Paper short abstract:

This presentation reports on the Table Mountain Walking Seminar, an annual event involving scholars, activists, artists and curators in Cape Town, South Africa.

Paper long abstract:

The Table Mountain Walking Seminar has become an annual event involving scholars, activists, artists and curators, walking together for a week along the chain of mountains south of Table Mountain, South Africa. Each seminar is themed, with the most recent (March 2018) being on "Fire and Water", picking up on the current water crisis in the city. We are interested in ideas of landscape as archive, and in exploring more embodied forms of research that take us outside of the "white cube" of the seminar room. We are also interested in bringing together a debate around environmental justice and the Anthropocene, with a debate around social justice and the lingering effects of apartheid. The Walking Seminar is a joint project of the author, plus the urbanist Christian Ernsten and the documentary photographer Dirk-Jan Visser.