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L A N G U A G E & L I T E R AT U R E Death and Compassion
Natures of Africa
The Elephant in Southern African Literature
Ecocriticism and Animal Studies in Contemporary Cultural Forms
DAN WYLIE
Edited by F. FIONA MOOLLA
Examines what literature reveals about human attitudes towards elephants and who shows compassion towards them.
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.
$30.00 • 232 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4218-7
$35.00 • 288 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4913-1
Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication A South African Perspective Edited by RUSSELL KASCHULA, PAMELA MASEKO, and H. EKKEHARD WOLFF
An in-depth look at the changing sociolinguistic dynamics that have influenced South African society.
Losing the Plot Crime, Reality and Fiction in Postapartheid South African Writing LEON DE KOCK
A well-known scholar and writer’s lively and wide-ranging analysis of postapartheid South African writing. $30.00 • 276 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4964-3
$35.00 • 336 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4026-8
Accented Futures
The Disorder of Things
Language Activism and the Ending of Apartheid
A Foucauldian Approach to the Work of Nuruddin Farah
CARLI COETZEE
JOHN MASTERSON
Explores relationships created by the use of language to convey knowledge, particularly in translation.
A reading of the Somali novelist through the prism of the French philosopher.
$30.00 • 200 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4740-3
$30 .00 • 320 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4570-6
Like Family STAY CONNECTED
Domestic workers in South African History and Literature ENA JANSEN
Ena Jansen interrogates the historical and literary representation of female domestic workers who occupy precarious positions in an unequal society in South Africa. $35.00 • 416 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-77614-351-1
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BIOGRAPHIES, MEMOIRS, & LETTERS Lie on Your Wounds
Memory Against Forgetting
Selected Prison Letters by Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe
Memoir of a Time in South African Politics 1938-1964
Edited by DEREK HOOK
Letters from prominent South African political activist Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe.
RUSTY BERNSTEIN
This classic text, first published in 1999, is Rusty Bernstein’s remarkable memoir of a life in South African resistance politics.
$35.00 • 360 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4240-8
$35.00 • 392 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4154-8
The Backroom Boy
Apartheid and the Making of a Black Psychologist
Andrew Mlangeni’s Story MANDLA MATHEBULA
The story of an ANC elder and a well-researched historical record overlaid with intensely personal reflections which intersect with the political narrative.
A Memoir N. CHABANI MANGANYI
Manganyi’s life story traces the twists and turns of his journey from humble beginnings in Limpopo, to Yale University.
$30.00 • 256 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4086-2
$30.00 • 228 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-86814-862-2
The Cape Radicals Intellectual and Political Thought of the New Era Fellowship, 1930s to 1960s Edited by CRAIN SOUDIEN
Crain Soudien highlights the young intellectuals in the Cape who were at the forefront of redefining the debates around power and social difference in a racially divided society. $30.00 • 288 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-77614-317-7
ART & PERFORMANCE Acts of Transgression Contemporary Live Art in South Africa Edited by JAY PATHER and CATHERINE BOULLE
An illustrated collection of 15 essays by respected researchers that critically probes where live art and socio-political turbulence intersect $35.00 • 378 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-77614-279-8
FORTHCOMING
Visionary Animal RENAUD EGO Translated by DEKE DUSINBERRE
This highly illustrated collection of essays on themes such as rain animals and therianthropes takes stock of our current knowledge of rock art and proposes a new grid of reading. $80.00 • 288 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4226-2 NOVEMBER 2018
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SOCIOLOGY I Want to Go Home Forever
Changing Space, Changing City
Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa’s Great Metropolis
Johannesburg After Apartheid
Edited by LOREN B. LANDAU and TANYA PAMPALONE
Thirteen true stories about xenophobia and belonging in Johannesburg. $30.00 • 240 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4221-7
Edited by ALISON TODES, CHRIS WRAY, GRAEME GOTZ, and PHILIP HARRISON
A richly illustrated and detailed empirical analysis of changes in the city’s physical space and and the social identities forged within specific neighborhoods. $40.00 • 656 PAGES CLOTH • 978-1-8681-4765-6
Labour Beyond Cosatu
Organise or Die?
