Past Event

The Institute of African Studies Presents:

“The end of relational justice? ‘Ubuntu capitalism’ and the rhetoric of reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa”

with Duncan Scott

Sociology PhD candidate, Queen’s University Belfast (UK)

Duncan Scott is a final-year Sociology PhD candidate at Queen’s University Belfast in the United Kingdom. He worked at the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa between 2010 and 2012 and received a Master’s in African Studies from Oxford University prior to that.

This talk takes up the issues of post-apartheid transformation and the questionable justice potential of relational ethics such as ubuntu and reconciliation. It discusses the viability of these ethics in contemporary South Africa by critiquing the work of two Christian development organizations that emphasize a relational lifestyle to resolve injustices in the city of Cape Town.

This is part of the African Studies Brownbag Seminar Series

(http://www.carleton.ca/africanstudies/)

For more information, please contact the Institute of African Studies at

613-520-2600 ext. 2220 or African_Studies@carleton.ca

For the event poster, click here