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<\/a><\/p>\nFrench Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH)
\n24 March 2015<\/h4>\n
15:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chrystel Olouko\u00ef “Why study the night? Nothing happens at night here”. What raised my interest for Johannesburg nocturnal spaces was the widely spread idea that they were mostly deserted spaces, because of fear of crime mostly. In the same time, marketing images of the city were riddled with nightscapes, revealing a paradox between repulsiveness and attractiveness towards nocturnal spaces, which was confirmed by deeper research. From that starting question, about deserted spaces at night, to that startled question that I encountered many times (“Why study the night? Nothing happens at night here”), this is around the pursuit of that “nothing” that my research revolved, guided by the feeling that nights had a lot to tell us about Johannesburg.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chrystel Oloukoi<\/strong>\u00ef is a cultural geography student at Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure of Paris (ENS) and in first year of Master’s Degree at University Paris 1 – Panth\u00e9on Sorbonne.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Night discourses as a place of symbolic violence? French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 24 March 2015 15:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Chrystel Olouko\u00ef Paris I Panth\u00e9on Sorbonne – ENS Paris “Why study the night? Nothing happens at night here”. What raised my interest for Johannesburg nocturnal spaces was the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-workshops-seminars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Paris I Panth\u00e9on Sorbonne – ENS Paris<\/em><\/p>\n