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HSRC Press
2019–2020
4 Message from the Press
6 Independent Editorial Board
8 HSRC Press New
37 Best Red New
46 Selected Backlist
59 Price List
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Message from the Press
Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Head of Social Anthropology
University of Cape Town and
Chairperson, HSRC Press
Independent Editorial Board
From the editorial board
We remain committed to foregrounding sense of business as usual. Granted the craving
scholarship in tune with African values. This is among South African social scientists and
scholarship that is revelatory in social theory and humanity scholars for international recognition,
practice in African contexts and relevant to the and given the persistent dangers of South African
development needs of South Africa and the rest exceptionalism, the editorial board of the HSRC
of the continent, and connections with the world. Press encourages interconnections between local,
HSRC Press strives for and strongly encourages national, continental and global debates in how
more theoretically and methodologically creative peer-reviewers are selected. Keen on comparative
and innovative scholarship as expressed in book perspectives and determined to disabuse South
publications. African scholarship of insularity, the board is
always shopping for enrichments to its repertoire
To attain this objective and more, the HSRC Press of peer-reviewers. The HSRC Press and its board,
remains a leading and arguably the premier aware that any scholarship can only be as good
academic publisher with a distinguished track as the community of scholars and its processes
record of excellent published scholarship in and procedures of legitimation, reiterates its
the social sciences and humanities. The Press commitment to excellence in scholarly publishing
has earned respectability from its unwavering in South Africa.
commitment to independence as a sine quo
nun. Such independence is predicated upon
the principle that every publication shall be
subject to rigorous double blind peer-review,
and that neither economic nor political nor any
other partisan consideration, however pertinent
and expedient, shall exert undue influence in
determining what is published. Only the scholarly
commitments and engaged scholarship of authors
form the basis on which peer reviews are sought
and decisions made. The editorial board – whose
composition is carefully constituted to ensure
representation across a broad spectrum of
disciplinary and scholarly sensitivities – oversees
the peer-review process. The board compromises
members both internal to the HSRC and drawn
from university institutions around the country.
Given that members are humans and humans
are imperfect, this commitment to the pursuit of
excellence remains permanent work in progress
that requires eternal vigilance and alertness to
the dangers of complacency, complicity and a
Message from the Press 5
Director’s Note
Jeremy Wightman
Publishing Director, HSRC Press
There has been considerable growth in the on Thomas Sanakra). They struggled to choose
scholarly book-publishing sector in South Africa books to buy within their budget, and their delight
over the past decade and a half. A Study of increased when we made a special offer of a
Scientific Journal and Book Publishing in South donation to the school library. Though the HSRC
Africa (2017) conducted by the Centre for Research Press takes stock of its dissemination and visibility
on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST) in many different ways, there has never been a
highlights this growth: from 2005 to 2014, unique measurable result in the public space that was so
book titles submitted for accreditation increased utterly rewarding to our soul and purpose.
from 33 to 162 and unique chapters from 98 to 964.
Perhaps not coincidentally, at this same book
The CREST report also underscores significant fair the South African Book Development Council
improvements in impact through citation announced that while 70% of South Africans read
measures, using a normalised view, though of nothing at all, their research shows that the most
course journals occupy a far larger content space typical book readers in South Africa are young
than books. Overall, visibility of scholarship people in their mid-teens to early twenties. The
originated in South Africa has clearly increased. profile of the most likely person to be buying and
However, what does this mean for a research reading a book is a 17-year-old, who does not
purpose to impact society at the crucial levels typically come from an affluent, well-resourced, or
of policy development and understanding of advantaged background. With this in mind, one
scientific research in the public space? can’t help but reflect that a scholarly book, for all
its evidence-based merits, remains a narrative:
At the HSRC Press, we are proud to highlight A story that is science based, but one that must
recent scholarly publications that have been still capture the book reader’s attention, hold
created, shaped and aimed at not just the scientific interest, and generate stimulation, thinking and
reader, academic specialist, public intellectual understanding. From beginning. To end.
and policymaker, but also the interested general
reader. To remove the anonymity of this public The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)
face, an anecdote: At a local book fair in 2018, a produces innovative research that supports
well-known local television personality visited our development nationally, in SADC and in Africa.
exhibition stand on a weekend morning. With her, Its research dissemination is intended to impact
were seven young school students. The visitor to on policy development and the solution of
our stand explained that she was not a teacher, problems not just in South Africa and in Africa,
but a benefactor and supporter of the learners’ but across the globe. Although HSRC Press is an
school, which is in a rural area. The group spent independent publisher by virtue of its independent
half an hour browsing our books, exclaiming with editorial board, it is also fortunate to be part
excitement that they recognised several of the of the HSRC and to benefit from this shared
people, themes and topics featured in our books vision and strategic purpose. We invite you to
from lessons they were learning and from films browse this catalogue and would be delighted to
they were watching (one of which a documentary hear from you.
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Independent
Editorial Board
Relebohile Moletsane Pumla Dineo Gqola Nasima Badsha
(PhD, Indiana University, (BA Hons, University of Cape Town; (MSc, University of Natal)
Bloomington, USA) is professor MA, University of Warwick, UK; MA, Nasima has worked in higher
and the John Langalibalele Dube University of Cape Town; DPhil, education over the past forty
Chair in Rural Education in the Ludwig Maximilian University of years, both in universities and
School of Education, University of Munich, Germany) is associate government. She serves on the
KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South professor of African literature at the board of the HSRC, council of the
Africa. University of the Witwatersrand
University of the Witwatersrand.
and is a trustee of the Claude Leon
Foundation and The Learning Trust.
