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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...
Luckymore Matenga (MA) receives book prize for the 2020 SASA students essay competition
Congratulations to Luckymore Matenga (MA) who has received a book prize for participating in the 2020 South African Sociological Association (SASA) students essay competition. Wishing you all the best as you embark on your PhD research.
Unsettled Futures: Precarity and the paradoxes of the post-apartheid project in the countryside.
Bernard Dubbeld was recently an Iso Lomso visiting fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS). He used the time to develop the introduction of his monograph, "Unsettled Futures: Precarity and the paradoxes of the post-apartheid project in the...
Scholarships and Bursaries: 2021
The Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University is delighted to announce the following Scholarships and Bursaries: Honours 2021: Indexing Transformation Scholarships at R85000. Apply with your academic record and a paragraph- length...
Indexing Transformation Seminar: Scales of Justice
Dear Colleagues,Please join us on the 15th of October for our following Indexing Transformation Seminar. Ruchi Chaturvedi is presenting a seminar titled ‘Scales of Justice’ seeking to answer the question of what a more democratic form of...
Speaking truce to power: The benefits of deploying female soldiers on foreign peacekeeping missions
Peacekeeping operations, as opposed to warfare, require greater impartiality, sensitivity and empathy – attributes generally discouraged by traditional military training. One of the reasons for the inclusion of more women in the military and on peacekeeping missions...
OPINION: The rapid reopening of the economy does not empower women
Claire Lester, PhD Candidate in Sociology, published an article in the Daily Maverick: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2020-07-01-the-rapid-reopening-of-the-economy-does-not-empower-women/ She was also interviewed on Smile FM on 1 July 2020 (podcast...
Transforming Transformation – book launch
Exhibition: Letters of Stone
The exhibition "Letters of Stone" tells the story of the fate of the Jewish Robinski family, based on the research of Steven Robins. Thursday 21 February 2019. 19h00.Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre1 Duncombe Road, Forest Town