- Webster lecture0.13 MB
Date: 28/04/2009
Source: University of the Witwatersrand
Title: Memorial: Webster: Lecture by Prof Edward Webster on development as freedom, in memory of David Webster
It is a great privilege to pay tribute this evening to our colleague, valued teacher and friend, David Webster.
His assassination twenty years ago on 1st May 1989 by the apartheid policeman Ferdi Barnard has not silenced him. I would lilke this evening to bring back his voice. I want to do this by engaging in a conversation with David and the leading international scholar in development, Amartya Sen. I want to share with you some of the ideas David developed as a scholar. This is in no way a comprehensive account of his scholarly work. I am going to take two articles; one on migrant labout and another a critique of what he called popular anthropology. These ideas, I believe, shaped the actvities that were to make him an icon of the anti-apartheod struggle.
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