Journal of Southern African Studies, Volume 43, Issue 5 (2017)

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Special JSAS Conference Issue: Southern Africa beyond the West: Political, Economic and Cultural Relationships with the BRICS countries

Editorial

Editorial
Situating the BRICS Phenomenon within the Histories and Cultures of Southern Africa
Lyn Schumaker, Andrew Brooks, Mpalive-Hangson Msiska, Edward Pollard & Deborah Potts
Pages: 853-861
Published online: 01 Sep 2017
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Keynote Address

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The Geopolitics and Economics of BRICS’ Resource and Market Access in Southern Africa: Aiding Development or Creating Dependency?
Pádraig Carmody
Pages: 863-877
Published online: 12 Jul 2017
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The Archaeological Evidence for Southern African Trade and Contact

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Trade, Globalisation and the Archaic State in Southern Africa
Innocent Pikirayi
Pages: 879-893
Published online: 14 Jul 2017
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Copper, Trade and Polities: Exchange Networks in Southern Central Africa in the 2nd Millennium CE
Nicolas Nikis & Alexandre Livingstone Smith
Pages: 895-911
Published online: 03 Aug 2017
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Baubles, Bangles and Beads: Commodity Exchange between the Indian Ocean Region and Interior Southern Africa during 8th–15th Centuries CE
Edwin N. Wilmsen
Pages: 913-926
Published online: 14 Jul 2017
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The Swahili Coast and the Indian Ocean Trade Patterns in the 7th–10th Centuries CE
Edward Pollard & Okeny Charles Kinyera
Pages: 927-947
Published online: 14 Jul 2017
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The Role of BRICS in Shaping Urban Southern Africa

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Urban Experiences ‘Beyond the West’: Comparing Cities in Southern African and BRIC Countries
Deborah Potts
Pages: 949-960
Published online: 14 Jul 2017
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Comparative Perspectives on South Africa’s and Brazil’s Institutional Inequalities under Progressive Social Policies
Madalitso Zililo Phiri
Pages: 961-978
Published online: 12 Jul 2017
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Features of Modernity, Development and ‘Orientalism’: Reading Johannesburg through its ‘Chinese’ Urban Spaces
Romain Dittgen
Pages: 979-996
Published online: 14 Jul 2017
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Cultural Transnationalism

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Junk Aesthetics from South Africa, Brazil and India: Re-Evaluating the Object
Megan Jones
Pages: 997-1010
Published online: 14 Jul 2017
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Kujoni: South Africa in Malawi’s National Imaginary
Mpalive-Hangson Msiska
Pages: 1011-1029
Published online: 09 Aug 2017
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Natures of Violence: Spaces of Misrule in Contemporary BRICS Literature

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Representations of Revolutionary Violence in Recent Indian and South African Fiction
Michael Wessels
Pages: 1031-1047
Published online: 12 Jul 2017
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A Specific Kind of Violence: Insanity and Identity in Contemporary Brazilian and South African Literature
Tom Penfold
Pages: 1049-1067
Published online: 02 Aug 2017
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A New Paradigm? The Impact of BRICS on Southern African Development Reconsidered

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Understanding Post-War Foreign Direct Investment in Angola: South–South Led or the West Still Rules?
Fernandes Wanda
Pages: 1069-1085
Published online: 13 Jul 2017
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China and Brazil as Southern Africa’s Non-Interfering Development Partners: Rhetoric or Reality?
Cynthia M. Kamwengo
Pages: 1087-1101
Published online: 14 Jul 2017
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Soviet Military Specialists and Instructors in Angola
Gennady Shubin and Andrei Tokarev (eds), Bush War: The Road to Cuito Cuanavale. Soviet Soldiers’ Accounts of the Angolan War (Auckland Park, Jacana, 2011), 216 pp., paperback, ISBN 978-1-4314-0185-7
Colin Darch
Pages: 1103-1104
Published online: 20 Jul 2017
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Intimate Counter-Histories of African–Asian Solidarities
Antoinette Burton, Africa in the Indian Imagination: Race and the Politics of Postcolonial Citation (Durham, Duke University Press, 2016), hardback, ISBN 978-0-8223-6148-0; paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-6167-1; e-book, ISBN 978-0-8223-7413-8
Parvathi Raman
Pages: 1104-1106
Published online: 24 Jul 2017
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Early Histories of China in Africa
Rachel K. Bright, Chinese Labour in South Africa, 1902–10: Race, Violence, and Global Spectacle, Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), x + 276 pp., hardback, ISBN 978-0-230-30377-5; paperback, ISBN 978-1-349-33839-9; e-book, ISBN 978-1-137-31657-8
Jeremy Martens
Pages: 1106-1108
Published online: 24 Jul 2017
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BRICS and the New Scramble for Africa
Pádraig Carmody, The New Scramble for Africa, second edition (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2016), xiv + 282 pp., hardback, ISBN 978-1-5095-0707-8; paperback, ISBN 978-1-5095-0708-5
Ian Taylor
Pages: 1108-1109
Published online: 24 Jul 2017
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South African Writers, Apartheid and the Black Diaspora
Stéphane Robolin, Grounds of Engagement: Apartheid-Era African American and South African Writing (Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield, University of Illinois Press, 2015), 256 pp., hardback, ISBN 978-0-252-03947-8; e-book, ISBN 978-0-252-09758-4
Dennis Walder
Pages: 1110-1111
Published online: 21 Jul 2017
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Angola Since the Civil War
Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola Since the Civil War (London, Hurst, 2015), xviii + 292 pp., paperback, ISBN 978-1-84904-284-0
Cristina Udelsmann-Rodrigues
Pages: 1112-1114
Published online: 21 Jul 2017
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Corrigendum

Correction
Features of Modernity, Development and ‘Orientalism’: Reading Johannesburg through its ‘Chinese’ Urban Spaces
Romain Dittgen
Page: i
Published online: 01 Sep 2017
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