29 June – 11 July 2014 Johannesburg, Mbabane, Durban, Ginsberg, Cape Town The Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism is an experiment in global conversation based in the South. Located in Johannesburg, we seek to be a critical node in the re-territorializing of global intellectual production. We are a centre for theoretical work that takes […]
Faces of the City Seminar Series Tuesday, 11 March 2014 16h00 – 18h00 First Floor Seminar Room, John Moffat Building, Wits East Campus Prof Serge Salat (President: Urban Morphology and Complex Systems Institute, Paris, France) Abstract: Compactness is an important attribute of the most sustainable cities. Compact cities are not only dense cities. They display […]
Workshop on the Political Economy of South Africa 13 March 2014; 8:30am – 17:00pm Wits Club The main objective of this workshop was to unpack the concurrent political, economic and social dynamics of neoliberal deepening under a democratic regime, thereby shedding light on the complex unfolding and idiosyncrasies of neoliberalism in post-apartheid South Africa. The […]
Music, Identity and Politics in South Africa Denis-Constant MARTIN, 2013, Stellenbosch, African MindsISBN : 9781920489823Download a digital copy here. For several centuries Cape Town has accommodated a great variety of musical genres which have usually been associated with specific population groups living in and around the city. Musical styles and genres produced in Cape Town […]
Culture écrite et expansion européenne à l’époque moderne : essais sur la Compagnie Hollandaise des Indes Orientales Adrien DELMAS, 2013, Paris, Honoré ChampionISBN : 9782745323101Collection : Atelier des Voyages Plus à son aise, jusqu’à présent, dans le cadre national que dans le roulis marin de l’histoire globale, l’histoire du livre a négligé l’un des acteurs […]
International seminar on themes of global circulation and reading across empires and their afterlives, co-hosted by the University of Pretoria and Oxford Brookes University, and supported by the British Academy’s International Partnership and Mobility Scheme. Playlist also available on YouTube
Border Closures and Migration Movements in Africa Jocelyne STREIFF-FÉNART & Aurelia SEGATTI (eds.), 2011, Lexington BooksISBN : 978-0-7391-6510-2 The recent containment policies aimed at regulating immigration flows towards Europe have profoundly altered the dynamics of migration in Africa. The impact of these policies is apparent in the redefinitions of the routes, itineraries and actors of […]
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 […]
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 […]
