Author: Simon Gush

Call for Submissions: Special Issue – Reconfiguring Intimacies: Extraction, Land and Bodies

Call for Submissions: Special Issue – Reconfiguring Intimacies: Extraction, Land and Bodies Extractive Industries and Society Special Issue Editors: Rebecca Hall, Allison Goebel, Marc Epprecht, Lesego LoateFor inquiries, or to submit an abstract, please email Rebecca at: rh116@queensu.ca Reconfiguring Intimacies: Extraction, Land and Bodies emerges out of a community-university research inquiry into community experiences with diamond mining in […]

Wits ASM Research Forum: Senzo Masondo

The Wits Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Research Forum invites you to the next session of our monthly seminar series. Senzo Masondo Ithuna Lomthakath

Kim Johaar

Administrative Assistant​ Kim joined SWOP in December 2024 to assist with the administration and daily operations at the research group. She is a BCom Law, LLB, and LLM graduate and is currently pursuing a Master of Arts degree in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Deadline Extended: Call for Applications: Post-Doctoral Fellowship and Two Masters Scholarships

Co-designing Multi-Value Frameworks for Transparent and Ethical Copper Supply Chains: Artisanal & Small-Scale Mining (ASM) & Copper Harvesting

The Society, Work & Politics Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand invites applications for two Masters scholarships and one Post-Doctoral fellowship for the 2026 academic year. Successful applicants will participate in the Co-designing Multi-Value Frameworks for Transparent and Ethical Copper Supply Chains.

Newsletter 2025

We began the year without knowing, without predictability, within grief and loss. By centering uncertainty in our work, re-membering Prishani and her engagement with it, there is the possibility to imagine differently, a yet to come.