Publications
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Informal settlements
(2006)
This is an open, enlightening and useful book for scholars, activists, citizens and decision makers who consider that forced or market-driven evictions should stop and that the situation of slum dwellers must be improved, ...
Post-conflict reconstruction and development in Africa
(2013)
During the 1990s, nine out of ten of the bloodiest conflicts occurred on the African continent. And despite some 20 peacebuilding operations in Africa in the last 25 years, there is still a significant lack of cohesive ...
In search of equality
(2014)
Over the past half century several African countries have drawn up new constitutions, many of which have included a commitment to advancing women’s equality. Decades later, has constitutional reform brought gender equality ...
Nature divided
(2012)
In the same way that South Africa’s people were divided along racial lines, so too was its landscape – into the predominantly communally farmed lands of the homelands and self-governing territories, and commercial farming ...
Multilingualism in the classroom
(2019)
Most education settings in South Africa and other post-colonial emerging economies are multilingual and diverse. Indeed, this is true of classrooms in developed countries as well. Yet English continues to be the language ...
Southern African liberation struggles
(2013)
This collection of essays brings together a set of new perspectives on the many liberation struggles in southern Africa, struggles that have continuing significance today. What links were there between different forms of ...
Rethinking leadership
(2013)
In the twenty-first century, leaders are having to speak a new language, create fluid organic structures, and recognise organisations as systems with self-renewing capacity. Rethinking leadership explores what real leadership ...
Relocations
(2015)
Relocations is a collection of compelling and original essays by world-renowned as well as emerging writers, artists and thinkers, including novelists André Brink, Henrietta Rose-Innes and Imraan Coovadia, poets Gabeba ...
Land, power & custom
(2013)
Land is a burning issue in South Africa, as in Africa more widely. Land, power & custom: Controversies generated by South Africa’s Communal Land Rights Act deals with tenure reform in the former homelands, and the implications ...
Steward leadership
(2013)
Steward Leadership is a form of leadership which focuses on others, the community and society at large, rather than the self. Many senior leaders and executives across the globe appear to move into a steward leadership ...
The House of Tshatshu
(2018)
In 1852 Sir George Cathcart pronounced that the amaTshatshu chieftaincy no longer existed: “I have broken and banished the tribe”, he boasted. This deeply researched book, at once clear-sighted and moving, traces the ...
The Victoria Mxenge Housing Project
(2015)
At the beginning of South Africa’s democratic change in 1994, the Victoria Mxenge Housing Project was founded by a group of 12 women who lived in shacks on the barren outskirts of Cape Town. These women had come from rural ...
The Strategic Corporal revisited
(2017)
As we enter an era of multidimensional warfare, and technological innovations continue to accelerate the pace of war, the importance of decisions made by junior military leaders — some of them with strategic impact – ...
Sustainable options
(2004)
This well-researched, important text argues a case for the use of environmental resource economics (ERE) as an analytic framework for the conceptualisation and design of sustainable policy options. Sustainable options ...
State, governance and development in Africa
(2016)
The inspiration for this book was a Summer School on State, Governance and Development presented by distinguished academics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Written by young African scholars, the ...
Food security in South Africa
(2016)
Ensuring that every man, woman and child has access to adequate food at all times is one of the basic social and political goals of democratic South Africa, a right which is guaranteed in the country’s Constitution as in ...
The education triple cocktail
(2018)
The education triple cocktail brings together rigorous quantitative and qualitative research on a new approach to improving foundational teaching and learning for schoolchildren living in working-class, poor and remote ...
The Reb and the rebel
(2016)
The personal histories of an immigrant father and his Cape-born son burst from some tattered Hebrew notebooks and a translucent typescript, giving the Jewish diasporic settlement in South Africa an immediacy seldom encountered ...
From Boys to Men
(2013)
The current emphasis in research and education on women and girls is fraught with problems. It has raised a concern that boys and men should be included in research and intervention work on gender equality and transformation. ...
Consolidating Developmental Local Government
(2013)
Consolidating Developmental Local Government documents the dynamics of local government transformation and captures the key themes of the debates about policy options, lessons and key strategic decisions. These debates are ...