Category: Publications
Lesedi #11 – July 2010
In this issue Lydie Cabane looks at “Dealing with Xenophobic violence in South Africa: anti-politics machine?”, while Karine Ginisty has “A geographical perspective on Amartya Sen’s ‘The Idea of Justice'”. > Read the English version > Lire la version française
Vols de vaches à Cristol Cave
Histoire critique d´une images rupestre d´Afrique du Sud [Cattle Theft at Cristol Cave. Critical history of a South African rock painting] Jean-Loïc le Quellec, François-Xavier Fauvell-Aymar, François Bon, 2009, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne ISBN-10 : 2859446338 ISBN-13 : 978-2859446338 [Book in French] This is a rock painting, hidden...
Land, Liberation and Compromise in Southern Africa
ALDEN, Chris and ANSEEUW, Ward, 2009, Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-230-23084-2 ISBN-10: 0-230-23084-9 Land, Liberation and Compromise in Southern Africa’ provides a novel framework for understanding the inherent volatility of the politics of land in contemporary Southern Africa. The link between the established political economy of settler colonialism, the role...
Sécurisation des quartiers et gouvernance locale
Enjeux et défis pour les villes africaines (Afrique du Sud, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibie, Nigeria) Claire BENIT-GBAFFOU, Seyi FABIYI et Elisabeth PEYROUX (éd.), 2009, Paris, Karthala; Johannesburg, IFAS ISBN: 978-2-8111-0318-7 Collection Hommes et Sociétés : Histoire et géographie [Book in French – with 4 chapters in English] Secure neighbourhoods within...
Lesedi #10 – November 2009
Mathieu Mérino looks at “Party System and Elections in Malawi. First Analysis of the May 2009 poll”, while Maya Leclercq investigates “Rooibos. Therapeutic infusion or national heritage?”, and Jean-Loïc le Quellec responds with “Revisiting the Image of ‘Bushmen Tea'”. > Read the English version > Lire la version française
Lesedi #9 – July 2009
In this issue, Lorraine Roubertie looks again at Jazz in South Africa: “Jazz comes from Cape Town? Jazz in South Africa since 1994: The Example of the Western Cape”, while Marianne Morange looks at CIDs and Spatial Justice in South African City Centres. Landmarks for Research within the Framework of...
Les Cahiers de l’IFAS #11: The Standardisation of African Languages
Language political realities. Proceedings of a CentRePoL workshop held at the University of Pretoria on March 29, 2007, supported by the French Institute of Southern Africa. In all human communities, education is crucially important: taken in its broadest meaning, it is, ultimately, the strategy through which the youth is groomed...
Lesedi #8 – April 2008
In this issue Lorraine Roubertie presents “Jazz in South Africa after 1994: Heritage and Transformations” and Thomas Guignard looks at “South African and the Internet”. > Read the English version > Lire la version française
Les Cahiers de l’IFAS #10: The A.N.C. Youth League
or the Invention of a South African Youth Political Organisation. The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is the youth political organisation of the ANC. It was (re)invented in 1990, when the liberation movement resettled in South Africa after being unbanned. The organisation was re-launched on the basis of the...
Lesedi #7 – October 2007
In this issue, we present APORDE, the African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics, and Pele le Pele, programme on the “Development and Modernisation of African Languages”. > Read the English version > Lire la version française