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UCT PRESS catalogue 2018/19 2018/19 contents 3 Introduction 44 Author index 4 New titles 45 Title index 11 Forthcoming titles 47 Contact us 18 Recent backlist 47 Marketing and sales 19 Cultural studies 19 Development studies 20 Economics 21 Health 22 History 24 Law 24 Literature and language 25 Natural sciences 25 Philosophy 26 Politics and security 27 Research skills 28 Urban studies 29 Backlist 30 African studies 30 Business and management 31 Cultural studies 31 Development studies 32 Economics 33 Environmental studies 34 Gender studies 34 Health 35 History 37 Law 38 Literature and language 39 Natural sciences 39 Politics and security 41 Psychology 42 Public administration 42 Research skills 43 Urban studies introduction 3 introduction UCT Press is committed to publishing high-quality, peer- reviewed monographs, scholarly publications with trade potential, and original research works in the area of the broad Humanities with an African perspective. We publish in print and digital formats and support open access delivery in principle. UCT Press endeavours to be the preferred university press for academic authors on the African continent. Titles for publication under the UCT Press imprint are approved by the UCT Press Editorial Board, which comprises faculty members of the University of Cape Town, the leading university in Africa. UCT Press is owned by Juta and Company (Pty) Limited. We routinely report to authors’ affiliated institutions on the peer- review process to facilitate application for DHET accreditation and subsidy. The prices indicated reflect those at July 2018. new titles 2018/19 new titles 5 Building a Capable State Service delivery in post-apartheid South Africa I Palmer, N Moodley & S Parnell ‘The authors present a rich, comprehensive but sober analysis of progress achieved by the South African public sector in the two decades after apartheid. Their view from the local level is particularly relevant, as South Africa is one of the few African countries with empowered sub-national government.’ – William Cobbett, Director, Cities Alliance 2017 Since the coming to power of the African National Congress, the country has 320 pages undergone a policy-making revolution, driven by an urgent need to improve Soft cover access to services for the country’s black majority. More than 20 years on Print: 978 1 77582 248 6 South African rights only from the fall of apartheid, Building a Capable State asks what lessons can be R385.00 learned from the South African experience. This comprehensive examination BISAC: POL017000 of urban service delivery in the global South assesses whether the South BIC: JPRB THEMA: JPRB, 1HFMS African government has succeeded in improving service delivery, focusing on the vital sectors of water and sanitation, energy, roads and public transport. Emphasising the often-overlooked role of local government institutions, the book demonstrates that effective service delivery can have a profound effect on the social structure of emerging economies, and must form an integral part of any future development strategy. Recommended for Students and academics across the Social Sciences, but particularly in Urban Studies, Urban Planning, Public Finance, Engineering, Public Administration and Development Studies; also relevant to practitioners and NGOs involved in public finance and public policy. About the authors Ian Palmer is an Adjunct Professor at UCT’s African Centre for Cities and is the founder of Palmer Development Group (PDG), a South African development consultancy. He has been the team leader on more than 100 projects in public sector service delivery. Nishendra Moodley currently works with the South African National Treasury’s City Support Programme. He retains a strong interest in intergovernmental relations, decentralisation and systems of accountability to citizens. Susan Parnell is a Professor of Urban Geography in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and is a visiting professor at LSE Cities. She has edited and co-authored many books, including Africa’s Urban Revolution (with Edgar Pieterse) (UCT Press: 2015). 6 new titles Child and Adolescent Development An expanded focus on public health in Africa Editors: M Tomlinson, C Hanlon & A Stevenson Global public health has improved vastly during the past 25 years, and especially in the survival of infants and young children. However, many of these children, particularly in Africa, continue to live in poverty and in unhealthy, unsupportive environments, and will not be able to meet their developmental potential. In other words, they will survive but not thrive. The UN’s Sustainable Development 2018 Goals (SDGs) stress sustainable development, not just survival and disease 360 pages reduction, and the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Soft cover Print: 978 1 91989 551 2 Health proposes a Survive (end preventable deaths), Thrive (ensure health and Web pdf: 978 1 77582 157 1 wellbeing) and Transform (expand enabling environments) agenda. For children Mobi: 978 1 77582 158 8 to thrive they must make good developmental progress from birth until the end World rights available R499.00 of adolescence. $36.95 £24.95 Addressing the social determinants of developmental problems, this volume BISAC: PSY004000 offers a broad, contextualised understanding of the factors that impact on BIC: JMC THEMA: JMC, 1H children and adolescents in Africa. Unlike other works on the subject it is Africa- wide in its scope, with case studies in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda and South Africa. Recommended for Academics, students and practitioners in Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Child Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychopathology, Psychiatry, Human Ecology, Education; nurses and paediatricians, health workers and those interested in early childhood development. About the editors Mark Tomlinson is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and co-Director of the Institute for Child and Family Health Research at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is also an Honorary Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Charlotte Hanlon is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and Clinical Senior Lecturer in Global Mental Health at King’s College, London. Anne Stevenson is Programme Director for the Neuropsychiatric Genetics of African Populations (NeuroGAP) Psychosis Study at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. She has extensive experience managing healthcare and research programmes in Boston, Rwanda and Ghana. new titles 7 Dynamics of Language, The Plenary and focus lectures from the 20th International Congress of Linguists Editors: R Mesthrie & D Bradley The International Congress of Linguists meets every five years to reflect the development of Linguistics, the close study of language and languages. In 2018, for the first time, the Congress was held in Africa. The African continent is blessed with hundreds of languages which act as local repositories of culture and interaction. South Africa itself has eleven official languages, plus Sign 2018 Language, many heritage languages, and new languages of global movements 350 pages Soft cover and migration. Print: 978 1 77582 227 1 Web pdf: 978 1 77582 237 0 This book of selected papers from the Congress provides an up-to-date specialist World rights available overview of the main fields of Linguistics. The papers broadly address the history R500.00 of languages, structure, acquisition, diversity and use. At the same time due $45.00 £35.00 regard is paid to the African continent in several of the papers in connection with BISAC: LAN009000, LAN011000, its linguistic diversity, multilingualism and educational and societal concerns. LAN009040, LAN009050 BIC: CF This collection is therefore meant to affirm the value of the languages of Africa, THEMA: CF of languages and Linguistics in general, as well as to inspire and equip younger scholars to undertake advanced research into language in its many facets. Recommended for Practising linguists and graduate students of Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and Education. About the editors Rajend Mesthrie is Professor of Linguistics and SARCHI Chair of Migration, Language and Social Change, and an A-rated scholar at the University of Cape Town. He has written and contributed to books, including A Dictionary of South African Indian English (UCT Press, 2010). David Bradley is Professor of Linguistics at La Trobe University, Australia and President of the UNESCO Comité Permanent des Linguistes. He has written or edited over 60 books, and authored hundreds of chapters, journal articles and papers on Linguistics. 8 new titles Education Triple Cocktail, The System-wide education reform in South Africa B Fleisch The starting point of this book is the evidence that the majority of South African schoolchildren are not learning to read and write adequately in primary schools. In this text, the author explores what it would take to shift classroom instructional practices in the vast majority of primary schools in the country. Building on the findings of the Gauteng experience of a robust experimental research 2018 programme, and paying close attention to understanding the mechanisms of 198 pages change, this book presents the case for change at the instructional core and Soft cover Print: 978 1 77582 246 2 a structured pedagogic programme model, which