PADKOS NO 85 Featuring Mary Akuteye, Erica Ofoe, Kofi Larweh, Jonathan Langdon & Eurig Scandrett An extraordinary panel from Ghana, as well as Canada & Scotland, closes out this six-month season of CLP’s “School of Thought”, which has been developed with the Paulo Freire Project at UKZN. This year’s “School of Thought” has been organised
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PADKOS NO 83 Next up in the Paulo Freire-focused “School of Thought” padkos sessions, Graham Philpott and Mark Butler will open a conversation about the theological foundations and connections in Freire’s life and work. Although it’s not always known or emphasised in discussions of Paulo Freire, the fact is that Christianity was important – both
PADKOS NO 81 First Class in the 2018 ‘School of Thought’ , 27 March @ 11am Firoze Manji returns for another exciting padkos conversation on March 27th. In 2015, Firoze’s amazing input on “What’s Left in Africa?” closed off our ‘School of Thought’ series. This time around, Firoze opens the 2018 edition of a new ‘School
PADKOS NO 74 We’re thrilled to welcome Nigel Gibson back to CLP. Prof Gibson is based at Emmerson College in the USA, and is also an honorary professor at UHURU. He is a former recipient of the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award. On the 50th anniversary of Frantz Fanon’s death, Nigel was a central contributor to
PADKOS NO 75 Don’t forget that there’ll be two events you can join us for: 1. A smaller padkos conversation around ‘Fanon, our current context, and the praxis of emancipatory politics’. This will take place between 10 am and 12:30 pm in the CLP Board Room in Burger Street. 2. A public seminar co-hosted with the Paulo Freire
PADKOS FOLLOW UP ON NO 75 We’re very glad to share the text of Nigel’s recent talk on “Fanon, politics, and psychiatry”. Based on an integration of as-yet-unpublished material concerning Fanon’s psychiatric praxis with Gibson’s lifelong Fanonian scholarship, the talk was exciting and fresh. A number of the (sizable) audience had asked if it was
PADKOS NO 76 In this excellent recent piece for the Mail & Guardian, Richard Pithouse draws together a number of strands that are simply fundamental to our own praxis at the Church Land Programme. He flags some of the key trajectories and connections of a radical tradition of political work that holds at its centre, the
PADKOS NO 77 At the next Padkos Bioscope we’re showing the brilliant documentary, “Zone to Defend”, that focuses on an important current site of resistance to ‘large, imposed and useless’ infrastructure development projects. The attached essay by Kristin Ross is the introduction to a new ebook – The Zad and NoTAV – that deals extensively with that resistance against a
PADKOS NO 76 Since at least 2015, the Church Land Programme (CLP) has been struck by the growing number of communities dealing with the prospects of fracking for natural gas and expanded mining of untapped coal reserves in parts of KwaZulu-Natal. We’ve asked Jasper Finkeldy to help paint a picture of the dynamics, interests, trajectories
PADKOS NO 75 The destructive and competitive values that sustain capitalism and that legitimate hierarchy – and which are relentlessly pushed throughout society – often undermine the work we try to take forward with people in so much of the work we do in the broader community. It’s so important to challenge these, and to