Edited by Claire Benit-Gbaffou, Sarah Charlton, Sophie Didier, Kirsten Dörmann Wits University Press, 2019, 432 p. (with the support of IFAS-Research) Yeoville Studio was a research and learning initiative driven by a collaboration between the Wits School of Architecture and Planning and several community partners in Yeoville, Johannesburg. It ran from 2010 to 2012 and aimed to produce […]
Justice et espace après l’apartheid Chloé Buire Nanterre, Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, collection IFAS-Recherche, 2019, 353 p. Citadins-Citoyens au Cap. Justice et espace après l’apartheid est une plongée dans le quotidien de celles et ceux qui, quinze ans après la fin de l’apartheid, apprivoisent les nouveaux codes de l’Afrique du Sud. Autrefois assignés à […]
‘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 African freedom struggles from the […]
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 Southern African Indian Ocean region […]
Rock Art from Southern Africa Renaud Ego, 2019, Johannesburg, Wits University Press, 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 rock art, that of the San of […]
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 […]
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 […]
