  {"id":15836,"date":"2010-11-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfiledev.uit.yorku.ca\/2010\/11\/05\/lecture-monday-looks-at-changes-in-child-poverty-in-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T15:08:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T19:08:01","slug":"lecture-monday-looks-at-changes-in-child-poverty-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2010\/11\/05\/lecture-monday-looks-at-changes-in-child-poverty-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture Monday looks at changes in child poverty in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medical anthropologist Susan Levine of the University of Cape Town will give a talk on Monday looking at how the socio-economic changes in South Africa since the end of apartheid have&nbsp;affected the lives of poor children in that country.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"8\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"8\" align=\"right\" width=\"138\" height=\"95\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20101105\/\/SusanLevine.jpg\" \/>Right: Susan Levine<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Levine will discuss her paper, &ldquo;The Race of Nimble Fingers: Changing Patterns of Child Labour in South Africa&rdquo;, on&nbsp;Nov. 8 from 2:30 to 4:30pm in&nbsp;Founders College Senior Common Room, 305 Founders College, Keele campus. This is a free event and everyone is welcome to attend.<\/p>\n<p>The paper will highlight the ways in which new child labour legislation has had the unintended consequence of deepening chronic hunger and childhood poverty on food-rich farms where children <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"8\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"8\" align=\"left\" width=\"200\" height=\"272\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20101105\/\/LevineLecture.jpg\" \/>formerly participated as seasonal or part-time workers. Drawing on more than 10 years of ethnographic research from 1996 to 2008 in the Western Cape, Levine will demonstrate, through a focus on childhood poverty, the failings of democracy in the post-apartheid era.<\/p>\n<p>A&nbsp;senior lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/70.86.182.34\/~socialan\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=44&amp;Itemid=24\" rel=\"noopener\">Levine<\/a> has for more than a decade researched extensively on child labour in South Africa. She is also a visual anthropologist and film theorist who is actively engaged in film work at the university and the larger Cape Town community.<\/p>\n<p>The event is sponsored by York&rsquo;s Department of Anthropology, the Faculty of Education and Founders College.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact York Professor Daniel Yon at ext. 8806 or <a href=\"mailto:dyon@edu.yorku.ca\">dyon@edu.yorku.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Levine, a medical anthropologist at the University of Cape Town, will explore how democracy post-apartheid has failed children living in 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