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Welcome to the Emerging Scholars Initiative (ESI), a vibrant platform standing on three pillars that underpin our commitment to shaping a brighter future. Through ESI Press we support early career scholars publish their research. ESI Labs, our research arm, shapes positive change through multi-disciplinary collaboration and a challenge-based learning approach. Our ESI Reach pilar focuses on promoting academic impact by facilitating broader distribution of scholarly work. This is where diverse perspectives thrive, innovative research unfolds and scholarly impact shapes a more informed and a better future.
Vol. 46 No. 1 (2024): The Strategic Review for Southern Africa
The Strategic Review for Southern Africa is an internationally accredited and peer-reviewed periodical of the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria. The Strategic Review is listed as an accredited journal in South Africa and on the IBSS (international) list of accredited journals. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least two members of the Editorial Committee and/or external reviewers.
HumanEATies – 100 Recipes by the Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria
Why a cookbook, and why does it matter to a Faculty of Humanities?
Food represents our edible world. It is a concept, an idea and a practice. It is because food is more than a micronutrient and a science. Food represents what Appadurai describes as the social lives of things. It is deeply sociocultural and fundamentally associative and relational.
South Africa’s Easy Election Guide: Who To Vote For in 2024
South Africa’s most important election since 1994 may deliver the first coalition government in a democratic South Africa. However, as political parties vie for the votes of South Africans: How do citizens make the choice of where to put their mark? Who can they trust to give voice to their aspirations and help rebuild and grow Africa’s most developed economy to benefit more people in the world’s most unequal society?
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UP’s ‘HumanEATies’ cookbook wins International Gourmand Award
Date: December 13, 2023
HumanEATies topped the list in the B22 category, which recognises free books published by university presses. Dr Heather Thuynsma, Executive Director of UP’s Emerging Scholars Initiative (ESI) Press, which published the book, recalls the team’s reaction upon hearing the news.
“The ESI Press team was on a team Zoom call when we found out that the book had won,” she says. “We could hardly believe it. Needless to say, everyone did a little happy dance at their desks!”
UP’s ESI Press launches free book on history of De Aar
Date: June 23, 2023
The Emerging Scholars Initiative Press (ESI Press), based at the University of Pretoria (UP) Faculty of Humanities, recently published a book on the history of the town De Aar in the Northern Cape.
The book, De Aar: Lines of Architecture in the Making of a South African Town (1902–1977), was written by Dr Giorgio Miescher, Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland’s oldest university. Dr Miescher launched the book in De Aar on Monday 19 June 2023 at the Olive Schreiner House.