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Death and Compassion The Elephant in Southern African Literature DAN WYLIE
Examines what literature reveals about human attitudes towards elephants and who shows compassion towards them. $30.00 • 232 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4218-7 NOVEMBER 2018
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. $35.00 • 336 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4026-8
Natures of Africa Ecocriticism and Animal Studies in Contemporary Cultural Forms Edited by F. FIONA MOOLLA
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. $35.00 • 288 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4913-1
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
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
BIOGRAPHIES, MEMOIRS, & LETTERS FORTHCOMING
Lie on Your Wounds Selected Prison Letters by Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe
Memory Against Forgetting Memoir of a Time in South African Politics 1938-1964
Edited by DEREK HOOK
RUSTY BERNSTEIN
Letters from prominent South African political activist Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe.
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 NOVEMBER 2018
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$35.00 • 392 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4154-8
P L AY S Mooi Street and Other Moves PAUL SLABOLEPSZY
A collection of six plays by South Africa’s leading playwright and actor featuring works written between 1984 and 1993. $20.00 • 80 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4159-3
The Bram Fischer Waltz A Play HARRY KALMER
A brief, intense work with the protagonist as narrator, this play explores Bram Fischer’s uncompromising political beliefs and commitment to a non-racial democracy.
Suddenly the Storm PAUL SLABOLEPSZY
A smouldering dark comedy that suddenly leads to startling revelations, rage and recrimination. $20.00 • 80 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4092-3
Ulwembu A Play EMPATHEATRE and the BIG BROTHERHOOD
The effects of addiction not only on those who suffer from it but on communities, families and the police. $20.00 • 120 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4195-1
$20.00 • 80 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4974-2
Tin Bucket Drum A Play
Missing A Play
NEIL COPPEN
JOHN KANI
Through a lyrical script and the creative use of lighting and sound, one woman, the Narrator, succeeds in evoking a host of characters as this allegorical tale of oppression and liberation plays itself out.
Story of conspiracies, lies, back stabbing and disappointments. Robert and his family are faced with the challenges of a South Africa that has changed radically from the one he remembers from more than thirty years ago.
$20.00 • 80 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4972-8
$20.00 • 80 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4889-9
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. $30.00 • 256 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4086-2
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 • 228 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-86814-862-2
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SOCIOLOGY FORTHCOMING
I Want to Go Home Forever
Changing Space, Changing City Johannesburg After Apartheid
Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa’s Great Metropolis
Edited by ALISON TODES, CHRIS WRAY, GRAEME GOTZ, and PHILIP HARRISON
Edited by LOREN B. LANDAU and TANYA PAMPALONE
A richly illustrated and detailed empirical analysis of changes in the city’s physical space and and the social identities forged within specific neighborhoods.
Thirteen true stories about xenophobia and belonging in Johannesburg. $30.00 • 240 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4221-7 AUGUST 2018
$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
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 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
Hidden Histories of Gordonia
A Biography of the Kowie
Land Dispossession and Resistance in the Northern Cape, 1800–1990
JACKLYN COCK
An illuminating and unusual biography of the Kowie River in the Eastern Cape. $30.00 • 204 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4187-6
MARTIN LEGASSICK
Accounts of family histories, resistance to colonisation, and the imposition of racial segregation and land dispossession in the Gordonia region of the Northern Cape. $ 40.00 • 436 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4954-4
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ANTHROPOLOGY FORTHCOMING
Dress as Social Relations An Interpretation of Bushman Dress VIBEKE MARIA VIESTAD
Historical collections shows that Bushman dress was an embodied practice of social relations. $30.00 • 288 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4191-3 AUGUST 2018
Healing the Exposed Being A South African Ngoma Tradition ROBERT THORNTON
The Ngoma healing tradition as practiced in eastern Mpumalanga, South Africa through political, economic, interpretive and environmental lenses. $30.00 • 304 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4018-3
ARCHAEOLOGY & ROCK ART 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
African Archaeology without Frontiers Papers from the 2014 PanAfrican Archaeological Association Congress Edited By KARIM SADR, AMANDA ESTERHUYSEN, and CHRISTINE SIEVERS
Identity, interaction, and the need to balance cultural heritage management and sustainable development in the face of social inequalities and crippling poverty. $35.00 • 264 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4034-3
Termites of the Gods San Cosmology in Southern African Rock Art SIYAKHA MGUNI
Siyakha Mguni’s personal journey, over many years, to discover the significance of a hitherto enigmatic theme in San rock paintings known as formlings. $30.00 • 232 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4776-2
Seeing and Knowing Rock Art with and without Ethnography
Working with Rock Art Recording, Presenting and Understanding Rock Art Using Indigenous Knowledge Edited by BENJAMIN SMITH, DAVID MORRIS, and KNUT HELSKOG
Cutting edge contributions that consider new approaches to the documentation of rock art; its interpretation using indigenous knowledge; and the presentation of rock art. $35.00 • 328 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4545-4
STAY CONNECTED
Edited by BENJAMIN SMITH, CHRISTOPHER CHIPPINDALE, and GEOFFREY BLUNDELL
The depth and wide geographical impact of David Lewis-Williams. $35.00 • 328 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4513-3
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POLITICS FORTHCOMING
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 JULY 2018
Capitalism’s Crises
Fees Must Fall
Class Struggles in South Africa and the World
Student Revolt, Decolonisation and Governance in South Africa
Edited by VISHWAS SATGAR
Edited by SUSAN BOOYSEN
The second volume in the Democratic Marxism provides compelling analyses of the complexity and depth of the worldwide economic crisis.
Maps the student discontent a year after the start of the #FeesMustFall revolt. $35.00 • 300 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4985-8
$35.00 • 312 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-86814-920-9
New South African Review 6
Regarding Muslims From Slavery to Post-Apartheid
The Crisis of Inequality
GABEBA BADEROON
Edited by GILBERT KHADIAGALA, SARAH MOSOETSA, DEVAN PILLAY, and ROGER SOUTHALL
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.
Wide-ranging essays demonstrate how the consequences of inequality extend throughout society and the political economy.
$30.00 • 228 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4769-4
$35.00 • 304 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4055-8
Ties that Bind
Stopping the Spies
Race and the Politics of Friendship in South Africa
Constructing and Resisting the Surveillance State in South Africa
Edited by WALSH & SOSKE
JANE DUNCAN
Intimacies of friendship create vital spaces for practices of power and resistance within the histories of apartheid and colonialism.
Questions the extent to which South Africa is becoming a surveillance society governed by a surveillance state.
$35.00 • 304 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4968-1
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$30 .00 • 304 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4215-6
POLITICS 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.
Race Otherwise Forging a New Humanism for South Africa ZIMITRI ERASMUS
Three tensions to consider in the making and unmaking of race. $30.00 • 232 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4058-9
$35.00 • 336 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4022-0
Remains of the Social Desiring the Post-apartheid 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
L AW We, the People
The State of Secularism
Insights of an Activist Judge ALBIE SACHS
Religion, Tradition and Democracy in 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.
A history of global political secularism comparing religion and traditional authority in apartheid South Africa.
$30.00 • 280 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4998-8
$30.00 • 248 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4057-2
DHAMMAMEGHA ANNIE LEATT
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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