SAVUSA-ASC-Brill Publications

Publications together with Brill Publishers

The SAVUSA-ASC-Brill books form part of Brilll’s prestigious African Studies Series. Themes include land struggles, heritage policies and knowledge production in southern Africa. Books from this series can be ordered through Brill Publishers. 

Sabine Marschall
Landscape of Memory: Commemorative Monuments, Memorials and Public Statuary in Post-Apartheid South-Africa.

Under the aegis of the post-apartheid government, much emphasis has been placed on the transformation and democratisation of the heritage sector in South Africa since 1994. Drawing on a number of theoretical perspectives, this book critically investigates the flourishing monument phenomenon in South-Africa, the political discourses that fuel it, its impact on identity formation, its potential benefits, and most importantly its ambivalences and contradictions.

2010, ISBN: 978 90 04 17856 4, 410 pp., € 42.00

Netsayi Noris Mudege
An Ethnography of Knowledge: The Production of Knowledge in Mupfurudzi Resettlement Scheme, Zimbabwe.

A resettlement area with people resettling from different agroecological regions with different knowledge and approaches to agriculture and farming provides a fascinating area to investigate how knowledge is produced and socialised. This book unravels how local knowledge makes use of scientifically based state organised interventions. The book is of interest to policy makers and anyone involved in development studies.

2007, ISBN: 978 90 04 16168 9, 240 pp., € 42.00

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Paul Hebinck and Peter Lent (eds)
Livelihoods and Landscapes: The People of Guquka and Koloni and their Resources  

Drawing on original data, secondary literature, aerial photographs and archives, this book analyzes changes in the use of the landscape and the nature of rural livelihoods in two South African villages. Taking an interdisciplinary approach on how livelihoods and landscapes in the Eastern Cape link the text provides a comprehensive study of the patterns of land use over time.

2007, ISBN: 978 90 04 16169 6, 408 pp., € 42.00  

Sandra Evers, Marja Spierenburg and Harry Wels (eds)
Competing Jurisdictions. Settling Land Claims in Africa.

Competing Jurisdictions explores the politicking and strife over land between various stakeholders on the African continent, including Madagascar. It is about attempts to control land tenure ‘from above’ and about local manoeuvring ‘from below’. The contributing authors analyse the intricate relations between the central government, the local government and grassroots level institutions.

2005, ISBN: 978 90 04 14780 5, 364 pp., € 42.00

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Marja Spierenburg
Strangers, Spirits and Land Reform. Conflicts about Land in Dande, Northern Zimbabwe.

This book describes efforts by the Zimbabwean government to enforce land reforms on African farmers in northern Zimbabwe. It describes the resulting internal conflicts over land within the communities in Dande as well as the more concerted forms of resistance of these communities vis-a-vis the state. Attention is also given to the role the spirit mediums of the royal ancestors (Mhondoro) played in this resistance.

2004, ISBN: 978 90 04 13957 2, 260 pp., € 42.00