The AGSO presents Dr. Catherine Besteman
When:
Thursday, March 18, 2021 3:30 PM
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4:30 PM
Where:
Virtual Zoom
Description:
Dr. Catherine Besteman will be
speaking on her most recent publication, “Militarized Global Apartheid.”
Catherine Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which
countries from the global north are reproducing South Africa's apartheid system
on a worldwide scale to control the mobility and labor of people from the
global south. Exploring the different manifestations of global apartheid,
Besteman traces how militarization and securitization reconfigure older forms
of white supremacy and deploy them in new contexts to maintain this racialized
global order.
Dr. Besteman has taught
anthropology and African studies at Colby College since 1994. Her research
focuses on racism, immigration and mobility, inequality, and social
transformation—topics she has studied in South Africa, Somalia, and the United
States. She recently received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies
for her research on Somali refugees in the United States. She has authored
seven books and over 40 articles.
Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology
If
you have any questions or require accommodations, please contact JoAnn L
Rhoades at jlrhoade@syr.edu by March 8, 2021.
Accessibility: To request accommodations, please contact the event organizer listed above.
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