Ari Sitas
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 279835 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ari Sitas |
| PRENOMES | Ari |
| SOBRENOME | Sitas |
| ASSINATURA | SITAS A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2761-3064 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 82 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Remembering Eddie Webster
Edward Webster, or Eddie, as he was widely known, and the generation that followed him transformed labour studies: transcending regional particularities to become a significant force in global know
Where wealth and power and blood (still) reign as worshipped gods!’ A farewell to Lungisile Ntsebeza
This article is a subjective account of the patterns of polarisation in KwaZulu-Natal. It explores such polarisations in gender politics, livelihoods procurement in the cities and countryside, and in cultural and normative tensions. The article traces how the new ‘kingdom of money’ mobilises the aspirations of an African middle class in its belief in upward mobility. These polarisations had led to violence even before the July 2021 riots in Great…
Chumnungwa Glass Beads
Culture in my working life – response to my compeers
My work as a sociologist has always been in close proximity to creative work.Plays and performances always needed depth research work; research in turn, needed imagination. I was fortunate to becom
Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers
Science and Scientists in Distress
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 scientists since the Second World War. It also explores ways that nation-states have used and abused the veracity of scientific opinion during the contemporary health crisis
The Charter for the Humanities and the Social Sciences in South Africa- a Post-Colonial Moment
Freedom’s blind spots
The musical journey - re-centring AfroAsia through an arc of musical sorrow
The article weaves together the historical journey of a set of lament-like musical tropes from the seventh century AD to the 15th, to trace the commonalities in composition and performance. It argues that key to this transmission were women in servitude or slavery, and begins to explore the role of Africans in this long-distance transfer of symbolic goods
Rethinking Africa's sociological project
This article explores what challenges African sociologists face in the contemporary period. It argues that one needs to go beyond references to resource constraint or the emphasis on the market or the state in order to fathom the deeper canonical and epistemological problems that keep work outside and distant from the sociological canon. Part of the challenge is that most coherent work on the continent occurred outside the confines of sociology a…
The human, humanism and the human condition
Response to the critical comments
Beyond the Mandela decade
The author claims that there is an emergent ethic of reconciliation which influences social and political action in the recent period. This ethic of reconciliation has four sources: neo-Gandhian dispositions in the global South that provide a critique of arms and of military solutions; post-racist and pro-peace and feminist discourses in the West that emerged through significant social movements of reflexive modernization; and post-Stalinist soci…
Race, Tribe and Class in South Africa's Institutions
Disabled systems and disabling social actions in South Africa
The paper argues that there is a serious rupture between the attempt to create a post‐Apartheid social system in South Africa and social action. This affects four areas of sociality: gendering systems, livelihood systems, signifying systems and value/normative systems. The consequence of this is that actions and actors in ‘civil society’, in their attempt to respond to social pressures, fragment and dissipate efforts to steer the society towards …
The African Renaissance Challenge and Sociological Reclamations in the South
This article critically evaluates whether sociologists in the 'South' are offered any creative breathing space by either the adoption of poststructuralist and postcolonial thought or the current indigenization drive of the African Renaissance initiative in South Africa. The article argues that neither does. It traces the impasse to which many of these currents lead, and the way they fail to overcome conventional sociology's derogation of intellec…
The quality of social existence in a globalising world“
Thirty Years Since the Durban Strikes
The article explores core themes arising from a sustained ethnography spanning South Africa's transition to democracy. Focusing on emerging tensions in what used to be a strong horizontal solidarity of 'comradeship' since the 1980s, it explores why the 'elastic band' that held the movement together still holds despite class mobility, divergent socioeconomic needs and mounting challenges to its 'elasticity'. In this longitudinal study of 400 peopl…
Alfred temba qabula, 1942–2002 A tribute
(2003). Alfred temba qabula, 1942–2002 A tribute. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 169-173
The Bonds that Shape, the Bonds that Bind, the Bonds that Break
