Category: Publications
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,...
Lesedi #20 – November 2018
Lesedi.Field notes #20 Special issue on urban studies Lesedi is the online journal of IFAS-Recherche, published as a field notes publication. The latest issue, #20, is mainly dedicated to urban studies, following the series of workshops and events Experimenting / Experiencing the City, organised in 2017 with our partners from...
The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa
Thematic issue coordinated by Arianna Lissoni Johannesburg, South African Historical Journal, Volume 70, 2018 In the aftermath of the 2016 conference on armed struggle, co-organised and supported by IFAS-Recherche, the South African Historical Journal released a special issue on ‘The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa’. Arianna Lissoni, Postdoctoral...
Ilha de Moçambique : Uma Herança Ambígua
Séverine Cachat Maputo, Alcance, collection “Regards croisés França|Moçambique”, 2018 The Island of Mozambique is located at the crossroads between various influences: continental, arabo-swahili, Indian, Portuguese… The 1991 classification of the island on the Unesco World Heritage further questioned the construction of local representations, memories and identities. As the Island of...