Category: Publications
Espaces arc-en-ciel
Identités et territoires en Afrique du Sud et en Inde Philippe GERVAIS-LAMBONY, Frédéric LANDY et Sophie OLDFIELD (éds), 2003, Nanterre, Géotropiques; Paris, Karthala; Johannesburg, IFAS ISBN : 2-84586-430-2 Coll. Hommes et sociétés; Collection directed by Jean Copans [Book in French] Processes linked to today’s globalisation phase have resulted in...
Les Cahiers de l’IFAS #3: Food Security in Southern Africa
Causes and Responses from the Region. The present food crisis in Southern Africa, with its many correlated aspects among which the impact of HIV-aids appears particularly compelling and is proving to be, as it unfolds, one of the most serious challenges, if not the most fundamental one the sub-region has...
Les Cahiers de l’IFAS #2: Bodies and Politics
Healing Rituals in the Democratic South Africa What has been described as a human and geographical “schizophrenia” impels the researchers to take more interest in local events. The concept of healing appears to be especially pertinent in the context of the construction of a new national collective. Good physical health...
Développement durable ?
Doctrines, pratiques, évaluations Jean-Yves MARTIN (Dir.), 2002, Paris, IRD ISBN: 2-7099-1502-2 [Book in French] The environemental crisis currently experienced by the world marks the limits of science and of technological progress and calls into question our knowledge and certainties. The crisis is accompanied at the global level by an...
Durban
Les Indiens, leurs territoires, leur identité Hélène MAINET-VALLEIX, 2002, Paris, Karthala; Johannesburg, IFAS ISBN : 2-84586-314-4 Coll. Hommes et sociétés; Collection directed by Jean Copans [Book in French] Coming mainly from the regions of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, Indians make up 30% of the Durban population. After their arrival...
African Immigration to South Africa
Francophone Migration of the 1990s Allan MORRIS & Antoine BOUILLON (editors), 2001, Pretoria, Protea; Johannesburg, IFAS ISBN: 1-919825-33-9 Protea series of publications on French Social Sciences The disintegration of apartheid in the 1990s was accompanied by the scrapping of the whites-only immigration policy and thousands of Africans from the...
From isolation to integration
The Post-Apartheid South African Economy Jean-Pierre CLING, 2001, Pretoria, Protea Book House; Johannesburg, IFAS ISBN: 1-919825-34-7 Protea series of publications on French Social Sciences Developments in South Africa have disproved the prophets of doom who anticipated economic disintegration. Recent years have seen a general improvement in the economic situation,...
Johannesburg
Géographies de l´exclusion Philippe GUILLAUME, 2001, Paris, Karthala; Johannesburg, IFAS ISBN : 2-84586-165-6 Coll. Hommes et sociétés; Collection directed by Jean Copans [Book in French] South Africa came out of apartheid. Democratisation made it possible to break away from the most “successful” and repressive forms of institutionalised segregation in...
Les Cahiers de l’IFAS #1: Five Years into Democracy
Elite and Rank-and-file Perspectives on South African Quality of Life and the “Rainbow Nation”. The papers in this volume were first presented in two different tracks (“assessing quality of life and living conditions to guide national policy” and “happiness, life satisfaction and subjective well-being”) at the Third Conference of the...
Excursion missionaire dans les Montagnes bleues
suivie de la Notice sur les Zoulas Thomas ARBOUSSET Edition présentée par Alain RICARD, 2000, Paris, Karthala; Johannesburg, IFAS ISBN : 2-84586-048-X Coll. Relire [Book in French] This missionary trip is an account of the conversations with the Sotho King who had never seen white people before meeting missionaries....