Journal of Southern African Studies

1996 - 2024

Current editor(s): Ralph Smith

From Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 46, issue 6, 2020

Editorial pp. 1087-1089

Jessica Johnson

Intersectional Religious Agency: Mauritian Muslim Women and the Negotiation of Porous Interfaces pp. 1091-1109

Jess Auerbach, Myriam Blin and Naseem Lallmahomed-Aumeerally

‘My Husband is No Husband to Me’: Divorce, Marriage and Gender Struggles in African Communities of Colonial Natal, 1869–1910 pp. 1111-1125

Benedict Carton

The Long Road to Compensation for Silicosis Sufferers in South Africa pp. 1127-1143

Albert Mushai

The National Party and the Ideology of Welfare in South Africa under Apartheid pp. 1145-1162

Jeremy Seekings

Councils, Councillors and Profiteers: Urban Land Speculation and Contestations in Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s pp. 1163-1181

Lotti Nkomo

Language, Resistance and Multilingualism in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe: The Kalanga and their Struggle for Recognition pp. 1183-1201

Thembani Dube

Mobile Money and the (Un)Making of Social Relations in Chivi, Zimbabwe pp. 1203-1217

Simbarashe Gukurume and Innocent T. Mahiya

‘We Are What We Eat’: Nutrition, African Diets and the State in Colonial Malawi, 1920s–1960 pp. 1219-1235

Bryson G. Nkhoma

Student ‘Fallism’ in South Africa, 2015–16: Some Diverging Analyses pp. 1237-1247

Paul Maylam

Firing the canon: a history of women’s pioneering role in anthropology pp. 1249-1253

Joanna Davidson

A history of sexual violence and political authority in South Africa pp. 1253-1255

T.J. Tallie

Whiteness and schooling in South Africa pp. 1255-1257

Christopher Webb

Volume 46, issue 5, 2020

Liberation Beyond the Nation: An Introduction pp. 821-828

Jocelyn Alexander, Paolo Israel, Miles Larmer and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira

Dreaming Together, Fighting for Freedom Together: African Progressive Nationalism and the Ideology of Unity in Portugal’s African Colonies in the 1950s and 1960s pp. 829-844

Jean-Michel Mabeko-Tali

Viriato da Cruz and His Chinese Exile: A Biographical Approach pp. 845-861

Jodie Yuzhou Sun

Dissident Refugees: A History of 200 Namibians in Zambia, 1977–1989 pp. 863-879

Christian A. Williams

‘Forged in Battle’: The Transnational Origins and Formation of Apartheid South Africa’s 32 ‘Buffalo’ Battalion, 1969–1976 pp. 881-901

Lennart Bolliger and Will Gordon

‘We Could Not Be There’: Storytelling and the Narratives of Soviet Military Advisers, Specialists and Interpreters in Angola during the Civil War (1975–1992) pp. 903-921

Kristina Pikovskaia

The Travelling Toyi-Toyi: Soldiers and the Politics of Drill pp. 923-940

Jocelyn Alexander and JoAnn McGregor

Zenzo Nkobi, ZAPU Photographer: Exile, Visibility and the Anteroom of War in Zambia, 1977–1980 pp. 941-964

Patricia Hayes

Liberating Taste: Memories of War, Food and Cooking in Northern Mozambique pp. 965-984

Jonna Katto

Transnational Music Collaborations, Affective Networks and Everyday Practices of Convivial Solidarity in Ujamaa Dar es Salaam pp. 985-1008

Maria Suriano

The Mueda Massacre Retold: The ‘Matter of Return’ in Portuguese Colonial Intelligence pp. 1009-1036

Paolo Israel

The Politicisation of Liberation-Struggle Exhumations in Eastern Zimbabwe: Spiritual Evocation, Patriotism and Professionalism pp. 1037-1054

Njabulo Chipangura

Governing the Ungovernable: Performing and Contesting Chris Hani’s Legacy at the Hani Memorial pp. 1055-1074

Samuel Longford

Political identities, legitimacy and the Angolan civil war pp. 1075-1076

Vasco Martins

The state and the paradox of customary law in Africa pp. 1076-1078

Pnina Werbner

Community building and belonging in Southern Rhodesia’s purchase areas pp. 1078-1080

