Seminars

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“Freedom and Resentment” is a paper I return to again and again. I think it’s a really fascinating, deep, subtle, incredibly important and sometimes really quite annoying paper.

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In 2002 a year before receiving the Nobel Prize, John Maxwell Coetzee relocated from Cape Town to Adelaide, an undistinguished provincial capital in southern Australia with a population of a million and a quarter.

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This a story within a story, and the first story ends like this: on Monday, September 15, 1980, Silverman Jara was stoned to death.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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

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African jazz, also known as mbaqanga and less frequently as Majuba jazz, occupies an important but ambivalent position in the story of South African music.

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Every country in the world has now legally abolished slavery, yet millions of people continue to be trapped in forms of human bondage which are widely regarded as similar and/or equivalent to abusive conditions under historical slave systems.

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In one of his many memorable phrases, Benedict Anderson describes imperialism as a process of “stretching the tight skin of nation over the gigantic body of empire” (86). To Mohandas Gandhi, a reluctant nationalist at best, this sentiment would have seemed back to front.

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On 6 August 2009 the then national Minister of Arts and Culture, Lulu Xingwana, was supposed to open Innovative Women: 10 Contemporary Black Women Artists, an art exhibition that her ministry had funded to the tune of R300,000.

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South Asian history after the subaltern moment has moved to a writing of the intellectual history of colonial India.

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Kant has a number of harsh-sounding things to say about beggars and giving to beggars. He describes begging as “closely akin to robbery” (6:326), and says that it exhibits self-contempt.

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Achille Mbembe argues that the rendering of human beings as waste by the interface of racism and capitalism in South Africa means that “for the democratic project to have any future at all, it should necessarily take the form of a conscious attempt to retrieve life and 'the human' from a history

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The old school or ‘traditional’ model of public administration is under siege.

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