Fostered by the laager: apartheid human geography in the 1980s

Against a backcloth of several positions on the question of imposing an academic boycott, a review is presented of geographical research work produced within apartheid South Africa during the 1980s. It is shown that despite a stream of writings which could be construed as non-critical, a major development in human geography has been the strengthening and consolidation of a critical research prospectus. Concern is directed to a literature on the inhuman geography of apartheid and the foundation of a "people's geography' in South Africa. -Authors