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  • Governance and the Postcolony

    Governance and the Postcolony: Views from Africa

    Edited by David Everatt

    $35 Paper

    Date: 08/01/2019

    ISBN: 9781776143443

  • Civilising Grass

    Civilising Grass: The Art of the Lawn in the South African Highveld

    Jonathan Cane

    $30 Paper

    Date: 07/01/2019

    ISBN: 9781776143108

  • The Cape Radicals

    The Cape Radicals: Intellectual and political thought of the New Era Fellowship, 1930s to 1960s

    Edited by Crain Soudien

    $30 Paper

    Date: 06/03/2019

    ISBN: 9781776143177

  • Conspicuous Consumption in Africa

    Conspicuous Consumption in Africa:

    Edited by Deborah Posel

     and Ilana van Wyk

    $35 Paper

    Date: 05/01/2019

    ISBN: 9781776143641

  • Like Family

    Like Family: Domestic Workers in South African History and Literature

    By Ena Jansen

    $35 Paper

    Date: 04/15/2019

    ISBN: 9781776143511

  • Dance of the Dung Beetles

    Dance of the Dung Beetles: Their role in a changing world

    By Marcus Bryne

     and Helen Lunn

    $30 Paper

    Date: 04/01/2019

    ISBN: 9781776142347

  • Decolonisation in Universities

    Decolonisation in Universities: The politics of curriculum

    Edited by Jonathan Jansen

    $35 Paper

    Date: 04/01/2019

    ISBN: 9781776143351

  • Power in Action

    Power in Action: Democracy, Citizenship and Social Justice

    Steven Friedman

    $35 Paper

    Date: 03/01/2019

    ISBN: 9781776143023

  • Racism after Apartheid: Challenges for Marxism and anti-racism

    Edited by Vishwas Satgar

    $35 Paper

    Date: 03/01/2019

    ISBN: 9781776143061

  • Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences

    Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences: Case studies from South Africa

    Edited by Sumaya Laher

     , Angelo Flynn

     and Sherianne Kramer

    $40 Paper

    Date: 03/01/2019

    ISBN: 9781776142750

  • Visionary Animal

    Visionary Animal: Rock Art from Southern Africa

    By Renaud Ego

    $80 Cloth

    Date: 03/01/2019

    ISBN: 9781776142262


    This collection of essays on themes such as rain animals and therianthropes focuses on myth and ritual in San rock art.

  • Acts of Transgression

    Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa

    Edited by Jay Pather

     and Catherine Boulle

    $50 Paper

    Date: 02/01/2019

    ISBN: 9781776142798

  • Lie on Your Wounds

    Lie on Your Wounds: The Prison Correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe

    Edited by Derek Hook

    By Robert Sobukwe

    $35 Paper

    Date: 02/01/2019

    ISBN: 9781776142408

  • Death and Compassion

    Death and Compassion: The Elephant in Southern African Literature

    By Dan Wylie

    $30 Paper

    Date: 11/01/2018

    ISBN: 9781776142187


    Examines what literature reveals about human attitudes towards elephants and who shows compassion towards them

  • Dress as Social Relations

    Dress as Social Relations: An interpretation of Bushman dress

    Vibeke Maria Viestad

    $30 Paper

    Date: 10/01/2018

    ISBN: 9781776141913

  • I Want to Go Home Forever

    I Want to Go Home Forever: Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa’s Great Metropolis

    Edited by Loren B Landau

     and Tanya Pampalone

    $35 Paper

    Date: 10/01/2018

    ISBN: 9781776142217


    Thirteen true stories about xenophobia and belonging in Johannesburg. 

  • Stopping the Spies

    Stopping the Spies: Constructing and resisting the surveillance state in South Africa

    Jane Duncan

    $30 Paper

    Date: 10/01/2018

    ISBN: 9781776142156

  • Ulwembu

    Ulwembu: Empatheatre and The Big Brotherhood

    By Neil Coppen

     , Mpume Mthombeni

     , Dylan McGarry

     and The Big Brotherhood

    $20 Paper

    Date: 10/01/2018

    ISBN: 9781776141951

  • Climate Crisis

    Climate Crisis: South African And Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives

    Edited by Vishwas Satgar

    With contributions by Vishwas Satgar

     , Mateo Martinez Abarca

     , Alberto Acosta

     and Brian Ashley

    $40 Paper

    Date: 02/20/2018

    ISBN: 9781776140541


    An investigation of emerging eco-socialist alternatives. 

  • New South African Review 6

    New South African Review 6: The Crisis Of Inequality

    Edited by Gilbert M Khadiagala

     , Sarah Mosoetsa

     , Devan Pillay

     , Roger Southall

     and Samuel Kariuki

    $35 Paper

    Date: 01/29/2018

    ISBN: 9781776140558


    Wide-ranging essays demonstrate how the consequences of inequality extend throughout society and the political economy. 

  • Organise or Die?

