2023-04 - Wits scholars and publisher win humanities and social sciences awards wits.ac.za - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wits.ac.za Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) recently made its awards for 2023. The institute honours "outstanding, innovative and creative contributions" to the human sciences.
2022 - Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House wits.ac.za - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wits.ac.za Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Some years back, I wrote a book about Mahatma Gandhi’s work as a printer and publisher in South Africa, from 1893 to 1914. The man who was to become the great anti-colonial figure had arrived in Durban as a nervous young lawyer and had been rapidly drawn into defending Indian rights. Towards this end, he established a printing press and newspaper. One minor theme in the book was his steadfast opposition to copyright, which he thought hindered the free flow of ideas. Having completed the book, I wanted to investigate this thread further.
Was Gandhi’s position unusual, or not? What was the situation when it came to colonial copyright?
Print History: Isabel Hofmeyr - The View from Africa printweek.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from printweek.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.