Francis Nyamnjoh Sharlene Swartz
is the executive director of the
(PhD, Leicester University, UK) is
Education and Skills Development Enver Motala
professor of anthropology at the
University of Cape Town, which he research programme at the HSRC, (MPhil, University of
joined in 2009 from CODESRIA, an adjunct professor of philosophy Warwick, UK) is a researcher
Dakar, where he served as the at the University of Fort Hare and an at the Nelson Mandela Institute for
adjunct associate professor of sociol- Education and Rural Development
head of publications for six years.
ogy at the University of Cape Town. at the University of Fort Hare, and
an adjunct professor at the Nelson
Mandela Metropolitan University.
Monique Marks
Vasu Reddy
currently heads up the newly
(MA, University of the Witwatersrand;
established Urban Futures Cen-
PhD, University of KwaZulu-Natal) is Cheryl Hendricks
tre at the Durban University of
Technology (UFC@DUT). Initially professor and dean of the Faculty of is the executive director of the
trained as a social worker, she has Humanities, University of Pretoria. Africa Institute of South Africa of
a doctorate in sociology from the the HSRC. Prior to this she was
University of Natal. a professor at the University of
Johannesburg and head of the
Department of Politics and
International Relations.
Shamil Jeppie
(PhD, Princeton University, USA)
is an associate professor in the
Department of Historical Studies
at the University of Cape Town.
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Aquino de Bragança
Independence and Revolution in
Portuguese-Speaking Africa
Marco Mondaini and Colin Darch
January 2019 | 978-0-7969-2433-9
176 pp | Soft cover 210 x 148mm
R270.00
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Aquino de Bragança is an The contextualisation provided 6. The Work of Ruth First in the
inspirational figure who by the editors, both in the Centre of African Studies: the
helped to shape freedom and general introduction and in Development Course – with Bridget
democracy in the modern world the individual introductions to O’Laughlin (1984)
yet he is not known by many. He each chapter, assist the reader 7. The Portuguese Army Must Defend
remains a well-known figure in in understanding the context in Cahora Bassa (1985)
Portuguese- and French-speaking which each text was produced, 8. Independence without
circles but is much less well its contemporary significance, Decolonisation: the Transfer of
known among Anglophones, and its importance as historical Power in Mozambique, 1974–1975.
partly because of the language documentation. The book is Some Background Notes (1985)
barrier, but also because much illustrated with contemporary 9. The Defence of our Sovereignty
of his political and diplomatic photographs, some of them is More Important than
activity was conducted very never published before. Ideology (1985)
discreetly. His published work 10. From the Idealisation of Frelimo to
– the essays and interviews the Understanding of the Recent
published here – provide a Content History of Mozambique – with
fascinating glimpse not only Jacques Depelchin (1986)
of some aspects of the inner Part 1 – Articles and Interviews 11. Mozambique: Facing a War without
working of several liberation Underdevelopment and Migrant End (1986)
movements, but also show the Labour – with Ruth First (1980)
development of his thinking 1. Samora’s Marxism (1980) Part 2 – His Comrades Remember
around some key issues of 2. Savimbi: the Career of a Counter- 12. Aquino, Our Comrade, Our Brother
independence, nationalism, and Revolutionary (1981) – Simon Malley (1986)
the character of the struggle. 3. There Was Never a Decolonisation 13. Aquino – Immanuel
The book is aimed at English- Process in Mozambique (1982) Wallerstein (1986)
speakers who are interested in 4. Reflections on the Value of 14. Homage to Aquino de Bragança –
struggle history at the regional a Journey – with António Carlos Lopes (1986)
level, especially in the former Souto (1982) 15. Aquino de Bragança – Gary
Portuguese colonies. It will 5. Cabral and Machel are the True Littlejohn (1986)
certainly attract historians of Heirs of Marx (1983)
southern Africa in the United
States and the United Kingdom,
as well as people who are
interested in political theory
of liberation movements, and
progressive thinkers.
New 9
Biko: Philosophy, Identity
and Liberation
Mabogo Percy More
September 2017 | 978-0-7969-2571-8
320 pp | Soft cover 235 x 168mm
R220.00
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Mabogo More presents an nor is it a mechanical reflection Chapter 1: Biko the Rebel
unparalleled and riveting critique about the world; rather, it is a Chapter 2: Black Consciousness: The
of the philosophy and social way of existing and acting. To Movement and its Historicity
theory of Steve Biko. Across be a philosopher, especially an Chapter 3: Philosophy Contextualized
the world, freedoms are under African existential philosopher, Chapter 4: Biko and Philosophy
increasing threat and racism is not just to hold certain views, Chapter 5: Biko’s Africana Existentialist
and intolerance are on the it is a way of perceiving and a Philosophy
rise. The powerful critique of way of being in the world, what Chapter 6: The Problematics of
Biko: Philosophy, Identity and Biko himself described as ‘a way Liberalism
Liberation offers perspectives of life’. Chapter 7: Liberalism’s Transcendence
that could never be more of Apartheid Racism
important and more relevant This important perspective on Chapter 8: Biko, Black Consciousness
than right now. Biko is of value to philosophers and Marxism
of existence, political and social Chapter 9: Biko and Liberation
Worldwide, Biko was not only thinkers, social scientists,
considered a ‘brilliant political psychologists, cultural critics,
theorist’, but also ‘a formidable political activists, students,
and articulate philosopher’. Biko critical race theorists and
was not simply and merely a anyone interested in the ideas
philosopher in the manner in which that Biko presents.
Immanuel Kant was a philosopher.
Biko was a philosopher of a This book squarely situates
special kind, an important African Steve Biko within the stage
existential philosopher. of the world’s greatest
philosophers, thinkers and
From Biko’s writings, speeches authors, and puts forward both
and interviews, Mabogo More’s a clear historical lens, and a
view is that philosophy is not positive and unfettered view of
a disembodied system of ideas where we are heading.
