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Region-building in Southern Africa

How successful have southern African states been in dealing with the major issues that have faced the region in recent years? What can be done to produce more cohesive and effective region-building in southern Africa? This original and wide-ranging volume, which draws on an interdisciplinary team of African and African-based specialists, addresses the key political, socio-economic and security challenges facing southern Africa today. These include HIV/AIDS, migration and xenophobia, land grab ...

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The AIDS conspiracy

ince the early days of the AIDS epidemic, many bizarre and dangerous hypotheses have been advanced as to the origins of the disease. In this compelling book, Nicoli Nattrass explores the social and political factors prolonging the erroneous belief that the American government manufactured the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to be used as a biological weapon, as well as the myth's consequences for behavior, especially within African American and black South African communities. ...

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Somewhere on the Border

Somewhere on the Border was written by Anthony Akerman in exile more than two decades ago. The play was intercepted in the post and banned as a publication by apartheid censors because the language was considered 'offensive' and the portrayal of the South African Armed Forces 'prejudicial to the safety of the state'. ...

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Radio in Africa

Radio in Africa breaks new ground by bringing together essays on the multiple roles of radio in the lives of listeners in Anglophone, Lusophone and Francophone Africa. Some essays turn to the history of radio and its part in the culture and politics of countries such as Angola and South Africa. Others – such as the essay on Mali, gender and religion – show how radio throws up new tensions yet endorses social innovation and the making of new publics. ...

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Conversations with Bourdieu

Conversations with Bourdieu presents the first comprehensive attempt at a critical engagement with Bourdieu's theory as a totality. Michael Burawoy constructs a series of imaginary conversations between Bourdieu and his nemesis – Marxism – from which he silently borrowed so much. Starting with Marx, and proceeding through Gramsci, Fanon, Freire, de Beauvoir, and Mills, Burawoy takes up the challenge Bourdieu presents to Marxism, simultaneously developing a critique of Bourdieu and a reconst ...

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AIDS Conspiracy Johannesburg book launch

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

Wits University Press invites you to the book launch of The AIDS Conspiracy Science Fights Back Author Nicoli Nattrass and Mark Heywood (Executive Director of Section 27) will be in conversation

We are moving

Monday, April 30th, 2012

Tuesday 1 May is a public holiday, and on Wednesday 2 May we’re moving to new premises. We hope to be set up and contactable again by Friday 4 May, but note that we will not have working telephone lines till at least Tuesday, 8 May.