Allison K. Shutt

Writing African Christian biographies pp. 1080-1082

Jörg Haustein

An alternative history of displacement pp. 1082-1085

Michael G. Panzer

Volume 46, issue 4, 2020

Editorial pp. 591-596

George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane

‘But I Know You, You Are Not God’: African Responses to European Colonialism in a Missionary Newspaper pp. 597-613

Stephen Volz

‘Our Bushes Are the Houses’: People’s War and the Underground during the Insurrectionary Period in the Vaal Triangle, South Africa pp. 615-633

Franziska Rueedi

‘Under the Thumb of the Party’: The Limits of Tanzanian Socialism and the Decline of the Student Left pp. 635-654

Luke Melchiorre

Power and Resistance: Struggles over Organisational Transformation and Restructuring at the National University of Lesotho in the 21st Century pp. 655-672

Munyaradzi Mushonga and Heidi Hudson

‘Now I Am Not Afraid’: Simon Nkoli, Queer Utopias and Transnational Solidarity pp. 673-687

Yasmina Martin

‘Rediscovering the Erotic as Ordinary’ in South African Women’s Short Fiction pp. 689-702

Jenny Boźena du Preez

Botswana Votes 2019: Two-Party Competition and the Khama Factor pp. 703-722

Chris Brown

Botswana’s Hunting Ban and the Transformation of Game-Meat Cultures, Economies and Ecologies pp. 723-741

Annette A. LaRocco

Changing Livelihoods in Rural Eastern Cape, South Africa (2002–2016): Diminishing Employment and Expanding Social Protection pp. 743-772

Flora Hajdu, David Neves and Stefan Granlund

Assessing the Potential Impact of the African Continental Free Trade Area on Least Developed Countries: A Case Study of Malawi pp. 773-792

Dennis Ndonga, Emmanuel Laryea and Murendere Chaponda

Fragile Gains: South Africa’s Democracy Under the Spotlight pp. 793-808

Jason Robinson

Land, Chieftaincy and the Invention of Tradition in KwaZulu-Natal pp. 809-811

Tara Weinberg

Personal epistolary and the brutality of the everyday colonial occupation pp. 811-812

Miles Larmer

The materialities, effects and affects of Portuguese decolonisation pp. 813-815

Benedito Machava

Dag Hammarskjöld and the Decolonisation of Africa pp. 815-817

David Webster

Southern Africa, the Cold War and transnational activism pp. 817-819

Justin Pearce

Volume 46, issue 3, 2020

Editorial pp. 393-397

Diana Jeater

Speak, Friend, and Enter? Fieldwork Access and Anthropological Knowledge Production on the Copperbelt pp. 399-415

Christian Straube

Natural Resource Extraction in the Interior: Scouts, Spirits and Chinese Loggers in the Forests of Northern Mozambique pp. 417-433

Morten Nielsen and Mikkel Bunkenborg

Narratives, Rituals and Political Imaginations: The Social and Political World of the Vashona of North-Eastern Zimbabwe from the 16th to the 19th Centuries pp. 435-454

Admire Mseba

Black Disenfranchisement in the Cape Colony, c.1887–1909: Challenging the Numbers pp. 455-469

Farai Nyika and Johan Fourie

Surviving on Borrowed Power: Rethinking the Role of Civil Society in Zambia’s Third-Term Debate pp. 471-490

Sishuwa Sishuwa

The Historian, the Premier and Forced Labour in the Cape Colony, 1878–1879 pp. 491-507

Denver A. Webb

(Un)Cultivating the Disease of Maize: Pellagra, Policy and Nutrition Practice in Lesotho, c.1933–1963 pp. 509-526

Christopher R. Conz

Crops and Copper: Agriculture and Urbanism on the Central African Copperbelt, 1950–2000 pp. 527-545

Iva Peša

‘Asbaanjaers Rig Oë Op Pretoria’: A Short History of Stock-Car Racing in South Africa’s Capital City pp. 547-564

Jimmy Pieterse

Protection from Violence: Making Space Public in the Streets of Johannesburg pp. 565-580