A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without
an engine
Steve Biko
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Black Academic Voices
The South African Experience
Edited by Grace Khunou, Edith Phaswana,
Katijah Khoza-Shangase and Hugo Canham
November 2018 | 978-0-7969-2459-9
280 pp | Soft cover 240 x 168mm
R250.00
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Black Academic Voices captures historically white universities 2. Negotiating the academy: Black
the personal accounts of lived where being black seems bodies ‘out of place’
experiences of black academics to be a challenge. While it Peace Kiguwa
at South African universities seemed evidently difficult at 3. Writing to stay: Running shoes
in the context of the ongoing this point in the history of the replaced with high heels
debate for transformation academy for black academics Grace Khunou
and decolonisation of higher to capture positive experiences 4. Intellectual and emotional toxicity:
education. This debate has of our universities, the Where a cure does not appear to
not only raised epistemic, emerging consensus among be imminent
ideological, relational and all contributors illustrate that Katijah Khoza-Shangase
identity issues in the academy, the academy is a worthwhile 5. Thinking while Black
but also offers possibilities for endeavour. Grace Musila
deconstructing hierarchies of 6. Black and foreign: Negotiating
authoritarianism that are racist, The broader intention of this being different in South
sexist, patriarchal and colonial. book is to present evidence Africa’s academy
demonstrating why black Kezia Batisai
While many scholars have had academics leave the academy. 7. The polemic body
the opportunity to explore the Furthermore, the book intends Hugo Canham
challenges of higher education to illustrate how subtle and at 8. Belonging: Whose word is
transformation since 1994, very times overt exclusion continue it anyway?
few black academics have had to be part of the everyday Advocate René Koraan
the chance to tell their stories in experiences of black academics. 9. Valuing/Belonging and Devaluing/
the biographical form. This book, Unbelonging in the Academy: An
therefore, seeks to fill this gap Black Academic Voices is in three intersectional perspective
with the aim of defining what it parts: the misrepresentation of Pragna Rugunanan
means to be black in the South black bodies; the heterogenous 10. Don’t teach me nonsense
African academy post-1994 black experience; and Colin Tinei Chasi
South Africa and has presented affirmation of self through 11. The limits of being and knowledge
us with a plethora of structural empowering and inspiration of in the academy
and relational challenges that the other. Edith Phaswana
perpetuate the precarious state of 12. Sitting on one bum: The struggle of
black people in many institutions, survival and belonging for a black
including the academy. Content african woman in the academy
Motlalepule Nathane
This book has been crafted in 1. Black in the academy: Reframing 13. Belonging to oneself
such a way that the contributors knowledge, the knower, Allison Geduld
find themselves oscillating and knowing
between the different life Grace Khunou, Hugo Canham,
trajectories as students and Katijah Khoza-Shangase and
as members of faculties in Edith Dinong PhaswanaNew 11
Broadcasting Democracy
Radio and Identity in South Africa
Tanja Bosch
November 2017 | 978-0-7969-2542-8
184 pp | Soft Cover 198 x 148mm
R190.00
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Across the world, the role, At the centre of the book is the Chapter 1 Introduction
status and purpose of the media argument that various types Chapter 2 Public service broadcasting
have come into question. The of radio stations represent – A brief history of radio in
media play a key role in post- autonomous systems of cultural South Africa
apartheid South Africa and is activity, and are ‘consumed’ as Chapter 3 Community radio: Subaltern
often positioned at the centre of such by listeners. In this sense, it counterpublics
debates around politics, identity argues that South African radio Chapter 4 Commercial talk radio and
and culture. Media, such as is ‘broadcasting democracy’. the public sphere
radio, are often said to also play Broadcasting Democracy will be Chapter 5 Commercial music radio and
a role in deepening democracy, of interest to media scholars and identity: Good Hope FM and Metro
while simultaneously holding the radio listeners alike. FM as case studies
power to frame political events, Chapter 6 Radio convergence and
shape public discourse and online public spheres
impact citizens’ perceptions of Chapter 7 Conclusions – the future of
reality. Broadcasting Democracy: radio in South Africa
Radio and Identity in South Africa
provides an exciting look into the
diverse world of South African
radio, exploring how various
radio formats and stations play
a role in constructing post-
apartheid identities.
This is an emphatic, engaging, well-grounded and richly
argued study of the centrality of radio in claims and
contestations that pertain to identity and democracy in
South Africa post-apartheid
Francis B. Nyamnjoh, author of Africa’s Media, Democracy and the Politics of Belonging
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City of Broken Dreams
Myth-making, nationalism and the
university in an African motor city
Leslie Bank
January 2019 | 978-0-7969-2454-4
320 pp | Soft cover 235 x 168mm
R295.00
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City of Broken Dreams brings the In City of Broken Dreams, Part 3 The homecoming city
global debate about the urban author Leslie Bank embeds the Chapter 7 The homecoming
university to bear on the realities reader’s understanding of the city and the style of the black
of South African rust-belt cities university within a history of middle class
through a detailed case study of industrialisation, place-making Chapter 8 Post-apartheid austerity
the Eastern Cape motor city of and city building. and the black university in the city
East London, a site of significant
industrial job losses over the Part 4 Student risings and the
past two decades. Content city–campus dynamic
Chapter 9 Student struggles and
The cultural power of the car and Part 1 Exploring urbanism and the the right to the city
its associations with the endless university Chapter 10 Nationalism and the
possibilities of modernity lie at Chapter 1 On auto-freedom: The #FeesMustFall protests
the heart of the refusal of many Mandela car and the lessons Chapter 11 Race, planning and the
rust-belt motor cities to seek of history culture of rust-belt cities
alternative development paths Chapter 2 Racial modernism and Chapter twelve After car culture:
that could move them away from occupy urbanism on the South Remapping the city
racially inscribed, automotive African rust belt
capitalism and cultures. This is Chapter 3 The prejudice, power and
no less true in East London than plight of global rust-belt cities
it is in the motor cities of Flint
and Detroit in the US. Part 2 Settler nationalism and the
motor city
Since the end of the Second Chapter 4 Settler nationalism in
World War, universities have the making of a South African
become increasingly urbanised. motor city
This has resulted in widespread Chapter 5 The university and
concerns about their autonomy struggle for the hearts and minds
as places of critical thinking and of the city
learning. Simultaneously, there is Chapter 6 State capture,
increased debate about the role urban sprawl and industrial
universities can play in building decentralisation
urban economies, creating jobs
and reshaping the politics and
identities of cities.New 13
Development, Social Policy
and Community Action
Lessons from below
Leila Patel and Marianne S. Ulriksen
November 2017 | 978-0-7969-2551-0
256 pp | Soft cover 240 x 168mm
R230.00
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Solutions to poverty and similar contexts. With a fresh 5. How does the Child Support
inequality are often designed, perspective that addresses the Grant affect father participation
implemented and evaluated in interconnections between state in parenting?
