Special L&L: Announcing publication of ‘The Racialising Process’
Dear Lives and Letters Colleagues
A big slice of www research has come to fruition and as a consequence we are very pleased to announce publication on 31 May 2017 of
The Racialising Process: Whites Writing Whiteness in Letters, South Africa 1770s-1970s
By Liz Stanley
ISBN 9781511403648 – 282pp – 2017
The paperback is available from Amazon (where you can ‘look inside’ before purchasing) at £5.99. An e-book version is available at 0.99p, and is free to purchasers of the paperback during promotional periods. Members of the Lives & Letters mailing list will be notified of upcoming promotions, and to join the mailing list please contact Emilia (e.p.sereva@sms.ed.ac.uk).
The Racialising Process is concerned with how it happened that South Africa developed the racial order that it did and how this changed over the period from the 1770s to the 1970s. It is concerned with theorising letters, over 50,000 letters, and using this to show the importance of letter-writing for understanding how white people saw and represented their lives and Other people ‘back then’ because acting as an index of wider changes occurring. And it is concerned with engaging with, using and where needed departing from, the theoretical and methodological ideas put forward by Norbert Elias for understanding change in Europe and making these work as a way of thinking about South Africa and its racialising process.
Attached to this email is a leaflet giving further details of The Racialising Process and a list of chapters.
The Racialising Process is published by X Press @ Edinburgh, an independently published imprint. It has gone through all the quality checks associated with mainstream academic publishing, but with a very different approach taken to matters of costing, distribution and timing. It is the first book in a series concerned with WWW research. Titles will be published at prices to encourage purchase and involve no profit beyond Amazon’s charge for printing and a nominal 1p royalty per paperback copy sold. The aim is to encourage wide readership, with this one of the project’s strategies for promoting and enhancing impact of the WWW research, in particular regarding international audiences.
We would be extremely grateful if you could please distribute the leaflet widely– and of course, also buy the paperback!
Liz Stanley and Emilia Sereva
For leaflet, please click here
Last updated: 2 June 2017
