Seminars

Simandou mountain chain in Guinea contains the biggest unexploited high-quality iron ore reserves in the world.

Platform economies are depicted as the foundation for a new era of economic production. This transpires through the incorporation of digital technologies and algorithmic operations into the heart of economic and financial practices.

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Note to Readers:  Thank you so much for reading this draft in progress.

Grounded in Aristotle, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida and Peter Sloterdijk’s reflections on the synesthesia of touch, the haptic sense as “corpus,” and the philosophical possibility of the gestation of a bodily apparatus via the ear, this article takes shape around a thought ex

This chapter from a creative nonfiction book in progress tells a story of Nelson Mandela’s Robben Island prison nurse in her own words. Mrs. N.Z. was the first sister of rank hired to administer care to prisoners there, including Mr.

I present material from the introduction to my book manuscript, Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (to be published by Duke University Press), which analyzes the history, visual rhetoric, and spatial politics of the Dadaab refugee camps in Northeastern

Based on a newly-published book, the paper highlights themes drawn from a historical overview of resistance politics in South Africa and Israel/Palestine.

I will present some work in progress on the possibilities and limits of creating new epistemic infrastructures and orientations which are invested in South-South knowledge-production and collaborations.

In this presentation I will provide an outline of the main arguments of the book project that is currently under contract with Wiley Blackwell, as part of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Studies in Urban and Social Change series.

From one perspective repatriation is understood as the return of stolen property to its original owners. Which is a legal model.

South Africa’s distributive regime is striking to all who observe it.

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This chapter examines the opposition by members of the Xolobeni community to proposed mining on their communally-occupied land, including through litigation.

This paper is an attempt to account for the ascendancy of finance in the South African economy, and the collapse of gold mining.   It emphasises the contest between the derivatives markets that were nurtured by the Black-Scholes-Merton formula, and the Bretton Woods gold standard, both

In this presentation I challenge the widespread notion that environmental degradation is an ecological state.

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 anthropologists.

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