a top-down manner, thereby interventions, community and Eddy Mazembo Mavungu, Flora Brils
disregarding the views and citizens in sustainable social and Merel Beernink
agency of the poor citizens development, this book provides 6. Solidarity in the Doornkop
themselves. Addressing this a case for the importance community: How state
gap, the authors explore how of conducting community- interventions affect ubuntu
government assistance, through based research that effectively Marianne S. Ulriksen and
social grants and services, as encourages research findings to Daniël Heijstek
well as community support support communities to effect
mechanisms provide solutions positive change. Part 3: Needs, strategies and services
to citizens in poor communities, for populations at risk
and the ways that the citizens 7. Mental healthcare for women
perceive and make use of such Content Jacqueline Moodley
interventions. 8. The lived realities of young
Part 1: The interplay between citizens, mothers in Doornkop
Development, Social Policy and the community and the state for Leila Patel, Jeanette Schmid, Floor
Community Action addresses development van Bercum and Sara Slijper
critical issues based on rigorous 1. Doornkop in perspective: Context 9. Young people’s experiences of
and multi-faceted research and approach accessing post-secondary education
conducted in the poor, urban Leila Patel and Marianne S. Ulriksen Lauren Graham and Sophia Geerars
area of Doornkop, Soweto. The 2. Social assistance and electoral 10. Resources and barriers to
book uses a range of different choice: A citizen perspective young people’s labour market
methodological approaches and Zenobia Ismail and participation
theoretical perspectives that Marianne S. Ulriksen Moreblessing T. Tinarwo, Zoheb Khan,
all broaden our understanding Maartje Boer and Brenda van As
of citizen-community-state Part 2: Impact of the child support grant
interactions in disadvantaged, 3. A micro analysis of social justice Part 4: Conclusions
urban communities in and the Child Support Grant 11. Reflections on research intended to
South Africa. Tessa Hochfeld and Sophie Plagerson promote development
4. How the CSG works to promote Sophie Plagerson and Lauren
This research study points to the women’s empowerment and child Graham
need for more nuanced policy wellbeing in Doornkop, Soweto 12. Learning from below: Implications for
strategies and interventions Leila Patel, Trudie Knijn and welfare research, policy and practice
pertinent to local challenges Frits van Wel Marianne S. Ulriksen and Leila Patel
which also resonate with the
global search for solutions in
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Equitable Rural
Socioeconomic Change
Land, Climate Dynamics, Innovation
Peter Jacobs
January 2019 | 978-0-7969-2532-9
224 pp | Soft cover 240 x 168mm
R280.00
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More and more of global Equitable Rural Socioeconomic Chapter 1: Contextualising socio-
economic wealth and decision- Change examines this economic change
making power rests with fewer unanswered question through Chapter 2: Improving the quality of
and fewer people, while acute an interrogation of the nature, work for chronically poor people
socioeconomic inequities afflict scale, trajectories and speed Chapter 3: Technical change and
rural communities in Africa, of changes across varied rural labour absorption in large
Latin America and Asia. landscapes. It allows for in- scale commercial agriculture in
depth scientific inquiry and South Africa
Obscene global wealth flouts reflections on theories, policies Chapter 4: Support to smallholder
in the face of tenuous access and practices focusing on the farmers in South Africa: Challenges
to food and water. Quality themes of labour, land and of scale and strategy
education and healthcare may food; climate and ecological Chapter 5: Translating land
be fundamental human rights, dynamics; and innovation. redistribution project practices into
but in reality are only enjoyed policy outcomes
by well-endowed minorities Chapter 6: Understanding rural
who can afford to invest in these livelihoods in the West Coast
services. The search for rural District, South Africa
development pathways that are Chapter 7: Droughts, floods, carbon
equitable and sustainable is footprints and agriculture: South
therefore critical. Africa’s case in context
Chapter 8: The trade in pelargonium
The working conditions and sidoides – Rural livelihood relief or
living standards of rural bounty for the bio-buccaneers?
communities are not static, but Chapter 9: Natural resource pricing
are in continual flux and defy the and climate change vulnerability:
linear logic pervasive in popular Implications for smallholder
development models. What are development in Africa
the complexities of modern Chapter 10: Participation of women in
socioeconomic transitions smallholder irrigated agriculture
unfolding in rural societies in in South Africa: Constraints and
developing countries? opportunities
Chapter 11: To what extent does
conservation benefit local
communities?
