Workshop: "Poverty Knowledge in Africa" - 10/2008

Poverty Knowledge in Africa: Interrogating Social Categories and Policies

October 16, 2008

Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York City

Program

9:30am
- Registration and Opening

SESSION
1. Conceptualizing Poverty and the World of Work (10:00am - 12:30pm)

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Vusi Gumede (Republic of South Africa,
Presidency Policy Unit and Cornell University), "Poverty in Southern Africa: Its Extent, Context, and Recent Theoretical, Measurement and Policy Issues".

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Rudzani
Mudau (University of Johannesburg, Centre for Sociological Research), "The Scourge of Underemployment: The Case of Soweto".

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Franco Barchiesi (Department of
African-American and African Studies, Ohio State University) "Poverty and the
Social Imageries of Wage Labor in Post-Apartheid South Africa".

DISCUSSANT: Stephen Ellmann (New York Law School)

SESSION
2. Development, Place, and Social Knowledge (2:00pm - 4:30pm)

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Martin J. Murray (Department of
Sociology, State University of New York, Binghamton), "Interrogating the Discourse of Urban Planning in Africa".

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Isayvani Naicker (Geography Department,
Cambridge University), "The Social Knowledge of Place and the Conservation of
Nature in Africa".

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Ruth Rempel (International Development
Studies, Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg), "Concepts of Poverty and the
Periodization of African Development History".

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Grace Davie (Department of History,
Queens College, City University of New York), "Social Surveys and Poverty Measurement in Post-War British Colonial Africa".

DISCUSSANT: Ron Kassimir (New School for Social
Research)

Page Editor: Ali B. Ali-Dinar, Ph.D.