CATALOGUE Press Wits University 2019 2020 WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS CATALOGUE 2019 | 2020 Wits University Press is strategically placed at the crossroads of African and global knowledge production 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 science, history and politics, biography, literary studies, women’s writing and select textbooks. African content. Global impact. 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Contents POLITICS AND POLITICAL STUDIES 7 Shadow of Liberation 7 Out of the Dark Night 8 Necropolitics 9 Governance and the Postcolony 10 Democratic Marxism Series: BRICS and the New American Imperialism 11 New South African Review collection 1–6 12 Beyond Coloniality 13 Power in Action 13 Shadow State 14 Thinking Freedom in Africa 14 Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics 15 The Politics of Custom 15 SOCIAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY 16 Inequality Studies from the Global South 16 Conspicuous Consumption in Africa 17 Knowledge and Global Power 18 Stopping the Spies 19 The Rise of Africa’s Middle Class 19 Race Otherwise 20 It’s Only Blood 20 Labour Beyond Cosatu 21 Organise or Die? 21 PSYCHOLOGY 22 Becoming Men 22 The World Looks Like This From Here 23 Being-Black-in-the-World 24 EDUCATION, HIGHER EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT 25 Decolonisation in Universities 25 Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences 26 BIOGRAPHY, LETTERS/MEMOIR AND TRAVEL WRITING 27 Patrick van Rensburg 27 In India and East Africa / E-Indiya nase East Africa 28 Lie on Your Wounds 29 HISTORY 30 The Social and Political Thought of Archie Mafeje 30 Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet 31 The Cape Radicals 32 Limpopo’s Legacy 33 Internal Frontiers 33 Township Violence and the End of Apartheid 34 Writing the Ancestral River 34 ART AND ART HISTORY 35 Troubling Images 35 Photography and History in Colonial Southern Africa 36 Visionary Animal 37 Acts of Transgression 37 CULTURAL STUDIES 38 Civilising Grass 38 Beneath the Surface 39 Dress as Social Relations 40 Reinventing Hoodia 40 Radio Soundings 41 Written Under the Skin 41 MEDIA STUDIES 42 Babel Unbound 42 Power and Loss in South African Journalism 43 Tell Our Story 44 Media in Postapartheid South Africa 45 LITERATURE STUDIES 46 Like Family 46 Death and Compassion 47 Natures of Africa 47 Race, Nation, Translation 48 Recognition 48 AFRICAN LANGUAGES 49 The African Treasury Series 49 English-isiZulu / isiZulu-English Dictionary 50 PLAYS 51 Bafana Republic and Other Satires 51 What Remains 52 Ulwembu 53 Tin Bucket Drum 53 Somewhere on the Border 54 Tshepang 54 My Life and Valley Song 54 My Children! My Africa! 54 Three Plays 54 At this Stage 54 At the Junction 54 Sophiatown 54 The Bram Fischer Waltz 55 Die Bram Fischer Wals 55 Missing 55 Nothing but the Truth 55 And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses 55 Fools, Bells and the Habit of Eating 55 Our Lady of Benoni 55 Mooi Street and other Moves 55 Suddenly the Storm 55 URBAN STUDIES 56 Politics and Community-based Research 56 I Want to Go Home Forever 57 ECOLOGY STUDIES 58 Rock | Water | Life 58 NATURAL SCIENCE 59 Bats of Southern and Central Africa 59 Dance of the Dung Beetles 60 HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCES 61 Practical Anatomy 61 Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine 62 MEDICAL HUMANITIES 63 Society, Health and Disease in South Africa 63 OPEN ACCESS TITLES 64 These Oppressions Won’t Cease 64 Changing Space, Changing City 64 Psychological Assessment in South Africa 65 Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences 65 Racism after Apartheid 66 BRICS and the New American Imperialism 66 African Archaeology without Frontiers 67 Gaze Regimes 67 The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power 67 Traumatic Stress in South Africa 68 Remains of the Social 68 Competition Law and Economic Regulation 68 The Climate Crisis 69 Eating from One Pot 69 One Hundred Years of the ANC 69 SALES AND ORDERING INFORMATION 70 Author/Editor Index 70 Titles and Price List 73 Enquiries and Contacts 78 POLITICS AND POLITICAL STUDIES NEW AND FORTHCOMING Politics and Political Studies Shadow of Liberation Contestation and compromise in the economic and social policy of the African National Congress, 1943-1996 Vishnu Padayachee and Robert van Niekerk Shadow of Liberation explores in intricate detail the twists, turns, contestations and compromises of the African National Congress’ economic and social policy-making, with a particular emphasis on the transition era of the 1990s and the early years of democracy. Padayachee and Van Niekerk focus on the primary question of how and