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Inqola Masondosondo! For a New Sociology of Civic Virtue by Sitas, Ari

“…It was only used for the special gatherings to taste the fruit of the harvest. The pot was made of dark clay and decorated with intricate light-blue lines…”
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Chumnungwa Glass Beads: New Insights into the Geochemistry, Circulation, and Consumption Patterns of Pre-European Glass Beads in Iron Age Southern Africa, CE 980–1650 by Nyamushosho, Robert T., Moffett, Abigail J., Chirikure, Shadreck, Bandama, Foreman, Dussubieux, Laure, Stephens, Jay, Mathoho, Eric N., Sitas, Ari

“…Glass beads first appear in the archaeological record of southern Africa around the mid-first millennium CE, marking the earliest signatures of extensive…”
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Modelling Land Use in The Gold Belt Territories of Iron Age Southern Zambezia by Nyamushosho, Robert T., Chirikure, Shadreck, Sitas, Ari, Maṱhoho, Eric N.

“…Throughout the world, the entanglement of humans and landscapes varies from area to area depending on the time scale. In southern Africa, the impact of…”
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Review of Michael Burawoy and Karl Von Holdt's Conversations with Bourdieu – The Johannesburg Moment by Sitas, Ari

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‘Where wealth and power and blood (still) reign as worshipped gods!’ A farewell to Lungisile Ntsebeza by Sitas, Ari

“…This article is a subjective account of the patterns of polarisation in KwaZulu-Natal. It explores such polarisations in gender politics, livelihoods…”
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Science and Scientists in Distress by Sitas, Ari

“…This essay explores why science and technology have been questioned in recent years. It tracks doubts about the veracity of science and the motives of…”
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Culture in my working life - response to my compeers by Sitas, Ari

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Rethinking Africa’s sociological project by Sitas, Ari

“…This article explores what challenges African sociologists face in the contemporary period. It argues that one needs to go beyond references to resource…”
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Sociology : the Charter for the Humanities and the Social Sciences in South Africa : a post-colonial moment? by Sitas, Ari

“…The new whispers in South Africa about “decolonisation or the decolonial” had started in earnest in 2011. When Prof Sarah Mosoetsa and I were tasked by the…”
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Freedom's blind spots: Figurations of race and caste in the postcolony by Sitas, Ari

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Beyond the Mandela decade: The ethic of reconciliation? by Sitas, Ari

“…The author claims that there is an emergent ethic of reconciliation which influences social and political action in the recent period. This ethic of…”
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Response to the critical comments by Sitas, Ari

“…Ari Sitas responds to Dennis Smith, Wiebke Keim, Ananta Kumar Giri and Nicos Trimikliniotis's comments on his article "Beyond the Mandela decade: The ethic of…”
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The musical journey - re-centring AfroAsia through an arc of musical sorrow by Damodaran, Sumangala, Sitas, Ari

“…The article weaves together the historical journey of a set of lament-like musical tropes from the seventh century AD to the 15 th , to trace the commonalities…”
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Beyond the Mandela decade: The ethic of reconciliation? 1 by Sitas, Ari

“…The author claims that there is an emergent ethic of reconciliation which influences social and political action in the recent period. This ethic of…”
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The human, humanism and the human condition by Sitas, Ari

“…The importance of explicating the human condition for any knowledge project in the humanities has been made by Premesh Lalu (2012). In a separate but related…”
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The African Renaissance Challenge and Sociological Reclamations in the South by Sitas, Ari

“…This article critically evaluates whether sociologists in the ‘South’ are offered any creative breathing space by either the adoption of poststructuralist and…”
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Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein, South Africa by Sitas, Ari

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Race, Tribe and Class in South Africa's Institutions by Sitas, Ari

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Race, Tribe and Class in South Africa's Institutions by Sitas, Ari

“…A review essay on books by (1) Mahmood Mamdani, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton…”
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Co-determination and transformation : co-optation or alternative vision by Jarvis, David & Sitas, Ari

“…In this article Jarvis and Sitas provide an overview of the development of theory around the issue of co-determination. Tracing the debates which have been…”
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