Archive for July, 2011

~ By Janet Lawrence ~ Patrick Lynch lies on an examining table, squirming in pain. Kunal Kalra, a doctor at the Harkness Center for Dance Injuries, has just plunged a 4-inch-long needle into Lynch’s swollen left quadriceps. Moments before, Kalra had examined the partly-healed incisions on Lynch’s knee. The marks […]

Notes on Housing, Inequality and Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa ~By Hannah Rappleye~ One night a few weeks before the 2010 World Cup, 33-year-old Terrance Mbuleo lay bleeding under a street lamp, on a narrow strip of dirt separating thousands of shacks from a handful of brick houses. That afternoon, […]