WISER | Trust Project | Lectures on a unified theory of trust | Wednesday, March 27, 14:00 SA time

We invite you to join us for the series of lectures on trust hosted in hybrid format in the WISER Seminar room and on Zoom.  Please register on Zoom in advance of the meetings in order to join us. 

2.  14:00 SA Wednesday, March 27 |  Trust in Africanist scholarship | Laura Phillips and Keith Breckenridge

Africanists have written insightfully on the fragile institutions of trust, and the pervasiveness of mistrust, in the societies of this continent. This work is typically ethnographic in its method, and it has produced explanations of the crisis of trust -- and the politics of mistrust --  that differ markedly from the most influential accounts in the northern scholarship. Some of the most recent work follows the Comaroffs in observing that the collapse of trust in the wealthiest societies signals the tribalisation of the old imperial societies.  [works to discuss : Carey, Geschiere, Hart, Monga, Shipton, Zeleza]