‘Politics at a Distance from the State’ Conference
Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South
Africa
29th-30th September
2012
The conference is intended as a space at
which academics & activists sympathetic to, supportive of, or involved in
‘politics at a distance from the state’ can freely explore, discuss and debate
this type of politics.
It considers anti-statist politics in
South Africa and beyond, including anti-statist moments and currents in the
anti-Apartheid movement, and contemporary attempts at building alternative,
pre-figurative forms of communality in South Africa and abroad.
Attendees will include activists from the
1980s BCM, UDF and trade union movement, writers like John Holloway, Jacques
Depelchin, Michael Neocosmos, Richard Pithouse, and Lucien van der Walt
(co-author Black Flame), plus today’s movements supportive of 'at a
distance' politics, like shack-dweller movement Abahlali baseMjondoloolo.
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For further information, please contact:
Kirk Helliker, Sociology, Rhodes
University Tarryn Alexander, Sociology,
Rhodes University
