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Opening April’s Seminar will be Professor Allan Laville, OU’s Pro VC of Equality Diversity and inclusion. Presenter – Dr Shannon Martin – Researcher/Equality & inclusion/Government & Academic sectors/Decolonisation

South Africa continues to be a country where racial segregation is more often the rule than the exception, with Cape Town ranking among its most racially segregated cities. The city is also frequently associated with Whiteness. Focusing on the context of Post-Apartheid Cape Town, this talk draws on Derrida’s concept of the spectre to explore Whiteness as both a ghostly presence and a spectrum.

This roundtable session explores the meanings and importance of social justice for scholars within SSGS.

How does innovation affect income inequality? This talk explores how innovation systems can both increase and reduce inequality. It challenges the conventional explanations offered by mainstream economics - such as the skill-biased technological change account - and highlights the critical role of the mechanisms and strategies adopted by key actors in innovation systems.

Hosted by the Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice (GCSJ), join us on Monday 9th February, 12:00 – 13:00 online for the book presentation and discussion with Renu Bhandari, Senior Lecturer, Staff Tutor and Chair of Access Board of Studies at the Open University at her book launch.

Dr Rita Gayle (University of Birmingham) explores her research on millennial Black British women’s creative collectives (2013–2020), using Stuart Hall’s conjunctural analysis to examine their legacy. She also reflects on Black Studies in Britain and how knowledge about African and Caribbean heritage communities is produced and shared. Thinking Expansively Seminar Series (TESS) offers ways of thinking that start from elsewhere/margins in a way that unsettles and reconfigures knowledge. It starts from beyond the canon. Thinking Expansively redefines how we approach knowledge, pushing us to imagine and realise a more equitable and inhabitable world. TESS is an interdisciplinary series hosted by GCSJ at the Open University.

This volume explores the international relations of today's Middle East. The tumult following the Arab Uprisings has expanded the arenas competed over by regional powers, global actors and non-state players. As global politics moves towards a new, multipolar era, this volume sheds important light on how this transition will impact on the region. Comprised of two macro sections that offer theoretical reflections and empirical case studies, this volume is essential reading for scholars of the politics and international relations of the Middle East.

After researching sex workers in Cape Town and the UK there seems to be a desperate need for the safeguarding of sex worker.