Making a Life: Young Men on Johannesburg’s Urban Margins
$ 21.64Author: Hannah J Dawson
Examines young men’s livelihoods, identities, and political practices in a Johannesburg informal settlement revealing the dynamics of urban work, citizenship and inequality.
Necropolitics
$ 21.64Author: Achille Mbembe
Mbembe draws on post-Foucault debates on biopolitics, war and race, and Fanon’s notion of care as a shared vulnerability, to explore how new conceptions of the human that transcend humanism might come to pass. These new conceptions would allow us to encounter the Other not as a thing to exclude, but as a person with whom to build a more just world.
Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
$ 27.82Author: Mahmood Mamdani
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.
No Last Place to Rest: Coal Mining and Dispossession in South Africa
$ 21.64Author: Dineo Skosana
This book examines the impact of coal mining on the lives of former-labour tenant and rural communities in post-apartheid South Africa.
Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society: Social Histories of Accommodation
$ 25.97Author: Neil Roos
Explores how working-class white people frequently defied particular aspects of the apartheid state but seldom opposed or even acknowledged the idea of racial supremacy. This cognitive dissonance afforded them a way to simultaneously accommodate and oppose apartheid and allowed them to later claim they never supported the apartheid system
Our Changing World-View: Ten Lectures on Recent Movements of Thought in Science, Economics, Education, Literature and Philosophy
$ 25.97Author(s): Jan Christian Smuts, John Patrick Dalton, Robert Broom, John Frederick Vicars Phillips, Ian D MacCrone, John Young Thomson Greig, Theodorus Johannes Haarhof, Cecil Sydney Richards, Sally Herbert Frankel, Reinhold Frederick Alfred Hoernlé, Saul Dubow
A collection of ten lectures ranging from economics, psychology, a spurious rebuttal of evolution to a substantial revisionist history, and the perils of the “machine age”.
Out of the Dark Night: Essays on Decolonization
$ 25.97Author: Achille Mbembe
In Out of the Dark Night, Achille Mbembe offers a rich analysis of the paradoxes of the postcolonial moment that points toward new liberatory models of community and humanity. In a nuanced consideration of the African experience, Mbembe makes sweeping interventions into debates about citizenship, identity, democracy, and modernity.
Predicaments of Knowledge: Decolonisation and Deracialisation in Universities
$ 21.64Author: Suren Pillay
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.
Public Intellectuals in South Africa: Critical voices from the past
$ 21.64Author: Chris Broodryk
Critical voices from the past. This edited book is on neglected public intellectuals in the arts and humanities, and journalism who gave voice and presence to those who have been marginalised and silenced in South African history.
Publishing from the South: A Century of Wits University Press
$ 34.62Editor(s): Sarah Nuttall, Isabel Hofmeyr
A Century of Wits University Press. This multi-authored volume offers a deep dive into the history, sociology, and politics of the oldest South African university press.
Racism After Apartheid: Challenges for Marxism and Anti-Racism
$ 25.97Editor: Vishwas Satgar
Racism after Apartheid, volume four of the Democratic Marxism series, brings together leading scholars and activists from around the world studying and challenging discrimination and injustice. They examine post-apartheid racism and relations of oppression, challenging Marxism and anti-racism to consistently attempt to build human solidarities.
