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?
Gillian Hart in discussion – South Africa and Palestine in an Imperial Frame: Implications for Praxis
Gillian Hart on “South Africa and Palestine in an Imperial Frame: Implications for Praxis”. 5pm at the Humanities Graduate Centre (South West Engineering Building, East Campus, University of the Witwatersrand)
A Political Economy of Water Scarcity in Delmas, South Africa? SWOP Lunch Break
Hidden in the bowels of the Highveld is the coal that powers the mines, factories, industries and cities integral to the mineral-energy complex (MEC) political economy of SA.
The Coloniality of South Africa’s Food System and the Contemporary Food Crisis
It is widely recognised that South Africa’s food system is unhealthy, unjust, and unsustainable.
How to Fix Your Lift
A lift is infrastructure to transport a body up and down.
‘Ukuthwala is a Custom of Darkness’: The violence of ukuthwala and the making of a thwalwa’ed subject
This paper explores how, through its ‘technologies’ of violence, the custom of ukuthwala (bride abduction) creates a terrorised subject in women who find themselves entangled…
SWOP LUNCH BREAK @ THE CLUBHOUSE
The lunch break marks a pause in the working day … a time for rest from production … for forms of exchange not, yet, for-profit…
Alternatives to Capitalism Series: A Contested End to Coal?
South Africa faces an energy crisis and a highly contested end to coal. At the heart of the debates are a number of questions.