 68
Van der Vlies Andrew 48
Van Graan Mike 51
Van Niekerk Robert 7
Van Robbroeck Lize 35
Van Wyk Ilana 17
Viestad Vibeke Maria 40
Vilakazi B.W. 49, 50
Viljoen Shaun 32
Walker Liz 62
Webster Edward 16
Wicomb Zoë 48
Willan Brian 28
Williams Michelle 28
Worby Eric 57
Wray Chris 64
Wylie Dan 47
Zondi Elliot 49
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Titles and Price List Titles and Price ListAuthor/Editor Index
TITLE ISBN (PRINT)RETAIL PRICE
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PHYSICAL (USD)PAGE
Abantu Besizwe 978-1- 86814-501-0 290.00 N/A 49
Acts of Transgression 978-1-77614-279-8 480,00 50,00 37, 51
African Archaeology without Frontiers 978-1-77614-034-3 418,00 35,00 67
African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power, The
978-1-86814-542-3 352,00 35,00 67
African Treasury Series, The see individual titles N/A N/A 49
Amal’e Zulu 978-1-77614-059-6 220,00 20,00 49
And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses 978-1-86814-222-4 165,00 20,00 55
Apartheid and the Making of a Black Psychologist 978-1-86814-862-2 385,00 30,00 24
At the Junction 978 1 86814 264 4 110,00 N/A 54
At this Stage 978-1-86814-493-8 264,00 N/A 54
Babel Unbound 978-1-77614-589-8 420,00 35,00 42
Bafana Republic and Other Satires 978-1-77614-586-7 300,00 20,00 51
Bats of Southern and Central Africa 978-1-77614-582-9 600,00 80,00 59
Becoming Men 978-1-77614-567-6 300,00 20,00 22
Being-Black-in-the-World 978-1-77614-368-9 280,00 30,00 24
Beneath the Surface 978-1-77614-615-4 420,00 N/A 39
Between Worlds 978-1-77614-174-6 380,00 30,00 27
Beyond Coloniality 978-1-77614-328-3 350,00 N/A 13
Bram Fischer Wals, Die 978-1-77614-005-3 165,00 20,00 55
Bram Fischer Waltz, The 978-1-86814-974-2 165,00 18,00 55
BRICS and the New American Imperialism 978-1-77614-528-7 420,00 35,00 11, 66
Cape Radicals, The 978-1-77614-317-7 350,00 30,00 30,32
Capitalism’s Crises 978-1-86814-920-9 385,00 35,00 11
Changing Space, Changing City 978-1-77614-239-2 690,00 40,00 64
Church of Strangers, A 978-1-86814-809-7 350,00 N/A 17
Citizen and Subject 978-1-77614-171-5 350,00 N/A 25
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Civilising Grass 978-1-77614-310-8 380,00 30,00 38
Climate Crisis, The 978-1-77614-054-1 385,00 40,00 69
Competition Law and Economic Regulation 978-1-77614-090-9 380,00 35,00 68
Conspicuous Consumption in Africa 978-1-77614-364-1 420,00 35,00 17
Critique of Black Reason 978-1-77614-050-3 350,00 N/A 8
Dance of the Dung Beetles 978-1-77614-234-7 320,00 35,00 60
Death and Compassion 978-1-77614-218-7 390,00 30,00 47
Decolonisation in Universities 978-1-77614-335-1 380,00 35,00 25
Democratic Marxism Series See individual titles N/A N/A 11
Dintshontsho tsa bo-Juluse Kesara 978-1-77614-061-9 220,00 20,00 49
Dominance and Decline 978-1-86814-884-4 385.00 30,00 7
Dress as Social Relations 978-1-77614-191-3 650,00 80,00 40
Eating from One Pot 978-1-86814-533-1 352.00 30,00 31 , 69
English-isiZulu / isiZulu-English Dictionary 978-1-86814-738-0 495,00 30,00 50
Fees Must Fall 978-1-86814-985-8 385,00 35,00 10
Fight for Democracy 978-1-86814-568-3 176,00 30,00 43
Fools, Bells and the Habit of Eating 978-1-86814-377-1 275,00 20,00 55
Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics 978-1-77614-051-0 385,00 N/A 15
Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet 978-1-77614-487-7 350,00 N/A 31
Gaze Regimes 978-1-86814-856-1 352,00 35,00 67
Go Home or Die Here 978-1-86814-487-7 250,00 30,00 57
Governance and the Postcolony 978-1-77614-344-3 380,00 35,00 10
Hidden Histories of Gordonia 978-1-86814-954-4 390,00 35,00 36
I Want to Go Home Forever 978-177-614221-7 320,00 35,00 57
In India and East Africa / E-Indiya nase East Africa 978-1-77614-476-1 385,00 30,00 28
Inequality Studies from the Global South 978-1-77614-616-1 420,00 35,00 16
Internal Frontiers 978-1-77614-210-1 380,00 N/A 33
It’s Only Blood 978-1-77614-284-2 320,00 N/A 20
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Knowledge and Global Power 978-1-77614-224-8 380,00 N/A 18
Labour Beyond Cosatu 978-1-77614-053-4 385,00 35,00 21
Lie on Your Wounds 978-1-77614-240-8 420,00 35,00 29
Like Family 978-1-77614-351-1 420,00 35,00 46
Limpopo’s Legacy 978-1-77614-325-2 320,00 N/A 33
Losing the Plot 978-1-86814-964-3 380.00 30,00 46
Marxisms in the 21st Century 978-1-86814-753-3 385,00 35,00 11
Media in Postapartheid South Africa 978-1-77614-489-1 320,00 N/A 42, 45
