18 FACULTY OF HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2021 articles in major international journals including Journal of Contemporary African Studies (Qambela), Anthropologica (Moore), Social Dynamics (Qambela), Ethnos (Fontein), Azania (Fontein), Journal of Legal Anthropology (Stadler); and in major international edited collections such as: Nedziwe’s chapter entitled ‘Rethinking SADC: a mixed actor approach to collective policymaking on external relations’ in Bischoff P-H (eds), Enhancing foreign policy understandings: selective contemporary African foreign policy concepts and practices (Routledge); Galvin’s forthcoming chapter in Environment, Power and Justice: Southern African Histories, Ohio University Press (edited by S. Wynn, J. Carruthers, and N. Jacobs) and another entitled ‘Deceptive Lenses: a shared misrepresentation of local realities in eThekwini’s water and sanitation services’ in a book edited by C. Benit-Gbaffou; as well as: Gastrow’s ‘Recapturing Poder Popular: Governance and Control in Early Socialist Angola’ in African Socialisms, (FMSH, a French publisher); Fontein’s co-authored chapter (with M.E. Sagiya (NMMZ)) ‘Toward a critical history of the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe Rethinking pastness and materiality’ in National Museums in Africa: Identity, History and Politics, (Routledge, eds. R. Silverman, G. Abungu, P. Probst); and Kaur’s co-authored chapter (with N. Ontong), ‘Steeplechase: personal reflections on Fit2Run’s race of life’ in François Cleophas (ed.), Critical Reflections on Physical Culture at the Edges of Empire (Stellenbosch: African Sun Media). In addition, ADS staff have many articles in international journals publications that are currently in press, under review, or in preparation; including for Geoforum (Healy), Ecological Economies (Healy) as well as Africa (Suzall, Fontein), Fussball und Gesellschaft (Kaur), Third World Thematics (Kaur, Fontein), Urban Forum (Kaur), African Studies Review (Kaur), amongst others. Apart from these academic publications, staff have also continued to published in various regional journals, and have been active publishing in highly visible blogs and newspapers including: the Daily Maverik, The Ecologist, People and Nature, and Greenleft (Healy); The Conversation (Moore, Kaur), Corona Governance in Urban Margins Blog, Utrecht University (Fontein), Amandla magazine (Galvin), and a creative article in the feminist anthology “A day is a Struggle” (Qambela). Conferences, workshops and webinars Despite continuing travel bans and other covid-related hurdles, staff in ADS have been very proactive in organising and participating in international, regional and local workshops, webinars, and seminars, often through online mechanisms. One particular highlight was the Commons Ecologies workshop organised by Healy in collaboration with the Sustainable Europe Research Institute (Germany) and Kingston University (UK) in June. That same month Healy also organised, with the Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC), a workshop in Sigidi village, near Xolobeni, an area on the Eastern Cape’s Wild Coast currently under threat due to the presence of a wealth of mineral resources. Healy also presented a paper at the biennial International Society of Ecological Economics (ISEE) hosted by University of Manchester, entitled ‘Struggle for the Sands of Xolobeni: From Post-colonial Environmental Injustice to Crisis of Democracy’; and organised/chaired a roundtable entitled ‘Activism vs. Extractivism in South Africa: Collaborating for a Just Transition to a Green Economy’. In addition, Healy also presented a paper on Xolobeni at the University of Freiburg’s International workshop on Environmental Justice, entitled ‘Bridging research, policy and activism for environmental justice in times of crises’. Gastrow gave presentations at the Harvard African Studies Workshop and at the Johns Hopkins University Africa Seminar, and Qambela was Honoured as part of the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University ‘Celebrating Scholarship and Creativity Day’ for his work on the ‘Study of Gender in South Africa’. Two members of staff (Kaur, Fontein) and one MA student (Gitonga) represented ADS and UJ at the 2021 IUAES (International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences) Yucatan Congress in November. Kaur also presented at the Ethnographies of Competition and Its Afterlives Workshop at LSE in January, and later in the year at the African Urban Mobility: Past, Present and Future, 2nd Workshop, at Wits in November; as well as at the IUEAS Anthropology of Sports Commission, Monthly Debate Cycle, virtual meeting in July and at the Colloquium on Social and Cultural Anthropology at Universitat Konstanz, Germany, in January. Fontein was invited to be discussant at the Returns and Reconnections Seminar Series hosted by Cambridge and the Australian National University in September. In December he will present a paper at the anthropology departmental seminar series in Leuven (Belgium) on ‘Decolonising the dead or decolonising death in southern Africa? Some hesitations’ as well as attending the public viva voca examination of his co-supervised PhD Student Nick Rahier. Cecilia Nedziwe, one of the most promising new members of staff in ADS, presented a paper entitled ‘Civil society and gender security in the SADC’ at the virtual Annual Human and Social Sciences Alumni Conference in November, as well as attending the
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