17 • Ntando Maphosa presented at the Gender and Sexuality Conference. • Rene Morcom (MA student) spearheaded the formation of the South African Social Work Students’ Association and is the current President. Anthropology and Development Studies Publications The great success in Anthropology and Development Studies (ADS) this year was the completion and publication of three major monographs: David Moore’s Mugabe’s legacy. Coups, Conspiracy, and the Conceits of Power in Zimbabwe, Hurst; Jonathan Stadler’s Public Secrets and Private Sufferings in the South African AIDS Epidemic, Springer; and Joost Fontein’s The Politics of the Dead in Zimbabwe: Bones, Rumours and Spirit (James Currey in press, January 2022). All three books are major interventions in their disciplines and areas of expertise, and are published with leading academic publishers, and showcase the maturity and growing international academic stature of the department. Moore’s book (which came out this year but for technical reasons will be dated [and submitted to OROS in] 2022), in particular, has already been met with much praise from its reviewers, including a commentary from celebrated Zimbabwean author No Violet Bulawayo on the cover, and signals the great loss that his retirement will mean for the department and for UJ. This book and the excellent, critical seminar series he ran (SADS term 3) were fitting final gestures from a scholar who has done much more than most to place development studies at UJ into the international spotlight. Stadler’s book too has received strong reviews, and signals anthropology at UJ’s leading position in medical anthropology in the region. Fontein’s third monograph has been highlighted by peer reviewers as likely to make a strong, innovative and decisive impact on re-emerged debates in global anthropology about the intersection of changing death practices and politics. Another significant book to be published this year was Gcobani Qambela’s co-authored (with Warren Chalklen) Anti-Racist Teaching Practices and Learning Strategies (Barens and Nobel 2021) which has already found its way onto readings lists at Columbia University teaching college and UCL. Likewise Tarminder Kaur’s edited (2020) collection (with T. Cleveland & G.Akindes) Sports in Africa, Past and Present, Ohio University Press, was shortlisted for the NASSH 2021 Book Prize for the best sports history anthology. Kaur is now working on her monograph AmaXhosa Maradona which has a pre-contract and will be submitted to Jacana Press for peer-review in mid-2022. Another monograph, by Claudia Gastrow, entitled The Aesthetics of Belonging: Building Politics in OilBoom Luanda (Duke Press, OUP or Texas University Press) is in an advanced state of preparation and can be expected in 2022 or 2023. This will cement her position as a leading, established researcher, beyond The Emerging Researcher of the Year award she deservedly received from faculty in 2021. Several other collaborative books and journal special issues led by ADS staff are currently in preparation for publication 2022. These include Nairobi Becoming: Security, Certainty and Contingency Punctum Press 2022 (contract signed and manuscript submitted), by Fontein (with T.Diphoorn, Utrecht; C.Smith Manchester; and P. Lockwood Cambridge). This experimental multiauthored ethnographic portrait Nairobi becoming, is likely to make waves for its innovative approach to both urban ethnography and to scholarly-artist collaborations. Moore too has collaborated on a new edited collection (with C. Brown and B. Rutherford, Carleton University) which is currently in press and due in May 2022, entitled New Leaders, New Dawns? South Africa and Zimbabwe under Cyril Ramaphosa and Emmerson Mnangagwa, (McGill-Queens University Press). Several Special issues led by members of ADS are currently in preparation, including Stadler & Qambela’s Hope, Vaccines and Socio-Cultural and Political Responses to COVID-19 in Southern Africa for Anthropology Southern Africa and Fontein’s (with S.Sousa, Luanda) Urban Materialities in Africa in Africa; both are due to come out in 2022 or 2023. Apart from these larger projects, staff in the department have continued to publish
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