Memory against Forgetting 978-1-77614-154-8 380,00 35,00 29
Missing 978-1-86814-889-9 132,00 20,00 55
Molecular Medicine for Clinicians 978-1-86814-465-5 650,00 50,00 61
Mooi Street and Other Moves 978-1-77614-159-3 275,00 20,00 55
Motswasele II 978-1-77614-080-0 220.00 20,00 49
My Children! My Africa! 978-1-86814-117-3 165,00 N/A 54
My Life and Valley Song 978-1-86814-287-3 165.00 N/A 54
Natures of Africa 978-1-86814-913-1 429,00 35,00 38, 47
Necropolitics 978-1-77614-327-6 320,00 N/A 9
New South African Review 1 978-1-86814-516-4 82,50 40,00 12
New South African Review 2 978-1-86814-541-6 82,50 40,00 12
New South African Review 3 978-1-86814-735-9 82,50 40,00 12
New South African Review 4 978-1-86814-763-2 352,00 40,00 12
New South African Review 5 978-1-86814-874-5 385,00 35,00 12, 16
New South African Review 6 978-1-77614-055-8 380,00 35,00 12
Nothing but the Truth 978-1-86814-389-4 120,00 20,00 54
On the Postcolony 978-1-86814-691-8 320,00 N/A 9
One Hundred Years of the ANC 978-1-86814-573-7 320,00 50,00 69
Organise or Die? 978-1-77614-204-0 380,00 35,00 21
Our Lady of Benoni 978-1-86814-567-6 132,00 20,00 55
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Out of the Dark Night 978-1-77614-323-8 350,00 N/A 8
Parrots of Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands 978-1-86814-552-2 385,00 75,00 59
Patrick van Rensburg 978-1-77614-604-8 385,00 30.00 27
Pelong ya Ka 978-1-77614-043-5 280,00 20,00 49
Photography and History in Colonial Southern Africa 978-1-77614-481-5 350,00 N/A 36
Picturing Change 978-1-86814-580-5 110,00 30,00 35
Politics and Community-based Research 978-1-77614-384-9 550,00 80,00 56
Politics of Custom, The 978-1-77614-320-7 380,00 N/A 15
Power and Loss in South African Journalism 978-1-77614-599-7 385,00 30,00 43
Power in Action 978-1-77614-302-3 380,00 30,00 13, 44
Practical Anatomy 978-1-77614-572-0 600,00 80,00 61
Psychological Assessment in South Africa 978-1-86814-578-2 649,00 40,00 26, 63, 65
Race Otherwise 978-1-77614-058-9 385,00 35,00 20
Race, Nation, Translation 978-1-77614-324-5 380,00 N/A 48
Racism After Apartheid 978-1-77614-306-1 380,00 35,00 66
Radio Soundings 978-1-77614-321-4 320,00 26,00 41
Recognition 978-1-77614-036-7 280.00 N/A 48
Reinventing Hoodia 978-1-77614-223-1 350,00 N/A 40
Remains of the Social 978-1-77614-030-5 385,00 35,00 68
Richard Rive 978-1-86814-743-4 319,00 30,00 32
Riding High 978-1-86814-514-0 319,00 26,00 60
Rise of Africa’s Middle Class, The 978-1-77614-082-4 350,00 N/A 19
Rock | Water | Life 978-1-77614-614-7 385.00 N/A 58
Senkatana 978-1-77614-041-1 280,00 20,00 49
Shadow of Liberation 978-1-77614-395-5 350,00 30,00 7
Shadow State 978-1-77614-212-5 350,00 N/A 14
Social and Political Thought of Archie Mafeje, The 978-1-77614-594-2 385.00 30.00 30
Society, Health and Disease in South Africa 978-1-77614-314-6 520,00 N/A 62
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Sol Plaatje 978-1-86814-303-0 352,00 N/A 28
Somewhere on the Border 978-1-86814-560-7 132,00 20,00 54
Sophiatown 978-1-86814-236-1 165,00 20,00 54
Stopping the Spies 978-1-77614-215-6 350,00 30,00 19, 45
Suddenly the Storm 978-1-77614-092-3 192.5- 20,00 55
Tell Our Story 978-1-77614-577-5 300,00 20,00 44
These Oppressions Won’t Cease 978-1-77614-209-5 OPEN ACCESS OPEN ACCESS 64
Thinking Freedom in Africa 978-1-86814-866-0 500,00 40,00 14
Three Plays 978-1-86814-980-3 250,00 N/A 54
Tin Bucket Drum 978-1-86814-972-8 165,00 20,00 53
Township Violence and the End of Apartheid 978-1-77614-322-1 350,00 N/A 34
Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences 978-1-77614-275-0 550,00 40,00 18, 26, 65
Traumatic Stress in South Africa 978-1-86814-509-6 319,00 35,00 68
Troubling Images 978-1-77614-471-6 495,00 50,00 35
Tshepang 978-1-86814-415-0 120,00 N/A 52, 54
Ukufa kukaShaka 978-1-77614-071-8 220,00 20,00 49
Ulwembu 978-1-77614-195-1 175,00 20,00 53
Visionary Animal 978-1-77614-226-2 580,00 80,00 37
What Fanon Said 978-1-86814-860-8 280.00 N/A 23
What Remains 978-1-77614-277-4 165,00 20,00 52
Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine ISSN: 2618-0189 OPEN ACCESS OPEN ACCESS 62
World Looks Like This From Here, The 978-1-77614-390-0 280,00 30,00 22, 23
Writing the Ancestral River 978-1-77614-187-6 350,00 30,00 34
Written Under the Skin 978-1-77614-326-9 320,00 N/A 39, 41
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