Sub-Saharan Africa and the World prior to European Imperialism In short Globafrica is a four-year research programme funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) that aims to rethink the global integration of Africa before the European Imperialism from a historical perspective. Who? Hosted and run by the CNRS research unit USR 3336 which gathers […]
Les parcs nationaux dans les métropoles des pays émergents In short The ANR UNPEC project was initated in 2012 to assess in which way urban national park management methods were indicative of the level, dynamics and forms of emergence in the following cities: Cape Town, Mumbai, Nairobi and Rio de Janeiro. Thanks to a collaboration […]
In short The Ohrigstad River Catchment project studies the traces left by past hunter-gatherers at two large rock shelters, Bushman Rock Shelter (BRS) and Heuningneskrans (HNK), located on both sides of the Ohrigstad River in Limpopo Province, South Africa. The project began in 2014 and involves collaborators and students from Europe (France, Austria, Portugal, Poland […]
Rock Art of hunter-gatherers in the Southern African Later Stone Age: emergence, filiations and shifts in the Matobo Hills (Zimbabwe) In short The MATOBART research project investigates rock art production by hunter-gatherers during the Later Stone Age (10.000-2.000 years) in the Matobo Hills, in Zimbabwe, a region listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The […]
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 […]
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 […]
Circulations internationales et sociabilités citadines Catherine Fournet-Guérin Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, collection “Géographie Sociale”, 2017, 200 p. Ce livre s’intéresse au cosmopolitisme méconnu et pourtant ancien des villes d’Afrique au sud du Sahara, processus ravivé dans le cadre de la mondialisation depuis les années 1990. De ces mobilités et de ces échanges naissent des […]
A South African Heritage Site José Braga & John Francis Thackeray (ed.) African Sun Media, Stellenbosch, 2016, 111p. This book is dedicated to the palaeontogical site of Kromdraai, one of the most well-known sites of the ‘Cradle of Humankind’, the famous UNESCO World Heritage site located in the Gauteng province (South Africa). From 1938 to […]
Investigation of an Archaeological Myth Jean-Loïc Le Quellec Oxford, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2016, 320p. This meticulous investigation, based around a famous rock image, the ‘White Lady’, makes it possible to take stock of the mythical presuppositions that infuse a great deal of scientific research, especially in the case of rock art studies. It also highlights […]
