{"id":8651,"date":"2025-11-13T17:33:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/?p=8651"},"modified":"2025-11-20T16:59:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:59:04","slug":"lesedi-27-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/uncategorized\/lesedi-27-october-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesedi #27 &#8211; October 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LESEDI-N27_10.2025.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:1150px\" aria-label=\"Embed of LESEDI-N27_10.2025.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-04012b75-9205-4dd6-b1fe-dda199256edc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LESEDI-N27_10.2025.pdf\">LESEDI-N27_10.2025<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LESEDI-N27_10.2025.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-04012b75-9205-4dd6-b1fe-dda199256edc\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En 2025, nous f\u00eatons les trente ans de l&#8217;IFAS-Recherche, officiellement inaugur\u00e9 le 12 mai 1995. Alors que nous c\u00e9l\u00e9brons trois d\u00e9cennies de recherche en sciences humaines et sociales, <em>Lesedi<\/em>, la revue en ligne de l\u2019IFAS-Recherche, propose un nouveau num\u00e9ro &#8220;varia&#8221; intitul\u00e9 <strong>Nouvelles du terrain : Projets, questions et r\u00e9flexions en cours<\/strong>,&nbsp;afin de mettre en lumi\u00e8re les travaux en cours, men\u00e9s par nos collaborateurs et collaboratrices de longue date et les jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses que nous soutenons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ce volume r\u00e9unit politologues, anthropologues, g\u00e9ographes, arch\u00e9ologues et sp\u00e9cialistes de litt\u00e9rature, et met en lumi\u00e8re une mosa\u00efque de projets soutenus par l\u2019IFAS-Recherche \u00e0 diff\u00e9rents stades de leur d\u00e9veloppement. Les sujets abord\u00e9s, tous fond\u00e9s sur un travail de terrain, sont vari\u00e9s, depuis l&#8217;\u00e9tude anthropologique d&#8217;un jardin rastafari dans une Johannesburg confin\u00e9e (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LESEDI-N27_10.2025.pdf#page=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Hayem, Morovich, p. 20<\/mark><\/a>) jusqu\u2019aux fouilles arch\u00e9ologiques de Ndalambiri en Angola (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LESEDI-N27_10.2025.pdf#page=47\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Mesfin, Benjamim, Cupate et al., p. 47<\/mark><\/a>), de la conservation de l&#8217;eau et du r\u00f4le des jardins au Cap (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LESEDI-N27_10.2025.pdf#page=41\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Mazzucotelli, p.41<\/mark><\/a>*) \u00e0 la d\u00e9finition d&#8217;un Age de pierre moyen sud-africain (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LESEDI-N27_10.2025.pdf#page=30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Longet, p. 30<\/mark><\/a>). Cinq articles donnent suite \u00e0 des \u00e9v\u00e9nements organis\u00e9s \u00e0 l&#8217;IFAS en 2024, autour de sujets tels que le contr\u00f4le des apparences des \u00e9l\u00e8ves dans les \u00e9coles sud-africaines (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LESEDI-N27_10.2025.pdf#page=9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Bouyat, p. 9<\/mark><\/a>), les figures de m\u00e8res dans les communaut\u00e9s touch\u00e9es par les gangs au Cap (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LESEDI-N27_10.2025.pdf#page=55\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Relisieux, p. 55<\/mark><\/a>), la fiction sp\u00e9culative sud-africaine (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LESEDI-N27_10.2025.pdf#page=25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Lods, p. 25<\/mark><\/a>), les racines du jazz d&#8217;avant-garde sud-africain (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LESEDI-N27_10.2025.pdf#page=35\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Martin, p. 35<\/mark><\/a>), ou encore une r\u00e9flexion collective sur les mani\u00e8res de collaborer avec les communaut\u00e9s locales pour faire de la recherche sur le patrimoine en Afrique australe (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LESEDI-N27_10.2025.pdf#page=14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Duval, Baracchini, Quemin, p. 14<\/mark><\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LESEDI-N27_10.2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">T\u00e9l\u00e9charger le PDF ici.