Chapter 12: The challenges of climate
change and biofuel production in
South Africa: The perspectives of
smallholder producersNew 15
Learning for Living
Towards a new vision for Post-School
Learning in South Africa
Edited by Ivor Baatjes
March 2018 | 978-0-7969-2524-4
312 pp | Soft cover 248 x 184mm
R250.00
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Content
Learning for Living challenges
policy-makers, researchers,
educators and civil society Section 1 Experience – living and learning
organisations to think critically Chapter 1 Being there
about the relationship between Chapter 2 Making a life
post-school education and the Chapter 3 Making life harder, making
world of work, and about how it easier
to transform the post-school Chapter 4 Experiences of learning
system to better serve the Chapter 5 Making learning easier,
needs and interests of rural and making it harder
urban communities. It issues
a call to action, and proposes Section 2 Reflection and input – the
key principles to inform an implications
alternative vision of post- Chapter 6 Doing – in, against
school learning. and beyond
Chapter 7 Learning from and for
The post-school education our lives
and training system in South
Africa has been the focus Section 3 Action – a new vision for post-
of much attention since the school learning in South Africa
establishment of the Department Chapter 8 What learning do
of Higher Education and Training people want?
in 2009. In the context of Chapter 9 Learning to make a life
deepening inequality, poverty
and unemployment, the need
for a humanising, liberating and
critical approach to learning
and pedagogy in post-school
education is becoming urgent.
The rural and urban voices that
speak in this book tell us that the
current system is out of touch
with the ways in which they are
making a life.
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Media and Citizenship
Between marginalisation
and participation
Edited by Anthea Garman
and Herman Wasserman
August 2017 | 978-0-7969-2556-5
256 pp | Soft cover 235 x 168mm
R275.00
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How central is the media to Part 1: The media–citizenship nexus 8. The tale of two publics: Media,
the functioning of democracy? 1. Citizens and journalists: The political representation and
Is democracy primarily about possibilities of co-creating the citizenship in Hout Bay, Cape Town
citizens using their vote? Does democracy we want Laurence Piper, Bettina von Lieres
the expression of their voice Anthea Garman and Herman and Fiona Anciano
necessarily empower citizens? Wasserman 9. ‘Non-poor only’: Culture jamming
2. Listening: A normative approach to and the limits of free speech in
Media and Citizenship transform media and democracy South Africa
challenges some assumptions Tanja Dreher Adam Haupt
about the relationship between 3. Democracy and political
the media and democracy in participation: The ambivalence Part 3: Acts of citizenship
highly unequal societies like of the Web 10. Could a ‘Noongarpedia’ form
South Africa. In a post-apartheid Peter Dahlgren the basis for an emerging form
society where an enfranchised of citizenship in the age of
majority is still fundamentally Part 2: The media–democracy new media?
unable to practise their problematic Len Collard, John Hartley, Kim
citizenship and experiences 4. Speaking power’s truth: South Scott, Niall Lucy and Clint Bracknell,
marginalisation on a daily African media in the service of with Jennifer Buchanan and Ingrid
basis, notions like listening and the suburbs Cumming
belonging may be more useful Steven Friedman 11. The media, Equal Education
ways of thinking about the role 5. ‘Back to the people’ journalism: and school learners: ‘Political
of the media. In this context, Journalists as public storytellers listening’ in the South African
protest is taken seriously as a Harry C Boyte education crisis
form of political expression and 6. A better life for all? Consumption Azwihangwisi Mufamadi and Anthea
the media’s role is foregrounded and citizenship in post-apartheid Garman
as actively seeking out the media culture 12. Innocence: A free pass into the
voices of those on the margins Mehita Iqani moral commonweal
of society. Through a range of 7. ‘Don’t raise your voice. Improve Yves Vanderhaeghen
case studies, the contributors your argument’: Reason, emotion 13. We are not the ‘born frees’: The
show how listening, both as a and affect in the post-apartheid real political and civic lives of eight
political concept and as a form public sphere young South Africans
of practice, has transformative Steven Robins Vanessa Malila
and even radical potential for
both emerging and established
democracies.New 17
Monitoring Maternal and
Child Morbidity and Mortality
in South Africa
Strengthening Surveillance Strategies
Maluleke TX, Hongoro C, Labadarios D,
Ncayiyana DJ, Freeman, J et al.
March 2018 | 978-0-7969-2496-4
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Monitoring Maternal and Child 1. Project Context and Background
Morbidity and Mortality in South 2. Methods: Information Gathering
Africa is a critical resource that Process for the Gap Analysis
gives insight into the current state 3. Rapid Assessment of Civil
of the existing surveillance system Registration and Vital Statistics
and shows how to strengthen (CRVS) Systems for South Africa
strategies for monitoring maternal 4. Mapping of the DHA CRVS
and child morbidity and mortality. Infrastructure and Resources
5. Mapping of the DOH Infrastructure
In the last decade, South Africa and Resources for MCH and
has made significant progress Registration and Notification of
in reducing child and maternal Births, Stillbirths, Neonatal, Child
mortality rates. Although and Maternal Deaths
progress has been made in 6. Civil Registration and Vital
improving levels of maternal and Statistics and Maternal and
child morbidity and mortality, Child Health Services at
it is important to indicate that Community Level
data used are based on varied 7. Health Facility Audit: Methodology:
sources and systems that Information Gathering Process for
sometimes yield conflicting data. the Gap Analysis
South Africa has a well-established 8. Health Worker Behavior in Maternal
statistics system. However, not and Child Care
all deaths are registered and the
quality of the cause-of-death
information is often inadequate.
The Improvement of Maternal
and Child Morbidity and Mortality
Surveillance (MIMMS) project was
initiated to address challenges,
bottlenecks and shortcomings
within the surveillance system
that compromise the efficiency
and effectiveness of the system.
