Collective Action in Post-colonial Societies

Sepetla Molapo has an eclectic academic background having studied theology, religious studies, development studies as well as sociology. He is currently associate professor in the department of religious studies and Arabic at the University of South Africa, Pretoria. Sepetla is an established researcher with extensive experience in teaching, postgraduate supervision, academic leadership and community engagement. He has had fellowships with universities in Europe and the United States of America.

Introduction.- Non-productive care at the borderlands (Sepetla Molapo, University of Pretoria).- Constitut(ionalis)ing sovereign responsibility (Juergen Schraten, Justus Liebig University).- Between universal humanism and the particularity of experience: Solidarity, sovereignty and their possible futures (Vito Laterza, University of Agder).- Languaging solidarity in an undergraduate classroom (Vangile Bingma, University of Pretoria).- The League of Commoners and economic solidarity in colonial Lesotho, 1910s-1950s (Sean Maliehe, National University of Lesotho).- Landscapes of intergenerational solidarities and conflict in South Africa: Disjuncture, intimacy and the return of the Sovereign Pater (Detlev Krige, University of Pretoria).- African personhood and its landscapes of solidarity (MphoTshivhase, University of Pretoria).- 'Unusual' solidarities: South Africa's social movements and the thornyissue of Palestinian Liberation (Maya Bhardwaj, University of Pretoria).- Solidarity in a post-migrant society: A case of Germany (Farah Hasan, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University Berlin).- In search of a kingdom (Kereng Khotleng, University of the Witwatersrand).- Conclusion.