Dr. Chaymaa Hassabo is a Research Associate at the Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg (UJ). She is a specialist of Egypt and wrote her doctoral thesis in political science about the transformations of the Mubarak authoritarian regime during the 2002-2010 period. Dr. Hassabo came to South Africa three years ago as a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre […]
Matthieu Rey is a Senior researcher in Modern History at the CNRS (Centre national de la Recherche scientifique — the main French Research agency). He is an historian whose research themes revolve around state-building and policymaking in the Middle East and in Southern Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Affiliated to IFAS-Research and to […]
Caio Simões de Araújo is Postdoctoral Researcher at Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA), Wits University. He shares his reflections on the lockdown in South Africa from Johannesburg. I work at the intersections of history and anthropology. Over the last few years, I have worked on the histories of late colonialism and decolonization in […]
Antonio Polo Monzo is currently a PhD student in Anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His doctoral thesis deals with the construction of political counter-discourse in contemporary Angolan music and artistic creation. He specifically focusses on the making of a new “angolanity” by young committed artists in Luanda. […]
Chloé Buire is a researcher at the CNRS (Centre national de la Recherche scientifique — the main French Research agency). She is a geographer and an urban anthropologist. Affiliated to IFAS-Research, she is based in Angola and her research themes revolve around Angolan civil society’s mobilization and empowerment. She is currently living in downtown Luanda. A lockdown has been implemented in Angola at the end […]
Thomas Beard is a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Sciences (University of the Witwatersrand) and a specialist of geoarchaeology. His research themes focus on fabric and spatial analysis. He shares his reflections on the lockdown in South Africa from Johannesburg. Just before the lockdown, the excavation team was […]
Ndipiwe Mkuzo is a Master’s Degree candidate and a research intern at the Human Sciences Research Council. As an anthropologist and a political scientist, he is currently working on cultural mobilization and empowerment in Khayelitsha, Delft and Langa, in the Cape Flats. He shares his reflections on the lockdown in South Africa from Cape Town. […]
