Routledge/UNISA Press Series
South Africa’s High-Stress Security Environment: Keys to Coping
1st Edition
By Gerhard Schoeman
January 30, 2026
This book presents valuable insights into the realities faced by security personnel as they deal with life-threatening situations in a high-stress security environment. The causes and consequences of stress are explored, followed by a comprehensive discussion of coping strategies and the negative ...
The God in Us: How African Spirituality Ignited World Religion and Global Civilisation
1st Edition
By Hlumelo Biko
September 29, 2025
This book traces the unitary source of all of the world’s major religions. The book underscores the fact that there are many ways in which humanity has sought revelation of God, yet there is a common inspiration behind humanity’s God concept. The author’s analysis of world religions or faiths ...
Telling Stories of Pain and Hope: Museums in South Africa and Ireland
1st Edition
By Mary Elizabeth Lange, Ruth Teer-Tomaselli
August 29, 2025
The histories of South Africa and Ireland have been tumultuous and traumatic. Both countries have experienced political repression, sectarian violence and oppression that still impact the spiritual well-being of people today. Their parallel histories are of colonialism, displacement and division, ...
Trance and Transfiguration in Rock Art and Literature
1st Edition
By Richard Alan Northover
June 24, 2025
The book is a largely unprecedented inter-disciplinary collaboration between archaeology, anthropology, and literary studies, although it touches on philosophy and religious studies, too. It explores the creative ways that altered states of consciousness play in culture and the arts, whether these ...
Masculinity Meets Humanity: An Adapted Model of Masculinised Psychotherapy
1st Edition
By Shahieda Jansen
May 06, 2025
In this book the author, a clinical psychologist, reflects on her psychotherapy experiences with male clients as she debunks the myth of male alexithymia, the inability to recognise and express emotions. Men are apparently disengaged from wellness practices as they are perceived to be reluctant to ...
Names Fashioned by Gender: Stitched Perceptions
1st Edition
Edited
By Thenjiwe Meyiwa, Madoda Cekiso
April 14, 2025
Names are very powerful and significant, especially in the African context. Across societies, there is a universal, albeit taken-for-granted fact that all human beings have names. Names Fashioned by Gender is a collection of essays on onomastics—a linguistics field of study focusing on the origin, ...
Escape from Lubumbashi: A Refugee’s Journey on Foot to Reunite Her Family
1st Edition
By Estelle Neethling
January 30, 2025
This is the true story of Adolphine, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who was twenty-two when she had to flee her home in the war-ravaged DRC in 1996. She walked thousands of kilometres across Southern Africa to be reunited with her husband Sepano in Cape Town after two ...
Introduction to Municipal Water Quality Management
1st Edition
By Johannes Haarhoff
November 29, 2024
The focus of municipalities has been on the supply of sufficient water quantities to the public with less attention paid to water quality. The deteriorating quality of raw water sources necessitates increased attention to water quality with professional scientists playing a central role at ...
'Sisters in the Struggle': Women of Indian Origin in South Africa's Liberation Struggle 1900–1994 (VOLUME 1: 1900–1940s)
1st Edition
By Kalpana Hiralal
October 09, 2024
‘Sisters in the struggle’: Women of Indian Origin in South Africa’s Liberation Struggle 1900–1994 unveils an unchartered historical terrain, highlighting the contributions of Indian women towards non-racialism and equality and their experiences within diverse political parties; therefore, shifting ...
Autism: Perspectives from Africa (Volume I)
1st Edition
Edited
By Mary Clasquin-Johnson, Dikeledi Mahlo, Michel Clasquin-Johnson
October 09, 2024
This book is written at a time of a paradigm shift in the African continent where dependence on western epistemologies and ontologies are giving way to African indigenous knowledge systems. Africa has been an importer of knowledge from the west since time immemorial and this book contributes to the...
Beyond the Mountain: Queer Life in "Africa’s Gay Capital"
1st Edition
Edited
By B Camminga, zethu Matebeni
October 09, 2024
Beyond The Mountain: Queer Life in "Africa’s Gay Capital" contributes to the body of knowledge on the lived experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) communities in Cape Town. The book provides insight on the lives of the LGBTQI communities in Cape Town and ...
Decolonising Journalism Education in South Africa: Critical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Ylva Rodny-Gumede, Colin Chasi, Zubeida Jaffer, Mvuso Ponono
October 09, 2024
This book is the culmination of several years of collaborative work. It is a unique contribution to the field of journalism because of the depth and variety of contributions it makes to the field. The scholars who contribute to this volume respond to the great need to rethink journalism from ...