In this genealogy of political modernity, Mahmood Mamdani argues that the colonial state and the nation-state have been mutually constructed through the politicization of a religious or ethnic majority at the expense of an equally manufactured minority. This book offers a vision for arresting this historical process.

This book examines the impact of coal mining on the lives of former-labour tenant and rural communities in post-apartheid South Africa.

Essays on decolonization

Decolonisation and Deracialisation in Universities. These essays contribute to the debate about what it means to decolonise, deracialise, and transform knowledge after apartheid by problematising and clarifying the stakes involved.

African print cultures and oceanic turns in Isabel Hofmeyr’s work. This book covers concepts and methods from the work of Isabel Hofmeyr, a leading South African scholar of print cultures and intellectual trajectories in the Atlantic and Indian oceans.

Public art and a transforming city. A collection of critical essays exploring artistic interventions in urban spaces in post-colonial South Africa.