Other publications

SAVUSA POEMs (Publication Oriented Expert Meetings) are two-day discussion meetings among Dutch and South African academics specializing in a common field, resulting in an edited volume based on the papers presented during the POEM. The proceedings are exploratory in character and can serve as input for further research and publications.If you wish to order a title, please contact Rozenberg Publishers.

SAVUSA POEM Proceedings Series

Eddy Van der Borght (ed.)
'The God-Given Land': Religious Perspectives on Land Reform in South Africa

The contributions in this edited volume focus on the understanding of land in Africa, especially in South Africa, after centuries of colonialism and apartheid during which tribal land was taken away and sold for private ownership to whites only. This volume, the result of a 2004 theology conference, offers sociological analysis, theological evaluations and an ethical assesment of the South African land issue.

2006, ISBN: 978 90 361 0118 9, 118 pp., € 19.50 

 

Gerrit Schutte and Harry Wels (eds.)
The Vrije Universiteit and South Africa From 1880 to the Present and Towards the Future: Images, Practice and Policies

The Vrije Universiteit and South Africa share a long history together, dating back to as early as 1880. At times this history has been a turbulent one. This book is the result of a 2004 conference organised by Gerrit Schutte (VU Faculty of Arts) and SAVUSA, with the aim to look at the future of the relationship between VU University Amsterdam and South Africa from different angles.

2006, ISBN: 978 90 5170 587 4, 172 pp., € 26.50 

Other publications

Steve de Gruchy, Nico Koopman and Sytse Strijbos (eds.)
From our side: Emerging perspectives on development and ethics

From our side is a collaborative effort of scholars in southern Africa
and the Netherlands who are interested in the relationship between
development and ethics, from a Christian point of view. The chapters
are grouped around three important themes: identity, culture
and gender; globalisation, poverty and the market; and power and
the struggle for life. Throughout the text, the reader is reminded
of the contribution of the Christian faith to matters of development
and ethics.

2008, ISBN: 978 90 5170 974 2, 320 pp., € 39.50

P. Hoebink, A. Padayachee, M. Nkomo et al.
Cooperating for science: An inventory of research and education partnerships between South Africa and teh Netherlands
2007 

Keyan G. Tomaselli
Where Global Contradictions are Sharpest: Research Stories from the Kalahari 

In this book Keyan Tomaselli uncompromisingly and aptly illustrates the many ethical contradictions in doing fieldwork among the San, and manages to reconstruct and represent the actual fieldwork experience and the San people so vividly that you almost taste the dust of the Kalahari and smell the raucous world that is depicted.

2005, ISBN: 978 90 5170 481 5, 160 pp., € 26.50