(2002). The Bonds that Shape, the Bonds that Bind, the Bonds that Break: Undigitalised Bodies in a Globalising Economy In memoriam: Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) Social Identities: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 383-391
Inqola Masondosondo! For a New Sociology of Civic Virtue
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. Each line, the elders explained, told a story. And in those gatherings everything was solved the hurricane was tamed and the absence of rain was given a name and the dead were given a meaning. The pot was eventually broken. For decades people tried to remake it: they used dark clay and light-b…
Beyond Afropessimism
The waning of sociology in South Africa
The paper describes the traditions of sociological scholarship in South Africa. It traces how an inter-disciplinary and often varied project responded to the rise of social movements in the Apartheid period and discusses the turning of this "discourse" into a scholarly discipline. It finally describes the difficulties sociologists and sociology departments encounter in the post-apartheid period due to a range of unforeseen circumstances that have…
The new tribalism
This paper explores the tragedy of the East Rand's hostel violence, that pitted hostels occupied by Zulu people against the adjacent townships. It argues that this must be understood within a broader context of migrant workers’ resistance against marginalisation. The paper traces two cycles of mobilisation at the Vosloorus hostels, one during the years between 1979 to 1982 and the other after 1986, which led directly to the violence of the 1990s.…
The making of the 'comrades' movement in Natal, 1985-91
Sociologists have largely discussed 'comrades' or 'amaqabane' within the parameters of two broad social indicators: black youth unemployment and 'anomic' behaviour. The first indicator, unemployment, has destroyed the life-chances and aspirations of the majority of youths. Studies like those of the Inkatha Institute emphasise how unemployment led to frustration and how that turned into aggression and violence.1 The second indicator is that of 'no…
Rethinking Africa's sociological project
This article explores what challenges African sociologists face in the contemporary period. It argues that one needs to go beyond references to resource constraint or the emphasis on the market or the state in order to fathom the deeper canonical and epistemological problems that keep work outside and distant from the sociological canon. Part of the challenge is that most coherent work on the continent occurred outside the confines of sociology a…
The waning of sociology in South Africa
The paper describes the traditions of sociological scholarship in South Africa. It traces how an inter-disciplinary and often varied project responded to the rise of social movements in the Apartheid period and discusses the turning of this "discourse" into a scholarly discipline. It finally describes the difficulties sociologists and sociology departments encounter in the post-apartheid period due to a range of unforeseen circumstances that have…
The African Renaissance Challenge and Sociological Reclamations in the South
This article critically evaluates whether sociologists in the 'South' are offered any creative breathing space by either the adoption of poststructuralist and postcolonial thought or the current indigenization drive of the African Renaissance initiative in South Africa. The article argues that neither does. It traces the impasse to which many of these currents lead, and the way they fail to overcome conventional sociology's derogation of intellec…
The making of the 'comrades' movement in Natal, 1985-91
Sociologists have largely discussed 'comrades' or 'amaqabane' within the parameters of two broad social indicators: black youth unemployment and 'anomic' behaviour. The first indicator, unemployment, has destroyed the life-chances and aspirations of the majority of youths. Studies like those of the Inkatha Institute emphasise how unemployment led to frustration and how that turned into aggression and violence.1 The second indicator is that of 'no…
The new tribalism
This paper explores the tragedy of the East Rand's hostel violence, that pitted hostels occupied by Zulu people against the adjacent townships. It argues that this must be understood within a broader context of migrant workers’ resistance against marginalisation. The paper traces two cycles of mobilisation at the Vosloorus hostels, one during the years between 1979 to 1982 and the other after 1986, which led directly to the violence of the 1990s.…
Thirty Years Since the Durban Strikes
The article explores core themes arising from a sustained ethnography spanning South Africa's transition to democracy. Focusing on emerging tensions in what used to be a strong horizontal solidarity of 'comradeship' since the 1980s, it explores why the 'elastic band' that held the movement together still holds despite class mobility, divergent socioeconomic needs and mounting challenges to its 'elasticity'. In this longitudinal study of 400 peopl…
Beyond the Mandela decade
