Reading from the South: African Print Cultures and Oceanic Turns in Isabel Hofmeyr’s Work
$ 21.64Editor(s): Charne Lavery|Sarah Nuttall
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.
Restless Infections: Public Art and A Transforming City
$ 30.60Editor: Jay Pather
Public art and a transforming city. A collection of critical essays exploring artistic interventions in urban spaces in post-colonial South Africa.
Rick Turner’s Politics as the Art of the Impossible
$ 25.97Editor(s): Michael Onyebuchi Eze, Lawrence Hamilton, Laurence Piper, Gideon van Riet
This collection revisits the work of Rick Turner, a South African political theorist, and addresses contemporary debates.
Riotous Deathscapes
$ 25.97Author: Hugo Canham
Hugo ka Canham presents an understanding of life and death based on indigenous and black ways of knowing that he terms Mpondo theory.
Rock | Water | Life: Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa
$ 25.97Author: Lesley Green
In Rock Water Life Lesley Green examines the interwoven realities of inequality, racism, colonialism, and environmental destruction in South Africa, calling for environmental research and governance to transition to an ecopolitical approach that could address South Africa’s history of racial oppression and environmental exploitation.
Rock Art of the Waterberg: Rites and Transformation
$ 30.60Author(s): Lyn Wadley, Ghilraen Laue
An archaeological and ethnographic study documenting 130 rock art sites in South Africa’s Waterberg mountains, revealing cultural interactions between hunter-gatherers, farmers and herders.
San Elders Speak: Ancestral Knowledge of the Kalahari San
$ 44.82Author(s): Lucinda Backwell, Francesco d’Errico
This richly illustrated book documents indigenous knowledge and uses of San material culture and artefacts collected a century ago, as described by KhoiSan elders to the authors.
Seeking Sanctuary: Stories of Sexuality, Faith and Migration
$ 25.97Author: John Marnell
Foreword by Kapya Kaoma
Seeking Sanctuary brings together life stories from LGBT migrants, refugees and asylum seekers living in Johannesburg and their battle to reconcile faith with their sexual and gender identity.
Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948
$ 27.82Author: Jules Skotnes-Brown
Rural South Africa was dominated by systems of racial segregation that brutally oppressed its Black population in the early twentieth-century. Segregated Species argues that pest control was closely connected to racial segregation, demonstrating that history must be understood by looking at the treatment of both animals and humans.
Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State
$ 25.97Author: Mahmood Mamdani
Slow Poison is an authoritative and personal account of the tragic fate of Uganda and the unravelling of its struggle for decolonialization under the rule of Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni. Mamdani casts a learned and wary eye on the two leaders and the global heavyweights that exploited and manipulated Uganda before and after its independence.
Sol Plaatje’s Native Life In South Africa: Past and Present
$ 25.97Editor(s): Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson
Native Life in South Africa by Sol Plaatje, one of South Africa’s most talented 20th century black leaders and journalists, was published in 1916. This multi-authored volume aims to shed new light on Native Life at a critical historical juncture, and to reflect on how to read it in South Africa’s heightened challenges today.
Southern Imagining
$ 25.97Southern Imagining questions and reshapes influential northern imaginative norms. It considers how tales of mythical southern lands have moulded global perceptions of these worlds and explores the environmental consequences of these imaginings, thereby inviting us to inhabit our globe differently.
