Month: March 2019
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Seminar: Ayanda Nombila — Wednesday 20 March 2019
Read More: Seminar: Ayanda Nombila — Wednesday 20 March 2019Department of Anthropology and Sociology University of the Western Cape Africanity and its Discontents Ayanda Nombila Makerere Institute for Social Research, Makerere University, Uganda Wednesday 20 March 2019 Anthropology Lab, 13h00-14h20 Abstract This paper focuses on the intellectual debate about the idea of Africanity that took place in the Codesria Bulletin of 2000. I argue…
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Seminar: Chinwe Christopher Obuaku-Igwe — Wednesday 12 March 2019
Read More: Seminar: Chinwe Christopher Obuaku-Igwe — Wednesday 12 March 2019Anthropology and Sociology Seminar Series 2019 Economic growth in Nigeria: Revisiting the decision not to join the AFCFTA By Chinwe Christopher Obuaku-Igwe Wednesday 13 March 2019 Department of Anthropology and Sociology UWC Anthropology lab 13h00-14h20 Abstract This paper forms part of a wider effort at engaging the issues of…
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Traditional Leaders in a Democracy. Resources, Respect and Resistance
Read More: Traditional Leaders in a Democracy. Resources, Respect and ResistanceWilliam Ellis has just contributed to an edited volume on traditional leadership in South Africa after 1994 edited by Beth Vale and Dineo Skosana in collaboration with the Mapungubwe Institute for strategic Reflection (MISTRA). Traditional Leaders in a Democracy: Resources, Respect and Resistance was launched last week at the offices of the National Institute for the Humanities and…
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LECTURER: DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY Anthropology at the University of the Western Cape has recently been reconstituted as its own department, reinvigorating a long-standing tradition of rigorous ethnographic research and pedagogy oriented towards critical questions emergent in our African context. The Department invites applicants for the position of Lecturer to contribute towards the growth of a vibrant and…
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A Biennial Conference of the SCA and SVA May 7-8-9 Re/Distribute: Three Radical Economists on (Post)Apartheid Two radical collectives working inside and outside of the academy to agitate with ideas and actions against ongoing histories of dispossession consider what redistribution means in the most unequal national context on earth. In a 50-minute short film, we…
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