Seminars

For much of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the image of baby-farming as an opportunistic and deceitful way to dispose of an unwanted child was a typecast that prevailed in many parts of the world.

New  immigrants  and  the  recently  urbanised  increasingly  co-occupy  estuarial  zones
loosely  structured  by  state  social  policy  and  hegemonic  cultural  norms.  In  these
zones,  hyperdiversity,  transience  and  transgressions  are  becoming  the  norm.  Amid

The fight against counterfeit medication has precipitated a shift from ‘drug safety’ to ‘drug security’. In examining that shift, this project inquires into the unfolding of a logic that aims at ‘securing’ health.

Political division within Afrikanerdom in the early 1980s hit the Broederbond as hard as it hit all other Afrikaner institutions.  The establishment of the Tricameral Parliament was a turning-point not only because it precipitated uprisings in the African townships, but also because the establish

In a world populated by so many acronyms, GFIP makes a good example of a ‘technical’ name given to a megaproject with potentially wide social effects that remained submerged for most of its life.

The primary focus of  this chapter is to illustrate the impact that the daily writing practice of  keeping a diary had on the development of  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's philosophical and political practices.

This article offers a fresh analysis of a key reformist gesture by General Smuts’s Second
World War South African government – the May 1942 order suspending police enforcement
of the pass laws in many of the country’s major cities. Hated by Africans for the curbs they

This draft chapter is part of my current book project that examines the production, consumption, and opposition to skin lighteners in South Africa and tracks how these processes were intimately related to developments in Europe, Asia, East Africa, the broader southern Africa region, and particula

This chapter explores ways of understanding the kinds of transformations and ‘migrations’ that occur when a language moves to a new medium, in this case radio.  I set out what particular tensions and plays of power operate when this occurs in an era where colonial, imperial and, later, state powe

This paper is part of a larger project that examines two related issues: (1) the extent to which the notion of 'apartheid' is applicable to Israel/Palestine today, and (2) the extent to which we can engage in a meaningful historical comparison between Israel/Palestine and South African societies.

This chapter examines a case of community protest in a single town, which we call Kungcatsha 1 , which was rocked by two weeks of violent community protests in the second half of 2009.

The term ‘moffie’ stands central to changing discourses around abnormal or deviant Afrikaner masculinity in apartheid South Africa.