In the past decade, South Africa's" miracle transition" has been interrupted by waves of
protests in relation to basic services such as water and electricity. Less visibly, the post …

▪ Abstract For most of the past 50 years, South Africa served as the outlier in sociological
discussions of racial inequality: From the late 1940s, when most of the world was moving …

The legitimate use of force is generally presumed to be the realm of the state. However, the
flourishing role of the private sector in security over the last twenty years has brought this …

Good, scholarly one-volume overviews of South African history are not plentiful. The Making
of Modern South Africa. Conquest, Segregation and Apartheid, by Nigel Worden (Oxford …

If there is ever an African form of metropolitan modernity, then Johannesburg will have been
its classical location. The idea of the metropolis in European thought has always been linked …

Of the many bloody chapters in Southern Africa's Thirty Years War since the 1961 uprising
against the Portuguese, none have been more protracted, more complex or more deadly for …

The state police force of South Africa has acquired massive notoriety since its formation. Its
officers have developed a reputation for routinely provoking violence and torturing suspects …

Politics by Other Means explores the fundamental question of how law can constrain
political power by offering a pathbreaking account of the triumphant final decade of the …

The new edition of the atlas (first published as The Atlas of Apartheid) presents a
comprehensive introduction and detailed analysis of the spatial impact of apartheid in South …

Examines military culture from a theoretical and a practical point of view Considers conflicts
in Afghanistan and Iraq that have highlighted the importance of culture as a concept in …