Overview

Programme Description

• The Theories of Justice and Inequality programme at the University of Cape Town proceeds from the understanding that inequalities in contemporary life take multiple forms. Income-based inequalities are built on and often go together with divisions along ethnic, racial, caste and gender lines. Struggles against these multiple divisions and interacting inequalities on the African continent and global south are at the heart of the programme.
• What can we learn from collective struggles to obtain justice and equality of the distant and more recent past? How can they help us grapple with the present social and political predicaments? How might collective endeavours for a just future help us re-imagine and institute democracy, freedom, sovereignty, and a better tomorrow for all? These are some of the questions that students in the programme will be trained to answer from a range of disciplinary standpoints—from the Social Sciences and the Humanities, from Law and from Environmental and Geographical Sciences.