Sitas, the poet-sociologist of spaces for struggles and reconciliation: reconnecting postcolonial Cyprus to South Africa and the world

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    Abstract

    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.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number18
    JournalJournal of Contemporary African Studies
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2023

    Keywords

    • Border society
    • Cyprus postcoloniality
    • reconciliation
    • social space
    • third space

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