Book launch, 9 July 6-8pm Ari Sitas and Wiebke Keim

[Dr Anne Wiltshire]

Dear SASA Members

We invite you to the book launch of 'Global South Rising? BRICS and the Reconfiguration of Knowledge Systems' by Ari Sitas and Wiebke Keim @ Exclusive Books

Date: 09 July 2026
Time: 18:00- 20:00
Venue: Mall of Africa, Magwa Cres, Midrand, 1686
RSVP: https://exclusivebooks.co.za/pages/events#?event-id=83483 

Join Ari Sitas, Sarah Mosoetsa, Deborah Bonnin and Rasigan Maharajh in this exciting conversation.

What happens when the world's balance of power starts to shift? Global South Rising? looks at BRICS, the alliance of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa asking a bold question: is this group quietly changing not just who holds economic power, but who gets to produce knowledge, ideas, and science in the world?

Bringing together leading thinkers from across the globe, this book traces BRICS back to a bigger story the 1955 Bandung Conference, where newly independent nations first imagined a fairer global order. Decades later, could BRICS be picking up that unfinished project? And what does it mean for South Africa?

Best Regards,

SASA Social Media

Dr. Anne Hilda Wiltshire
Sociologist | Social Research Methodologist | Social Policy Analyst | Academic Publishing | Editorial Leadership  www.drannewiltshire.com
Sociology Ph.D., Sociology M.A. (cum laude), Sociology B.A. Hons. (cum laude), Humanities B.A. (cum laude) – University of Stellenbosch  www.su.ac.za
'Sociology is the science of making the familiar strange, to better understand and improve the world we live in'.

 Editor – South African Review of Sociology  www.tandfonline.com/journals/rssr20/
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 Research Excellence Award – Agricultural Sector Education Training Authority of South Africa
 Academic Excellence Award – Rector, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

 Recent Publication – Wiltshire, A.H. 2025. Child Work, Care and Neglect in Farmworker Homes: An Empirical Critique of Social Reproduction Theory. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 45 (13-14), 73–91  https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-03-2025-0208

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