Acta Academica is an accredited, open access South African journal dedicated to scholarship in the humanities. The publishes independently refereed research articles It promotes perspectives of critical social theory and engagements with postcolonial post-developmental debates special references (Southern) Africa. thereby support scholarly work that examines how humanities twenty-first century ...

One of the greatest contributions of Science and Technology Studies (STS), in the last 30 years, has been to show that the contours of science/technology and society are inextricably interwoven (Bloor [1976] 1991, Latour & Woolgar [1979] 1986; Knorr Cetina 1981; Shapin & Schaffer 1985; Latour 1987; Haraway 1991). These studies have highlighted that techno-scientific developments are path-depend...

The evolution of migration policymaking across the Global South is growing interest to International Relations. Yet, impact colonial and imperial legacies on states’ management regimes outside Europe North America remains under-theorised. How does postcolonial state formation shape policies cross-border mobility in South? By bringing James F. Hollifield’s framework contemporary ‘migration state...