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  • Beneath the Surface

    Analyzing a wide range of archival, popular culture, and oral history sources, Thomas traces the changing meanings of skin colour from precolonial times to the postcolonial present. ...

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  • BRICS and the New American Imperialism

    Volume five in the Democratic Marxism series, BRICS and the New American Imperialism challenges the mainstream understanding of BRICS and US dominance to situate the new global rivalries engulfing capitalism. It offers novel analyses of BRICS in the context of increasing US induced imperial chaos, deepening environmental crisis tendencies (such as climate change and water scarcity), contradictory ...

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  • Troubling Images

    This insightful volume examines the implications of metaphors and styles deployed in visual culture, and considers how the design, production, collecting and commissioning of objects, images and architecture were informed by Afrikaner nationalist imperatives and ideals. ...

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  • Practical Anatomy

    Practical Anatomy is a text book designed to enable novice anatomists to grasp the biological background of the human anatomy while understanding its complexity within the clinical context. ...

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  • In India and East Africa / E-Indiya nase East Africa

    In November 1949 D.D.T. Jabavu, the South African politician and professor of African languages at Fort Hare University, set out on a four-month trip to attend the World Pacifist Meeting in India. He wrote an isiXhosa account of his journey which was published in 1951 by Lovedale Press. This new edition republishes the travelogue in the original isiXhosa, with an English translation by the late an ...

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  • Necropolitics

    In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe outlines how democracy has begun to embrace its dark side, or what he calls its “nocturnal body,” which is based on the desires, fears, affects, relations, and violence that drove colonialism. ...

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  • Photography and History in Colonial Southern Africa

    Rizzo argues that rather than understanding photographs primarily as a means of preserving and recreating the past in the present, we can also value them for how they evoke at once the need for and the limits of historical reconstruction. ...

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  • Shadow of Liberation

    Shadow of Liberation explores the twists, turns, contestations and compromises of the African National Congress’ (ANC) economic and social policy-making, particularly during the transition era of the 1990s and the early years of democracy. ...

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  • Decolonisation in Universities

    This book brings together some of the most innovative thinking on curriculum theory to address this important question. In the process, several critical questions are raised: Is decolonisation simply a slogan for addressing other pressing concerns on campuses and in society? What is the colonial legacy with respect to curricula and can it be undone? How is the project of curricula decolonisation s ...

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  • Politics and Community-Based Research

    Through themed, illustrated stories of the people and places of Yeoville, the book presents a nuanced portrait of the vibrance and complexity of a post-apartheid, peri-central neighbourhood that has often been characterised as a ‘slum’ in Johannesburg. ...

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Wits University Press books shine at the NIHSS Awards 2020 …. Book on Dung Beetles wins!

Friday, March 20th, 2020

Wits University Press is delighted that Dance of the Dung Beetles: Their role in our changing world, is the winner in the Best Non-Fiction: Monograph category of the annual National Institute of Humanities & Social Sciences (NIHSS) Awards 2020. The prize was awarded at a glittering and joyous ceremony at the historical Constitution Hill in Johannesburg […]

Wits University Press books dominate the short list for NIHSS non-fiction awards 2020

Friday, February 28th, 2020

 Five books from the Wits University Press’s stable of scholarly books have made it to the shortlist of the NHISS (National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences)  Social Sciences Awards 2020. The NIHSS’ Humanities Awards 2020: Book, Creative Collection and Digital Contribution has attracted more than 100 entries from creatives across the country. Quoting […]

NEW 2019/2020 CATALOGUE of Wits University Press books

Friday, February 28th, 2020

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