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Stray urbanism: stray donkeys and place-identity in Makhanda, South Africa
The presence of free-roaming livestock in cities is often seen as something that should be regulated, and zoning practices across the world generally...
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Evolving Rastafari Masculinities in Southern Africa
The dominant media (and popular) image of the Rastaman in Southern Africa is of the ultimate patriarchal authority who bosses his wife and children,...
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Theorising Multiple Place Names in Southern Africa
This chapter discusses multiple place names that are prevalent in southern Africa using specific examples from Zimbabwe and South Africa. It makes...
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Cultures of Appropriation: Rock Art Ownership, Indigenous Intellectual Property, and Decolonisation
Both on and off the rocks, it is clear that many pictographs and petroglyphs are powerful cultural and social ‘tools’ as well as sacred beings....
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Aesthetic Influences of Cultural Nationalism and Decolonisation
Aesthetic experiences create the ideal condition for art appreciation and dissemination. This chapter explores the aesthetic elements of contemporary...
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Women and Peace Education in Africa
Peace education plays a key role in ending the cycle of violence in the world because it utilizes education systems as agencies of conflict...
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Postcolonial riskscapes: risk, trust, and the community-based response to Ebola virus disease in Liberia
The initial outbreak response to the 2014–2016 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West Africa was met with resistance in Liberia. In part, this was because...
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Afrikaans Metal in Post-Apartheid South Africa
This chapter explores the role of heavy metal within the texts of the ‘cultural heritage industry’ of post-Apartheid South Africa, with a specific...
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Revisiting Kalundu Mound, Zambia: Implications for the Timing of Social and Subsistence Transitions in Iron Age Southern Africa
Novel trajectories of food production, urbanism, and inter-regional trade fueled the emergence of numerous complex Iron Age polities in central and...
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Rock Art Research and Knowledge-Production in the Context of Globalizations. A Comparative Approach to the Cases of Patagonia-Argentina and Eastern Canada
In this chapter, we discuss the impacts different globalizations (in plural) have had on the development of rock art research in Argentina and Canada...
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Deep-Time Images and the Challenges of Globalization
In this collection of papers on globalization and rock art, we begin to examine how rock art research was historically shaped by a deep Eurocentric...
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Palestine’s Land Centrality and the Instrumentality of Historical Language
This chapter investigates the performative role of language in the total struggle to control the land of Palestine before and after the Nakba in...
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Two Different Countries, a Common Phenomenon: Comparative Study of Islamophobia in Turkey and Germany
Islamophobia explains the exclusionary practices against Islam and Muslims in modern Western societies and is an important socio-political reality of...
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Liberation War Veterans’ Masculinity and African Traditional Religion in Zimbabwe: Insights into Holistic Health and Well-being
This chapter explores Zimbabwe guerrilla veterans’ acts of violence and bravado. We examine the veterans’ attitude to warfare and argue that they...
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Embodying Immobility: Dysphoric Geographies of Labour Migration and Their Transformations in the Therapeutic Context of ‘Venda’ Ancestor Possession in Post-apartheid South Africa
Critiquing analyses of immobility as personally and socially pathologized condition—the ‘incapacity to move’ from location, psychic state and/or...
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Anti-capitalist subjectivity: considerations of fantasy, (in)action, and solidarity building
Anti-capitalist subjectivities are produced through politically generative refusals of the divisive, profit-oriented, and manageable subject...
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Policy, Epistemology, and the Challenges of Inclusive Oceans Management in Sierra Leone
The ocean is a medium. It connects individuals, nation-states, landmasses, cities (coastal or not), communities, ethnic groups, world religions,...
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Colonial recursion: state categories of race and the emergence of the “Non-Western Allochthone”
Recent scholarship on state-based race categories shows that racial classification is anything but stable and self-evident. Indeed, states...
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(Re)sounding, (re)sealing: Translocal Terrains of Whiteness across Norway, South Africa and Australia
This chapter offers a critical comparison and synthesis of the three previous national case studies, and a reflection upon and further critique of...