Social Science
Social Science
Against Normalization: Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa
At the end of apartheid, under pressure from local and transnational capital and the hegemony of Western-style parliamentary democracy, South Africans felt called upon to normalize their conceptions of economics, politics, and culture in line with these Western models. In Against...
$52.00
The Afterlife Is Where We Come from: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa
When a new baby arrives among the Beng people of West Africa, they see it not as being born, but as being reincarnated after a rich life in a previous world. Far from being a tabula rasa, a Beng infant...
$48.00
Afterimages of Apartheid: Photography and Resistance
Afterimages of Apartheid shows how photographs of the past can be mobilised as a critical tool for understanding the ongoing effects of apartheid in contemporary South Africa. Through close readings of significant images made during and after apartheid, the book shows...
$260.00
After Freedom: The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa
Twenty years after the end of apartheid, a new generation is building a multiracial democracy in South Africa but remains mired in economic inequality and political conflict. The death of Nelson Mandela in 2013 arrived just short of the twentieth anniversary...
$45.00
After Communism and Apartheid: Transformation of Education in Germany and South Africa
The editors and contributors share the assumption that the democratic transformation of socio-political systems follows, in addition to certain often significant, national or regional peculiarities, universal patterns and that consequently the modernisation of education systems after the end of authoritarian...
$130.00
After Caliban: Caribbean Art in a Global Imaginary
In After Caliban, Erica Moiah James examines the rise of global Caribbean artists in the 1990s and their production of a decolonized art history for the Caribbean. She draws on Aimé Césaire’s rewriting of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, in which Caliban becomes the...
$162.00
The Arabs and Africa (Rle: The Arab Nation)
Concentrating on the past, present and future relations of the peoples of Africa and the Arab world this book examines interaction between Arab and African countries; Africa and the Arab-Israeli conflict; Dimensions of Afro-Arab Cooperation. The book concludes with an...
$101.00
The Arab World and Asia between Development and Change: Dedicated to the XXXIst International Congress of Human Sciences in Asia and North Africa
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$165.00
Arab Dollars for Africa
First Published in 1976, Arab Dollars for Africa examines how Arab funds can be recycled into the African Economy. The long-term industrial future of the Arab oil producers is dependent on the availability of raw materials. Africa as a whole contains vast...
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Algumas Reflexoes Sobre A Questao Do Trabalho: Nas Possessoes Portuguezas D'Africa (1874)
Algumas Reflex�����es Sobre a Quest�����o do Trabalho: Nas Possess�����es Portuguesas D'Africa (1874) ����� um livro escrito por A. De Oliveira Pires. O livro aborda a quest�����o do trabalho nas possess�����es portuguesas na �����frica, analisando as condi����������es dos trabalhadores e a...
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Algeria and France: From Colonialism to Cooperation
Beginning as a small, seemingly insignificant rebellion in 1954, the Algerian struggle for independence assumed such proportions that it strangled France’s foreign policy, threatened her international relations, poisoned the political atmosphere, and toppled one government after another. In this book,...
$71.00
Alcancar a seguranca na Africa Subsariana, as ameacas e o papel do Reino Unido
A África Subsariana representa uma das maiores diversidades culturais do planeta, no entanto, nas duas últimas décadas do século XX, quase 5 milhões de pessoas morreram em conflitos nesta região. O sucesso na obtenção de qualquer forma de segurança significativa...
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Apropos of Africa: Sentiments of Negro American Leaders on Africa from the 1800s to the 1950s
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Apropos of Africa: Sentiments of Negro American Leaders on Africa from the 1800s to the 1950s
First published in 1969. This is part of a series that comprises reprints as well as original works on various aspects of African life- history, institutions, culture, political and social thought, and eminent African personalities. As 'Africana' in the title...
$260.00
Apropos of Africa: Sentiments of Negro American Leaders on Africa from the 1800s to the 1950s
$86.00
Apropos of Africa: Sentiments of Negro American Leaders on Africa from the 1800s to the 1950s
First published in 1969. This is part of a series that comprises reprints as well as original works on various aspects of African life- history, institutions, culture, political and social thought, and eminent African personalities. As 'Africana' in the title...
