The NIHSS is proud to announce the launch of Forging Solidarity: popular education at work, an edited collection by Prof. Shirley Walters and Prof. Astrid von Kotze. The book explores responses to political, cultural and educational questions of our day and the pursuit of social justice through popular education.
Flashes in Her Soul is the second book in the Hidden Voices series and is the story of Jabu Ndlovu, a shop steward of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa and a community leader in Imbali near Pietermaritzburg.
Animating this book is a twofold question: In what ways are adult and popular educators responding to various harsh economic, political, cultural and environmental conditions? In doing so, are they planting seeds of hope for and imaginings of alternative futures which can connect individuals and communities locally and globally to achieve economic, ecological and social justice?
Equitable Rural Socioeconomic Change brings together original reflections on the intricacies of economic and social transformations that are unfolding in the rural areas of developing countries and provides a fresh and authentic perspective. This book revisits dominant but exhausted conceptions of rural livelihoods to expose their analytical flaws and thematic limitations. Read more.
Pages: 256
This book is a culmination of multi-faceted research conducted in the poor, urban area of Doornkop, Soweto, using a range of different methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives that all broaden our understanding of citizen-community-state interactions in disadvantaged, urban communities in South Africa.
Capitalism’s addiction to fossil fuels is heating our planet at a pace and scale never before experienced. Extreme weather patterns, rising sea levels and accelerating feedback loops are a commonplace feature of our lives. The number of environmental refugees is increasing and several island states and low-lying countries are becoming vulnerable. Corporate-induced climate change has set us on an ecocidal path of species extinction. Governments and their international platforms such as the Paris Climate Agreement deliver too little, too late.
Decolonisation as democratisation - Global Insights into the South African Experience explores an academic system that attempts to serve two masters, the first being the historical beneficiaries of the academy (i.e. whiteness) and the second being those who pin their hopes on the system in order to escape abjection (i.e. blackness or indigeneity).
Read more Link: https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/miriam-tlali
By the Fading Light is a historical fiction book. Author Ashraf Kagee penned his story focusing on the three boys who grew-up in Capet Town in the 1960s. The book laces together themes of troubled families, vibrant Muslim culture, South African politics, the resilience of children, loss of innocence and coming of age.
Read more Link: https://jacana.co.za/product/by-the-fading-light-pre-order-copy/
The media play a key role in post-apartheid South Africa and is often positioned at the centre of debates around politics, identity and culture. Media, such as radio, are often said to also play a role in deepening democracy, while simultaneously holding the power to frame political events, shape public discourse and impact citizens’ perceptions of reality.
Rethinking Africa: Indigenous Women Re-interpret Southern Africa’s Pasts was edited by Bernedette Muthien and June Bam. The book captures the stories of women scholars in the post-colonial, they define their contemporary cultural and socio-economic conditions and help people understand the African past. The book provides new and different thinking, philosophies, epistemologies, methodologies and interpretations.