Quality books that make a difference.18 HSRC Press
Moral Eyes
Youth and justice in Cameroon, Nigeria,
Sierra Leone and South Africa
Sharlene Swartz, Anye Nyamnjoh, Emma Arogundade,
Jessica Breakey and Abioseh Bockarie
March 2018 | 978-0-7969-2511-4
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Moral Eyes is based on Part 1 Histories of injustice
interviews with university Chapter 1 Studying privilege and
students in four African injustice: Why, how and from
countries: Cameroon, Nigeria, whose perspective
Sierra Leone and South Africa. Chapter 2 Race in South Africa: The
Each country exemplifies a unravelling rainbow
distinctive axis of discrimination Chapter 3 Language and ‘the
and privilege – religion, Anglophone problem’ in
language, ethnicity, and race Cameroon: A loveless marriage
– though with a good deal of Chapter 4 Ethnic conflict in Sierra
intersectional overlap. Leone: A terrifying silence
Chapter 5 Interrelated fault lines
The authors use interviews to of religion, ethno-politics
theorise about deep issues of and language in Nigeria:
injustice, history and restitution. Divided by rule
Through an emphasis on
the historical dimension of Part 2 Restitution
contemporary injustice, the Chapter 6 How is speaking of
authors insightfully expand the restitution helpful?
familiar moral framework of Chapter 7 Locating selves and the
victim-perpetrator-bystander past in the present
to include ‘inheritors of unjust Chapter 8 The moral role of victims
benefit’ and ‘resisters’. They also Chapter 9 Tracing spider webs: The
reveal significant differences in role of privilege in injustice
how historical memory plays out Chapter 10 Ostriches: Knowing but
in these four countries. failing to act
Global North readers will derive Part 3 A theory of change
great illumination from seeing Chapter 11 How change happens:
familiar issues of social justice Seeing and acting
discussed in a wholly African Chapter 12 The possibility of
context, including a diversity emancipatory narrative research
unlikely to be familiar to these
readers. Moral Eyes is an
excellent contribution to the
literature on moral education,
social justice, and the moral
character of transitions to a
more just society.New 19
Neva Again
Hip Hop Art, Activism and Education
in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Edited by Adam Haupt, Quentin Williams,
H Samy Alim and Emile Jansen
November 2018 | 978-0-7969-2459-9
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Neva Again: Hip Hop Art, Activism 6. Bush Radio’s ALKEMY and Hip Hop 19. A Son of the Sun: a Reflection on
and Education in Post-Apartheid Activism 2.0 Hip Hop and my Father
South Africa is the culmination 7. Bush Radio’s ALKEMY and Hip Hop 20. Boss Bitches/Boss Ladies
of decades of work on hip hop Activism 1.0 21. “My Seeds Must Proceed”
culture and hip hop activism in 22. My Poetic Prime
South Africa. It speaks to the Part 2: Awêh(ness): Hip Hop Language 23. “Langa State of Mind”: Talking
emergence and development of a Activism and Pedagogy Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
unique style of hip hop activism 8. Hip Hop Language Critique as 24. Queering Hip Hop, Queering
in the Western Cape and Eastern Sociolinguistic Activism the City: Dope Saint Jude’s
Cape of South Africa. 9. Afrikaaps and Hip Hop Transformative Politics
10. Hip Hop as a Valorising Practice
Neva Again draws on the 11. Hip Hop Never Saved My Life, but Part 4: Reality Check: The
contribution of hip hop scholars, It Changed My Life Business of Music
artists and activists. It is unique 12. “Pedagogies of the Formerly 25. Hip Hop Activism, Change and
in that it weaves together the Oppressed” – Hip Hop Education in Creativity
many varied and rich voices of Cape Town, South Africa 26. Creative Currency: Is There an Art
this dynamic hip hop scene to 13. Hip Hop Activism to Selling Art?
present a powerful vision for the 14. Hip Hop Pedagogies: Beyond 27. Digital Music Distribution
potential of youth art, culture, “Soul Murder,” “Linguistic 28. “Die Blikkie se Boem is Uit”: A
music, language, and identities Looting” and “White Supremacist B-boy’s Reflections
to shape our politics and Delusionalism” 29. Building an International Profile as
