Decolonizing Social Security Symposium: Rethinking Issues of Inclusion
Explore the critical discussions at the Social Security Symposium focusing on decolonial struggles, with a methodological note on transformative research, redefining problems, and ongoing work in social sciences for social justice and inclusion.
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Social Security Symposium Friday, 10 November 2023 Rethinking Social Security in Context, For Our Troubled Times Dr Pedro Mzileni Lecturer, Sociology University of the Free State
Methodological Note When indigenous peoples become the researchers and not merely the researched, the activity of research is transformed. Questions are framed differently, priorities are ranked differently, problems are defined differently, people participate on different terms ~ Linda Thuwai Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies, 1999
Defining problems differently therefore Colonisation, Coloniality, Modernity Du Bois (1903); Mignolo (2011); Crenshaw (1989); Magubane (1979); Mamdani (1996); Hooks (1995); Gqola (2015), Ndlovu-Gatsheni (2022) white people, white men, European geopolity, Human beings red, brown, yellow people, Indian-Pacific Islands origins, Middle-East, Asian geopolity Sub-humans Black people, Black women, animals, Africa- Caribbean geopolity Non-humans
social security questions, emerge, out of people s decolonial struggles Grammatical issues: social justice, social inclusion, social transformation, Africanisation, indigenisation, decolonisation Consistent intergenerational struggles against a common/stubborn problem, [Women s movement, labour movement, student movement, Free Palestine movement] The core issue: Landlessness, occupation, displacement, & racial capitalism
Ongoing Work Mba T., & Mzileni, P (2023). Stokvels and Livelihoods of Black Women Street Vendors in Urban South Africa, African Journal of Development Studies, SE, pp. 167-180 Mzileni, P., & Noveve, Q [Accepted](2023). The Violence of a Liberal Welfare State: A Reading of Student Experiences in the National Students Financial Aid Scheme, South African Review of Sociology, Mzileni, P. (2024). The University as a Site of Working-Class Struggles for Decent Work and Human Development, in Belluigi, D., & Keet, A (eds), Critical University Studies (upcoming March 2024)
Thank you Dr Pedro Mzileni Pedro.Mzileni@Mandela.ac.za CREDITS: This presentation template was created by Slidesgo Slidesgo, including icons by Flaticon, infographics & images by Freepik Flaticon Freepik
