Events and talks
Here are some talks from the team that have emerged from the project. Please click on the links to access the slides.
Programme for the Enhancement of Research Capacity, University of Cape Town
Clare Herrick: Interdisciplinary research – crossing the social science/ public heath boundary
C3 Collaborating for Health, 2013
Clare Herrick and Susan Parnell: Is alcohol threatening health and development in South Africa?
Royal Geographical Society Annual Meeting 2013
Clare Herrick: Alcohol and NCDs in South Africa. A missing agenda?
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York 2012
Five members of the research team attended the Annual Meeting in New York in February 2012. The team organised two sessions entitled: Alcohol, Poverty and the City in order to spark conversation among geographers about alcohol’s overlooked role in urban development. Four of the presentations can be found by clicking the links below:
Clare Herrick: The Political Ecology of Alcohol as Disaster
Mary Lawhon: The Sociomateriality of Alcohol: Flows, Friction, Lubrication and Remnants
Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex 2012
Seminar: Global demographic shifts: Urbanisation and the 21st century burden of disease
Clare Herrick: NCDs, Alcohol and Development in the Western Cape
Sue Parnell: Some macro-scale trends of significance for health and development
Royal Geographical Society-IBG Annual Meeting, Edinburgh 2012
Shari Daya and Nicci Wilkins – The body, the shelter, and the shebeen: Affective geographies of homelessness in South Africa
Warren Smit et al – Governing environmental risk in the Global South: Barriers and opportunities for collaborative urban flood risk management
Mary Lawhon – Researching sensitive topics in African cities
British Sociological Association, Medical Sociology Conference, 2012
Clare Herrick: Media, Policy and politics in the Western Cape’s alcohol control agenda
Alcohol, Development and Poverty in South Africa 
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