Society, Research and Power: A History of the Human Sciences Research Council from 1929 to 2019

		ISBN: 978-0-7969-2605-0 $45.00
	2021/540 pages Distributed for HSRC Press Includes color photographs.

• Introduction—the Editors.
• HISTORICAL OVERVIEW. 
• A Praetorian Sensibility? The Making of the Humanities and Social Sciences Through the Tangled Histories of the HSRC and the Humanities Faculty in Pretoria—C. Soudien.
• A Developmental Prehistory of the HSRC, 1929–1969—A. Schwenke and M.F. Alubafi.
• Social Scientists as Policymakers: EG Malherbe and the National Bureau for Educational and Social Research, 1929–1943—B. Fleisch.
• Perspectives on Relations Between the Government and the HSRC in the 1980s: The Role of the HSRC Investigation into Intergroup Relations—H. Marais.
• Repositioning and Rebuilding the HSRC: Changes and Challenges, 1993–1997, from a Former CEO—R. Stumpf.
• DEBATES AND POLEMICS.
• How We Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the HSRC—N. Cloete, J. Muller, and M. Orkin.
• Human Sciences Research Council Incorporated (Pty.) Ltd: Social Science Research, Markets, and Accountability in South Africa—N. Cloete and J. Muller.
• Can the HSRC Join in the Future?—C. White.
• Government, Universities, and the HSRC: A Perspective on the Past and Present—L. Chisholm and S. Morrow.
• Human Sciences Research Council: Role and Function Confusion in the South African Social Science System—N. Cloete.
• Photo Section.
• REFLECTIONS.
• Establishing State-Sponsored Research Initiatives, Institutionalizing Sociology, and the "Problem of White Juvenile Delinquency" in the First Decade of Apartheid Rule—K. Mooney.
• Public Social Research Agencies and Housing Policy in South Africa, 1929–2019—A. Mabin.
• The History and Scope of Demographic Research at the HSRC from 1968—J. van Zyl.
• The Onomastic Research Centre—P. Raper and L. Möller.
• Pioneering Regional History Studies in South Africa: Reflections Within the Former Section for Regional History at the HSRC—E. van Eeden.
• The De Lange Report of 1981: A "Geology"—JC "Koos" Pauw and C. van Zyl.
• Peering into the Future: The Foresight Role of the HSRC During the Middle to Late 1980s—G. Puth.
• The Contribution of the HSRC to Research on the History of the South African Liberation Struggle, 1969–2019—G. Houston and M. Wentzel.
• The Value of a "Fixed" Mandate for the Knowledge Commons: A History of the HSRC's Role in R&D and Innovation Measurement (1966–2018)—G. Kruss and G. Ralphs.
• Izwi Labantu (Voice of the People): Tracking Public Opinion Through Political Transition—S. Rule, B. Roberts, and J. Struwig.
• The Repositioning of the HSRC to Support Educational Change in Post-Apartheid South Africa—M.M. Makgamatha, M.S. Mapadimeng, and C. Namome.
• TIMSS in South Africa: Making Global Research Locally Meaningful—V. Reddy and S. Hannan.
• The HSRC's Population-Based HIV Prevalence and Incidence Survey Series: History, Impact, and the Future—O. Shisana et al.
• Fifteen Years of Community-Engaged HIV Research in Sweetwaters, KwaZulu-Natal: A Reflection on Principles, Practices, and Frameworks—H. van Rooyen et al.
• Impervious to Policy: Revisiting the HSRC's Heterodox Economic Approach to South Africa's Persistent Structural Complexities—S. Ngandu.
• Questioning Urban Pessimism: A Decade of HSRC Research on Cities—I. Turok, A. Scheba, and J. Visagie.
• An Indelible African Footprint: The Story of the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA)—C. Hendricks et al.
• The HSRC's Incubation of the South African BRICS Think Tank, 2013–2016—K. Chetty, B. Siswana, and J. Josie.
• CONCLUSION.
• He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune: Personal Reflections on the Collaborators, Conspirators, and Researchers at the HSRC—T. GB Hart.
• The HSRC into the Future: An Afterword—C. Soudien.