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Public Lecture sponsored by the King’s College Summer Residence on Equality, Law and Social Justice. Refreshments will be offered after the lecture.
Lecture title: Postcards to the future: Struggles against anticipatory harm
Speaker: Professor Shirin Rai is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London. She is currently working on a book Depletion: The costs of care and the struggles to reverse it.
Abstract: In this paper I explore the idea of depletion through social reproduction and anticipatory harm through examining the campaign of a community to protect its everyday way of life – the story of communities of the Xolobeni region in the Wild Coast region of South Africa, whose world is now threatened by mining. I explore how the threat to the environment of a community produces anxiety that is depleting, and how the community pushes back against this threat through law, social movement and individual engagement to generate a politics that aims to prevent, mitigate, replenish and transform social relations on the ground through imaginaries that are grounded in their histories and the current politics of South Africa.
![Postcard with an image of Xolobeni woman in South Africa standing in a grass field](/newimages/law/event-promos-780x440/postcards-to-the-future.x9106cd80.png?f=webp)
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K6.29 (Anatomy Lecture Theatre)Strand Building
Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS