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Undergraduate sociology and social anthropology modules are taken as part of a degree programmes; each programme prescribes the specific modules…
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(Immigrant) farm workers and social reproduction in South African land reform
2021 Seminar Series.THURSDAY 10 June 2021. 1.00pm – 2.30pm Dr. Mnqobi NgubanePost-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) (Immigrant) farm workers and social reproduction in South African land reform Abstract: The rich diversity...
Teaching Social Theory in South African Sociology
2021 Seminar Series.THURSDAY 22 April 2021. 1.00pm - 2.30pm This roundtable brings together scholars teaching theory in Sociology at five universities. It offers reflections on both the content and the form of teaching theory in and from contemporary South Africa....
Celebrating Rob Pattman
2021 Seminar Series. THURSDAY 8 April 2021. 1.00-2.30pm Rob retired after 10 years at Stellenbosch and a long career in Southern Africa and the UK. This event celebrates his scholarly interventions as a researcher, teacher, mentor and colleague. Featuring Rob’s...
OP-ED: What’s needed to boot GBV out of the military
By Lindy Heinecken. First published in the Mail & Guardian on 19 March 2021 (page 26). Transformation in how SANDF personnel are socialised into becoming soldiers will happen when women and men assertively reject the expected mimicry of masculinity. CLICK DOWNLOAD...
Frank-Talk: Rethinking Foucault’s concept of parrhesia from Johannesburg (Ahmed Veriava)
2021 Seminar SeriesAhmed VeriavaPolitical Studies, University of the Witwatersrand. Thursday 25 March 2021. 1-2.30pm REGISTER HERE FOR SEMINAR LINK
OP-ED: How organic farmer Nazeer Sonday became an accidental warrior for land reform and ecological justice
By Steven Robins. First published on the Daily Maverick on 22 February 2021. What began as a hyperlocal movement to protect the interests of emerging and commercial farmers, farmworkers and informal settlement residents in Cape Town’s Philippi Horticultural Area has...
New book: Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities
A volume on African Cities for which our HOD Lindy Heinecken is senior editor has been published by African Minds and is available as an e-book free of charge. It is entitled Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities edited by...
OP-ED: The real State of the Nation lies underground in broken sewerage and water pipes
By Steven Robbins. First published on the Daily Maverick on 6 February 2020. The breakdown of basic infrastructure across South Africa was brought into sharp focus by the recent Makhanda High Court ruling dissolving the Makana Municipality because of its failure to...
OP-ED: Reclaiming the city and building an urban common in Woodstock
By Steven Robins. First published on The Daily Maverick on 6 January 2021. The occupation and repurposing of Cape Town’s vacant Woodstock Hospital into Cissie Gool House is an exercise in patient and long-term ‘slow activism’ that is strikingly different to the...