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

[Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen]

is this paper available for downloading, for those of us outside of durban?

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Patrick Bond <pbond at mail.ngo.za> 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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