Pretoria, Tuesday 15 November 2022 –Physical, symbolic and structural types of violence are embedded in the lives of young people in the Global South. However, having struggled against violence related to colonialism, slavery, and capitalist expropriation, these young people have developed the capacity to oppose violence through collective agency.
To expand on this, the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) will host a webinar entitled ‘Violences and collective agency of young people in the Global South’ on Wednesday, 16 November 2022 at 13h00.
The webinar is the fourth in a series of five HSRC Global South Youth Studies seminars convened to broaden and deepen southern scholarship about, with and for young people, and to grow a community of practice. The series began with the 2021 publishing of The Oxford Handbook of Global South Youth Studies, edited by Sharlene Swartz, Adam Cooper, Clarence Batan and Laura Kropff Causa.
In this webinar, chapter contributors to The Oxford Handbook of Global South Youth Studies will explore violence and collective agency responses.
Clarence Batan will explain how the hostile Philippines labour market leaves young people on standby to find alternative ways to access services, rights and livelihoods. Laura Kropff Causa will focus on how young Mapuche activists dismantle and reproduce identities and experiences of violence in Argentina. Ines Rojas will explore the lives of Venezuelan university students, explaining their choices as part of the routinisation of conflict, which has psychological impacts. Roshni Nuggehalli will focus on how young people marginalised by caste, religion, and material deprivation, construct practices of citizenship, strengthen collectives and work toward community transformation.
Dr Adam Cooper (HSRC) will chair the webinar with Prof Michelle Fine, Kenzi Bishara and Michael Williams (City University of New York) as discussants.
PAPERS:
- Necropolitics and young Mapuche activists as a public menace in Argentina, Prof Laura Kropff Causa, National Scientific and Technical Research Council and National University of Río Negro, Argentina
- Youth protagonism in urban India, Roshni Nuggehalli, Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action, Mumbai, India
- Unearthing historical violence in the lives of istambays using Rizal’s theory of colonial Philippines, Prof Clarence Batan, University of Santo Tomas, Philippines
- Venezuelan youth and the routinization of conflict, Prof Ines Rojas, University of Los Andes, Venezuela
Details of the event
Date: 16 November 2022
Time: 13h00 to 16h00
Link: Meeting Registration – Zoom
For media inquiries:
| Dr Lucky Ditaunyane, Cell: 0832276074, Email: lditaunyane@hsrc.ac.za | Adziliwi Nematandani, Cell: 0827659191, Email: anematandani@hsrc.ac.za |
Notes to the Editor
About the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)
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