Mapping the Rupture in South Africa’s Labour Landscape
Democracy and Leadership in South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers
Edited by ANDRIES BEZUIDENHOUT and MALEHOKO TSHOAEDI
Rebellions and conflicts in the trade unions, and rivalries between Cosatu affiliates in South Africa. $35.00 • 272 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4053-4
RAPHAËL BOTIVEAU
The story of one of the leading trade unions in South Africa, the National Union of Mineworkers, and its role in the struggle against white minority rule. $40.00 • 360 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-776-14204-0
ANTHROPOLOGY Dress as Social Relations
Healing the Exposed Being
An Interpretation of Bushman Dress
A South African Ngoma Tradition
VIBEKE MARIA VIESTAD
The Ngoma healing tradition as practiced in eastern Mpumalanga, South Africa through political, economic, interpretive and environmental lenses.
Historical collections show that Bushman dress was an embodied practice of social relations. $30.00 • 288 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4191-3
ROBERT THORNTON
$30.00 • 304 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4018-3
Conspicuous Consumption in Africa Edited by DEBORAH POSEL and ILANA VAN WYK
Revisiting Thorstein Veblen’s concept, this volume grapples with contemporary conspicuous consumption in Africa, its history and how it relates to the project of African modernity. $35.00 • 304 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-77614-364-1
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Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences Case studies from South Africa Edited by SUMAYA LAHER, ANGELO FYNN and SHERIANNE KRAMER
Demonstrates the variety of research methods available to researchers responding to context-bound issues in the global South. $40.00 • 528 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-77614-275-0
AFRICAN HISTORY Sol Plaatje’s Native Life in South Africa Past and Present Edited by BHEKIZIZWE PETERSON, BRIAN WILLAN, and JANET REMMINGTON
Sheds new light on Native Life appearing at a critical historical juncture, and reflects on how to read it in South Africa’s heightened challenges today.
Between Worlds German Missionaries and the Transition from Mission to Bantu Education in South Africa LINDA CHISHOLM
Scrutinizes the experience, complexities and paradoxes in German mission society education. $30.00 • 240 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4174-6
$35.00 • 392 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4981-0
Writing the Ancestral River
These Oppressions Won’t Cease
A Biography of the Kowie
The Political Thought of the Cape Khoesan, 1777 - 1879: An Anthology
JACKLYN COCK
An illuminating and unusual biography of the Kowie River in the Eastern Cape.
ROBERT ROSS
The essential documents of Khoesan history of political thought and resistance to colonial oppression in the 1800s in South Africa.
$30.00 • 204 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4187-6
$35.00 • 364 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4180-7
L AW The State of Secularism
We, the People
Religion, Tradition and Democracy in South Africa
Insights of an Activist Judge
DHAMMAMEGHA ANNIE LEATT
A history of global political secularism comparing religion and traditional authority in apartheid South Africa.
A stirring collection of public talks and essays by an activist and former judge offers an intimate insider’s view of South Africa’s Constitution.
$30.00 • 248 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4057-2
$30.00 • 280 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4998-8
ALBIE SACHS
Competition Law and Economic Regulation Addressing Market Power in Southern Africa Edited by JONATHAN KLAAREN, SIMON ROBERTS, and IMRAAN VALODIA
A critical assessment of the efficacy of the competition and economic regulation frameworks, including the impact of a number of the regional competition authorities in a range of sectors throughout southern Africa.
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$40.00 • 384 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-7761-4090-9
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POLITICS Racism after Apartheid
Power in Action
Challenges for Marxism and Anti-Racism
Democracy, citizenship and social justice
Edited by VISHWAS SATGAR
STEVEN FRIEDMAN
Examines post-apartheid racism and relations of oppression, and challenges Marxism and antiracism to take these lived realities seriously.
