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Mpho Matsipa & Bronwyn Kotzen: "Logistics, Blackness and Spatialities"


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In this episode two WISER Fellows, Dr Mpho Matsipa and Bronwyn Kotzen, explore similarities in their work relating to space, race, and the politics of cement.



Mpho Matsipa joined WiSER in April 2019. She completed her PhD in Environmental Design in Developing Countries at the University of California, Berkeley. Mpho is currently the curator of the African Mobilities Project. Mpho divides her time between the Wits School of Architecture and Planning, where she holds a position as lecturer in design and urban research, and WISER.

 

Bronwyn Kotzen joined WISER as a Visiting Research Fellow in January, 2020. Bronwyn is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of Cape Town. Her doctoral research focuses on the political economy of materiality in urban Africa by tracing Pan-African cement flows and is supported by Emory University’s African Critical Enquiry Programme and the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust.Bronwyn’s broader research explores the interstices between materiality, politics and place in rapidly developing urban centres.

 

For more, visit https://wiser.wits.ac.za

 

 

 

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