Decolonial feminism in practice and in its finest representation, this is a much-needed addition to the library of materials on Black Feminism in a global context. Surfacing. On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa moves us rapidly out of the norm that privileges work that comes out from the West often with the justification […]

THIS BOOK IS OPEN ACCESS – FIND IT HERE – https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46214 The scope and breadth of this research is extremely impressive and, importantly, is evidence-based. It deals with the practicalities on the ground rather than the ideal.  I recommend it wholeheartedly. – Peter Cooper, Professor Emeritus, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Clinical Medicine, […]

This is a pathbreaking book on the deep structure of colonialism, and its abyssal divide between humans and subhumans. Powerfully argued and convincingly engaged in epistemic diversity, Decolonising the Human denounces the destruction of human life and waste of human experience we are still confronted with as we enter the third decade of the twentieth […]

This collection of essays turns Hegel right side up. In thrilling yet scholarly style, it identifies the mistranslations and misconceptions surrounding the influential lord-bondsman dialectic—transmitted by Kojève, reproduced by Fanon, and perpetuated by much of postcolonial and decolonial literature. Opening up vital conversations about the nature of human strivings, the moral ambiguity of violence, and […]

This book is available as OPEN ACCESS through OAPEN.org https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22401 Our barbaric present, marked by savage inequalities and ecological devastation, is rooted in the historical logic of imperialism. Building on Rosa Luxemburg’s brilliant theorising, this book shows why socialism is our only chance of survival. — Jacklyn Cock, professor emeritus, Department of Sociology and research […]

Emerging in the late nineteenth century and gaining currency in the 1930s and 1940s, Afrikaner nationalist fervour underpinned the establishment of white Afrikaner political and cultural domination during South Africa’s apartheid years. Focusing on manifestations of Afrikaner nationalism in paintings, sculptures, monuments, buildings, cartoons, photographs, illustrations and exhibitions, Troubling Images offers a critical account of […]

This book is a new and courageous examination of the complexity of embedded research. It is an honest and insightful reflection that … challenges and deepens arguments around spaces of participation through theoretical reflection and, more centrally, through the actual experience of the embedded research of Yeoville Studio. – Tanya Zack, urban planner and writer, […]

This reader is a vital contribution to students and practitioners’ appreciation of the social basis of health, illness and disease. It has a wide reach, appealing to students across the spectrum of health and social sciences, as well as serving as a resource for educators. — Kathleen Kahn, Professor and Senior Scientist, MRC/Wits Rural Public […]

In this ground-breaking collection of critical essays, 15 writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa. Set against a contemporary South African society that is chronologically ‘post’ apartheid, but one that continues to grapple with material redress, land redistribution and systemic racism, Acts of Transgression finds a representation of the […]

Foreword by Mcebisi Jonas Afterword by Ferial Haffajee The analysis is so brilliant. I can’t think of a better example of how academic research can shape the public debate. — Patrick Heller, Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Brown University This is a compelling example of how committed academics conducting rigorous research and analysis can help […]

“A superb addition to the literature on the contemporary global crisis and its micro manifestations.” —Patrick Bond, BRICS: An Anticapitalist Critique “What emerges from this collection is a complex picture of resistance, which nevertheless provides nuanced hope for a universalist project of social transformation…. The result is often a refreshing and accessible journey into urban revolts that the reader […]

Luke Sinwell and Siphiwe Mbatha open a window on the struggles of South African miners to overcome not only the opposition of the plutocratic mine owners, but also the opposition of the entrenched union establishment created in an earlier era of upheaval. — Frances Fox Piven, political scientist and sociologist, The Graduate Center, City University of New York The […]