Allocataires de l’IFAS-Recherche en 2026 | 2026 IFAS-Research grant recipients

Appel à projets | Call for projects

  • Alex Samuel Artur (University of Rovuma): “Memories of Reception: Sociocultural Relations Between Displaced People from Armed Violence and Host Populations in the Resettlement Centers of Montepuez, Northern Mozambique (2017 – 2024)“
  • Leila Baracchini (University of Lausanne): “Healing Dances in the Kalahari: Cultural, Spiritual, and Political Reconfigurations“
  • Chanté Barnard (University of Mpumalanga & University of Cape Town): “Thulamela Reappraised: Understanding its significance within a local and global context“
  • Shaka Keny Bob (University of Cape Town): “Reproducing Survival: Gendered Labour, Migration, and Informality at Bellville Transport Interchange“
  • Ruchi Chaturvedi (University of Cape Town) & Ingrid Bamberg (University of Bordeaux & University of Cape Town): “Re-visiting the South African Transition: Documentary and Cultural Archives from KwaZulu-Natal“
  • Jéssica da Silva Höring (University of Geneva): “The politics of gender, intimacy and violence: a comparison of women’s radical engagement in Angola and Namibia“
  • Mélissa Dusart (University of the Witwatersrand): “Investigating the Role of Networking Strategies in Career Pathways within South Africa’s Cultural and Creative Industries“
  • Katleho Habi (University of the Witwatersrand): “Ntsoanatsatsi e tsoaloa metsing: Meditations on the impact of Basotho people’s displacement from ancestral land subsequent to the establishment of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project“
  • Kerry Hagemann (University of Johannesburg): “The Gendered Dynamics of Accessing Safely Managed Water: Women’s Experiences in the Siphofaneni Community, Eswatini“
  • Krienke Hannah (University of the Witwatersrand): “The Acceleration of Obligation: Exploring EcoCash, Remittances and Trust in Zimbabwean Diaspora Networks“
  • Russel Hlongwane (University of Cape Town): “Umqombothi, ubhokweni neJuba“
  • Petro Janse van Vuuren (University of the Witwatersrand): “STORI Improv Mapping: Enhancing Participatory Futures Facilitation in Contexts of Political Transformation“
  • Inaya Khan (University of Edinburgh): “Kenya, South Africa and the Politics of Decolonization“
  • Simon Laire (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales): “Les enjeux de l’espace public urbain à Windhoek: pratiques et représentations du shopping mall dans la ville néolibérale” | The challenges of urban public space in Windhoek: practices and representations of the shopping mall in the neoliberal city
  • Roy Muroyi (University of the Witwatersrand): “‘Undisciplined Archaeology’ and Decolonial Heritage: Exploring Narratives and Memory in the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park cultural landscape“
  • G. Nokukhanya (Khanya) Ndhlovu (University of Johannesburg): “Women’s Bodies: A Battlefield for the Construction of Marginalised Black African Masculinities?“
  • Falida Nkomo (University of Witswatersrand): “The Blurried Memories of Home“
  • Andrew Skinner (University of the Witwatersrand) & Sam Challis (University of the Witwatersrand): “Documentation and Photogrammetric Analysis of Late/Colonial Rock Art in the Roma Valley, Lesotho“

 

Appel à événements scientifiques | Call for scientific events

  • Patricia Caillé (University of Strasbourg) & Anna-Marie Jansen Van Vuuren (Tshwane University of Technology): “Création collective en Afrique du Sud et dans les Suds” | Collective creation in South Africa and the Global South
  • Leidy Daniela Ortiz Conrado (CNAM-CNRS) & Tinovimba Pamela Patsika (University of Johannesburg): “Rethinking disability: participation, equity and work“
  • Aurélie Quentin (University Paris Nanterre) & Siphe Madyibi (University of the Western Cape): “Politiques du logement et moyennisation sociale au Cap : becoming middle class” | Housing policies and social middling in Cape Town: becoming middle class


Aide la mobilité internationale | International mobility grant

  • Amélie Lemanceau (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): “La circulation des textiles entre le Gujarat et la vallée du Zambèze du XVIe au XIXe siècle. Une histoire matérielle, culturelle et connectée” | The circulation of textiles between Gujarat and the Zambezi valley from the 16th to the 19th century. A material, cultural and connected history
  • Gabriel Michel (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3): “‘That was us’. Écritures collectives et narrations polyphoniques du VIH/SIDA (Afrique du Sud, Cameroun, Côte d’Ivoire)” | ‘That was us’. Collective writings and polyphonic narratives of HIV/AIDS (South Africa, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire)
  • Jérémy Rollin (Université de Montpellier): “NewFacMed Windhoek : comment se construit une faculté de médecine dans un pays qui en était dépourvu” | NewFacMed Windhoek: how is a medical faculty built in a country that previously had none


IRD–Wits–IFAS-Research fieldwork bursaries

  • Thulani Baloyi (University of Johannesburg): “The Deepening Relationship between Capital Offences, State-Sanctioned Death, and Sovereignty: An Archival and Ethnographic Study of Punishment, Organized Violence, and the Governance of the Body in Botswana“
  • Nicola Booysen (University of Pretoria): “Restitution’s echoes visualised through evolving apartheid landscapes“
  • Neave Anne Geoghegan (University of the Witwatersrand): “Icons of Life: The history of the sourcing, use of, and attitudes toward foetal, infant, and juvenile remains and their changing status in medical and health science education in South Africa“
  • Bambanani Gwedla (University of Johannesburg): “Virtual Boundary Realities: Exploring Young Black
    South African Women’s Narratives of Empowerment Within the Digital Media Landscape“
  • Blessing Mukuruva (University of the Witwatersrand): “Cross-border mobility and pandemic preparedness: A Case Study of Truck Drivers at the South Africa-Zimbabwe Borderscapes“
  • Patrick Alpheous Nyathi (University of the Witwatersrand): “The Making of Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Park: Mining, Dispossession and Conservation, 1960s to the Present“
  • Msawenkosi Gibson Nzimande (University of Johannesburg): “The Social Life of Crystal Meth in South Africa: An Ethnography of ‘Wastelands’”
  • John Keketso Peete (University of the Witwatersrand): “People’s knowledge about ‘fake’ antimalarial drugs: The case of Morogoro Town, Tanzania“
  • Duncan Trevor van Wyk (University of Pretoria): “Reclaiming the commons: waste reclaiming as a ‘form of living’ within the Johannesburg recyclingscape“
  • Kgolagano Vena (University of the Witwatersrand): “Entangled archival materialities: tracing rock art, politics and colonial networks through the Henri Breuil Collection, Wits University“
  • Bothwell Vumai (University of the Witwatersrand): “Cross-border Sex Work on the Urban margins: The Politics of Access to PrEP in the Gauteng region“