Rock Art of hunter-gatherers in the Southern African Later Stone Age: emergence, filiations and shifts in the Matobo Hills (Zimbabwe) In short The MATOBART research project investigates rock art production by hunter-gatherers during the Later Stone Age (10.000-2.000 years) in the Matobo Hills, in Zimbabwe, a region listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The […]
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 in four large cities in […]
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, catégorisées et policées, en droite […]
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 South Africa, France and Mozambique. […]
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 Fellow in the Department of […]
Séverine Cachat, 2018, Maputo, Alcance Collection “Regards croisés França|Moçambique” 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 Mozambique is caught between this complex […]
Historias Entrelaçadas da Africa Austral Entangled Histories and Legacies of Empire in Southern Africa Caio Simões de Araújo (ed.) Maputo, Alcance Editores, collection “Regards Croisés França|Moçambique”, 2017, 232p. A luta continua, 40 anos depois é resultado da conferência internacional A Luta Continua, 40 Years Later: entangled histories and legacies of empire in Southern Africa, financiada […]
Operação Produção e a invenção dos “improductivos” urbanos no Moçambique Socialista, 1983-1988 Carlos Quembo, 2017, Maputo, Alcance Editores Collection “Regards Croisés França|Moçambique” In May 1983, Frelimo, the party-state which has been running the country since independence in 1975, implemented a nationwide policy aiming at transforming “urban unproductive people” into “rural productive people”, largely through agriculture, called […]
Democracy and Leadership in South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers Johannesburg, Wits University Press, 2017, 344 p. On the occasion of the launch of Raphaël Botiveau’s Organise or Die? Democracy and Leadership in South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers, the author will take part in a series of public discussions. This publication and the series are brought to […]
Circulations internationales et sociabilités citadines Catherine Fournet-Guérin Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, collection “Géographie Sociale”, 2017, 200 p. Ce livre s’intéresse au cosmopolitisme méconnu et pourtant ancien des villes d’Afrique au sud du Sahara, processus ravivé dans le cadre de la mondialisation depuis les années 1990. De ces mobilités et de ces échanges naissent des […]
