Miles Larmer (Oxford) and Vito Laterza (UCT) will convene a panel on “Social and Political Mobilisation in Mining Communities in Southern and Central Africa” at the 6th European…
By Vito Laterza Originally published by Canadian alternative media platform Ricochet on 3 July 2015. It has been a hot week for Greece, driven by uncertainty ahead of…
By Vito Laterza Originally published by Canadian alternative media platform Ricochet on 3 July 2015. It has been a hot week for Greece, driven by uncertainty ahead of…
By Vito Laterza Originally published by Canadian alternative media platform Ricochet on 3 July 2015. It has been a hot week for Greece, driven by uncertainty ahead of…
By Keith Hart In the late 90s I met the US ambassador in Paris. He asked what Tony Blair was going to do with the pound/euro issue. I…
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIATHE HUMAN ECONOMY RESEARCH PROGRAMME POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS – CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The University of Pretoria’s Human Economy Research Programme has funding for six postdoctora…
By Theodoros Rakopoulos It is not news that the Greek left has abandoned its radical agenda. Syriza steered their wheel rightward way before the election they won at…
We are proud to present the edited collection People, Money and Power in the Economic Crisis: Perspectives from the Global South, edited by Keith Hart and John Sharp,…
Faculty of Social Sciences at South Asian University, New DelhiPresents Contributions to Contemporary Knowledge – 2015 Gandhi as a Global Thinker:Legacies of the Anti-Colonial Revolution&nbs…
By Joseph Noko and Admire Thonje
This week we post the YouTube video of Prof. Supriya Singh’s lecture “The Global South Shapes the Future of Money”, delivered in Pretoria on 19 August 2014. Supriya…
By John Bryden In the end, we Scots did not win our independence from England last week, as 45% of the electorate voted ‘YES’ while 55% voted ‘NO’…
Photo credit: Polina Gioltzoglou
The Human Economy Programme team is pleased to announce the visit of distinguished guest Professor A.R. Vasavi. She won the Infosys prize for 2013 and was Dean of…
The Human Economy Programme invites you to attend the workshop Land, money and human relations in southern and central Africa:people’s economic strategies combining city and countryside Conv…
The Human Economy Programme team proudly presents an exciting series of events at the University of Pretoria (Hatfield Campus) for the second half of August 2014.If you would…
By Tijo Salverda As I have already pointed out in an earlier piece in this blog, growing inequality has become a major issue of concern around the world.…
You can now listen to the 2014 Audrey Richards Annual Lecture in African Studies, delivered on Thursday 22 May in Cambridge by Professor Keith Hart, co-director of the…
By Dennis Webster Near to where I live in Sunnyside in Pretoria is a shopping centre called Sterland. The Ster-Kinekor there seems to be the exception to all…
By Doreen Gordon There have been many tributes to the Jamaican born thinker, Stuart Hall. He was remarkable for his ability to move between the worlds of the…
By José Adalima Mozambique often features as an example of successful transition from war to peace. The peace agreement was signed in 1992, after sixteen years of civil…