    Organise or Die?: Democracy and Leadership in South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers

    By Raphaël Botiveau

    $35 Paper

    Date: 12/20/2017

    ISBN: 9781776142040


    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. 

  • Between Worlds

    Between Worlds: German Missionaries And The Transition From Mission To Bantu Education In South Africa

    By Linda Chisholm

    $30 Paper

    Date: 11/30/2017

    ISBN: 9781776141746


    Scrutinizes the experience, complexities and paradoxes German mission society education. 

  • State of Secularism

    State of Secularism: Religion, Tradition And Democracy In South Africa

    By Dhammamegha Annie Leatt

    $30 Paper

    Date: 10/13/2017

    ISBN: 9781776140572


    A history of global political secularism comparing religion and traditional authority in apartheid South Africa. 

  • Memory Against Forgetting

    Memory Against Forgetting: Memoir Of A Time In South African Politics 1938 - 1964

    By Rusty Bernstein

    $35 Paper

    Date: 10/06/2017

    ISBN: 9781776141548


    This classic text, first published in 1999, is Rusty Bernstein’s remarkable memoir of a life in South African resistance politics 

  • Race Otherwise

    Race Otherwise: Forging A New Humanism For South Africa

    By Zimitri Erasmus

    $30 Paper

    Date: 08/30/2017

    ISBN: 9781776140589


    Three tensions to consider in the making and unmaking of race. 

  • Competition Law and Economic Regulation in Southern Africa

    Competition Law and Economic Regulation in Southern Africa: Addressing Market Power In Southern Africa

    Edited by Jonathan Klaaren

     , Simon Roberts

     and Imraan Valodia

    With contributions by Anthea Paelo

     and Genna Robb

    $40 Paper

    Date: 07/04/2017

    ISBN: 9781776140909


    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 sector 

  • Labour Beyond Cosatu

    Labour Beyond Cosatu: Mapping The Rupture In South Africa's Labour Landscape

    Edited by Andries Bezuidenhout

     , Malehoko Tshoaedi

     , Andries Bezuidenhout

     , Malehoko Tshoaedi

     and Christine Bischoff

    $35 Paper

    Date: 07/01/2017

    ISBN: 9781776140534


    Rebellions and conflicts in the trade unions, and rivalries between Cosatu affiliates in South Africa. 

  • Mooi Street and Other Moves

    Mooi Street and Other Moves

    By Paul Slabolepszy

    $20 Paper

    Date: 06/15/2017

    ISBN: 9781776141593


    A collection of six plays by South Africa’s leading playwright and actor featuring works written between 1984 and 1993. 

  • Suddenly the Storm

    Suddenly the Storm

    By Paul Slabolepszy

    $20 Paper

    Date: 06/01/2017

    ISBN: 9781776140923


    A smouldering dark comedy that suddenly leads to startling revelations, rage and recrimination. 

  • Healing the Exposed Being

    Healing the Exposed Being: The Ngoma Healing Tradition In South Africa

    By Robert Thornton

    $30 Paper

    Date: 05/01/2017

    ISBN: 9781776140183


    The Ngoma healing tradition as practiced in eastern Mpumalanga, South Africa through political, economic, interpretive and environmental lenses. 

  • Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication

    Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication: A South African Perspective

    Edited by Russell H Kaschula

     , Pamela Maseko

     , H. Ekkehard Wolff

     , Christine Anthonissen

     and Bassey E Antia

    $35 Paper

    Date: 05/01/2017

    ISBN: 9781776140268


    An in-depth look at the changing sociolinguistic dynamics that have influenced South African society. 

  • Backroom Boy

    Backroom Boy: Andrew Malengeni's Story

    By Mandla Mathebula

    $30 Paper

    Date: 04/04/2017

    ISBN: 9781776140862


    The story of an ANC elder and a well-researched historical record overlaid with intensely personal reflections which intersect with the political narrative. 

  • Remains of the Social

    Remains of the Social: Desiring The Post-Apartheid

    Edited by Maurits Bever Donker

     , Ross Truscott

     , Premesh Premesh Lalu

     , Gary Minkley

     and Maurits Bever Donker

    $35 Paper

    Date: 03/01/2017

    ISBN: 9781776140305


    An interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what ‘the social’ might mean after apartheid. 

  • Unresolved National Question in South Africa

    Unresolved National Question in South Africa: Left Thought Under Apartheid And Beyond

    Edited by Edward Webster

     , Edward Webster

     , Edward Webster

     , John Mawbey

     and Jeremy Cronin

    $35 Paper

    Date: 03/01/2017

    ISBN: 9781776140220


    This volume examines the way in which various strands of left thought have addressed the National Question. 

  • African Archaeology Without Frontiers

    African Archaeology Without Frontiers: Papers From The 2014 Panafrican Archaeological Association Congress

    Edited by Chapurukha M Kusimba

     , Santores Tchandeu

     , Dirk Seidensticker

     , Adrianne Daggett

     and Marilee Wood

    $30 Paper

    Date: 12/01/2016

    ISBN: 9781776140343


    Identity, interaction, and the need to balance cultural heritage management and sustainable development in the face of social inequalities and crippling poverty.

