- Popular or participatory education?Ronald@bentec.co.za In my work as a popular educator I often struggle with the tension between the different ways popular education is understood. The many views can be located between two poles. People on the first … Continue reading Bentec HomeRead more
- COVID realities: shifting boundariesBy femke@bentec There is a lot of boundary shifting happening in geographical, professional and in social terms. How does this affect human behaviour and habits? Due to lockdown measures such as curfews, social distancing and … Continue reading Bentec HomeRead more
- Zoom teaching: background reflectionsBy femke@bentec Imagine a university classroom with 15 students sitting in a circle. The students are surrounded by blank walls, tables, a whiteboard and perhaps a projector. Some will be watching their phones screens, some … Continue reading Bentec HomeRead more
- Power battles on South African trophy hunting farms: farm workers, resistance and mobility in the KarooBy Femke Brandt South Africa’s countryside is transforming through rapid and widespread farm conversions from agricultural land to wildlife enclosures. This paper, published in 2016, interprets trophy hunting as a reconfiguration process in which land, … Continue reading Bentec HomeRead more
- Shrinking or Shifting? – the closing of civil society space in five countries in Southern AfricaBy Ronald Wesso The paper Shrinking or shifting gives an overview of the research process and findings of an investigation in 2017 into the shrinkage of space for civil society organisations (CSOs) in five countries … Continue reading Bentec HomeRead more