'Dis-locations: Understanding Public Space from Cape Town', Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch

[Cetta Mainwaring]

Dear all,

The Balsillie School's Migration, Mobilities and Social Politics cluster is organizing an event next Wednesday, April 8: Professor Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch will be speaking on 'Dis-locations: Understanding Public Space from Cape Town' at 12:30PM - 2:30PM in Room 1-42 at the Balsillie School of International Affairs.

More details about the speaker and the talk are included below.

Lunch will be served between 12.30 and 1pm with the talk to follow. The talk is free but registration is encouraged so that we can cater accordingly:

https://www.balsillieschool.ca/event/dis-locations-understanding-public-space-cape-town

Hope to see you there!

Best,
Cetta Mainwaring
Assistant Professor, Sociology and Legal Studies
Fellow, Balsillie School of International Affairs
University of Waterloo, Canada



Abstract

The Southern Turn in the social sciences challenges us to carefully consider the situatedness of the concepts we use, and to try to speak back to theory from de-centered locations. In this regard, the South African case, and Cape Town in particular, are useful locations from which to think about the vexed idea of public space. One reason for this is the apartheid past, during which Africans were systematically excluded from public spaces, including political, social and urban/juridical public space. Another reason is the contemporary context of a new democracy, in which rights and citizenship are still very much in flux. Both theoretically and through specific case studies, the talk will explore how the notion of public space is dislocated and reconfigured when re-territorialized in Cape Town.

About the speaker:
Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch is a Professor of Geography at the University of Grenoble Alpes. A political, social and cultural geographer, she has been researching contemporary South African cities, and especially Cape Town, since 1993. She is particularly interested in issues of segregation and desegregation, memorialization, citizenship and public space. She also serves as a co-editor of ACME - An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies and Justice Spatiale / Spatial Justice.
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