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CATALOGUE 2009 | 2010 WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS Is Strategically Placed at the Crossroads of African and Global Knowledge Productio N and Dissemination CATALOGUE 2009 | 2010 WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS is strategically placed at the crossroads of African and global knowledge productio n and dissemination. We are committed to publishing well- researched, innovative books for both academic and general readers. Our areas of focus include art and heritage, popular scien ce, history and politics, biography, literary studies, women’s writing and select textbooks. Physical address: 23 Junction Ave, Parktown, Johannesburg Postal address : P O Wits, 2050, South Africa Tel: +27 11 484 5906/07/10/13 Fax: +27 11 484 5971 Online: http://witspress.wits.ac.za Cover photograph by Alon Skuy, taken from Go Home or Die Here: Violence, Xenophobia and the Reinvention of Difference in South Africa, page 188. Design and layout: HotHouse South Africa CATALOGUE 2009 | 2010 CONTENTS Politics 2 Migration Studies 6 Cultural Studies 9 Environmental Studies 14 Social Sciences 16 Biography 18 Heritage Studies 21 Historical Archaeology 23 History 24 Anthropology 26 Rock Art 28 Wits P&DM Series 30 Literary Studies 32 Popular Culture 35 Film/Theatre 36 Education 41 African Treasury Series 42 Women’s Writing 44 Art/Photography 48 Popular Science 52 Natural Sciences 53 Textbooks 54 Backlist 58 Index 61 POLITICS NEW Mbeki and After TITLE Reflections on the Legacy of Thabo Mbeki Edited by Daryl Glaser For nearly ten years – indeed more if we include his period of influence under Mandela’s presidency – Thabo Mbeki bestrode South Africa’s political stage. Despite attempts by some in the new ANC leadership to airbrush out his role, there can be little doubt that Mbeki was a seminal figure in South Africa’s new democracy, one who left a huge mark in many fields, perhaps most controversially in state and party management, economic policy, public health intervention, foreign affairs and race relations. If we wish to understand the character and fate of post-1994 South Africa, we must therefore ask: What kind of political system, economy and society has the former President bequeathed to the government of Jacob Zuma and to the citizens of South Africa generally? This question is addressed head-on here by a diverse range of analysts, commentators and participants in the political process. Amongst the specific questions they seek to answer: What is Mbeki’s legacy for patterns of inclusion and exclusion based on race, class and gender? How, if at all, did his presidency reshape relations within the state, Photograph: Eric Miller/africanpictures.net between the state and the ruling party and between the state and society? How did he reposition South Africa on the continent and in the world? This book will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand the current political landscape in South Africa, 978 1 86814 502 7 (PB) and Mbeki’s role in shaping it. 220 x 150 mm, 256 pp November 2009 List of Contributors: Zackie Achmat, Richard Calland, Jane Duncan, Steven Friedman, Mark Gevisser, Mark Heywood, Chris Landsberg, Garth Le Pere, Achille Mbembe, Eusebius McKaiser and Peter Vale. Daryl Glaser is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesb urg. 2 WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS POLITICS Paper Wars NEW Access to Information in South Africa TITLE Edited by Kate Allan Paper Wars goes beyond being a valuable repository of freedo m of information lore. It reflects upon the ‘multiple faces of information governance’ and indeed upon secrecy itself. The volume presents new evidence and fresh thinking on this increasingly vital and global topic. —Jonathan Klaaren, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg At the very start of South Africa’s constitutional democracy, openness and transparency had a special place. Reacting against the secrecy of apartheid, the veils would be lifted in a newly open society. And indeed South Africa’s access to information law – the Promotion of Access to Information Act, a direct result of the constitutional negotiations – is without parallel in the world. But bureaucracies and their cultures do not change easily. Habits of secrecy die hard and perhaps hardest where institutional capacity is low and organisational resources are scarce. Working against such obstacles, a few valiant organi - sations including the South African History Archive (SAHA) have been working to push back the entrenched modes of secrecy and instantiate the realm of open democracy. This book, edited by Kate Allan, tells and reflects upon that story. Drawing on the experience of SAHA, the chapters of Paper Wars will be the place to start for any serious scholar or dedicated activist seeking to understand the experience 978 1 86814 491 4 (PB) and place of South Africa in the global diffusion of freedom of 240 x 170 