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The African Studies Workshop at Harvard continues this year with a new and exciting schedule of presenters. The presenters' papers explore Africa’s changing place in the world - and the new economies, legalities, socialities, and cultural forms that have arisen there. We shall also interrogate the claim that the African present is a foreshadowing of processes beginning to occur elsewhere across the globe; that, therefore, it is a productive source of theory and analysis about current conditions worldwide. At each workshop, a scholar presents a paper on one facet of the rapidly changing position of Africa in the global political economy and the impact of that change on global distributions of wealth, well-being, and power. Then a discussant provides commentary followed by an open discussion, in which students are given the floor first, followed by anyone else in attendance. Workshop presenters are scholars of high international repute as well as up-and-coming Africanist intellectuals.
Presenting: LAND: Policing and the Rapacious Frontier in Dutch South Africa, 1652-1806
Paul T. Clarke is a PhD Candidate in African and African American Studies with a primary field in Anthropology at Harvard University. His research explores policing's role in shaping the political economy of South Africa over time. He is interested, in particular, in the country's private security industry and its impact on everyday life in the post-apartheid. Paul has a BA in Africana Studies and Political Science from Vassar College and MA in Anthropology from the University of the Witwatersrand. His research has been supported by the Fulbright-Hays Program and the Wenner Gren Foundation.
Discussant: Dr. Guy Lamb is with the Political Science Department at the University of Stellenbosch.
This is a hybrid event; however, we encourage our local students and friends to join us in person at the Harvard Center for African Studies Seminar Room at 1280 Massachusetts Ave, Floor 3.
Register to attend online and sign-up for the ASW Newsletter to receive the discussion papers a week before the event.