  • Thinking Freedom in Africa

    Thinking Freedom in Africa: Toward A Theory Of Emancipatory Politics

    By Michael Neocosmos

    $40 Paper

    Date: 12/01/2016

    ISBN: 9781868148660


    Thinking Freedom in Africa conceives an emancipatory politics beginning from the axiom that ‘people think’. 

  • Bram Fischer Waltz

    Bram Fischer Waltz: A Play

    By Harry Kalmer

    $18 Paper

    Date: 11/01/2016

    ISBN: 9781868149742


    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. 

  • Ties that Bind

    Ties that Bind: Race And The Politics Of Friendship In South Africa

    Edited by Shannon Walsh

     and Jon Soske

    $35 Paper

    Date: 11/01/2016

    ISBN: 9781868149681


    Intimacies of friendship create vital spaces for practices of power and resistance within the histories of apartheid and colonialism. 

  • We, the People

    We, the People: Insights Of An Activist Judge

    By Albie Sachs

    $26 Paper

    Date: 11/01/2016

    ISBN: 9781868149988


    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. 

  • Fees Must Fall

    Fees Must Fall: Student Revolt, Decolonisation And Governance In South Africa

    Edited by Susan Booysen

    With contributions by Susan Booysen

     , Gillian Godsell

     , Rekgotsofetse Chikane

     and Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh

    $35 Paper

    Date: 10/01/2016

    ISBN: 9781868149858


    Maps the student discontent a year after the start of the #FeesMustFall revolt. 

  • Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa

    Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa: Past And Present

    Edited by Janet Remmington

     , Brian Willan

     , Bhekizizwe Peterson

     , Janet Remmington

     and Brian Willan

    $35 Paper

    Date: 10/01/2016

    ISBN: 9781868149810


    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. 

  • Tin Bucket Drum

    Tin Bucket Drum: A Play

    By Neil Coppen

    $20 Paper

    Date: 10/01/2016

    ISBN: 9781868149728


    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. 

  • Losing the Plot

    Losing the Plot: Crime, Reality And Fiction In Postapartheid South African Writing

    By Leon de Kock

    $30 Paper

    Date: 09/01/2016

    ISBN: 9781868149643


    A well-known scholar and writer’s lively and wide-ranging analysis of postapartheid South African writing. 

  • Natures of Africa

    Natures of Africa: Ecocriticism And Animal Studies In Contemporary Cultural Forms

    Edited by F. Fiona Moolla

    With contributions by F. Fiona Moolla

     , Byron Caminero-Santangelo

     , Sule Emmanuel Egya

     and Jonathon Bishop Highfield

    $35 Paper

    Date: 06/01/2016

    ISBN: 9781868149131


    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. 

  • Students Must Rise

    Students Must Rise: Youth Struggle In South Africa Before And Beyond Soweto '76

    Edited by Anne Heffernan

     , Noor Nieftagodien

     , Anne Heffernan

     , Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu

     and Bhekizizwe Peterson

    $35 Paper

    Date: 06/01/2016

    ISBN: 9781868149193


    A detailed account of the incredibly influential Soweto Student Uprising of 1976.

  • Apartheid and the Making of a Black Psychologist

    Apartheid and the Making of a Black Psychologist: A Memoir

    By N Chabani Manganyi

    $30 Paper

    Date: 05/01/2016

    ISBN: 9781868148622


    Manganyi’s life story traces the twists and turns of his journey from humble beginnings in Limpopo, to Yale University. 

  • Hidden Histories of Gordonia

    Hidden Histories of Gordonia: Land Dispossession And Resistance In The Northern Cape, 1800-1990

    By Martin Legassick

    $35 Paper

    Date: 04/01/2016

    ISBN: 9781868149544


    Accounts of family histories, resistance to colonisation, and the imposition of racial segregation and land dispossession in the Gordonia region of the Northern Cape. 

  • Dorothea Bleek

    Dorothea Bleek: A Life Of Scholarship

    By Jill Weintroub

    $30 Paper

    Date: 03/01/2016

    ISBN: 9781868148790


    An examination of the life and scholarship of Dorothea Bleek.

  • Climate Change

    Climate Change: Briefings From Southern Africa

    By Mary Scholes

     , Robert (Bob) Scholes

     and Mike Lucas

    $35 Paper

    Date: 11/01/2015

    ISBN: 9781868149186

  • New South African Review 5

    New South African Review 5: Beyond Marikana

    Edited by Gilbert M Khadiagala

     , Prishani Naidoo

     , Devan Pillay

     , Roger Southall

     and Prishani Naidoo

    $35 Paper

    Date: 11/01/2015

    ISBN: 9781868148745


    A series of essays explaining the impact of the events at Marikana upon the South African perspective of police and the keeping of order.

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