TY - JOUR
T1 - Sitas, the poet-sociologist of spaces for struggles and reconciliation
T2 - reconnecting postcolonial Cyprus to South Africa and the world
AU - Trimikliniotis, Nicos
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This paper examines the intellectual and sociological contribution of Sitas as a diasporic public intellectual who bridges and navigates between continents. Sitas's creative, scientific, and critical engagement in postcolonial thinking connects Cyprus to Africa, drawing from both his country of origin, Cyprus, and South Africa, where he excelled as a dramatist, poet, sociologist and public intellectual. This ‘in-betweenness’ seems to be the basis for the vantage point from which to observe society to inspire him during his remarkable intellectual and artistic journey within and between the continents. Perhaps unknown outside Cyprus, Sitas has had a crucial impact on the development of critical social sciences and civic action in Cyprus: the study of racism, intolerance, and the potential for reconciliation and between Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots and bringing to Cyprus postcolonial perspectives from the Global South, opening new readings in the study of reconciliation, borders, migration, precarity and social space.
AB - This paper examines the intellectual and sociological contribution of Sitas as a diasporic public intellectual who bridges and navigates between continents. Sitas's creative, scientific, and critical engagement in postcolonial thinking connects Cyprus to Africa, drawing from both his country of origin, Cyprus, and South Africa, where he excelled as a dramatist, poet, sociologist and public intellectual. This ‘in-betweenness’ seems to be the basis for the vantage point from which to observe society to inspire him during his remarkable intellectual and artistic journey within and between the continents. Perhaps unknown outside Cyprus, Sitas has had a crucial impact on the development of critical social sciences and civic action in Cyprus: the study of racism, intolerance, and the potential for reconciliation and between Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots and bringing to Cyprus postcolonial perspectives from the Global South, opening new readings in the study of reconciliation, borders, migration, precarity and social space.
KW - Border society
KW - Cyprus postcoloniality
KW - reconciliation
KW - social space
KW - third space
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85162936226&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/02589001.2023.2195601
DO - 10.1080/02589001.2023.2195601
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85162936226
SN - 0258-9001
JO - Journal of Contemporary African Studies
JF - Journal of Contemporary African Studies
M1 - 18
ER -