Through theoretically informed anthropology, this book meets the need to rethink our understanding of the moral & political force of memory, its official/unoffi

Weaving sound historical research with rich ethnographic insight, An Impossible Inheritance tells the story of the emergence, disavowal, and afterlife of a dist

Explores how European nations were remade by the end of empire, through the history of 'returning' settlers from Portuguese Africa.

Refreshing a stale debate about power in the postcolonial state, this book addresses a topic debated across the humanities and social sciences: how to define, d

The contributions to this volume probe the complex relationship of trauma, memory, and narrative. By looking at the South African situation through the lens of