understand our world. 15. A Commentary on Alim and an Artist
Ariefdien’s “Beyond ‘Soul Murder,’ 30. Decolonising Knowledge: Reading
‘Linguistic Looting,’ and ‘White Hip Hop Sampling in Relation to
Content Supremacist Delusionalism’” Scholarly Publishing
16. Raak Wys: Countering Cultural
Introduction Assimilation Through Rhyme
Part 1: Bring That Beat Back: Sampling and Reason
Early Narratives
1. Power to the People: An Interview Part 3: Remixing Race and
with POC in 1994 Gender Politics
2. Age of Truth Two Decades 17. “They Tried to Bury Us”: Hip Hop
of Democracy Poetry, Politics & the Power of
3. Coming to Hip Hop in the Early 90s Words Worth Saying
4. Godessa’s Entry into Hip Hop in the 18. The More Things Change...
early 2000s Race and Representation in
5. The B-boy is an Activist Contemporary SA Rap
Quality books that make a difference.20 HSRC Press
New African Thinkers Agenda 2063
Culture at the Heart of
Sustainable Development
Edited by Olga Bialostocka
February 2018 | 978-0-7969-2565-7
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Does the African continent Part 1: A prosperous Africa based on Part 3: An Africa with a strong cultural
want to be economically and inclusive growth and sustainable identity, common heritage, shared
socially sustainable as well as development values and ethics
environmentally safe? What is 1. Culture of corruption or 7. Influences of political leadership on
the role of culture and how does corruption of culture? Rethinking cultural development
it shape development strategies? the challenges to sustainable Natasha Katuta Mwila
development in sub-Saharan Africa 8. Visioning the Africa we want
In New African Thinkers: Culture James Ojochenemi David through post-Africanism and the art
at the Heart of Sustainable 2. Indigenous knowledge and of Titus Matiyane
Development, the authors rural development planning in Pfunzo Sidogi
argue that culture – broadly Botswana: Exploring the realities of 9. Preservation of intangible cultural
defined as the way of life, integration heritage: Indigenous songs of the
system of values and controls, Malatsi Seleka Naro of Botswana
and modes of practice and 3. Three stories of how Africans Matheanoga Fana Rabatoko
expression – lies at the heart of traded their riches for roads
a re-imagined Africa as a place and bridges Part 4: An Africa where development
of prosperity and socioeconomic Dunia Zongwe is people-driven, unleashing the
well-being, integration, potential of women and youth
and self-determination. By Part 2: An Africa of good governance, 10. Stokvels as financiers for small
contextualising the discourse of democracy, respect for human business in KwaZulu-Natal
development, the authors hope rights, justice and the rule of law Matshediso Joy Ndlovu
to influence policy and practice 4. Coming to critical terms with
towards shifting the narrative an African political system
from ‘one size fits all’ to a more of good governance for the
morally justified and socially 21st century through the
diverse model. prism of Swazi (Tinkhundla)
monarchical democracy
Hlengiwe Dlamini
5. Recognition theory as an
alternative approach to human
rights: An African perspective
Sabelo Ndwandwe
6. Post-conflict rehabilitation of the
child towards the Africa we want
– the nexus between psychology
and the law
Azubike Onuora-Oguno and
Sigrid ShaanikaNew 21
Partnerships in Action
University–school–community
Patti Silbert, Roshan Galvaan
and Jonathan Clark
October 2018 | 978-0-7969-2469-8
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Partnerships in Action explores, 1. Activating partnerships: The 10. New possibilities for supporting
at multiple levels, a university– Schools Improvement Initiative at homework practices through a
school–community partnership the University of Cape Town university–school partnership
in action. The chapters provide Patti Silbert, Jonathan Clark and Roshan Galvaan and Patti Silbert
rich and dynamic accounts of Ferial Parker 11. Facilitating social inclusion through
the activities that make up this 2. Setting the scene: Schooling in communication: How do speech-
partnership within a context of Khayelitsha and language therapy students
extreme social inequality. The Jonathan Clark negotiate their transition into
contributors share an enduring 3. A snapshot of a partner primary community practice?
commitment to whole-school school: Intshayelelo Primary Kristen Abrahams, Harsha Kathard,
improvement. They describe Jonathan Clark and Mxolisi Mbobo Lizé Mostert, Freda Walters and
how, through interdisciplinary 4. A snapshot of a partner secondary Roshan Galvaan
collaboration, they negotiate school: Usasazo High 12. Rethinking approaches to
the multiple political, social and Patti Silbert and Patrick Barnes occupational therapy intervention:
structural complexities which 5. Reimagining interdisciplinary Learning in and from an under-
arise in the coming together of collaboration through a university– resourced school
the partners. school partnership Pam Gretschel, Shireen Damonse
Patti Silbert and Roshan Galvaan and Mellisa Francke
The book’s uniqueness lies in 6. Policy ideas distilled through a 13. Partnerships in action: Establishing
its combination of practical university–district partnership: a model of collaborative support for
implementation and sound Lessons from the iKwezi Lead student and mentor teachers through
theoretical scholarship from a Teacher Project a university–school partnership
range of disciplines. Not only Susan Meyer, Kaashief Hassan, Patti Silbert and Clare Verbeek
does the partnership strengthen Diane Hendricks, Cally Kühne and 14. Reflections on community
the university’s commitment Gary Powell engagement through interdisciplinary
to community-engagement, 7. Building organisational capacity collaboration for the purpose of
but it offers new insights to through a principals’ community whole-school improvement
all students, stakeholders, of practice Patti Silbert, Roshan Galvaan and
academic staff and social Janis Wylie and Patti Silbert Jonathan Clark
researchers – in universities, 8. Critical occupational therapy in the 15. Enlarged thinking and
education departments and margins: Parent participation in asymmetrical reciprocity in an
NGOs – with an interest in under-resourced schools ethics of engagement: A reflection
improving schooling and Liesl Peters and Roshan Galvaan on university–school partnerships
building social justice. 9. Introducing microteaching as a Pam Christie
developmental tool for library
assistants in under-resourced
school libraries
Patti Silbert and Constance Bitso
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Post-School Education and the
Labour Market in South Africa
Michael Rogan
December 2018 | 978-0-7969-2463-6
272 pp | Soft cover 240 x 168mm
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Within the context of one of chapters cover topics such as Part 2: Higher education and the
the highest rates of youth access to vocational education, labour market
unemployment and the most adult education, universities, and 6. Over-qualification and skills-
unequal society in the world, the workplace-based training as well utilisation in the graduate labour
chapters in this volume offer a as the labour market transitions market: Evidence from two South
timely reminder of the important from these components. African universities
role of training and education 7. Aspirations and horizons for action:
in helping young people escape Post-School Education will also Student choice of professions in
poverty and unemployment. be of interest to all researchers South Africa
and policy-makers concerned with 8. Assessing the usability of the
Post-School Education offers the transformative role of further Western Cape Graduate Destination
insights about and up-to- education and training in society. Survey for the analysis of labour
date analyses of the way that market outcomes
young people in South Africa
navigate their way through a Part 3: TVET colleges, workplace
host of post-school training and Content programmes and skills
education options. 9. Tracing the pathways of National
Part 1: Schooling, progression and Accredited Technical Education
The volume’s contributors are tertiary education and training Diploma (NATED) programme
all experts in their respective 1. The post-school education and graduates through Technical and
components of the post-school training landscape in South Africa: Vocational Education and Training
and education system but write ‘Massification’ amidst inequality (TVET) colleges and beyond
with a holistic view of the options 2. Young people’s early adult 10. Continued learning and
available to young people. Each transitions: Five years in the South employment: Destinations of TVET
chapter identifies a number of African Youth Panel Study engineering graduates in the North
challenges that young people 3. The post matriculation enrolment West Province
face when accessing training and decision: Do public TVET colleges 11. Workplace-based learning
education, and points to some of provide students with a viable programmes and the transition to
the gaps between education and alternative? the labour market
the labour market. 4. The adult education and training 12. Education and skills mismatch in
(AET) island: The missing piece of the South African labour market
The book is unique in that it the post-school puzzle 13. Reflections on post-schooling
uses an unashamedly empirical 5. From Grade 12 into, and through, education and training: Access
lens to shed light on the entire university: Higher education access and outcomes
range of post-school training and and success for the 2008 national
education options. The respective NSC cohortNew 23
Skills Planning
New research perspectives from sectoral,
occupational and regional lenses
Glenda Kruss, Angelique Wildschut
and Il-haam Petersen
February 2019 | 978-0-7969-2436-0
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Youth unemployment and Section 1: Introduction Chapter 9: The role of intermediaries in
equipping students with the Chapter 1: The need for new kinds responding to shifting skills needs
right skills in a fast-changing of research Chapter 10: Higher education
world are critical concerns Chapter 2: Skills Planning for South and economic development:
across the globe. Nowadays, Africa: getting the questions right The importance of building
previously unimagined technological capabilities
employment opportunities Section 2: New analyses of work, Chapter 11: Skills planning and
abound and the future is likely occupations, institutions, development for the future in
to hold even more change. employability and responsiveness South Africa
How do key actors involved in Chapter 3: Work change, occupational
firms and production processes, milieus and their impact on skills
higher and vocational education requirements
and skills training systems, Chapter 4: The boundaries of artisanal
and those responsible for work and occupations in South
implementing policy in Africa, and their relation to
specific sectors or regions, inequality
respond to the changing skills Chapter 5: Work futures for artisans
demands of the future? Skills and technicians
Planning addresses a gap in Chapter 6: Curriculum responsiveness
understanding how current and student employability: An
research intersects with a institutional analysis
rapidly changing future.
