Journal of Southern African Studies
1996 - 2024
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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
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