<\/mark><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>*Erratum : Page 45, \u00e0 la septi\u00e8me ligne du troisi\u00e8me paragraphe, lire &#8220;Lemanski, 2023&#8221; au lieu de &#8220;Lemanski, 2015&#8221;. <\/em><em>Page 46, \u00e0 la sixi\u00e8me r\u00e9f\u00e9rence bibliographique, lire &#8220;Lemanski, C. (2023) &#8216;Broadening the landscape of post-network cities: a call to research the o\ufb00-grid infrastructure transitions of the non-poor&#8217;, Landscape Research, 48:2, pp. 174-186, DOI: 10.1080\/01426397.2021.1972952&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2025 marks thirty years of existence for IFAS-Research, since its official inauguration on May 12<sup>th<\/sup>, 1995. As we celebrate three decades of multifarious projects in the social sciences and the humanities, <em>Lesedi<\/em>, IFAS-Research online journal, has released a new \u201c<em>varia<\/em>\u201d volume entitled <strong>From the field: Ongoing projects, questions and reflections<\/strong>, to spotlight research currently undertaken by long-term collaborators as well as young researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This volume brings together political scientists, anthropologists, geographers, archaeologists, and literary scholars, and foregrounds a patchwork of projects and reflections supported by IFAS-Research at different stages of their growth. It comprises fieldwork-based articles, focused on varied subjects, ranging from the anthropological study of a Rastafarian garden in Covid-time Johannesburg (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LESEDI-N27_10.2025.pdf#page=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Hayem, Morovich, p. 20<\/mark><\/a>) to the archaeological excavation of the Ndalambiri Rockshelter in Angola (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LESEDI-N27_10.2025.pdf#page=47\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Mesfin, Benjamim, Cupate et al., p. 47<\/mark><\/a>), or from water conservation and the role of gardens in Cape Town (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LESEDI-N27_10.2025.pdf#page=41\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Mazzucotelli, p.41<\/mark><\/a>*) to the definition of a South African Middle Stone Age (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LESEDI-N27_10.2025.pdf#page=30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Longet, p. 30<\/mark><\/a>). Five texts stem from events organized at IFAS in 2024, around diverse topics and conversations: South African school policies on student appearances (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LESEDI-N27_10.2025.pdf#page=9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Bouyat, p. 9<\/mark><\/a>), mother figures in gang-affected communities in Cape Town (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LESEDI-N27_10.2025.pdf#page=55\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Relisieux, p. 55<\/mark><\/a>), South African speculative fiction (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LESEDI-N27_10.2025.pdf#page=25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Lods, p. 25<\/mark><\/a>), the roots of <em>avant-garde<\/em> South African jazz (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LESEDI-N27_10.2025.pdf#page=35\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Martin, p. 35<\/mark><\/a>), or proposals and insights on co-working on heritage with local communities in Southern African contexts (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LESEDI-N27_10.2025.pdf#page=14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Duval, Baracchini, Quemin, p. 14<\/mark><\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LESEDI-N27_10.2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Download PDF here.<\/mark><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>*Erratum: <em>Page 45, on the seventh line of the third paragraph, read \u201cLemanski, 2023\u201d instead of \u201cLemanski, 2015.\u201d Page 46, in the sixth bibliographic reference, read \u201cLemanski, C. (2023) \u2018Broadening the landscape of post-network cities: a call to research the off-grid infrastructure transitions of the non-poor\u2019, <\/em>Landscape Research<em>, 48:2, pp. 174\u2013186, DOI: 10.1080\/01426397.2021.1972952\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En 2025, nous f\u00eatons les trente ans de l&#8217;IFAS-Recherche, officiellement inaugur\u00e9 le 12 mai 1995. 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