Land Labour Life: Call for submissions for ellipses […] special edition
Call for submissions for ellipses […] special edition. Co-ordinated by
Society, Work and Politics Institute (SWOP)
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…
Simon Gush
Simon Gush is an artist and filmmaker. His research explores work (waged and unwaged) and land.
Prishani Naidoo
Prishani’s intellectual life has been shaped by her engagements in (and with) academia; political organisations; trade unions; social movements; community groups; artist, media, education and research collectives; NGOs; and other civil society formations.
The Forgotten Rural Series with MADEYOULOOK
SWOP and Madeyoulook hosted a series of talks, workshops, screenings and listening sessions about land.
Maternar. Perspectivas críticas desde el arte
SWOP co-hosted an online conference with the Institute for Research in Aesthetic Practices (IIE) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) at the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). The conference comes out of an exhibition entitled, ‘Mothering. Between Stockholm Syndrome and Acts of Production’.
Living with Uncertainty. Reflections from Mexico and South Africa
A conversation between Helena Chávez and Prishani Naidoo, moderated by Arturo Mendoza. Hosted by UNAM-Sudafrica, UNAM Internacional, The Society, Work and Politics Institute and the Wits School of Arts. Date: 10 June 2022 Time: 11h00 – 12h30 Venue: Seminar Room, Humanities Grad Centre, Ground Floor, South West Engineering Building, Wits University.
The Failed Promise of Tenure Security – Customary Land Rights and Dispossession Conference
Twenty-five years after the Constitution was adopted the 18 million South Africans living in the former homelands have limited recognition of their tenure security. Instead, their customary and informal land rights are directly and systematically under threat from government laws, policies and practices that abrogate these rights. This conference seeks to inform and enrich the public and academic discourse about land tenure rights, ongoing threats to these rights, and the urgent need for state intervention to protect and enhance land tenure security in line with the Constitution.