[Debate] Reminder of CCS seminar on housing policy today (with Eric Baldwin)

[Khadija Sharife]

don't put the poor in a box - it applies to movements like abm etc that
contest authority on the basis of promises not fulfilled while offering to
legitimise same authority once housing etc provided. in that instance, yes,
political liberalism (of a sort) was invoked.

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Tshepo Madlingozi <tmad44 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Really? Who compromises liberalism in SA today? the poor? really?
>
> I confess I do not understand most of the central premises of this
> abstract: why should SA aspire to be a 'liberal state' (forget whether a
> 'state' can be liberal. What is a 'liberal state'? Is it the same as a
> liberal government? A liberal society? Confused). 'Political liberalism' is
> threatened. Did we ever have political liberalism that is now threatened?
> Maybe for us NGO, academic elites, 'independent researchers', and lawyers,
> but for the poor - 'political liberalism' does not exist. only politics of
> patronage, repression, suppression, and violence and counter-violence.
> Understanding this bifurcated nature of the SA polity is primary. This is
> to say nothing of the rural 'masses' and whether they have tasted
> 'political liberalism'. Lastly, as someone who pretends to be a lawyer, I
> have difficulty understanding how the provision or 'delivery' of housing is
> part of of a 'scheme of basic liberties'....
> On 5 Jul 2012, at 11:04, Khadija Sharife wrote:
>
> In their pursuit of housing reform, are dissident groups compromising or
> strengthening political liberalism?
>
>
> important question to consider, no?
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Tshepo Madlingozi <tmad44 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Wow, CCS is promoting liberalism now?!! Wow! Thata maChance!
>> On 5 Jul 2012, at 08:32, Patrick Bond wrote:
>>
>> *CCS Seminar: **Housing Policy and Liberal Philosophy in Post-Apartheid
>> South Africa*****
>>
>> *
>> Speaker: Eric Baldwin*****
>>
>> *Date: Thursday, 5 July 2012*****
>>
>> *Venue: CCS Seminar Room 602, 6th Floor, MTB, Howard College*****
>>
>> *Time: 12:30-14:00*****
>>
>> * *****
>>
>> *Topic:*
>> This research focuses on the work of John Rawls and political liberalism
>> in the context of housing policy in post-apartheid South Africa. In his
>> later work, Rawls produces a conception of political justice independent of
>> any social and moral theory. The non-metaphysical nature of Rawls'
>> conception of political justice allows for the free manifestation of public
>> reason and therefore the liberal state. Twenty years after a democratic
>> transition South Africa is a laboratory for the study of Rawlsian political
>> liberalism. However, the extent of political liberalism is threatened by a
>> series of sociopolitical issues. The end of this research will be to argue
>> that the most substantial of these is a failure to deliver adequate housing
>> to South Africa's most disadvantaged as part of a scheme of basic
>> liberties. As South Africa compromises its status as a liberal state,
>> radical left movements play a critical and unique role in policy formation.
>> Rawls neglected to include provisions in his theory of justice to handle
>> dissident groups of the left. This research asks the question: In their
>> pursuit of housing reform, are dissident groups compromising or
>> strengthening political liberalism? This seminar will be an overview and
>> elucidation of this research in its preliminary stages. ****
>>
>>
>> *Speaker:*****
>>
>> Eric Baldwin is a visiting scholar at the Centre for Civil Society. He is
>> a B.Phil candidate in Political Science and a Chancellor's Research Fellow
>> in the University Honors College at the University of Pittsburgh
>> (Pittsburgh, USA). He is co-advised by Michael Goodhart and Andrew Lotz.
>> His defense is tentatively planned for March 2013. Other research interests
>> include: the work of Emma Goldman in the context of anarcho-feminist
>> political thought, epistemologies of power in western societies, and
>> postmodern spatial politics in the urban environment. In addition to his
>> research and academic work he serves as a senior editor for the Pittsburgh
>> Undergraduate Review and president of Alpha Phi Omega a national community
>> service fraternity, and is a longstanding member of the Pitt College
>> Democrats. He is originally from the state of Vermont. ****
>>
>> *
>>
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