Rac(e)ing Crime and Poverty into the Present: The State, Colouredness, and Correctional Instituti
Market Integration through Peasantization: The Economic Transformation of Africa, the Caribbean a
African Modes of Self-Writing: A Critique of Political Economy and Nativism Achille Mbembe (WISER
Writing on Witchcraft in Times of AIDS Adam Ashforth (Advanced Center for Social Research, Prince
Rewriting Twentieth-Century South Africa: General History in a Post-Apartheid Era William Beinart
Ethnographies of the Post Colonial State Thomas Blom Hansen (University of Edinburgh)
Legal Pluralism, Decentralization and Conflict in the Sahel Gerti Hesseling (University of Leide
Mourning and Memory in Congo Bogumil Jewsiewicki (University of Laval, Quebec)
The Unreason of the Law Jean & John Comaroff University of Chicago
WISER was officially launched at a function hosted by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Norma Reid,
