Introduction: Southern African Social Sciences in the Late 20th Century
Teresa Cruz María e Silva and Ari Sitas

Section One: The Social Sciences in Southern Africa

Chapter 1 Globalisation, Social Science and Development. A Mauritian Perspective
Sheila Bunwaree

Chapter 2 Social Sciences in Southern Africa: a Reflection on the Role of Sociology in Youth and Development
Pembelani Mufune

Chapter 3 Sociology and Social Research in South Africa
Charles Crothers

Chapter 4 The Social Sciences in Mozambique. Some Theoretical and Institutional Questions
Alexandrino José
 

Section Two: Southern Africa in Transition

Chapter 5 "The Glowing Fire of our Patriotism". The Constitutional Court, Civil Society and Constitutional Patriotism in South Africa
Elsa van Huyssteen

Chapter 6 Commissions of Inquiry and Policy-Making in South Africa. Between the "Grand Tradition" and Democratic Corporatism
Eddie Webster and Sakhela Bulungu

Chapter 7 Jettisoning Justice. The Case of Amnesty in South Africa
Fred Hendricks
 

Section Three: Women and Gender Equity

Chapter 8 Women's Empowerment and organisation in Mozambique
Isabella Casimiro

Chapter 9 Possibilities for Redistribution: Rural Women in South Africa Today
Shamim Meer
 

Section Four: Afrocentrism or Afropessimism

Chapter 10 Feminist Methodology and Research Among Rural African Women in  the Transkei
Nhlanhla Jordan

Chapter 11 A Disenchanted Modernity. The Accommodation of African Medicine in Contemporary South Africa
Thokozani Xaba

Chapter 12 Beyond Afropessimism. Identity and Development in a Globalising World
Ari Sitas