why the ANC, given its historical egalitarian, redistributive stance, did such a dramatic about-face in the 1990s and moved towards an essentially market-dominated approach. Was it pushed or did it go willingly? What role, if any, did Western governments and international financial institutions play? And what of the role of the late apartheid state and South African business? Did leaders and comrades ‘sell out’ the ANC’s emancipatory Vishnu Padayachee is Distinguished policy vision? Drawing on primary archival evidence as Professor and Derek Schrier and Cecily well as extensive interviews with key protagonists across Cameron Chair in Development Economics the political, non-government and business spectrum, the at the School of Economic and Business authors argue that the ANC’s emancipatory policy agenda Sciences at the University of the was broadly to establish a social democratic welfare state Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Robert van to uphold rights of social citizenship. However, its economic Niekerk is Chair of Public Governance at policy framework to realise this mission was either non- the Wits School of Governance, University existent or egregiously misguided. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. When the prospect of a negotiated settlement came onto the political agenda in the 1980s, one outcome of policy discussions within the ANC was the birth of the Macro Economic Research Group (MERG). This book provides the first comprehensive account of what became of MERG, once considered the ANC’s ‘trickle up’ economic plan, and sheds interesting light on a chapter of our recent history that is often forgotten. — Z. Pallo Jordan, head of ANC’s Department of Information and Publicity from 1987, cabinet minister 1994–2009, and a member of National Executive Committee of the African National Congress until 2014 Related title: October 2019 | 234 x 156 mm | 292 pp | Paperback | Rights: World Dominance and Print: 978-1-77614-395-5 | PDF: 978-1-77614-396-2 Decline by Susan EPUB: 978-1-77614-397-9 | Mobi: 978-1-77614-398-6 Booysen Subjects: Politics and government, Economics WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS CATALOGUE 2019 | 2020 7 NEW AND FORTHCOMING Politics and Political Studies Out of the Dark Night Essays on decolonisation Achille Mbembe Achille Mbembe is one of the world’s most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence of a new wave of French critical theory. His writings examine the complexities of decolonisation for African subjectivities and the possibilities emerging in its wake. In Out of the Dark Night, he offers a rich analysis of the paradoxes of the postcolonial moment that points toward new liberatory models of community and humanity. In a nuanced consideration of the African experience, Mbembe makes sweeping interventions into debates about citizenship, identity, democracy and modernity. He eruditely ranges across European and African thought to provide a powerful assessment of common ways of writing Achille Mbembe is a research professor in and thinking about Africa. Mbembe criticises the blinkers History and Politics at the Wits Institute of European intellectuals, analysing France’s failure to for Social and Economic Research, heed postcolonial critiques of ongoing exclusions masked University of the Witwatersrand, by pretenses of universalism. He develops a new reading Johannesburg. His books include On the of African modernity that further develops the notion of Postcolony (2001) and Critique of Black Afropolitanism, a novel way of being in the world that has Reason (2017). arisen in decolonised Africa in the midst of both destruction and the birth of new societies, making the case for South Africa as its laboratory. Achille Mbembe speaks authoritatively for black life, addressing the whole world in an increasingly distinctive tone of voice. — Paul Gilroy Related title: Critique January 2020 | 229 x 152 mm | 288 pp | Paperback | Rights: SADC and Kenya of Black Reason by Print: 978-1-77614-323-8 | PDF: 978-1-77614-329-0 Achille Mbembe Subjects: Philosophy, Politics Publication date subject to change. 8 WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS CATALOGUE 2019 | 2020 NEW AND FORTHCOMING Politics and Political Studies Necropolitics Achille Mbembe In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe – a leader in the new wave of Francophone critical theory – theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world – a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarisation, enmity, and terror, as well as by a resurgence of racist, fascist, and nationalist forces determined to exclude and kill. He 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.