Lunch Time Seminars events |
Abstract: Why do ordinary people participate in communal violence? A growing number of social scientists emphasize that ethnic riots -- perhaps the most common and widespread form of communal violence -- are organized as a means to securing leaders' private political and economic goals.
Abstract: Feminist geographies of migration are often based on the assumption that migration brings about social change, potentially disrupting patriarchal structures and bringing about new spaces where gender relations can be renegotiated and reconfigured.
To live with HIV is to be exposed to illness, exclusion, and the gaze of others. In the congested displacement camps of conflict-affected Northern Uganda, where there was little or no privacy, those with HIV/AIDS, who fell ill and received treatment, did so in full view of others. Their bodies became a surface upon which social experiences of conflict, displacement and militarism were read.
There is a weakness within South African civil society in terms of coordination of migrant protection. Government has taken advantage of this gap to introduce new policies without engaging the civil society voices. A good example is the government closure of the Refugee Reception Centre in Johannesburg with further plans to relocate refugee and asylum seekers services to the Musina border.
Abstract: The presentation explores the role of nationality and ethnicity in the relationship between congregants and dwellers at the Central Methodist Mission (CMM) in Johannesburg. What roles do nationality and ethnicity play in the construction of collective identities at the CMM?
The presentation will introduce the case study of la Goutte d’Or (Paris) as an example of shifting recent urban policies geared towards disenfranchized neighbourhoods in the capital of France.
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The presentation draws on a book chapter published in B. Gustafson and N. Fabricant (eds.) Remapping Bolivia: Territory, Rights, and Resources in a Plurinational State. Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research Press (pp. 96-115), 2011.
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This study investigates trends in internal labour migration and remittances in South Africa, using nationally representative household survey data collected from 1993 to 2008.
Resilience refers to the amount of change a system can experience before shifting to an alternative state with different structural and functional properties. Urban resilience is thus concerned with these changes in cities and their relationship to different sub-systems that constitute the whole. These changes that take place within cities are influenced by a range of components.
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