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CULTURAL STUDIES
History of the Iziko South African
National Gallery, A
Reflections on art and national identity
A Tietze
In South Africa, with its highly contested and changing understandings of national identity, its National Gallery is no less a contested space. A History of the Iziko South African National Gallery considers questions of artistic and cultural identity, from the late 19th century to the present day. It explores how the gallery has understood its function and its public, as a ‘national’ gallery from 1930 and, before that, the chief gallery of the Cape Colony. This question is investigated through a study of the gallery’s administration, collection and exhibition practices over the last 150 years.
There is a vast literature on what might be called the ‘history’ museum, but far less on the art museum or gallery. To date, there has been no large-scale historical inquiry into the Iziko SANG, the country’s national gallery. The absence of such a history marks a serious gap in the literature, which this study aims to fill.
DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
State, Governance and Development in Africa
Editors: F Khan, E Grundling, G Ruiters, Z Ndevu & B Baloyi
Following a Summer School on State, Governance and Development, a group of young African scholars compiled this book on governance in the African context from their various vantage points and positions in different sectors. It engages with development and state-building in Africa at a time when the fundamental pillars of society are shaking, such as the rule of law, democracy, civil society and representative democracy. And it approaches these problems from an African, multidisciplinary perspective, which registers the complexity of African statehood. It endeavours to provide a different narrative of what is unfolding, while also exposing dynamics that are often overlooked. The chapters include the role of China in Africa, Kenya’s changing demographics, state accountability in South Africa’s dominant party system, Somalia’s prospects for state-building, urban development and routine violence, and the mobilisation of resources. In essence, it advocates for a reconstruction of the African development agenda.
2017
264 pages
Soft cover
Print: 978 1 77582 216 5 Web pdf: 978 1 77582 229 5 World rights available R311.00 / $28.95 / £18.95 BISAC: ART015000, ART059000, HIS047000
BIC: GM, HBJH, HBLL, HBTB, AC, AF
2016
288 pages
Soft cover
Print: 978 1 77582 208 0 Web: 978 1 48511 763 6 World rights available R344.00 / $30.50 / £19.50 BISAC: POL053000
BIC: JPA