Radical Geography Book Series

The Institute of Human Geography is delighted to announce the launch of the Radical Geography Book Series that will be published as a sub-series of Studies in Critical Social Sciences by Brill and Haymarket Books. The Radical Geography book series is inclusive of Marxist-Socialist, Feminist, Queer, Anarchist, Anti-Racist, Anti-Colonial, Post-Colonial, Subaltern and any newly emerging critical thought. We welcome submission of book proposals and/or completed manuscripts that advances radical, critical, liberatory, leftist, social and/or environmental justice scholarship. Please contact our editors if you are interested.

Editors

Jayson J. Funke, Western Connecticut State University, USA (radgeogfunke@gmail.com)

Daniel Niles, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan (dniles@chikyu.ac.jp)

Editorial Board Members

Amalia Pesantes Villa, Dickinson College, USA

Angela Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

Caroline Faria, University of Texas, Austin, USA

Danny Dorling, University of Oxford, UK

Jacqueline Goldin, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

John Bellamy Foster, University of Oregon, USA

Jamie Goodwin-White, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Jovan Scott Lewis, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Michael Samers, University of Kentucky, USA

Sachidanand Sinha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Sarah Marie Hall, University of Manchester, UK

Publications

Kevin Cox - Geohistory, Capitalist Development, and South Africa: From Racial Domination to Zim-Lite (2025). Brill

In South Africa, it is thirty years since apartheid was overthrown. The country now teeters on being a ‘failed state.’ But South African history cannot be explained in isolation from developments in the rest of the world. Nor can it be understood in terms of change from a regime where race seemed all-determining, to one where race is supposed to be a matter of indifference. Rather, this book argues that the key to understanding South Africa lies in the logics of capitalist development. These explain why capitalist domination has taken racial forms, and why global conditions have been so important.