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Monday, 27 September, 2021 - 16:00
Jeff Maskovsky
This talk explores the ways that whiteness and paternalism work to categorize labor in the 21st century United States. The entry point for this discussion is the rise of Trumpism, which I see as a post-civil rights era form of right-wing more
Wednesday, 29 September, 2021 - 18:00Add to Calendar
David Goldberg
WiSER invites you to the launch of
D R E A D
Facing Futureless Futures
By David Theo Goldberg
Dread: Facing Futureless Futures is a sustained analysis of the affect of dread, and its prompting by a range of contemporary conditions, more
Monday, 4 October, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
Véra Ehrenstein
This paper is a work in progress. It is about how the climate crisis puts the central African forests centre stage. Earth system models and large datasets show that the world’s forests, especially those located between the tropics, play a more
Monday, 11 October, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
James Merron
This paper is situated within the Technoscapes cluster at WiSER whose scope is to examine the co-production of technologies and spatial orders in Africa. I focus on the production of spatial knowledge of the Orange River through aerial more
Monday, 18 October, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
David, Kearabetswe Coplan &, Moopelo
Abstract The recognition of African ‘traditional’ or ‘customary’ law and its ideological elevation to a status that in principle equals that of the written, legislative South African legal code has provided professional opportunities for more
Monday, 25 October, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
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
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