The Pressure of Waste: Sanitation Protests, Material Density and Technopolitics of Inclusion in Urban South Africa

Please join the Duke University Africa Initiative for a special presentation with Professor Steven Robins and Professor Peter Redfield on 'The Pressure of Waste: Sanitation Protests, Material Density, and Technopolitics of Inclusion in Urban South Africa,' March 2, 1:30 - 3:00pm in Friedl 225.

Steven Robins is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch. He has published on a wide range of topics including the politics of land, 'development' and identity in Zimbabwe and South Africa; the Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC); urban studies and most recently on citizenship and governance. His book entitled From Revolution to Rights in South Africa: Social Movements and Popular Politics (2008) focuses on globally connected social movements, NGOs and CBOs that are involved democratic struggles over access to AIDS treatment, land and housing. He has edited two books: Limits to Liberation After Apartheid: Citizenship, Governance and Culture (2005) and (with Nick Shepherd) New South African Keywords (2008).

Peter Redfield is trained as a cultural anthropologist sympathetic to history, with a concentration on circulations of science and technology in colonial and postcolonial contexts. The author of Life in Crisis: The Ethical Journey of Doctors Without Borders (California 2013) and Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana (University of California Press, 2000).