Journal of Southern African Studies

1996 - 2024

Current editor(s): Ralph Smith

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Volume 50, issue 5, 2024

Beyond Failure: Exploring the Heart of the Malawian State pp. 707-723

Sam Farrell and Tanja D. Hendriks

State Power, Dilemmas and African Agency: Peasant Food Production and the Making of the Colonial State in Malawi, 1883–1961 pp. 725-743

Bryson G. Nkhoma

Bureaucracy as Resistance: Everyday Acts of Power in the Malawi Ministry of Health pp. 745-761

Sara E. Fischer

Duty, Diligence and Disasters: Detailing Everyday Practices of Malawian Civil Servants in the Climate Crisis pp. 763-779

Tanja D. Hendriks

Beyond Chameleons? On Malawian Politicians, Anti-Politicians and the Motivations and Meanings of Political Life pp. 781-800

Calum Fisher

Malawian Democracy Beyond Patrons and Clients: Distribution in Parliamentary Elections and the Moral Grounds of Democratic Relationships pp. 801-820

Sam Farrell

Contesting the State in Malawi: Covid-19 and the Quest for Inclusive Democracy pp. 821-841

Gift Wasambo Kayira

The State in Malawi as Idea and Practice pp. 843-847

Gerhard Anders and Happy Kayuni

Volume 50, issue 4, 2024

Introduction: Are Parliamentary Elites in Africa also Power Elites? Researching the Origins and Consequences of Varying Elite Configurations pp. 521-534

Edalina Rodrigues Sanches, Anja Osei, Batlang Seabo and M. Anne Pitcher

Elite Party Formation amid Fragmentation: The Case of Joyce Banda’s People’s Party in Malawi pp. 535-553

João Conduto, Boniface Dulani and Calum Fisher

UNITA’s Post-War Parliamentary Elite: From a Wartime Defeat to a Nationwide Party in Angola pp. 555-574

Ana Lúcia Sá and Olivio Kilumbo

Unpacking Power: How the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) under Nelson Chamisa Selected its Parliamentarians pp. 575-592

Lawrence Mhandara

Investigating the Small World in Madagascar: The Political Elites at the Core pp. 593-617

Mireille Razafindrakoto, François Roubaud and Jean-Michel Wachsberger

African Legislators: Unrepresentative Power Elites? pp. 619-641

Robert Mattes, Matthias Krönke and Shaheen Mozaffar

A Coalition for Change? Role Orientations in the 12th Parliament of Botswana pp. 643-663

Anja Osei and Batlang Seabo

Explaining Party Switching in an Institutionalised Party System: The Case of South Africa pp. 665-684

Edalina Rodrigues Sanches, Yani Kartalis and Hangala Siachiwena

Floor Crossing and the Motivations of Members of Parliament in Zambia, 1991–2016 pp. 685-706

Sishuwa Sishuwa

Volume 50, issue 3, 2024

Editorial pp. 355-358

Justin Pearce

Editorial pp. 359-361

Zoë Groves

Thinking Circulations in Southern Africa and Beyond through Artistic Practice pp. 363-391

Ana Balona de Oliveira

A Visible Problem pp. 393-412

Simon Gush

Circulations: Mobility, Fluidity, Impediments and Implications pp. 413-429

Ângela Ferreira

Towards New Proximities: A Conversation on Photographic Encounters Between Southern Africa and Mexico pp. 431-446

Jo Ractliffe and Daniela Montelongo

South Africa at the Tate: Searching for a National School and a National Identity pp. 447-468

Annchen Bronkowski

‘Looking back, I know that I was not a man that day’: Nelson Mandela and the Ambiguities of Tradition in South Africa pp. 469-483

Zolani Ngwane

Regime Security Threats and African Agency: The Case of Zimbabwe pp. 485-498

Xinsong Wang

Turning South African History Upside Down: Ivory and Gold Production, the Indian Ocean Trading System and the Shaping of Southern African Society, 600–1900 AD pp. 499-520

Peter Delius, Linell Chewins and Tim Forssman

Volume 50, issue 2, 2024

Editorial pp. 189-194

Colin Bundy

Using Written Consent Forms When Conducting Non-Elite Qualitative Research: Reflections from Zambia pp. 195-206

Robert Macdonald

The Land and its People: The South African ‘Land Question’ and the Post-Apartheid Political Order pp. 207-224

Andries du Toit

‘It took courage to die in Angola’: Umkhonto we Sizwe’s War versus UNITA, 1975–89 pp. 225-243

Daniel L. Douek

An Obvious Plant: Craig Williamson’s Role in Sabotaging the Anti-Apartheid Struggle pp. 245-262

Billy Keniston

The Game Factor: Tanganyikan Rinderpest Campaigns, Fence Ecology and the Wildlife Threat to Southern Africa, 1938–1956 pp. 263-284

Thaddeus Sunseri

One Livelihood Risk Factor Too Many? How Unintended Impacts of Conservation Contribute to Food Insecurity in Kavango Zambezi, Southern Africa pp. 285-307

Manuel Bollmann

Opting Out: Botswana’s Limited Negotiating Power on Chinese Finance pp. 309-329

Sara Van Hoeymissen

‘A Necessary Evil?’: (Southern) Rhodesia’s Diplomatic and Economic Relations with Zambia, 1963 to 1973 pp. 331-346

Teverayi Muguti and Sandra Swart

Divisive pan-Africanism in Southern Rhodesia pp. 347-349

Roger Southall

Recovering the voices of African prisoners of war pp. 350-351

Paul Landau

Western notation of mbira music and the challenge of cultural authenticity pp. 351-352

Wonder Maguraushe

Correction pp. 353-353

The Editors

Volume 50, issue 1, 2024

Land, Labour and Liberation: The Political Ecology of Southern Africa’s Unresolved Tensions pp. 1-7

Alex Beresford

‘Black Gold’ and Verticality: Geology, Labour and Mining Operations in the Territorial Construction of the Witbank Labour District pp. 9-28

Irvin Sifiso Jiyane

Profitability, Respectability and Challenge: (Re)Gaining Control and Restructuring the Labour Process while Maintaining Racial Order at South African Gold Mines, 1913–1922 pp. 29-48

T. Dunbar Moodie

A Climate History of Early Dutch Settlement at Cape Town, 1652–62 pp. 49-68

Philip Gooding and Nadia Fekih

‘Farming God’s Way’: Evangelical Cosmologies of Land and ‘Crisis’ in Post-Apartheid South Africa pp. 69-90

Hans Olsson

Human–Wildlife Conflict, Drought and Chieftainship Illegitimacy in the Zambezi Valley, Northwestern Zimbabwe pp. 91-109

Joshua Matanzima

A Fractured State: Local Powers and Mining Politics in Rural North-Western Zambia pp. 111-131

Robby Kapesa

International Solidarity at the Grassroots: A Case Study of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement pp. 133-151

Matthew Graham and Christopher Fevre

A Sonic Biography of an Afterlife: The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican Rap pp. 153-177

Janne Rantala

Geography and nation building pp. 179-181

Wolfram Hartmann

African relations with Eastern Europe, 1950s–90s pp. 181-183

Colin Darch

The environment, capital and the politics of race in South Africa pp. 183-185

Tholithemba Lorenzo Ndaba

Letting subalterns speak: localising the Sharpeville massacre pp. 185-187

Mesrob Vartavarian