Books from Human Sciences Research Council
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Capital Cities in Africa: Power and Powerlessness
By Göran Therborn, S. B. BekkerThis volume focuses on capital cities in nine sub-Saharan African countries, and traces how the power vested in them has evolved through different colonial backgrounds, radically different kinds of regimes after independence, waves of ...
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Children of a Bitter Harvest: Child Labour in the Cape Winelands
By Susan LevineThis book is made up of over 100 interconnected short stories that document moments in the lives of children who worked in the heart of South Africa's wine industry between 1996 and 2010, and are framed further by the farm uprisings of 2012 ...
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Contested Ecologies: Dialogues in the South on Nature and Knowledge
By Lesley GreenCosmopolitics comes into its own in this collection. Anna Tsing, author of Friction: An ethnography of global connection Book jacket.
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Bibliography of Monographs and Periodical Titles on South African Sport, Physical Education, and Recreation Up to December 1980
By HSRC Sports Investigation. Work Committee: Sports DocumentationBibliography of Monographs and Periodical Titles on South African Sport, Physical Education, and Recreation Up to December 1980
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Stealing Empire: P2P, Intellectual Property and Hip-hop Subversion
By Adam HauptUsing the work of Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt as a starting point, this groundbreaking inquiry poses the question What possibilities for agency exist in the age of corporate globalization?...
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United States/South African Relations: Past, Present, and Future
By Gerrit Olivier, P. H. KappUnited States/South African Relations: Past, Present, and Future
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Aided Immigration from Britain to South Africa 1857 to 1867
By Esmé BullAlphabetical lists of sponsored British immigrants to South Africa, transcribed from various sources, including passenger lists. Includes a history of immigrant travel and of the passenger ships; names, family members,...
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The Security-development Nexus: Expressions of Sovereignty and Securitization in Southern Africa
By Finn Stepputat, Lars Buur, Steffen JensenThe link between security and development has been rediscovered after 9/11 by a broad range of scholars. Focusing on Southern Africa, the Security-Development Nexus shows that the much debated linkage...
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Student Retention & Graduate Destination: Higher Education & Labour Market Access & Success
By Moeketsi LetsekaThe chapters in this volume address these issues in relation to one or more of seven institutional case studies conducted in 2005.
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Compendium of Evaluations of South African and Foreign Educational Qualifications
By H. Cilliers, J. F. MullerEvaluations of educational qualifications for the Republic of South Africa (RSA) and 31 foreign countries are presented. Information is provided on criteria for evaluating educational qualifications and evaluation certificates and...
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Indigenisation in Social and Community Work Education
By Desirée De KockThis collection of nine papers is intended for policy makers and educators and marks the beginning of new emphasis on and debate about the indigenization of social and community work...
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Method and Theory in Cross-cultural Psychological Assessment
By Alexis RetiefMethod and Theory in Cross-cultural Psychological Assessment
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To Live in Fear: Witchburning and Medicine Murder in Venda
By Anthony de V. MinnaarSince the mid-1980s the independent homeland of Venda in the Far Northern Transvaal has experienced a dramatic increase in witchcraft-related violence. The area became riddled by a sense of fear...
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Democratic Prospects for South Africa
By Bertus De VilliersThis book is about constitutional development in South Africa. South Africa has been entangled in a prolonged political and constitutional impasse for the greater part of the twentieth century. Since...
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Theory and Method in South African Human Sciences Research: Advances and Innovations
By Johann MoutonThis publication forms part of a recent programme to assess the state of the social and human sciences in South Africa.