Decolonisation: Revolution & Evolution
$ 25.97Editor(s): David Boucher, Ayesha Omar
Offers a comparative analysis of the processes and aftermath of decolonisation from philosophical, historical, literary and legal perspectives.
Decolonising the Human: Reflections From Africa On Difference and Oppression
$ 25.97Editor(s): Melissa Steyn, William Mpofu
African scholars examine the construction of “the human” as it’s been conceived through the power of coloniality, arguing for indigenous knowledge systems and traditional wisdom to be part of the conversation.
Destroying Democracy: Neoliberal Capitalism And The Rise Of Authoritarian Politics
$ 21.64Editor(s): Michelle Williams, Vishwas Satga
This book interrogates how capitalism is destroying democracy through the commodification of everything into market democracy, and affirms the need to reclaim and re-build expansive democracy.
Digital Capitalism And Its Limits: Technotopia, Power And Risk
$ 21.64Editor: Vishwas Satgar
Through a Marxist positioning, this volume critically engages with the class project of digital monopoly capitalism and the implications of its powerful totalitarian enabling tendencies.
Discovering the Okapi: Western Science, Indigenous Knowledge, And The Future Of Conservation
$ 27.82Author: Simon Pooley
The book offers a riveting portrait of the okapi and unpacks layers of Western science and Indigenous knowledge that shaped the world’s understanding of it. Showing how colonial politics and scientific racism shaped early accounts of okapi research, the book examines the biases that still influence conservation efforts.
Divided by the Word: Colonial Encounters And The Remaking of Zulu and Xhosa Identities
$ 25.97Author: Jochen S Arndt
Focuses on the divide between Zulu and Xhosa speakers, Divided by the Word offers a refreshing new appreciation for the deep historicity of language and ethnic identity in South Africa, by reconstructing the ways in which colonial forces generate and impose ethnic divides with long-lasting and lethal consequences.
Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism And The Custom House
$ 21.64Author: Isabel Hofmeyr
In Dockside Reading Hofmeyr traces the relationships among print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the institution of the British colonial Custom House. By tracking printed matter from ship to shore, Hofmeyr shows how literary institutions like copyright and censorship were shaped by colonial control of coastal waters.
Dorothea Bleek: A Life of Scholarship
$ 25.97Author: Jill Weintroub
Examines Dorothea Bleek’s life story, her rock art research and her fieldwork in southern Africa, and, in light of these, evaluates her scholarship and contribution to the history of ideas in South Africa around the development of anthropology and linguistics and their continued political effects.
Dress As Social Relations: An Interpretation of Bushman Dress
$ 44.82Author: Vibeke Maria Viestad
Practices and meanings of dress vary greatly. Vibeke Maria Viestad challenges the myth that Bushmen were ‘nearly naked’ and, using historical collections, shows that Bushman dress was an embodied practice of social relations between humans, animals and other powerful beings that was intimately related to subsistence strategies and social identity.
Emancipatory Feminism In The Time of Covid 19: Transformative Resistance And Social Reproduction
$ 25.97Editor(s): Vishwas Satgar, Ruth Ntlokotse
This edited volume provides an eco-socialist feminist analysis of the current social reproduction debate in South Africa, outlining African and indigenous grassroot alternatives to mainstream liberal feminism.
Environmental Entanglements: The Ecological Imaginary in African Literatures
$ 21.64Author: Kirk B Sides
Traces a long history of ecological thought in African literature that predates the moment of mid-twentieth century decolonisation. By reading ecology as an animating, organising trope in African literatures, the book offers a genealogy of the present popular forms.
Epistemic Justice and the Postcolonial University
$ 25.97Editor(s): Amrita Pande, Ruchi Chaturved, Shari Daya|
An interdisciplinary study on curriculum transformation, epistemic violence and what justice can look like in South Africa’s spaces of teaching, learning and research.
