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The Department of Social and Anthropology hosts the Anthropology of Children Working Group and the Global Encounters Research Seminar, both of which organise monthly events. More information and specified agenda’s can be found here:
- Anthropology of Children Working Group www.anthropologyofchildren.net
- Global Encounters Research Seminar
www.fsw.vu.nl/globalencounters
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16 February 2012
African Studies Centre Seminar on the occasion of 100 years ANC
Venue: Room 1A27, African Studies Centre, Faculty of Social Sciences Leiden University, Pieter de la Court building, Wassenaarseweg 52, Leiden, a 7-minute walk from Leiden CS. Time: 15.30-17.00 hrs. p.m.
This seminar will explore the evolution of the ANC and other popular movements (including the Communist Party of South Africa) from the first major bus boycott in Alexandra Township and the formation of the ANC Youth League in 1943/44 until the final (successful) bus boycott in the same township in 1957. It will offer an analysis of the production and dissolution of contentious spaces and how these processes shaped resistance politics in this period. One of the main arguments is that by inserting places of the urban poor – locations, peri-urban squatter camps, freehold townships and ‘model’ townships – more centrally into analyses of resistance, it is possible to develop a more nuanced understanding of the character and rhythms of resistance politics than emerge in conventional interpretations that concentrate on the political parties.
Read more: http://www.ascleiden.nl/Events/Seminar-Places-of-Resistance.aspx
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