Category: Publications
Après l’apartheid
La protestation sociale en Afrique du Sud Jérôme Tournadre, 2014, Collection « Res Publica », Presses universitaires de Rennes (PUR), 270p. ISBN : 978-2-7535-3348-6 [Book in French] Louée pour sa transition démocratique, l’Afrique du Sud connaît depuis la fin des années 1990 un cycle presque ininterrompu de protestation sociale....
Migrants de Mozambique dans le Johannesburg de l’après-apartheid
Travail, frontières, altérité [Migrants from Mozambique in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg. Labour, Border, Otherness] Dominique Vidal, 2014, Paris, Karthala-IFAS, 216p. [Book in French] The presence of boundaries in their relationship to others is omnipresent in the logics underlying the actions of Mozambican migrants in Johannesburg. As migrants, the adversity encountered brings...
Lesedi #17 – March 2014
In anticipation of the upcoming Congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association, at Wits in July, this issue of Lesedi has Archaeology as its focus. Aurore Val looks at “The Taphonomy of the Australopithecus Sediba of the Malapa Fossil Site ” in Gauteng, Guillaume Porraz gives an overview of “16...
Lesedi #16 – September 2013
The focus of this issue is the BRICS. Carolina Milhorance de Castro looks at “The 5th BRICS Academic Forum: Towards a Long-Term Vision and Partnership with Africa?”, Agathe Maupin investigates “A New Trilogy? BRICS, Infrastructure and Development on the African Continent” and Christopher Wood says why “A BRICS Bank Matters”....
lesedi #15 – January 2013
In this issue we focus on Water Policies and Practices in Southern Africa. Maud Orne-Gliemann looks at “A Participatory Water Management? The South African Policy of Local Water Management” and Agathe Maupin investigates a “Regional Approach for Water Policies in Southern Africa. > Read the English version > Lire la...
Déplacés de guerre dans la ville
La citadinisation des deslocados à Maputo (Mozambique) Jeanne VIVET, 2012, Paris, Karthala; Johannesburg, IFAS ISBN : 978-2-8111-0629-4 Coll. Hommes et sociétés [Book in French] This work examines the link between forced movement and urban citizenship, using a study carried out on rural people displaced by war and who took...
Lesedi #14 – July 2012
Michel Lafon asks the question “Is education bringing the long due Africanisation of Mozambique?” while William Kelleher presents “A case study of out-of-school language practice with implications for language teaching and policy”. > Read the English version > Lire la version française
Written Culture in a Colonial Context
Africa and the Americas 1500-1900 Adrien Delmas & Nigel Penn (Eds.), 2011, Cape Town, UCT Press ISBN: 978-1-91989-526-0 Ships, soldiers, missionaries and settlers drove the process of European expansion from the 16th to the 19th centuries. In doing so, they set in motion the circulation of images, manuscripts and...
Lesedi #13 – December 2011
In this issue focussing on political issues, Victor Magnani looks at “Beyond Racial Dynamics in the South African Political Space, The Constrained Ambition of the Democratic Alliance”, Raphaël Botiveau looks at “The ANCYL after the Midrand Conference: Towards Political Change in the ANC?” and Judith Hayem looks at “Daveyton’s post-Apartheid...
Lesedi #12 – March 2011
Yolanda Sadie investigates “The perceptions of students on democracy and issues of governance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo” and Marie Jacobs looks at “South African public schools: understanding student’s school experience from the notion of school community”. > Read the English version > Lire la version française