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Associate Professor
Name: Faeeza Ballim
Location: A RING 236 Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
Department of Historical Studies, Faculty of Humanities听 Staff Members
Contact Details:
Tel: 0115594044
Email:听fballim@uj.ac.za
About Prof Faeeza Ballim
QUALIFICATIONS:
PhD., 欧美福利100000 of Witwatersrand (2017) MSc., Oxford 欧美福利100000 (2011) B.A. 欧美福利100000 of Witwatersrand (2008)
My research lies at the intersection of key themes in African history and Science and Technology Studies. My book entitled , was published by Ohio 欧美福利100000 Press in April 2023. The book is co-published by Jacana Press in South Africa under a different title The book delves into the recent history of the electricity state corporation Eskom and the former steel state corporation Iscor, and their infrastructural developments in the Waterberg in the Limpopo province. My new research is on artificial intelligence developments in Africa.
PUBLICATIONS:听
Ballim, Faeeza. 2023. Apartheid鈥檚 Leviathan: A History of Technological Ambivalence. Athens: Ohio 欧美福利100000 Press.
Ballim, Faeeza. 2021. 鈥淟and Dispossession and the Ghosts of the Medupi Power Station.鈥� In听Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins: The Persistence of the Past in the Architecture of Apartheid, edited by Hilton Judin, 13鈥�28. Wits 欧美福利100000 Press.
Ballim, Faeeza. 2017. 鈥淭he Un-Making of the Group Areas Act: Local Resistance and Commercial Power in the Small Town of Mokopane.鈥澨�South African Historical Journal听69, no. 4: 568鈥�82.
Ballim, Faeeza. 2015. 鈥淭he Pre-History of South African 鈥楴eo-Liberalism鈥�: The Rise and Fall of Co-Operative Farming on the Highveld.鈥澨�Journal of Southern African Studies听41, no. 6: 1239鈥�54.