Ward Anseeum, Chris Alden (Eds.), 2010 Co-edition HSRC/IFAS-Research ISBN-13: 978-07969-2322-6 ISBN-10: 0-7969-2322-6 280 pages. This publication analyses the role of land as a place and source of conflict, especially with regard to policy development, crisis management and post-war/post-conflict reconstruction. The authors’ main aim is to gain insight into the nature of policy-marking concerning land […]
Afrique du Sud Frédéric LE MARCIS, 2010, Paris, Karthala.ISBN: 978-2-8111-0387-3Collection Hommes et Sociétés : Questions sociales, Santé[Book in French] Alors que l’Afrique du Sud était enfin libérée du régime d’apartheid et désignait en 1994 son premier président démocratiquement élu, l’épidémie du sida explosait pour atteindre au début des années 2000 près de 20% de la […]
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 in a shelter in South […]
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 of liberation politics and the […]
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 African cities take on many […]
La fin de la nation arc-en-ciel ? Cécile PERROT, Michel PRUM & Thierry VIRCOULON (eds.), 2009, Paris : L’HarmattanISBN: 978-2-296-09926-5Coll. Racisme et eugénisme Ces dernières années la question raciale a ressurgi en Afrique du Sud aux dépens des discours de réconciliation. Cette résurgence suscite deux types d’interrogation : la nation arc-en ciel est-elle en train […]
GERMAIN, Eric, 2006, Paris, Karthala; Johannesburg, IFAS ISBN: 2-84586-710-7 Coll. Homme et Société : Histoire et géographie [Book in French] The position occupied by Muslims in South African society is disproportionate to their numbers; taking an interest in their history brings new light on three centuries of European domination in Southern Africa. From the […]
(ex. Port Elizabeth) MORANGE, Marianne, 2006, Paris, Karthala; Johannesburg, IFAS ISBN: 2-84586-770-0 Coll. Hommes et sociétés; Collection directed by Jean Copans [Book in French] This work is based on a doctoral thesis in Urban Planning that was defended at the Institut Français d’Urbanisme in 2001. Twelve years after the abolition of apartheid, it offers […]
Emmanuelle OLIVIER & Manuel VALENTIN (Dir.), 2005, Paris, CNRS Editions ISBN: 2-271-06296-9 [Book in French] This work is coming out at a time when “Bushmen” have become a focal point and are the subject of new stakes. While their countries of origin are beginning to grant them full-fledged citizenship and specific rights are being […]
Philippe HUGON, 2004, Pretoria, Protea Book House ISBN: 1-86919-027-0 It is difficult to write a book about African economies for two main reasons. Firstly, how does one explain the main issues when, even if one is limited to sub-Saharan Africa, the subcontinent is a territory of contrast? The second reason is more fundamental. One […]
