Incorporating bomahlalela; reconceptualising unemployment and labour in the age of uncertainty
Thabang Sefalafala Dr. Thabang Sefalafala argues that COVID-19 has brought to many the tacit realisation that jobs alone cannot give...
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- Jul 16, 2020
- 1 min
Crashed conversations: Two webinars with Prof Adam Tooze
Crashed conversations Two webinars with Prof Adam Tooze, author of the 'masterly and monumental' Crashed: how a decade of financial...
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- Jul 16, 2020
- 1 min
SOMA | Rose Partiff
Rose Partiff Thursday, 16 July 12:00 Mex – 13:00 EST – 10:00 PST— [19:00 South Africa] ‘Covid as Multiplane: Liberty, History and the...
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- Jul 13, 2020
- 2 min
Youth, precarious work and the gig economy: Rethinking social policy responses
See an excerpt below, read the full article written by Lauren Graham and Hannah Dawson here South Africa’s unemployment figures rarely...
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- Jul 13, 2020
- 2 min
Reviews of 'Bonds of Justice: The Struggle for Oukasi' (K. Forrest)
Steven Friedman has written a review of Bonds of Justice: The Struggle for Oukasie. Read the excerpt below and the full review in The...
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- Jul 10, 2020
- 15 min
Land | Labour | Life
This conversation was produced for the exhibition Sounding the Land, as part of the National Arts Festival, 2020....
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- Jul 9, 2020
- 7 min
Why did the worker not remain an artisan and an artist?
The unattended question of the worker’s ontological identity Isaac Dumi Since Covid-19 is something of a question about the future, in...
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- Jul 9, 2020
- 7 min
The deadly surplus
Isaac Dumi The story is a parody of the authority in the capitalist society. The idea is that the authority of this society tends to be...
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- Jul 8, 2020
- 1 min
SOMA Summer | Marcelo Expósito
Marcelo Expósito Thursday, 9 July 12:00 Mex – 13:00 EST – 10:00 PST— [19:00 South Africa] “We dematerialise again” What relation exists...
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- Jul 2, 2020
- 8 min
[Webinar]: What “Saving the academic year at all costs” means for students from poor households
SWOP webinar: Saving the academic year at all costs? The brutality of an elite education system, navigating poverty and surviving the...
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- Jun 30, 2020
- 5 min
[Webinar] Mining in Lebowa: The Pre-history of the Platinum Boom
The History Workshop and the Society, Work and Politics Institute (SWOP) cordially invite you to a webinar presented by Dr Laura...
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- Jun 30, 2020
- 1 min
SOMA Summer | Cuauhtémoc Medina
SOMA Summer, a virtual conference Conversations at a distance: Can we think social justice again? The first conversation was with...
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- Jun 28, 2020
- 1 min
Interview with Rev. Tsakane Sibanda and Qaba Mbola of Ujamaa collective
This is one of a series of conversations on Covid-19, the right to food and radical politics. Andrew Bennie, a co-founder of the food...
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- Jun 27, 2020
- 1 min
Interview with Jade Percassi of Brazil's Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST)
This is one of a series of conversations on Covid-19, the right to food and radical politics. Andrew Bennie, a co-founder of the food...
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- Jun 26, 2020
- 4 min
We Need a New Conception of Labour
Khwezi Mabasa Khwezi Mabasa argues that the Covid-19 pandemic has amplified the economic policy debates on the need to rethinking the...
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- Jun 23, 2020
- 35 min
Interview with Gauteng MEC for Health, Dr Bandile Masuku
On 31 May, a day before South Africa moved to Level 3 of our national lockdown, SWOP's director, Dr Prishani Naidoo, got to speak with Dr...
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- Jun 16, 2020
- 5 min
[Webinar]: “COVID testing is just like bloodsucking"
A critical analysis of bloodsuckers’ vigilante violence in Malawi with Daniel Kabunduli Nkhata Friday, 26 June, 13:00-14:00 SWOP held a...
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- Jun 9, 2020
- 1 min
In, out and round-about: the variegated terrain of labour responses to the C-19 pandemic in SA
Dale T. McKinley In the overall context of this historic crisis, will survivalism and the more immediate meeting of basic material needs...
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- Jun 1, 2020
- 29 min
On the right to food: interview with Indian campaigner, Dipa Sinha
This is one of a series of conversations on covid-19, the right to food and radical politics. Brittany Kesselman, a research associate at...
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- May 25, 2020
- 14 min
Interview with Alexandra community health workers, Thabo Shivalo and Patricia Petja
Thabo Shivalo and Patricia Petja are community health workers in Alexandra and both are members of NUCWOSA.
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