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Mbeki and After
Reflections on the Legacy of Thabo Mbeki
Daryl Glaser
For nearly 10 years—indeed more if we include his period of influence under Mandela’s presidency—Thabo Mbeki bestrode South Africa’s political stage. Despite attempts by some in the new ANC leadership to airbrush out his role, there can be little do…
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Regarding Muslims
From slavery to post-apartheid
Gabeba Baderoon
In contrast to the themes of extremism and alienation that dominate Western portrayals of Muslims, Regarding Muslims explores an extensive repertoire of picturesque Muslim figures in South African popular culture, which oscillates with more disquiet…
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Dungamanzi
Tsonga and Shangaan art from southern Africa
Nessa Leibhammer, Johannesburg Art Gallery
Showcases some of South Africa's most treasured heritage, aiming to make readers aware of the high degree of artistic skill that exists in South Africa. This book features Tsonga and Shangaan art, culture and heritage, and accompanies an exhibition …
Wits University Press
Johannesburg, South Africa,
2007,
Paperback,
232 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9781868144495
98 USD
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Wits University Press
Johannesburg, South Africa,
2007,
Paperback,
232 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9781868144495
The Fred de Vries interviews: from Abdullah to Zille
Fred de Vries
Features the following interviewees with photos: Abdullah Ibrahim, jazz musician; Gabeba Baderoon, wordsmith; Vusi Beauchamp, comic shocker; Nikiwe Bikitsha, radio presenter; Bok van Blerk, singer; Jeanetta Blignaut, art agent; Chris Chameleon, pop …
Wits University Press
Johannesburg, South Africa,
2008,
Paperback,
336 p., il,
(In English)
ISBN 9781868144693
74 USD
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Wits University Press
Johannesburg, South Africa,
2008,
Paperback,
336 p., il,
(In English)
ISBN 9781868144693
Civilising grass
the art of the lawn in the South African Highveld
Jonathan Cane
Civilising Grass is a socio-cultural analysis of the lawn on the South African highveld, exploring the complex relationship between landscape and power in the country’s colonial, modernist and post-apartheid eras. Drawing from eco-criticism, queer t…
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Capitalism's crises
class struggles in South Africa and the world
(
Book 2
)
Vishwas Satgar
This volume draws on a non-dogmatic Marxist approach to explain the systemic and conjunctural dynamics of crisis inherent in global capitalism. The analysis asks what is historically specific to capitalism's crises while avoiding catastrophic or def…
77 USD
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Sport versus art : a South African contest
Chris Thurman
Sport versus Art is a collection of essays, commentaries, personal memoirs and humorous pieces attempting to answer these and other questions about a fraught relationship at the heart of South Africa’s public life. There has never been a publication…
64 USD
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Visionary animal
rock art from Southern Africa
Renaud Ego, Deke Dusinberre
Why were depictions of animals a crucial trigger for the birth of art? And why did animals dominate that art for so long? To answer these questions, Renaud Ego examined the rock art of the San of southern Africa. This collection of essays is beautif…
159 USD
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And wrote my story anyway
Black South African women’s novels as feminism
Barbara Boswell
В книге отражены важные и дискуссионные проблемы истории советской экономики: характер и механизмы ее функционирования, государственные продовольственные резервы страны, демографические последствия экономической политики. В основе работы лежит архив…
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Visual Century
South African Art in Context : 1945-1976
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Volume 2
)
Lize van Robbroeck
This four-volume publication reappraises South African visual art of the 20th century from a postapartheid perspective. This second volume discusses how, between the end of the Second World War and the Soweto Uprisings, South Africa was increasingly…
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Visual Century
South African Art in Context: 1907–1948
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Volume 1
)
Lize van Robbroeck
Reappraises South African visual art of the 20th century from a post-apartheid perspective. It is the only publication that provides an overview of a century of South African art, with in-depth discussion by leading art historians and reproduction o…
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Working with rock art
recording, presenting and understanding rock art using indigenous knowledge
Knut Helskog
Contains cutting edge contributions that consider new approaches to three areas: the documentation of rock art; its interpretation using indigenous knowledge; and the presentation of rock art. Working with Rock Art is the first edited volume to cons…
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A long way home : migrant worker worlds, 1800-2014
Peter Delius, Laura Phillips, Fiona Rankin-Smith
In no other society in the world have urbanisation and industrialisation been as comprehensively based on migrant labour as in South Africa. Rather than focusing on displacement and oppression, A Long Way Home captures the humanity, agency and creat…
84 USD
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Being Black in the World
N. Chabani Manganyi
Being-Black-in-the-World, one of N. Chabani Manganyi’s first publications, was written in 1973 at a time of global socio-political change and renewed resistance to the brutality of apartheid rule and the emergence of Black Consciousness in the mid-1…
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Power in action
Democracy, citizenship and social justice
Steven Friedman
What are democracies meant to do? And how does one know when one is a democratic state? These incisive questions and more by leading political scientist, Steven Friedman, underlie this robust enquiry into what democracy means for South Africa post 1…
85 USD
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Babel unbound
Rage, reason and rethinking public life
Lesley Cowling, Carolyn Hamilton (eds.)
