[DEBATE] : 21 July - Day-long CCS seminar on Social Movements Research (Wallerstein, Makhulu, Ferguson, Desai, CCS students)

[Patrick Bond]

If in Durban on July 21, join our visitors Immanuel Wallerstein, 
Anne-Maria Makhulu and James Ferguson - and post-graduate students 
Baruti Amisi, Shireen Essof, Prishani Naidoo, Trevor Ngwane, Virginia 
Setshedi and Ahmed Veriava - for a day of informal presentations and 
discussions on social movements research.

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21 JULY

DAY-LONG SEMINAR ON SOCIAL MOVEMENTS RESEARCH
Cases, Methods, Comparisons

UKZN Centre for Civil Society
School of Development Studies Seminar Room
Memorial Tower Building, Howard College Campus (Glenwood, Durban)

9am-10:15:
CCS doctoral candidates:
• Baruti Amisi discusses DRC civil society and potential eco-social 
resistance to the Inga power project
• Shireen Essof (Stellenbosch) reviews her dissertation research on 
casualisation and worker resistance

10:30-noon:
CCS post-graduate student research on Soweto and Johannesburg urban 
social movements:
• Prishani Naidoo
• Trevor Ngwane
• Virginia Setshedi
• Ahmed Veriava

Noon-1pm:
light lunch

1-4pm
Panel on social movement research chaired by Ashwin Desai, with special 
guests
• Anne-Maria Makhulu (Duke) on Cape Town urban movements,
• James Ferguson (Stanford) on policy advocacy by SA social movements, and
• Immanuel Wallerstein (Yale) on revisiting ‘anti-systemic movements’ 
research after Zapatismo, Seattle and the World Social Forum.

4-6 pm
For those available, discussion moves to Yellowwood Park (game reserve 
15 minutes south of UKZN)

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For more information contact Patrick Bond (pbond at mail.ngo.za) and Molefi 
Ndlovu (molefi at union.org.za). Copies of inputs will be available after 
24 July.