Darshan Vigneswaran

Marriage as a class marker in southern Africa pp. 581-582

Mariah C. Stember

Elite discourses, sexuality and HIV/AIDS interventions in Malawi pp. 582-584

Ashley Currier

Sexuality, race and intimate colonial encounters pp. 584-587

Juliette Milner-Thornton

Mission schools, education and the revolution pp. 587-589

Anne Heffernan

Volume 46, issue 2, 2020

Malawi: Taking Stock in Turbulent Times pp. 195-207

Jessica Johnson

Birthing a Nation: Political Legitimacy and Health Policy in Hastings Kamuzu Banda’s Malawi, 1962–1980 pp. 209-228

Luke Messac

Yielding Trouble: Development Dilemmas and the Political Uses of Bad Data in Malawi, 1964–1978 pp. 229-245

Geoffrey Traugh

Remembering Kamuzu: The Ambiguity of the Past in Malawi’s Central Region pp. 247-261

Daniel Wroe

Chieftaincy in Malawi: Reinvention, Re-emergence or Resilience? A Kasungu Case Study pp. 263-281

Joey Power

‘The Native is the Producer of the Future’: Improving Peasants’ Food Production in Southern Malawi, 1859–1939 pp. 283-299

Bryson G. Nkhoma

‘The General from Fort Hill’: Katoba Flax Musopole’s Role as an Anti-Colonial Activist and Politician in Malawi pp. 301-317

Owen J.M. Kalinga

Central African Immigrants, Imperial Citizenship and the Politics of Free Movement in Interwar South Africa pp. 319-337

Henry Dee

The Invention of ‘Harmful Cultural Practices’ in the Era of AIDS in Malawi pp. 339-356

Cal (Crystal) Biruk

Malawi in Verse: Authenticity, African Literature, and Indigenous Aesthetic Forms pp. 357-374

Lupenga Mphande

Afterword pp. 375-379

Wapulumuka O. Mulwafu

Doing conceptual history in Africa pp. 381-384

Roy Dilley

Doing oral history in Africa pp. 384-386

Sean Field

The war on the Reef pp. 386-388

Franziska Rueedi

The ‘ethnographic life’ of Max Gluckman pp. 388-390

Isak Niehaus

Volume 46, issue 1, 2020

Editorial pp. 1-5

Dennis Walder

Scalar Tension and the (Post-)Colonial Anthropocene in Ingrid Winterbach’s To Hell with Cronjé pp. 7-21

Martin Premoli

‘Our respect for water is what you have termed fear’: The Ocean in the Poetry of Ronelda S. Kamfer and Koleka Putuma pp. 23-38

Bibi Burger

‘It may have seemed personal but it wasn’t’: The Person(al) as Nation(al) in Post-Apartheid Literary Representations of Retribution pp. 39-56

David Coughlin

Confronting the Silences of History: Licínio Azevedo’s Virgem Margarida and Comboio de Sal e Açúcar pp. 57-71

Douglas Mulliken

Bruin Ous Are the Main Ous: Memory and Masculinity in a South Durban Township pp. 73-90

Henry E. Chen, Deevia Bhana, Bronwynne Anderson and Imraan Buccus

‘Vermin’: Predator Eradication as an Expression of White Supremacy in Colonial Namibia, 1921–1952 pp. 91-108

John Heydinger

Translocal Optimisation: Assembling Rural and Urban Spaces for Later Life in Urban Namibia and Uganda pp. 109-127

Catharina Nord and Andrew Byerley

Community Conservation and Land Use in Namibia: Visions, Expectations and Realities pp. 129-147

Eduard Gargallo

A Contested Commons: Competition for Public Land in the Free State pp. 149-164

David Dickinson

The Emergence of Decentralised Centralism in the South African Education Governance System pp. 165-183

André du Plessis

Elephants, emotions and compassion in southern African literature pp. 185-187

Martha Ndakalako-Bannikov

Fiction, space and desire in Namibian novels pp. 187-189

Fabian Lehmann

Modern African art and apartheid pp. 189-191

Joshua I. Cohen

Disappointment and contemporary South African fiction pp. 191-194

Dennis Walder