The author claims that there is an emergent ethic of reconciliation which influences social and political action in the recent period. This ethic of reconciliation has four sources: neo-Gandhian dispositions in the global South that provide a critique of arms and of military solutions; post-racist and pro-peace and feminist discourses in the West that emerged through significant social movements of reflexive modernization; and post-Stalinist soci…
The musical journey - re-centring AfroAsia through an arc of musical sorrow
The article weaves together the historical journey of a set of lament-like musical tropes from the seventh century AD to the 15th, to trace the commonalities in composition and performance. It argues that key to this transmission were women in servitude or slavery, and begins to explore the role of Africans in this long-distance transfer of symbolic goods
From grassroots control to democracy
The first part of this paper outlines the inter‐relationship between defensive combinations amongst migrant metalworkers and their unique cultural formations; it proceeds to show how in the pre‐1972 period, these workers managed to exercise a remarkable degree of control over the conditions of life in the hostels. It also describes the central notions of justice operating within these cultural formations. The second part of the paper briefly outl…
Chumnungwa Glass Beads
Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers
The human, humanism and the human condition
The Bonds that Shape, the Bonds that Bind, the Bonds that Break
(2002). The Bonds that Shape, the Bonds that Bind, the Bonds that Break: Undigitalised Bodies in a Globalising Economy In memoriam: Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) Social Identities: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 383-391
Traditions of Poetry in Natal
We have been facing a 'brilliant chaos' of words, for the last few years have been tremendous for poetry in Natal. But we have also been reeling from collisions between two poetic traditions a scripted and an oral one. And both traditions have been colliding in the context of political and labour initiatives in the area. The two primordial poles of the 'oral' and the 'written' stand opposite each other drenched in prejudice: after all, a hundred …
Rethinking Culture
Other| May 01 1990 Rethinking Culture? Ari Sitas Ari Sitas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1990) 1990 (46-47): 420–424. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1990-46-47-420 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ari Sitas; Rethinking Culture?. Radical History Review 1 May 1990; 1990 (46-47): 420–424. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1990-46-47-420 Download citati…
From grassroots control to democracy
The first part of this paper outlines the inter‐relationship between defensive combinations amongst migrant metalworkers and their unique cultural formations; it proceeds to show how in the pre‐1972 period, these workers managed to exercise a remarkable degree of control over the conditions of life in the hostels. It also describes the central notions of justice operating within these cultural formations. The second part of the paper briefly outl…
Traditions of Poetry in Natal
We have been facing a 'brilliant chaos' of words, for the last few years have been tremendous for poetry in Natal. But we have also been reeling from collisions between two poetic traditions a scripted and an oral one. And both traditions have been colliding in the context of political and labour initiatives in the area. The two primordial poles of the 'oral' and the 'written' stand opposite each other drenched in prejudice: after all, a hundred …
Rethinking Culture
Other| May 01 1990 Rethinking Culture? Ari Sitas Ari Sitas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1990) 1990 (46-47): 420–424. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1990-46-47-420 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ari Sitas; Rethinking Culture?. Radical History Review 1 May 1990; 1990 (46-47): 420–424. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1990-46-47-420 Download citati…
The making of the 'comrades' movement in Natal, 1985-91
Sociologists have largely discussed 'comrades' or 'amaqabane' within the parameters of two broad social indicators: black youth unemployment and 'anomic' behaviour. The first indicator, unemployment, has destroyed the life-chances and aspirations of the majority of youths. Studies like those of the Inkatha Institute emphasise how unemployment led to frustration and how that turned into aggression and violence.1 The second indicator is that of 'no…
The new tribalism
This paper explores the tragedy of the East Rand's hostel violence, that pitted hostels occupied by Zulu people against the adjacent townships. It argues that this must be understood within a broader context of migrant workers’ resistance against marginalisation. The paper traces two cycles of mobilisation at the Vosloorus hostels, one during the years between 1979 to 1982 and the other after 1986, which led directly to the violence of the 1990s.…
The waning of sociology in South Africa
