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Book Review: The South Africa Reader: History, Culture, Politics edited by...
The South Africa Reader represents an extraordinarily rich guide to the history, cultures, and politics of South Africa. With more than eighty absorbing selections, the Reader aims to provide readers...
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Book Review: Africa’s Peacemakers, edited by Adekeye Adebajo
The names of Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, and Barack Obama are known to everyone for their status as winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, but how many people could identify the likes of Albert...
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Book Review: Sing The Rage: Listening to Anger After Mass Violence by Sonali...
What is the relationship between anger and justice, especially when so much of our moral education has taught us to value the impartial spectator, the cold distance of reason? In Sing the Rage, Sonali...
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Book Review: HIV/AIDS and the South African State by Anamarie Bindenagel Sehovic
The HIV epidemic in South Africa has been the largest and most contentious of any country affected by the disease. HIV/AIDS and the South African State is a comprehensive account of the country’s...
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Book Review: Ties That Bind: Race and the Politics of Friendship in South...
In Ties That Bind: Race and the Politics of Friendship in South Africa, editors Shannon Walsh and Jon Soske bring together contributors to investigate the intimacies and complicities that friendship...
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Book Review: Beyond Walls and Borders: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis...
The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3...
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Book Review: The Future of Social Movement Research: Dynamics, Mechanisms,...
Are the dynamics of contention changing? This is the question confronted by the contributors of this volume. The answers, arriving at a time of extraordinary worldwide turmoil, aim not only to provide...
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Book Review: Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid by Alan...
This biography of Ruth First and Joe Slovo – the husband and wife team who were leaders of the war to end apartheid in South Africa – intertwines documentary record with personal interviews to portray...
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Reading List: Recommended reads on the life and politics of Nelson Mandela
On December 6th 2013 the world reacted to the news that Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid revolutionary who went on to become South Africa’s first black president, had died. His messages of peace and...
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Book Review: Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century by Francisco...
Racisms is an interdisciplinary work that aims to provide a comprehensive history of racism from the Crusades to the twentieth century, and analyse how practices of discrimination and segregation were...
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