On 22 November 2022, Professor Nolwazi Mkhwanazi facilitated a workshop and gave a lecture at the Centre for Gender and Diversity (CGD) at Maastricht University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Professor Mkhwanazi is the deputy director of the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship and the principal investigator of Reimagining Reproduction Project at the Centre. 

Professor Mkhwanazi led a workshop with five scholars on the topic of “Researching Gender, Sexuality and Health beyond European contexts.” These early career scholars presented work in progress and shared the dilemmas that they encountered in their fieldwork.

Following the workshop, she presented a lectuer on “The politics of care: Making and unmaking families in South Africa” to a research program colloquium of Globalisation, Transnationalism and Development, co-hosted by the CGD. It was attended by 25 people consisting of CGD members, GTD members, and the students from master of Globalisation and Development.

In her lecture Professor Mkhwanazi considered how South Africa is characterised by vast inequality, and this matters on a daily basis. She highlighted the ways in which the making and unmaking of families is linked to the ability to provide care. She also drew attention to how obligations of care are variously complicated by intergenerational dynamics.

More details are on the CGD website.