Ari Sitas

I was introduced to Michael Burawoy’s work in 1979. Eddie Webster, my teacher, came to me clutching a fresh book, Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism. He insisted that I had to use this book in the lectures I was to give as his replacement at Wits. “This is a perfect companion”, he insisted, “to Huw...

South African Minister of Higher Education and Training, Blade Nzimande, commissioned sociologists Ari Sitas and Sarah Mosoetsa to chart the future of and make proposals for the Humanities and the Social Sciences. Global Dialogue asked them to summarise their bold vision. The full report and commentary can be found at www.charterforhumanities.co.za.   At a time...