Sidla abantwana bethu. Youth political imaginary in Khutsong, South Africa

M.A. University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities (Social Anthropology), 2012This dissertation takes as its point of departure the instances of youth political involvement and political action in the antidemarcation protests in Khutsong, South Africa, from 20052009. The premise of this dissertation is to consider the ways in which political action by young people in South Africa has shifted in response to democratic systems, economic changes and historical political formulations. Through ethnography the lives of young people and their daily experiences are explored to provide cognisance of the everyday challenges of poor black youths today, and to discuss how their political imaginaries have come to respond to contemporary circumstances. The main intent of this research is provide a platform for youth political imaginary in order to contribute to a more nuanced understanding and perhaps afford better responses to youth realities

What is the potential of creative practice to enable new modes and strategies of research?

This roundtable discussion served as an open sharing session where a selection of young practitioners could reflect on themes such as claiming knowledge in unknowable spaces, claiming knowledge outside the epistemic bounds of the academy, and praxis as a research feedback loop

Collaborative Poetics: Conversations with Lalela I

Between January 10-12 2020, 13 women came together at lalela. place of listening - a home, farm and retreat space in the Magaliesbergin South Africa. These women answered an open invitation to join A Retreat in Collaborative Poetics. The invitation was to spend time with the question: When we listen to the land what do we hear? And to work with this question collaboratively - in a lyrical process of experiencing the making and living of poetry as something shared, interconnected and generative