General seminar arrangements in 2025
- WISER's TRUST seminar is hosted on-line every Wednesday afternoon at 16:00 - 17:00 SA during the teaching semester | For information about WISER's PLANT LIVES seminar, please follow this link.
- Please register on Zoom in advance of the meeting on this link.
- Participants must should please read the paper below prior to the seminar, which is typically available by the Friday preceding the seminar.
Livelihoods, the body, and city space.
Monday, 16 May, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by:
Ngaka
Mosiane
The paper suggests that cities of the global south are making an urban redistribution agenda possible through basic services and social grants provisions. The transformative potential of such an agenda is even more attainable when considering the agency of ordinary, poor people themselves: drawing from their bodies and history, and harnessing market-based spatial interventions to build livelihoods and pursue other apirations.