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 […]