Claudia Gastrow (University of Johannesburg): How to Structure an Article: The “Golden Thread”

Lecture in the framework of the Early Career Writing Workshop, a partnership of the University of Namibia, the Journal of Southern African Studies and the Centre of African Studies, University of Basel.

This is the second online lecture in a series of talks for early career researchers who are aiming to publish in international journals. In her lecture, Dr Gastrow will explain how to structure articles for publication (with a focus on the Journal of Southern African Studies). She will discuss how to build your hypothesis and organise your arguments, and why you should tie everything together with a ‘golden thread’. This talk will hone in on some aspects of article-writing covered in the workshop’s introductory lecture on 19 March by Professor Wapulumuka Mulwafu. In particular, it will discuss in more detail the questions of writing analytically, with a clear focus.

All are welcome to the lecture, whether or not you attended the previous talk (you do not need to have attended this in order to benefit from Dr Gastrow’s lecture).

Dr Claudia Gastrow is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Development at the University of Johannesburg. Her research interests lie in urbanism, the state, urban financialisation, enclaving and authoritarianism, with a geographic focus on southern and Central Africa, especially Angola. She is currently working on a book provisionally entitled The Aesthetics of Belonging: Building Politics in Luanda, Angola, which explores how the built environment mediated understandings of political belonging in Luanda during the period of post-conflict national reconstruction. She is a graduate of the Master's program African Studies at the University of Basel.

Registration: To register for the lecture and receive your Zoom link, please contact:Saara Kamati | skamati@clutterunam.na and Dr Marion Wallace | marion.wallace@clutterwallpear.plus.com.

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