Urban Crisis Series: Exploiting the infrastructural labour of logistics by Bridget Kenny
The next seminar in the research workshop seminar series, A multidisciplinary approach to the study of Urban Crisis: A focus on the City of Johannesburg.
Urban Crisis Series: State of Local Government in Gauteng by Rashid Seedat
The next seminar in the research workshop seminar series, A multidisciplinary approach to the study of Urban Crisis: A focus on the City of Johannesburg.
SWOP Lunch Break: After the rainbow: South Africa’s interregnum through Brazil’s lens
SWOP Lunch Break: After the rainbow. South Africa’s interregnum through Brazil’s lens with Fabio Luis
Urban Crisis Seminar Series
Research Workshop Seminar Series – A multidisciplinary approach to the study of Urban Crisis: a focus on the City of Johannesburg
SWOP Lunch Break: ‘Historicising Crisis in a South African Rural Municipality: Spatial, Administrative and Extractivist Dimensions’
https://youtu.be/9264bDGHzbk ‘Historicising Crisis in a South African Rural Municipality: Spatial, Administrative and Extractivist Dimensions’ By Joel Pearson This seminar contributes to existing local government scholarship by presenting a situated and relational historical study of the Mogalakwena Local Municipality in present-day Limpopo Province of South Africa. Drawing off an empirical foundation compiled from archival and oral history sources, […]
SWOP Lunch Break: ‘Active Waiting at the Mine Recruitment Centre: Youth, Unemployment and Everyday Contention in Bethanie’
https://youtu.be/B6s9n6DDX58 Active Waiting at the Mine Recruitment Centre: Youth, Unemployment and Everyday Contention in Bethanie Kefuoe Makena Bethanie, home to the Bakwena ba Mogopa community, is sitting on vast mineral deposits. In September 2018, a protest erupted, highlighting issues of unemployment, lack of service delivery and underdevelopment in the community. While protests have taken place […]
Upcoming SWOP Lunch Break Seminars
SWOP invites you to join the Lunch Break seminar series for the second semester of 2024. 2 August – Kefuoe Makena: ‘Active Waiting at the Mine Recruitment Centre: Youth, Unemployment and Everyday Contention in Bethanie, North West Province’ 20 September – Joel Pearson: ‘Historicising Crisis in a Rural Municipality: Spatial, Administrative and Extractivist Dimensions’ 18 […]
The Price of Solidarity (part of the Why Germany series)
Thinking transhistorically across anti-colonial, anti-war and anti-apartheid solidarity movements: Noor Nieftagodien, Ulrike Kistner, Jo Bluen and Bettina Malcomess.
Re-membering Politics — a discussion with Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos and Rama Salla Dieng
SWOP invites you to a seminar on the 22nd of May, presented by Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos and Rama Salla Dieng, as part of the Re-membering Politics programme.
The art of politics…the politics of art – silkscreen workshop and discussion on democracy
What makes Politics today? An election? And what makes an election? A cross on a ballot? A vote to be counted? To be counted as being … Political? Being politically?