Section 3: New ways to think about
Research teams from the designing and resourcing effective
Labour Market Intelligence institutional arrangements for skills
Partnership (LMIP) undertook planning and development
a set of experimental and Chapter 7: A framework for
innovative case studies on which understanding capabilities for skills
the chapters are based. The development in sectoral systems of
book therefore provides fresh innovation
evidence on how work is actually Chapter 8: High skills and labour
changing in different sectors in market alignment: The case
South Africa, how this reflects of the SKA
shifting global patterns, how it
impacts on the skills required
by new forms of occupation and
profession, and how it impacts
on post-school education and
training institutions.
Quality books that make a difference.24 HSRC Press
South African National HIV
Prevalence, Incidence, Behaviour
and Communication Survey, 2017
Simbayi LC, Zuma K, Zungu N et al.
February 2019 | 978-0-7969-2373-8
344 pp | Soft cover 297 x 210mm
R350.00
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The 2017 HIV study is the fifth This study is key in maintaining 1. Introduction
wave of a series of cross- surveillance of HIV infection and 2. Methodology
sectional surveys undertaken behaviour in South Africa, and to 3. Results
by a research consortium led by obtain a better understanding of Part A: National and
the Human Sciences Research factors driving the HIV epidemic. provincial results
Council (HSRC) every few years. Part B: Analysis of selected districts
The consortium includes local The South African National HIV 4. Discussion
researchers from the South Prevalence, Incidence, Behaviour 5. Conclusions and recommendations
African Medical Research and Communication Survey,
Council, the National Institute 2017 is crucial for government,
of Communicable Diseases, policy-makers and all
the Global Clinical & Viral stakeholders who work towards
Laboratories, the University of reducing the HIV epidemic in
Cape Town and international the country and reaching the
researchers from the Centers for UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets. It is a
Disease Control and Prevention, must-read for researchers who
UNAIDS, and UNICEF. want to understand the HIV
dynamics in South Africa.
The report includes novel
methodologies, innovative
research and important
advances in assessment that
provide a crucial reference
in one book for all those
working on HIV in South Africa
and globally.New 25
South African Social Attitudes Survey
Family Matters
Cohesion, Values and Wellbeing
Zitha Mokomane, Benjamin Roberts,
Jare Struwig and Steven Gordon
March 2019 | 978-0-7969-2526-8
320 pp | Soft cover 240 x 168mm
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Globally, ‘the family’ has become 1 Introduction 11 Regarding Baba: Perceptions
a significant and growing about fathers and fatherhood in
focus of study across a variety Part 1: Family cohesion South Africa
of disciplinary perspectives 2 Satisfaction with family 12 Filial responsibility and caring
in the humanities, social relationships and overall quality of for the aging
sciences, and law. family life
3 Family functioning and Part 3: Family strengthening
In South Africa, there has been economic status 13 Social determinants of self-rated
controversy and substantial 4 Intergenerational consensus health, social inequalities in health
debate over an apparent ‘crisis within families and family life
of the family’ during the last 5 Patterns of alcohol consumption 14 Views on work-family balance in
two decades. Ideological in South Africa: Implications of South Africa
contestations have emerged over harmful drinking for families 15 Child poverty: Social perceived
social morality and appeals for 6 Intimate partner violence and necessities
a return to traditional ‘family family cohesion among ever 16 Lone mothers’ accounts of the
values’. In order to provide a married women and men in impact of poverty on their dignity:
better understanding of the South Africa A South African perspective
supposed ‘crisis of the family’, it
is necessary to use public opinion Part 2: Family values and the
data to explore family cohesion, promotion of family life
family values and the promotion 7 South African public opinion on
of family life. family rights for lesbians and gay
men: Entry points for activism and
South African Social Attitudes interventions
Survey – Family Matters: 8 Embracing the child: The
Cohesion, Values and Wellbeing acceptability of adoption
promotes the family by drawing 9 Attitudes towards marriage in post-
on unique data to offer insight apartheid South Africa
into the diverse realities of 10 Is a woman’s place still in the
contemporary family life in home? Gender role attitudes and
South Africa. It explores a series women’s position in the South
of family-related values and African labour market
preferences, and charts the basis
and nature of support for policy
intervention in the family.
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