The Forge, in Johannesburg, will be hosting a series on Land Redistribution in Our Lifetime this month. SWOP's Dineo Skosana will be...

Inaugural Lecture of Professor Karl Von Holdt The making and unmaking of social order: disorder, violence, trajectories Date: Thursday,...

On 27 and 28 April, the Society, Work and Politics Institute (SWOP) will be co-hosting an online conference with the Institute for...

Call for papers for an online symposium: Building knowledge of social life through the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermaths in South Africa.

Call for Papers Re-visiones Journal: Labor, time, jobs, and the construction of subjectivities through artistic and cultural practices....

The WISER Political Economy Seminar, the Society Work and Politics Institute and the UJ History Department invite you to join us for an...

What happened during the July events this year? Was it an insurrection? Food riots? Ethnic insurgency? Ungovernability? An uprising? Two...

SWOP invites you to a webinar as part of the Alternatives to Capitalism Seminar Series: Cranes and coal: connecting the ‘Ecocene’ with...

SWOP Postdoctoral Fellow, Brittany Kesselman, recently published a piece in Project Syndicate on COVID-19 and hunger in South Africa....

SWOP invites you the the virtual launch of a new novel All Gomorrahs are the Same by Thenjiwe Mswane, in conversation with Gorata...

SWOP invites you to a webinar as part of the Alternatives to Capitalism Seminar Series: Industrial Action in South Africa (2000-2018):...

SWOP, together with Wits University Press and LARC are excited to announce the launch of a new book Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South...

Beyond the Wage: A panel discussion to celebrate the launch of a new book SCIS and SWOP invite you to an online panel discussion to...

Violent States, States of Violence Principal Investigators: Prof Garth Stevens (Department of Psychology) and Prof Karl von Holdt (SWOP)...

Jacklyn Cock, a staff member at SWOP, has been appointed to the Cosatu Panel of Experts on a just transition from coal for workers. The...

Hannah Dawson, a Postdoctoral Fellow at SWOP, has recently written about the extension of the COVID-19 grant and the need for a basic...

SWOP is looking to appoint a Senior Researcher to join its team. The candidate should have an established body of scholarship and be...

Dr Dineo Skosana is a researcher at the Society, Work and Politics Institute, has published a recent piece Mine, not yours:When will...

ian.macqueen@up.ac.za This is an adapted version of an article published on the University of Pretoria website. Read the original here....

Dineo Skosana and Jacklyn Cock have drafted a paper that is now available for download. “Our Existence is Resistance”: Women and the...