$86.00
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[Applied] Foreign Affairs: Investigating Spatial Phenomena in Rural and Urban Sub-Saharan Africa
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[Applied] Foreign Affairs: Investigating Spatial Phenomena in Rural and Urban Sub-Saharan Africa
[a]FA is a laboratory of the Institute of Architecture of the University for Applied Arts in Vienna, in which spatial, infrastructure, ecological and cultural phenomena of the Sub-Saharan region are investigated. The concept for each project is based on an...
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Apartheid Vertigo: The Rise in Discrimination Against Africans in South Africa
Apartheid vertigo, the dizzying sensation following prolonged oppression and delusions of skin colour, is the focus of this book. For centuries, the colour-code shaped state and national ideals, created social and emotional distances between social groups, permeated public and private...
$95.00
Apartheid Vertigo: The Rise in Discrimination Against Africans in South Africa
Apartheid vertigo, the dizzying sensation following prolonged oppression and delusions of skin colour, is the focus of this book. For centuries, the colour-code shaped state and national ideals, created social and emotional distances between social groups, permeated public and private...
$293.00
Alabama Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia: A Brief History
The Knights of Pythias fraternal organization was founded in 1865 by an Act of Congress. When African American men were denied membership, they created their own organization in Vicksburg, MS, in 1880. Its founder, Thomas Stringer, believed that fraternal organizations...
$98.00
Akan Peoples: in Africa and the Diaspora - A Historical Reader (Volume 2)
This is a collection of key essays about the Akan people, their history, and their culture. The Akans are an ethnic group from West Africa, predominately Ghana and Togo, of roughly 25 million people. From the twelfth century on, Akans...
$43.00
Akan Peoples in Africa and the Diaspora
This is a collection of key essays about the Akan people, their history, and their culture. The Akans are an ethnic group from West Africa, predominately Ghana and Togo, of roughly 25 million people. From the twelfth century on, Akans...
$91.00
Akan and Ga-Adangme Peoples: Western Africa Part I
Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African...
$71.00
Akan and Ga-Adangme Peoples: Western Africa Part I
Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African...
$215.00
AIDS Sexuality and Gender in Africa: Collective Strategies and Struggles in Tanzania and Zambia
$358.00
AIDS Sexuality and Gender in Africa: Collective Strategies and Struggles in Tanzania and Zambia
While there is a growing list of publications devoted to the AIDS epidemic, Africa, with two-thirds of the world's cases, still receives scant attention. This book may change the way we think about AIDS and how it is being addressed...
$358.00
AIDS, Politics, and Music in South Africa
This book offers an original anthropological approach to the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. Based on a more than fifteen years association with the region, it demonstrates why AIDS interventions in the former homeland of Venda have failed – and...
$48.00
Africa at the Cross Roads of Violence and Gender Inequality: The Dilemma of Continuity in the Face of Change
This piece, which is a collection of papers presented at the 2018 International Conference of the Association of or the Promotion of African Studies, focuses on two major faces of violence in Africa—religiopolitical violence and violence against women. It also...
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Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy: Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical Canon, 1780-1830
A historical investigation of the exclusion of Africa and Asia from modern histories of philosophy.Winner of the 2016 Frantz Fanon Prize for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought presented by the Caribbean Philosophical AssociationIn this provocative historiography, Peter K. J. Park...
$48.00
Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy: Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical Canon, 1780-1830
A historical investigation of the exclusion of Africa and Asia from modern histories of philosophy.Winner of the 2016 Frantz Fanon Prize for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought presented by the Caribbean Philosophical AssociationIn this provocative historiography, Peter K. J. Park...
$135.00
Africa Beyond Wars, Diseases & Disasters. Answers to the 101 Most Commonly Asked Questions: Ebonics, Rap Music. Homosexuality. Polygamy. Female Circum
AFRICA:... LITTLE BUT UNKNOWN FACTS.Just new in the market. A must read for everyone that wants to know Africa from a real perspective of Africans as never written or told before.Refresh your memories with these questions about Africa.... If you...
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Africa Beyond the Post-Colonial: Political and Socio-Cultural Identities
The poor economic performance of some African countries since independence has been a major concern to both African leaders and policy makers. This volume, which draws together contributions from academics based in Africa and its diaspora, situates the continent within...
$260.00