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    • Africa’s living rivers: Managing for sustainability 

      King, Jackie; Brown, Cate (MIT Press, 2021)
      Africa’s human population is growing rapidly and is set to account for 40 percent of global numbers by 2100. Further development of its inland waters, to enhance water and energy security, is inevitable. Will it follow ...
    • Aftershocks: Psychotechnics in the wake of apartheid 

      Truscott, Ross; Smith, Michelle (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
      What we at first found intriguing about Simon Gush’s Red, what the documentary and the installation seemed to mutually conjure, was the Mandela car as a body to be mourned.2 Mourning recurred as a latent theme through the ...
    • Anxious urbanity: xenophobia, the native subject and the refugee camp 

      Pillay, Suren (Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)
      Could we think of the black subject under apartheid as a refugee, and might this condition be the paradigmatic metaphor for thinking about the postcolonial African predicament of citizenship? This paper considers the ...
    • Apartheid and the unconscious: An introduction 

      Truscott, Ross; van Bever Donker, Maurits; Hook, Derek (Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
      This special issue invited contributors to revisit J.M. Coetzee’s “The Mind of Apartheid,” first published in Social Dynamics in 1991. Here, Coetzee asks what it might mean to come to terms with apartheid:It is not ...
    • Apartheid's university: Notes on the renewal of the Enlightenment 

      Lalu, Premesh (CODESRIA, 2007)
      This paper sets to work on strategies for forging new and critical humanities at the institutional site of the university that appears to be trapped in the legacies of apartheid. The paper suggests that the university's ...
    • An archive of the future 

      Lalu, Premesh (José Frantz, 2020)
      The University of the Western Cape (UWC) recently entered into a partnership with photographer Rashid Lombard to house his substantial archival collection, which promises to offer expanded perspectives on the everyday ...
    • Auditing and the unconscious: Managerialism’s memory traces 

      Truscott, Ross (Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
      This paper takes J.M. Coetzee’s “The Mind of Apartheid” as a point of departure in thinking about audits in universities. Using the psychoanalytic framing of apartheid that Coetzee puts in place, audit is likened here ...
    • Between racial madness and neoliberal reason: Metonymic contagion in apartheid biopower 

      Naidoo, Kiasha (Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
      I will seek to consider the simultaneous workings of race and capital in apartheid biopower. J.M. Coetzee offers a reading of apartheid racism as racial madness which is imbricated with economic reason. In the wake of the ...
    • Breaking the mold of disciplinary area studies 

      Lalu, Premesh (Indiana University Press, 2016)
      At the outset of an edited volume on Intellectuals and African Development, the question is posed about what went wrong.1 The call for self-reflection perhaps anticipates a further question—about how to account for the ...
    • Crime, community and the governance of violence in post-apartheid South Africa 

      Pillay, Suren (Taylor and Francis Group, 2008)
      The South African government has embarked on a programme ofencouraging social cohesion in South Africa first to address concerns stemmingfrom high levels of violent crime which characterise the society, and second, ...
    • Debates on memory politics and counter-memory practices in South Africa in the 1990s 

      Grunebaum, Heidi (UNISA Press, 2018)
      Memory politics are often regarded as the “soft” issues contested in the aftermath of political and social upheaval. Yet critical public debates on memory, justice, impunity and reconciliation in South Africa prompted by ...
    • Digitisation, history, and the making of a postcolonial archive of Southern African liberation struggles 

      Lalu, Premesh; Isaacman, Allen; Nygren, Tom (Indiana University Press, 2005)
      This paper describes the history of an initiative to digitize a postcolonial archive on the struggle for freedom in Southern Africa. The authors outline the intellectual architecture of the project and the complex ...
    • Elusive Jannah: The Somali diaspora and borderless Muslim identity, by Cawo M. Abdi 

      Hadebe, Rutendo (York University Libraries, 2018)
      Overall, Belonging and Transnational Refugee Settlement should be applauded for emphasizing the need to recognize the complexity of refugee lives, and to rethink the dominant assumptions that so often render refugees ...
    • Empathy’s echo: post-apartheid fellow feeling 

      Truscott, Ross (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
      The concept of empathy has been set to work, across a range of fields, to mark a break with the relational patterns of apartheid. Similarly, empathy has been identified, historically, as that which, within apartheid and ...
    • The enchantment of freedom at University of the Western Cape 

      Lalu, Premesh (José Frantz, 2020)
      The history of the modern university is ,first and foremost ,the history of the unfolding of complex problematics of a planetary condition through established scientific and humanistic inquiry. Defined as such, the work ...
    • Government by grants: The post-pandemic politics of welfare 

      Dubbeld, Bernard; Pinto de Almeida, Fernanda (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020)
      In April 2020, with South Africa in national lockdown, president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the Covid-19 relief program on a scale he called ‘historic’. He affirmed that the state would not only reestablish the economy but ...
    • The grammar of domination and the subjection of agency: colonial texts and modes of evidence 

      Lalu, Premesh (Blackwell Publishing, 2000-12)
      This article focuses on colonial accounts of the killing of the Xhosa chief, Hintsa, in 1835 at the hands of British forces along what came to be known as the Eastern Cape frontier. It explores the evidentiary procedures ...
    • Incomplete histories: Steve Biko, the politics of self-writing and the apparatus of reading 

      Lalu, Premesh (Southern African Literature and Culture Centre, UKZN, 2004)
      This paper gathers together deliberations surrounding Steve Biko’s I Write What I Like as it simultaneously registers the critical importance of the text as an incomplete history. Rather than presupposing the text as a ...
    • Insights and current debates on community engagement in higher education institutions: Perspectives on the University of the Western Cape 

      Bidandi, Fred; Ambe, Anthony Nforh; Mukong, Claudia Haking (SAGE Publications, 2021)
      This study investigated the insights and current debates on community engagement in higher education institutions with specific reference to the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa. The article argues ...
    • Inxeba (The Wound), Queerness and Xhosa Culture 

      Scott, Lwando (Taylor & Francis, 2020)
      This article focuses on the controversy caused by the release of the film Inxeba (The Wound). Inxeba depicts a complex intersection of rites of passage, masculinities, queerness and the relationships between men in a ...