Dans le cadre du projet Reclaiming Waste développé conjointement par l’IFAS-Culture et l’IFAS-Recherche, en partenariat avec l’Institut français, nous avons réalisé un court documentaire centré sur Steven Leeu, un recycleur (« reclaimer ») de Johannesburg. L’enjeu était de donner la parole à l’un de ces travailleurs du secteur informel, essentiels dans la collecte et la valorisation des déchets urbains en Afrique […]
Discover more about the relationships between Cuba and Africa in a podcast dedicated to the publication of “Cuba and Africa, 1959–1994: Writing an Alternative Atlantic History”, co-directed by K. Argyriadis, G. Bonacci and A. Delmas. The book was published in 2020 by Wits University Press.
As part of its scientific and academic vocation, and in the context of the health crisis linked to the coronavirus, IFAS-Research has launched a collective research project with the aim of understanding the effects of the 2020 pandemic on informal workers in South Africa. To this end, in June 2020, IFAS-Research has called upon Dr. […]
A collaboration between the Cooperation and Cultural Action Department (SCAC) of the French Embassy in South Africa, IFAS-Culture, IFAS-Research, the Rock Art Research Institute (University of the Witwatersrand), the Origins Centre (University of the Witwatersrand), and the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre.
A broadcast series by the French radio show La Fabrique de l’Histoire (France Culture), dedicated to South Africa, and produced in collaboration with IFAS-Recherche and the Institut Français – In French. En partenariat avec le pôle Idées et savoirs de l’Institut Français et l’IFAS-Recherche, l’équipe de l’émission La Fabrique de l’Histoire a rendu visite à l’IFAS-Recherche en septembre […]
These photos are part of Karen Lévy’s PhD research (LAVUE/Université Paris Nanterre/IFAS-Recherche): Une ville moyenne pour des classes moyennes ? Discours et acteurs de la fabrique urbaine. Une étude du cas de Johannesburg, un détour comparatif par New Delhi. The circulation of the urban model referred to as ‘gated communities’ challenges the understanding of contemporary […]
Playlist also available on YouTube. Archaeology Rock Art History Linguistics Sociology & Anthropology Urban Studies Political Sciences
International seminar on themes of global circulation and reading across empires and their afterlives, co-hosted by the University of Pretoria and Oxford Brookes University, and supported by the British Academy’s International Partnership and Mobility Scheme. Playlist also available on YouTube
13-16 September 2011Johannesburg With a few exceptions (for example some cities on the Swahili coast, see Abungu 1998), the issue of heritage in Africa remains, in academic literature as well as among institutions in charge of the economic valorisation of heritage, very much attached to rural areas and societies. African cities, still widely considered […]
