Recently, the University of Cape Town (UCT) student organization #RhodesMustFall, displayed a banner proclaiming: “Dear History: This revolution has women, gays, queers, and trans. Remember that.” It was a profound declaration that the old politics of the left can no longer hold, and that the masculinist, male-dominated forms of oppositional politics that centred the male subject as the defining agent of transformation must be confronted....
WiSER PhD students Emery Kalema and Ruth Sacks organised a four-day workshop in Kinshasa titled 'Mediating Past, Present and Future: Historical narratives and 20th/21st century art; Dialogues with Global South experiences.' The project is a cross-disciplinary collaboration between Kinshasa (l’Académie des Beaux Arts, Democratic Republic of the Congo), Johannesburg (Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) and São Paulo (Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil).
John Stremlau comments on the WISER Piketty panel and the implications for taxation and the surveillance of offshore capital flows in the Business Day.
