[Sugarman] Progress on subthemes

[Keith Breckenridge]

Dear all,

We are approaching reporting time for Mellon.

It would be useful, first of all, to have some agreement on the ways we are
describing our activities.

Can we use the following?

* workshops for the 10 events described in the proposals,
* themes for the areas of concentration that emerge from the workshops
* and collaborations for pre-existing areas of

t would be good to know what progress, if any has been made on the themes
that emerged from the last workshop.  Gabrielle has agreed to write
something on the Toxicity theme, but it would be good to hear from any of
the others.

Here's an extract from the email I sent out on May 29.

"... we have five concentration areas, each with two or more organisers.
These groups have different plans for their work, and some of those have
already been posted here.  If you have questions please feel free to post
them to the general list.

1)  Toxicity, waste, detritus -- Gabrielle Hecht and Pamila Gupta
2)  Capitalism from the South -- Sharad Chari and Howard Stein
3)  Global South as Idea -- Achille Mbembe, Nancy Rose Hunt and Adedamola
Osinulu
4)  Cultural theory from the Global South -- Sarah Nuttall, Jennifer Wenzel
and Joey Slaughter
5)  States from the South -- Anne Pitcher and Claire Benit-Gbaffou

There was some discussion of a sixth concentration area around performance,
which seems like a good thing to me."

We also agreed to a schedule of events for the next few years at
http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/2014-May/000097.html

But it would be good to hear suggestions and plans for moving the themes
forward (whatever form that will take).

Many thanks, k






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