" The Global South is relatively neglected in research about our" compartmentalised world".
The volume of publications on inequality has increased five-fold since 1992, but many of …

Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives makes
an important and timely contribution both to comics studies and urban studies, offering a …

The analogy of South Africa as an ailing" organism" afflicted by chronic socioeconomic
inequality is apt as it captures the nation's manifest endemic abrasions and frailties …

Transnational corporation (TNC)-led oil investments have been widely encouraged as a
mechanism for the development of the Global South. Even though the sector is …

This book examines concepts of the border and translation within the context of social and
cultural theory through the lens of southern Africa. Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics …

In contrast to this backward-looking assigning of blame, Young insists that we understand
structural injustice as" maintained through the behavior of ordinary decent people whose …

Let us start this introduction by asking the question; why is contemporary and historical
knowledge of tenants' struggles important? Tenants' mobilizations are covered unevenly in …

Thembelihle, an informal settlement to the south-west of Johannesburg, South Africa has
experienced a wave of popular protest and grassroots democracy since the African National …

Cities are experiencing continuous growth in population and must straddle a delicate
balance between nurturing nature and providing livelihood. In that context, the contemporary …

Congolese writer In Koli Jean Bofane's most recent novel Congo Inc.(2014) explores various
inflections of African participation in contemporary globalization. Bofane embarks on a …