mm, 304 pp information regimes. Despite having the law on their side, June 2009 this book details the difficulties the information activists and requesters have encountered as they have attempted to put South Africa’s constitutional right of access to information into practice. Containing essays and case studies, the volume will stand as the record of the initial implementation (or lack thereof) of South Africa’s right to know law. Kate Allan is a human rights lawyer. She completed a Masters of Law at Harvard Universit y in 2009. From 2005 to 2007 she was the coordinator of the Freedo m of Information Programme at the South African History Archive (SAHA). CONTENTS Chapter 1. Illuminating the Politics and the Practice Chapter 4. The Nuclear Weapons History Project of Access to Information in South Africa Chandré Gould Richard Calland Chapter 5. Unlocking South Africa’s Military Archives Chapter 2. Accessing the Records of the Truth Laura Pollecut and Reconciliation Commission Chapter 6. Applying PAIA: Legal, Political and Contextual Piers Pigou Issues Kate Allan Chapter 3. In the Dark: Seeking Information about South Africa’s Nuclear Energy Programme Chapter 7. Conclusion: From Gatekeeping to Hospitality David Fig Verne Harris WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS 3 POLITICS POLITICS We Write What We Like Big African States Celebrating Steve Biko Angola, DRC, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Edited by Chris van Wyk South Africa, Sudan Edited by Christopher Clapham, Jeffrey Herbst What the book brings forth brilliantly, amongst other things, is a picture of the same man seen through different eyes … and Greg Mills both this book and Biko’s own I Write What I Like should form part of any history syllabus. … A very important and well-structured contribution to a —Kgomotso Moncho, Pretoria News governance and state capacity problem that has thus far escap ed analytical and empirical consideration. Steve Biko, father of the Black Consciousness philosophy, —Garth le Pere (Institute for Global Dialogue), New Agenda was killed in prison on 12 September 1977. Biko was only thirty years old, but his ideas and political activities Western notions of statehood have tended to influence the changed the course of South African history and helped analysis of the viability of states in Africa, particularly the hasten the end of apartheid. view that larger states have the greater potential to sustain The year 2007 saw the thirtieth anniversary of Biko’s economic viability. Yet, against a background of much recent death. To mark the occasion, the then Minister of Science progress on the African continent in terms of economic and Technology, Dr Mosibudi Mangena, commissioned Chris development and improvements in governance, it is the larger van Wyk to compile an anthology of essays as a tribute to African states which have persistently disappointed – both in the great South African son. terms of their own economic and political development and in Among the contributors are Minister Mangena himself, terms of their ability to exert a positive influence on the ex-President Thabo Mbeki, writer Darryl Accone, journalists region in which they are located. In this study of six African Lizeka Mda and Bokwe Mafuna, academics Jonathan Jansen, ‘big states’, specialists across a range of disciplines analyse Mandla Seleoane and Saths Cooper, a friend of Biko’s and both the country-specific factors which have led to all but one former president of Azapo. of these states being described as dysfunctional, as well as We Write What We Like proudly echoes the title of Biko’s cross-cutting issues which affect all of the big states in Africa seminal work, I Write What I Like. It is a gift to a new and which may have contributed to ‘dysfunctionality’. generation which enjoys freedom, from one that was there List of Contributors: Christopher Clapham, Jeffrey Herbst, when this freedom was being fought for. And it celebrates Greg Mills, Jack Kalpakian, Daniel C Bach, Claude Kabemba, the man whose legacy is the freedom to think and say and Tim Hughes, Marina Ottaway, Nicolas van de Walle, Gail write what we like. Wannenberg, Joseph Ayee and Garth Abraham Chris van Wyk is a full-time writer. Christopher Clapham is an associate of the Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University, United Kingdom. Jeffrey Herbst is Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Miami University, United States. Greg Mills is Directo r of the Brenthurst Foundation, Johannesburg . 978 186814 464 8 (PB) 978 1 86814 425 9 (PB) 230 x 150 mm, 192 pp 235 x 155 mm, 320 pp 2007 2006 4 WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS POLITICS The Origins of Non-Racialism NEW White Opposition to Apartheid in TITLE the 1950 s David Everatt This book is a path-breaking study of the emergence of non- raciali sm, considering a range of strands: some pursing liber al paths, others working
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