Routledge Contemporary South Africa
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of South Africa.
To submit a proposal please contact Routledge African Studies editor Helena Hurd, [email protected]
Social Media and Everyday Life in South Africa
1st Edition
By Tanja E Bosch
May 31, 2023
This book explores how social media is used in South Africa, through a range of case studies exploring various social networking sites and applications. This volume explores how, over the past decade, social media platforms have deeply penetrated the fabric of everyday life. The author considers ...
The Contested Idea of South Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Busani Ngcaweni
May 31, 2023
This book reflects on the complex and contested idea of South Africa, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. Ever since the delineation of South Africa as a country, the many diverse groups of people contained within its borders have struggled to translate a mere geographical ...
Agency and Social Transformation in South African Higher Education: Pushing the Bounds of Possibility
1st Edition
By Grace Ese-osa Idahosa
September 30, 2021
This book explores the process of transformation, discussing how individuals are capable of acting to enable transformation of structures and cultures through the lens of South African higher education. Agency and Social Transformation in South African Higher Education examines the role of agency ...
Participatory Theatre and the Urban Everyday in South Africa: Place and Play in Johannesburg
1st Edition
By Alexandra Halligey
August 02, 2021
This book explores theatre and performance as participatory research practices for exploring the everyday of the city.Taking an inner-city suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa as its central case study, the book considers how theatre and performance might be both useful practical tools in ...
Social Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Social Re-engineering for Inclusive Development
1st Edition
By Ndangwa Noyoo
June 30, 2021
This book critically examines the current social policy in post-apartheid South Africa and proposes an alternative social policy agenda to create a new development pathway for the country. Taking social policy as a vehicle that will facilitate the creation of a new society altogether, ...
International Mediation in the South African Transition: Brokering Power in Intractable Conflicts
1st Edition
By Zwelethu Jolobe
March 31, 2021
This book challenges the conventional understanding of South Africa’s transition to democracy as a home-grown process through a comparative analysis of Commonwealth and United Nations mediation attempts.Approaching power transition through the lens of South Africa, Zwelethu Jolobe raises ...
Uprooting University Apartheid in South Africa: From Liberalism to Decolonization
1st Edition
By Teresa Barnes
March 31, 2021
South Africa continues to be an object of fascination for people everywhere interested in social justice issues, postcolonial studies and critical race theory as manifested by the enormous worldwide attention given to the #RhodesMustFall movement. In this book, Teresa Barnes examines universities’ ...
Reversing Urban Inequality in Johannesburg
1st Edition
Edited
By Melissa Tandiwe Myambo
September 30, 2020
With the spread of capitalism - a socio-economic system that produces both wealth and poverty simultaneously - the spatial dynamics of the "global(izing)" city are creating more division between social classes, not less. This means that in the 21st-century, large cities around the world exhibit ...
#FeesMustFall and Youth Mobilisation in South Africa: Reform or Revolution?
1st Edition
By Musawenkosi Ndlovu
December 12, 2019
This book examines the historical FeesMustFall (FMF) university student protests that took place in South Africa and shows how the enduring historical construction, representation and conceptualisation of South African youth (as typically radical and political) contributed to the (mis)...
Mining and Community in South Africa: From Small Town to Iron Town
1st Edition
Edited
By Philippe Burger, Lochner Marais, Deirdre van Rooyen
December 12, 2019
Mining has played a key role in the growth of many towns in South Africa. This growth has been accompanied by a proliferation of informal settlements, by pressure to provide basic services and by institutional pressures in local government to support mining. Fragile municipal finance, changing ...
Rights-based Litigation, Urban Governance and Social Justice in South Africa: The Right to Joburg
1st Edition
By Marius Pieterse
December 12, 2019
Rights-based Litigation, Urban Governance and Social Justice in South Africa considers the overlap between legal and everyday struggles for social and spatial justice in the particular context of Johannesburg, South Africa. Drawing from literature across disciplines of law, urban geography and...