The paper describes the traditions of sociological scholarship in South Africa. It traces how an inter-disciplinary and often varied project responded to the rise of social movements in the Apartheid period and discusses the turning of this "discourse" into a scholarly discipline. It finally describes the difficulties sociologists and sociology departments encounter in the post-apartheid period due to a range of unforeseen circumstances that have…
Beyond Afropessimism
Inqola Masondosondo! For a New Sociology of Civic Virtue
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. Each line, the elders explained, told a story. And in those gatherings everything was solved the hurricane was tamed and the absence of rain was given a name and the dead were given a meaning. The pot was eventually broken. For decades people tried to remake it: they used dark clay and light-b…
The Bonds that Shape, the Bonds that Bind, the Bonds that Break
(2002). The Bonds that Shape, the Bonds that Bind, the Bonds that Break: Undigitalised Bodies in a Globalising Economy In memoriam: Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) Social Identities: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 383-391
Alfred temba qabula, 1942–2002 A tribute
(2003). Alfred temba qabula, 1942–2002 A tribute. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 169-173
Thirty Years Since the Durban Strikes
The article explores core themes arising from a sustained ethnography spanning South Africa's transition to democracy. Focusing on emerging tensions in what used to be a strong horizontal solidarity of 'comradeship' since the 1980s, it explores why the 'elastic band' that held the movement together still holds despite class mobility, divergent socioeconomic needs and mounting challenges to its 'elasticity'. In this longitudinal study of 400 peopl…
The quality of social existence in a globalising world“
The African Renaissance Challenge and Sociological Reclamations in the South
This article critically evaluates whether sociologists in the 'South' are offered any creative breathing space by either the adoption of poststructuralist and postcolonial thought or the current indigenization drive of the African Renaissance initiative in South Africa. The article argues that neither does. It traces the impasse to which many of these currents lead, and the way they fail to overcome conventional sociology's derogation of intellec…
Disabled systems and disabling social actions in South Africa
The paper argues that there is a serious rupture between the attempt to create a post‐Apartheid social system in South Africa and social action. This affects four areas of sociality: gendering systems, livelihood systems, signifying systems and value/normative systems. The consequence of this is that actions and actors in ‘civil society’, in their attempt to respond to social pressures, fragment and dissipate efforts to steer the society towards …
Race, Tribe and Class in South Africa's Institutions
Response to the critical comments
Beyond the Mandela decade
The author claims that there is an emergent ethic of reconciliation which influences social and political action in the recent period. This ethic of reconciliation has four sources: neo-Gandhian dispositions in the global South that provide a critique of arms and of military solutions; post-racist and pro-peace and feminist discourses in the West that emerged through significant social movements of reflexive modernization; and post-Stalinist soci…
The human, humanism and the human condition
Rethinking Africa's sociological project
This article explores what challenges African sociologists face in the contemporary period. It argues that one needs to go beyond references to resource constraint or the emphasis on the market or the state in order to fathom the deeper canonical and epistemological problems that keep work outside and distant from the sociological canon. Part of the challenge is that most coherent work on the continent occurred outside the confines of sociology a…
Freedom’s blind spots
The musical journey - re-centring AfroAsia through an arc of musical sorrow
The article weaves together the historical journey of a set of lament-like musical tropes from the seventh century AD to the 15th, to trace the commonalities in composition and performance. It argues that key to this transmission were women in servitude or slavery, and begins to explore the role of Africans in this long-distance transfer of symbolic goods
The Charter for the Humanities and the Social Sciences in South Africa- a Post-Colonial Moment
Culture in my working life – response to my compeers
My work as a sociologist has always been in close proximity to creative work.Plays and performances always needed depth research work; research in turn, needed imagination. I was fortunate to becom
Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers
Science and Scientists in Distress
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 scientists since the Second World War. It also explores ways that nation-states have used and abused the veracity of scientific opinion during the contemporary health crisis
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