Announcements
Monday, 25 October, 2021 - 16:00
Irvin Sifiso Jiyane
The development of the Witbank coal area has been explained by historians and other scholars in terms of environmental exploitation, its railway connectivity to the Witwatersrand, and the availability of cheap and strictly controlled more
Tuesday, 26 October, 2021 - 18:00Add to Calendar
Keith Breckenridge
WISER and the The Forge invite you to join us for an on-line seminar by
Tom Lodge
Who joined the Party? The changing sociology of South African Communism, 1921-2021
Who joined the South African Communist Party during the more
Wednesday, 27 October, 2021 - 18:00Add to Calendar
Helen A. Neville
WISER PUBLIC POSITIONS SERIES 2021
FANON AFTER FANON
Session 9
Helen A. Neville (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Fanonian Foundations of Liberation Psychology and Social Justice Counseling
& more
Monday, 1 November, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
Daniel Herwitz
From one perspective repatriation is understood as the return of stolen property to its original owners. Which is a legal model. But from another repatriation is not about legal property but rather about the theft of a past which then was more
Monday, 8 November, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
Grounding the paradox of cohesion and contestation in public space (co-authored with Carmel Rawhani)
Temba, Carmel Middelmann &, Rawhani
Assumptions surrounding public space and norms in Johannesburg’s public space management and policies appear to be based on core aims such as inclusivity and justice which ultimately aspire to social cohesion. These aspirational policies more
Monday, 15 November, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
Meredith Root-Bernstein
In this presentation I challenge the widespread notion that environmental degradation is an ecological state. Degradation is considered, by many global organisations and NGOs, to be one of the most pressing environmental threats, more
Monday, 22 November, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
Madalitso Phiri
South Africa’s and Brazil’s social policy architectures attempt to address the residues of institutional poverty, inequality, and unemployment. South Africa remains deeply unequal and polarized despite government commitments to undo more