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Title:
Unplanned Community: The Struggle for the South African City
When:
Friday, 10/09  4:15pm
Where:
Room C415A -
Category:
The Social Justice, Gender and Health Seminar

Description

ANNE-MARIA MAKHULU
Friday October 9th, 2009 4:15 pm, Room C415A

For the inaugural meeting of this year's Social Justice, Gender and Health Seminar, Anne-Maria Makhulu will speak about the ways in which the South African black metropolitan poor under apartheid and immediately after the transition to democracy sought to make strategic claims on the apartheid state. She is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Duke University, a contributor to Politics, Publics, Personhood: New Ethnographies at the Limits of Neoliberalism (forthcoming 2009) and a co-editor of Hard Work, Hard Times: Ethnographies of Volatility and African-Being-in-the-World (forthcoming 2009).

 

Reading: to come

 

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Co-sponsored by The Center for Place, Culture and Politics

Venue

Location:
Room C415A