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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

WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS CATALOGUE 2019 | 2020 7

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

NEW AND FORTHCOMING



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

NEW AND FORTHCOMING



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,


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

NEW AND FORTHCOMING



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

NEW AND FORTHCOMING



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


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.

NEW AND FORTHCOMING



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


NEW AND FORTHCOMINGRECENTLY PUBLISHED

http://witspress.co.za/catalogue/new-south-african-review-5/



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)




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




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



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,


Johan nesburg, and Chair of the

National Minimum Wage Advisory Panel.

David Francis is the Deputy Director of

the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies


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

NEW AND FORTHCOMING



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

NEW AND FORTHCOMING



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

NEW AND FORTHCOMING



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




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




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



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


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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Psychology

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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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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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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History

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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History

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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History

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



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



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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Art and Art History

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

NEW AND FORTHCOMING


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

NEW AND FORTHCOMING


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.



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



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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Media Studies

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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Media Studies

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 Studies

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

LITERATURE STUDIESNEW AND FORTHCOMING


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.



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



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.

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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


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



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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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)



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

NEW AND FORTHCOMINGBACKLIST


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


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


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

URBAN STUDIES

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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

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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


Johannesburg. Jason Hemingway is

a lecturer in the School of Anatomical

Sciences at the University of the


Desiré Brits is a senior lecturer in

the School of Anatomical Sciences at

the University of the Witwatersrand,

Johannesburg.

January 2020 | 297 x 210 mm | 408 pp | Paperback | Rights: WorldPrint: 978-1-77614-572-0 | PDF: 978-1-77614-573-7EPUB: 978-1-77614-574-4 Subjects: Medicine & Health Science: AnatomyPublication date subject to change.

Related title: Molecular Medicine for Clinicians edited by Barry Mendelow, Michele Ramsay, Nanthakumarn Chetty and Wendy Stevens

HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCES

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Health and Medical Sciences

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


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


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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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

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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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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


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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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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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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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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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

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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

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Everatt David 10

Foot Newton Lara 52, 54

Foster Laura A. 40

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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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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

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Jansen Jonathan D. 25

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Kaminer Debra 68

Kamugisha Aaron 13

Kani John 54

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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

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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

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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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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



Titles and Price List Titles and Price ListAuthor/Editor Index

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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 5 978-1-86814-874-5 385,00 35,00 12, 16


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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