Category: Publications
Lancement de la revue interdisciplinaire Sources. Matériaux et terrains en études africaines
A New Interdisciplinary Journal: Sources. Materials & Fieldwork in African Studies La nouvelle revue interdisciplinaire Sources. Matériaux et terrains en études africaines vient de voir le jour, avec la mise en ligne de son premier numéro en open access. Fruit des efforts conjugués des Instituts français de recherche en Afrique subsaharienne (CEDEJ-Khartoum, IFRA-Nairobi, IFAS-Recherche,...
Politics and Community-Based Research. Perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg
Edited by Claire Benit-Gbaffou, Sarah Charlton, Sophie Didier, Kirsten Dörmann Wits University Press, 2019, 432 p. (with the support of IFAS-Research) Yeoville Studio was a research and learning initiative driven by a collaboration between the Wits School of Architecture and Planning and several community partners in Yeoville, Johannesburg. It ran from 2010 to...
Citadins-Citoyens au Cap
Justice et espace après l’apartheid Chloé Buire Nanterre, Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, collection IFAS-Recherche, 2019, 353 p. Citadins-Citoyens au Cap. Justice et espace après l’apartheid est une plongée dans le quotidien de celles et ceux qui, quinze ans après la fin de l’apartheid, apprivoisent les nouveaux codes de l’Afrique...
Lesedi #21 – July 2019
Lesedi. Field notes #21 Lesedi, the online journal of IFAS-Recherche, celebrates its 15th anniversary with a special issue of 64 pages on prehistory and the cultural evolution of Homo sapiens, or “modern humans”, from the Middle to Later Stone Age in Southern Africa. It contains 13 articles written by senior...
Towards a history of archaeology from South Africa
Adrien Delmas, Paloma de la Peña (Eds.) Goodwin Series, South African Archaeological Society (in association with IFAS-Recherche and CJB), volume 12, April 2019, 94 p. The first Goodwin Series volume was established in 1972 to pay tribute to John Goodwin, the founder of the discipline of archaeology in South Africa...
A Global History of Anti-Apartheid
‘Forward to Freedom’ in South Africa Anna Konieczna, Rob Skinner (Eds.) Palgrave Macmillan, St Antony’s Series, 2019, 345 p. Exploring the globalization of anti-apartheid as one of the most powerful and diverse social movements in modern history. This book explores the global history of anti-apartheid and international solidarity with southern...
Muslims in Southern Africa : Johannesburg’s Somali diaspora
Samadia Sadouni London, Palgrave Macmillan, Migration, diasporas and citizenship, 2019, 225 p. Examining the relationship between urban development and transnational experiences of religion. This book presents a socio-historical analysis of the Somali Muslim diaspora in Johannesburg and its impact on urban development in the context of Somali migrations in the...
Visionary Animal
Rock Art from Southern Africa Renaud Ego Wits University Press, Johannesburg, 2019, 326p. Why were depictions of animals a crucial trigger for the birth of art? And why did animals dominate that art for so long? In order to answer these questions, Renaud Ego examined some of the world’s finest...
From Urban National Parks to Natured Cities in the Global South
The Quest for Naturbanity Frédéric Landy (ed.) Singapore, Springer Singapore, 2018, XXI, 329p. This important volume focuses on the sensitive issue of interrelationships between national parks situated near or within urban areas and their urban environment. It engages with both urban and conservation issues and compares four national parks located...
Trier, exclure et policer
Vies urbaines en Afrique du Sud et au Nigeria Laurent Fourchard Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2018, 368 p. Les métropoles d’Afrique du Sud et du Nigeria sont réputées dangereuses, bidonvillisées et dominées par l’économie informelle. Peu est su en revanche de la manière dont les populations y sont triées,...