Professor Ari Sitas
Tel: 031-2602439/7193
Head of School/Senior Lecturer
Course: Postgraduate:
The New Economy: Systems, Logistics & Global Flows
Ari is a writer and a sociologist; he holds a chair in Industrial
Sociology and his work focuses on labour, politics and culture within
the parameters of the "new" global economy. He has served as President
of the South African Sociological Association and the executive of the
International Sociological Association. He is also a well-recognised creative poet,
writer and dramatist.
His
teaching includes the following. At the graduate level he offers a
module on the New Economy its global and flows and its organizational
reconfigurations. Through the Peace Studies Programme he is also
co-lecturing on a module on the history of Non-Violent Traditions and
Social Movements in South Africa. At the undergraduate level he offers
a module on social organisations and a project-based course on the
implementation of workplace changes. The latter involves the usage and
understanding of digitality in the workplace.
Ari's current research work focuses on:
· Livelihoods (Poor People's movements and survivalism in the urban and peri-urban areas) · Parables/Popular Narratives (the interface between orality, literacy and digitality in embedded knowledge systems)
· Organisational Reconfigurations (Post-Apartheid South Africa)
· Socio-Economic Alternatives.
His recent publications
include: Theoretical Parables, University of South Africa Press, 2002; Globalisation and
Participation-the South African Dilemma in G.Szell et al (eds) Globalisation, Participation and Culture, Peter Lange, 2001; Love in
the Time of Cholera in Indicator, 2001; Bonds that Shape, Bonds that
Tie and Bonds that Break, in Social Identity, Autumn 2002; The
African Renaissance Challenge and Sociological Reclamations in the
South, in Review, Binghamton, 2002. He is also working on a
manuscript, The Mandela Decade.