Lesedi is back on the virtual shelves!

Lesedi, the periodic publication of IFAS Science, is back on the virtual shelves. Its thrilling new content focuses on researches by post-graduates in social science, with themes such as "Beyond Racial Dynamics in the South African Political Space, The Constrained Ambition of the Democratic Alliance", "L'ANCYL after the Midrand Conference: Towards Political Change in the 'ANC ?" and "Daveyton’s post-Apartheid Generations Faced with their own Representations". Lesedi also discusses the various programs supported by IFAS Science, and gives you the latest news about the various events it organises.

A review of David Blanchon's essential essay "L’espace hydraulique sud-africain, le partage des eaux"

A review of David Blanchon's essential essay "L’espace hydraulique sud-africain, le partage des eaux", a book published by Karthala with the support of IFAS Science. Reviewed by Olivier Graefe (Department of Geosciences University of Fribourg). This review was first published by H-Net (H-SA), and you can access the original text here.

Since the beginning of the colonial conquest until the end of apartheid, the division of space in South Africa was duplicated by an unequal distribution of water. The water resources, a prerequisite for the development of this arid country, have been appropriated by the white minority like most fertile lands and mining resources. This book analyzes the spoliation of water resources focusing on the Orange and its affluent river Vaal by retracing the South African "plumbing" system, which manipulated watercourses to the benefit of the agricultural and foremost the urban and industrial elite until 1994. It presents further the changes in water policy initiated by the new African National Congress (ANC) government after the end of apartheid.

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Christine Ludl in Transcontinentales

In the latest issue of Transcontinentales, Christine Ludl writes about Senegalese and Malian migrants in Johannesburg and their representation(s) of mobility and integration. Christine Ludl worked at the African Center for Migration and Society (ACMS), University of the Witwatersrand and the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) in Johannesburg from August 2008 to February 2010.

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Book launch: Written Culture in a Colonial Context Africa and the Americas 1500-1900

 Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17h30 for 18h00
Editors: Nigel Penn & Adrian Delmas

 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 books between different continents. The Portuguese Estado da India, the Spanish Carrera de Indias, the Dutch, English and French East-Indian Companies, as well as the Society of Jesus, all imaginatively fixed and inscribed the details of their travels and their discourses in letters, logs, diaries and histories.