Drawing primarily on insights and materials from Africa for their capacity to speak to global developments, the authors in this volume propose new concepts and methodologies to analyse how public engagements work in society. The cases examined show …
108 USD
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Bafana Republic and other satires
A collection of monologues and revues
Mike van Graan
Переговоры представителей СССР, США, Великобритании и Франции по Западному Берлину представляли собой дипломатический марафон со множеством препятствий. На его начальном этапе казалось, что взгляды сторон по большинству аспектов западноберлинского в…
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Colour, class and community. The Natal Indian Congress, 1971 - 1994
Ashwin Desai, Goolam Vahed
Монография посвящена рассмотрению социально-экономического пространства Мурманской области, специфики его регулирования и перспективам развития. Специфика Мурманской области синхронизирована с общероссийскими и общесеверными особенностями, выявленны…
87 USD
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Archives of times past
Conversations about South Africa’s deep history
Kros C.,
Wright J.,
Buthelezi M.
Archives of Times Past explores particular sources of evidence on southern Africa’s time before the colonial era. It gathers recent ideas about archives and archiving from scholars in southern Africa and elsewhere, focusing on the question: ‘How do …
97 USD
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Children in mind
Their mental health in today’s world and what we can do to help them
Jenny Perkel
Current research shows that certain childhood mental disorders are diagnosed more frequently today than in previous generations. Many of today’s children and teenagers are more unhappy, anxious and distressed than young people used to be. In this hi…
71 USD
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Prisoners of the past
South African democracy and the legacy of minority rule
Steven Friedman
South Africa’s democracy is often seen as a story of bright beginnings gone astray, a pattern said to be common to Africa. The negotiated settlement of 1994, it is claimed, ended racial domination and created the foundation for a prosperous democrac…
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Abortion services and reproductive justice in rural South Africa
Ulandi du Plessis, Catriona Ida Macleod
Accessing abortion services in rural areas under conditions of liberal abortion legislation is neither straightforward nor simple. As the South African example shows, the liberalisation of abortion legislation was the first step in granting pregnant…
209 USD
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Making a life:.Young men on Johannesburg’s urban margins
Hannah J Dawson
Making a Life explores the dynamic everyday life-making strategies of young men in Zandspruit, a sprawling informal settlement on the outskirts of Johannesburg. In many ways Zandspruit typifies the precariousness of life within South Africa, where t…
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Cast in a racial mould. Labour process and trade unionism in the foundries
Edward Webster, Michael Burawoy
First published by Ravan Press in 1985, Cast in a Racial Mould was a pioneering book. It is now republished by Wits University Press with a new foreword by Michael Burawoy and with support from the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sc…
71 USD
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Restless infections. Public art and a transforming city
Jay Pather (ed.)
Restless Infections is a collection of critical essays exploring artistic interventions in urban spaces, focusing on place-making and the politics of space in South Africa. The writers examine seminal artworks by South African artists, addressing di…
93 USD
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