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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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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...
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...