A Will for the Machine: Computerization, Automation, and the Arts in South Africa
£ 19.16Author: Mark Sanders
Outlines South Africa’s entry into the computer age and explains how it coincided with apartheid’s zenith. It relates this history to early twentieth-century struggles around mechanisation in mining and telephony and analyses responses to it by Miriam Tlali, JM Coetzee and William Kentridge.
Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa
£ 22.58Editor(s): Jay Pather, Catherine Boulle
Performance art is transgressive and interdisciplinary. Acts of Transgression, an illustrated collection of 15 essays by respected researchers, critically probes where live art and socio-political turbulence intersect in post-apartheid South African society. Focusing on work by 25 contemporary artists, it adds significantly to the field.
Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global South City
£ 19.16Editor(s): Nicky Falkof, Cobus van Staden
Examines Johannesburg as a city of multitudinous and contradictory anxieties, showing how anxiety is an overlooked but vital structuring principle of contemporary life.
Apartheid and the Making of a Black Psychologist: A Memoir
£ 15.96Author: N Chabani Manganyi
Manganyi’s life story traces the twists and turns of his journey from humble beginnings in Limpopo, to Yale University, recalling his work as clinical practitioner and researcher, biographer, expert witness in defence of opponents of the apartheid regime and, finally, as a member of Mandela’s Cabinet and the South African academy.
Apartheid Spies and the Revolutionary Underground
£ 20.52Author: William Keniston
Addresses the complex interplay between the apartheid state’s security services and its radical opponents, unveiling hidden struggles and offering unique insights into South Africa’s liberation history.
Archives of Times Past: Conversations about South Africa’s Deep History
£ 20.52Editor(s): Cynthia Kros, John Wright, Mbongiseni Buthelezi, Helen Ludlow
This volume critically examines sources of evidence and material from the archive that historically have been used to tell southern Africa’s pre-colonial story.
Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto: A History of Medical Care 1941-1990
£ 19.16Author: Simonne Horwitz
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital or Bara, as it’s popularly known is the third largest hospital in the world. How did this rapidly growing, underfunded but surprisingly effective institution find the means that allowed it to exist, provide medical care to a massive patient body and even flourish in the apartheid state?
Becoming Men: Black Masculinities In A South African Township
£ 15.96Author: Malose Langa
This vivid evocation of the lives of 32 boys from a Johannesburg township is essential reading for anybody wishing to understand black masculinity in South Africa.
Being Black In The World
£ 15.96Author: N. Chabani Manganyi
Notes by Grahame Hayes
Foreword by Garth Stevens
Afterword by Njabulo Ndebele
Being-Black-in-the-World, by one of South Africa’s eminent intellectuals, is a collection of essays on what it meant to be black during apartheid. While the essays are situated in the material and social conditions of that time, they also have a timelessness that speaks to our contemporary concerns.
Black X: Liberatory Thought in Azania
£ 15.96Author: Tendayi Sithole
Black X examines the signifier X, a marker of the dehumanization of the black subject, and argues for Azania as a liberatory project in South Africa.
Bloke Of All Ages: Perspectives On Bloke Modisane
£ 19.16Author: Bloke Modisane
Editor(s) Siyabonga Njica, Siphiwo Mahala
Explores South African writer Bloke Modisane’s literary and intellectual legacy through critical essays, offering fresh insight and global context on his versatile work.
Bones and Bodies: How South African Scientists Studied Race
£ 20.52Author: Alan G Morris
Alan G Morris critically examines the history of evolutionary anthropology in South Africa, uncovering the implicit racial biases of these physical anthropology researchers and the discipline itself.