Argues that South Africans, like everyone else, need democracy because it offers the tools needed to fight for a fairer and more equal society.
$35.00 • 288 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-77614-307-8
$30.00 • 336 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-77614-302-3
The Climate Crisis
Shadow State
South African and Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives
The Politics of State Capture IVOR CHIPKIN, MARK SWILLING, HAROON BHORAT, MZUKISI QOBO, SIKHULEKILE DUMA, LUMKILE MONDI, CAMAREN PETER, MBONGISENI BUTHELEZI, HANNAH FRIEDENSTEIN, and NICKY PRINS
Edited by VISHWAS SATGAR
An investigation of emerging ecosocialist alternatives. $40.00 • 368 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4054-1
A powerful analysis of events that helped galvanise resistance across civil society. $35.00 • 176 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-7761-4212-5
Fees Must Fall
Ties that Bind
Student Revolt, Decolonisation and Governance in South Africa
Race and the Politics of Friendship in South Africa
Edited by SUSAN BOOYSEN
Edited by WALSH & SOSKE
Maps the student discontent a year after the start of the #FeesMustFall revolt.
Intimacies of friendship create vital spaces for practices of power and resistance within the histories of apartheid and colonialism.
$35.00 • 300 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4985-8
$35.00 • 304 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4968-1
Stopping the Spies Constructing and Resisting the Surveillance State in South Africa JANE DUNCAN
Questions the extent to which South Africa is becoming a surveillance society governed by a surveillance state. $30 .00 • 304 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4215-6
New South African Review 6 The Crisis of Inequality Edited by GILBERT KHADIAGALA, SARAH MOSOETSA, DEVAN PILLAY, and ROGER SOUTHALL
Wide-ranging essays demonstrate how the consequences of inequality extend throughout society and the political economy. $35.00 • 304 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4055-8
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POLITICAL THEORY The Unresolved National Question in South Africa Left Thought Under Apartheid and Beyond Edited by EDWARD WEBSTER & KARIN PAMPALLIS
This volume examines the way in which various strands of left thought have addressed the National Question.
What is Slavery to Me? Postcolonial/Slave Memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa PUMLA DINEO GQOLA
Examines the relevance and effects of slave memory for contemporary negotiations of South African gendered and racialised identities. $30.00 • 256 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4507-2
$35.00 • 336 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-7761-4022-0
Race Otherwise
Remains of the Social
Forging a New Humanism for South Africa
Desiring the Post-Apartheid
ZIMITRI ERASMUS
Three tensions to consider in the making and unmaking of race. $30.00 • 232 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4058-9
Edited by MAURITS VAN BEVER DONKER, ROSS TRUSCOTT, PREMESH LALU & GARY MINKLEY
An interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what ‘the social’ might mean after apartheid. $35.00 • 334 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4030-5
Thinking Freedom in Africa Toward a Theory of Emancipatory Politics MICHAEL NEOCOSMOS
Thinking Freedom in Africa conceives an emancipatory politics beginning from the axiom that ‘people think’. $35.00 • 650 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4866-0
Capitalism’s Crises
Regarding Muslims From Slavery to Post-Apartheid GABEBA BADEROON
An analysis of the role of Muslims from South Africa’s founding to the present and points to the resonance of these discussions beyond South Africa. $30.00 • 228 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4769-4
Decolonisation in Universities
Class Struggles in South Africa and the World
The Politics of Curriculum
Edited by VISHWAS SATGAR
Edited by JONATHAN JANSEN
The second volume in the Democratic Marxism provides compelling analyses of the complexity and depth of the worldwide economic crisis. $35.00 • 312 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-86814-920-9
Combining conceptual analyses and novel case studies, this volume brings together the best minds in curriculum theory to address the question: What exactly is decolonisation? $35.00 • 320 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-77614-335-1
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