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.