The Centre for Social Sciences Research (CSSR) and the  Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa  (IDCPPA) at the University of Cape Town invite you to join us for a lunchtime seminar on 05 December 2023 at 12:45pm. The seminar will be presented by Bastien Dratwa.

About the Seminar:

(Dis-)Continuities of Violence: The Affective Life of Anti-Immigrant Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa

In his PhD thesis, Bastien set’s out to study two recently established anti-immigrant movements in South Africa, called “Put South Africans First” and “Operation Dudula”. The study is based on three months of ethnographic field research that he conducted together with his research colleague Robert Moleleki in Gauteng from October 2021 to January 2022. Generally speaking, the aim is to examine the processes of social reality construction within PSAF and OD, and in particular, attending to the affective, emotional, narrative, and historical dimensions of mobilizations against migrants. Bastien wants to understand the cultural politics of these movements, how they resonate with the explosion of populist discourses around the world and the international rise of xenophobia, but also how both movements draw on, reanimate and appropriate South Africa’s turbulent history of apartheid and racial oppression to further their anti-immigrant projects.

Speakers

Bastien is a PhD student in International Criminology, enrolled at the University of Hamburg, and a member at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research where he is part of the research group on Macro-Violence. His research interests center on the sociology of violence, narrative criminology, migration studies and the afterlife of colonialism.

 05 December 2024
 12:45 - 14:00 SAST
  CSSR Seminar Room, 4.29 Robert Leslie Social Science Building, UCT

Hosted by the Centre for Social Science Research and the Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa