CCS work activities continued to straddle four categories:

• political economy, ranging from macro crisis dissections to the ‘material roots of xenophobia’ to
  micro-scale mutual aid;
• political ecology, focusing on climate, energy and water;
• culture, especially the Durban Sings audio project, video training and tributes to the poetry of
  Dennis Brutus; and
• social movement studies, including the new ‘Social Protest Observatory’ which documents civil
  society demonstrations across South Africa on a daily basis.

In spite of short-staffing, our traditional six methods for sharing work with scholars and the general public
were maintained:

• the monthly Harold Wolpe Lecture, a very active seminar series, courses, post-graduate student
  supervision and conferences/workshops;
• the website http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs;
• outreach activities including community work plus regular media interviews and guest lectures at
  leading universities;
• the CCS Resource Centre;
• the CCS Wired double-DVD set with two dozen films and our CCS research library CD; and
• publications, including the fortnightly ‘Eye on Civil Society’ column in The Mercury, a monthly ZNet
  commentary and numerous other popular and professional writings, as well as academic
  publications noted below.