Journal ArticleCultural Anthropology · May 23, 2022
Anthropology continues to grapple with pervasive racism and sexism. Although we have made strides to distance ourselves from our colonial roots, our field remains dominated by white men. More pointedly, despite the diversity of our discipline, peop ...
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Journal ArticleCultural Anthropology · May 23, 2022
This essay addresses the tension between Northern Hemispheric intellectual assumptions and anthropology’s ostensibly critical stance within that intellectual tradition, one. Two, extending beyond the contradictions of the discipline’s origins in co ...
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Journal ArticleSafundi · January 1, 2020
“Trump, Zuma, Brexit” aims to articulate a new theory of the “world historical” reversing the relationship of north and south–of “universal knowledge” and “raw fact”–instead establishing a theoretical ground from the southern hemisphere and toward the nort ...
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Chapter · 2017
This essay concerns the history of squatting in Cape Town beginning in the early to mid-twentieth century and concluding after the transition to democracy. It focuses specifically on a series of contiguous settlements in the south eastern region of the Cap ...
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Journal ArticleComparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East · 2016
From April 26-29, 1994, South Africa held its first universal, democratic elections. Witnessed by the world, South Africans of all races waited patiently in line to cast their ballots, signaling the official and symbolic birth of the “new” South Africa. ...
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Journal ArticleComparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East · 2016
From April 26-29, 1994, South Africa held its first universal, democratic elections. Witnessed by the world, South Africans of all races waited patiently in line to cast their ballots, signaling the official and symbolic birth of the “new” South Africa. ...
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Journal ArticleComparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East · January 1, 2016
Today in South Africa issues of political economy, including the land question, are necessarily coming face-to-face with a resurgent politics of difference informing long-standing histories of dispossession whose continuities with such politics of differen ...
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Other · 2016
From April 26-29, 1994, South Africa held its first universal, democratic elections. Witnessed by the world, South Africans of all races waited patiently in line to cast their ballots, signaling the official and symbolic birth of the “new” South Africa. Th ...
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Other · 2016
From April 26-29, 1994, South Africa held its first universal, democratic elections. Witnessed by the world, South Africans of all races waited patiently in line to cast their ballots, signaling the official and symbolic birth of the “new” South Africa. Th ...
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Journal ArticleCultural Anthropology · May 23, 2022
Anthropology continues to grapple with pervasive racism and sexism. Although we have made strides to distance ourselves from our colonial roots, our field remains dominated by white men. More pointedly, despite the diversity of our discipline, peop ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleCultural Anthropology · May 23, 2022
This essay addresses the tension between Northern Hemispheric intellectual assumptions and anthropology’s ostensibly critical stance within that intellectual tradition, one. Two, extending beyond the contradictions of the discipline’s origins in co ...
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Journal ArticleSafundi · January 1, 2020
“Trump, Zuma, Brexit” aims to articulate a new theory of the “world historical” reversing the relationship of north and south–of “universal knowledge” and “raw fact”–instead establishing a theoretical ground from the southern hemisphere and toward the nort ...
Full textOpen AccessCite
Chapter · 2017
This essay concerns the history of squatting in Cape Town beginning in the early to mid-twentieth century and concluding after the transition to democracy. It focuses specifically on a series of contiguous settlements in the south eastern region of the Cap ...
Cite
Journal ArticleComparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East · 2016
From April 26-29, 1994, South Africa held its first universal, democratic elections. Witnessed by the world, South Africans of all races waited patiently in line to cast their ballots, signaling the official and symbolic birth of the “new” South Africa. ...
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Journal ArticleComparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East · 2016
From April 26-29, 1994, South Africa held its first universal, democratic elections. Witnessed by the world, South Africans of all races waited patiently in line to cast their ballots, signaling the official and symbolic birth of the “new” South Africa. ...
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Journal ArticleComparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East · January 1, 2016
Today in South Africa issues of political economy, including the land question, are necessarily coming face-to-face with a resurgent politics of difference informing long-standing histories of dispossession whose continuities with such politics of differen ...
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Other · 2016
From April 26-29, 1994, South Africa held its first universal, democratic elections. Witnessed by the world, South Africans of all races waited patiently in line to cast their ballots, signaling the official and symbolic birth of the “new” South Africa. Th ...
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Other · 2016
From April 26-29, 1994, South Africa held its first universal, democratic elections. Witnessed by the world, South Africans of all races waited patiently in line to cast their ballots, signaling the official and symbolic birth of the “new” South Africa. Th ...
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Other · 2016
From April 26-29, 1994, South Africa held its first universal, democratic elections. Witnessed by the world, South Africans of all races waited patiently in line to cast their ballots, signaling the official and symbolic birth of the “new” South Africa. Th ...
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Other · 2016
From April 26-29, 1994, South Africa held its first universal, democratic elections. Witnessed by the world, South Africans of all races waited patiently in line to cast their ballots, signaling the official and symbolic birth of the “new” South Africa. Th ...
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Book · 2015
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Making Freedom: Apartheid, Squatter Politics and the Struggle for Home examines the status and meaning of the South African city under apartheid and immediately after the transition to democracy focusing on the ways in which matters of home-making, citizen ...
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Journal ArticlePMLA · October 1, 2012
IN A TIME OF FINANCIAL CRISIS, THE AMOUNT OF TALK ABOUT THE Nature and challenges of employment-what Kathi Weeks aptly describes as "the problem with work" in her eponymous book (2011)-should hardly be surprising. While work is in short supply in some part ...
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Journal Article · December 1, 2011
The early 1990s saw one chapter in world history coming to a close and another just as surely beginning. After the fall of the Wall, the collapse of communism, and European unification, changes on a planetary scale, the new era promised both uncertainty an ...
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Chapter · November 2010
Global Volatility and African Subjectivities Anne-Maria Makhulu, Beth A.
Buggenhagen, Stephen Jackson. Hard Work, Hard Times Hard Work, Hard
Times Global Volatility and African Subjectivities Edited Front Cover. ...
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Journal ArticleAnthropological Quarterly · June 1, 2010
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Sixteen years since the end of the liberation struggle South Africa's cities have become crucial spaces of self-determination and lively community democracy. Yet their form has changed very little instead highlighting the persistence of poverty (and racism ...
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Book · 2010
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The description of Africa as a continent in perpetual crisis, ubiquitous in the popular media and in policy and development circles, is at once obvious and obfuscating. This collection by leading ethnographers moves beyond the rhetoric of African crisis to ...
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Journal Article · 2010
“Slums” on the outskirts of many global cities signal not only the fact of deepening inequalities under neoliberalism, but equally the integration of local markets within broader circuits of capital and the remaking of cities primarily as sites of internat ...
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Chapter · 2010
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“Slums” on the outskirts of many global cities signal not only the fact of deepening inequalities under neoliberalism, but equally the integration of local markets within broader circuits of capital and the remaking of cities primarily as sites of internat ...
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Chapter · 2010
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The history of struggle which culminated in South Africa’s political transition in the early 90s is well known. Yet its official and relatively untroubled face rests on an exquisite contradiction, namely the subsumption of the very political ideals for whi ...
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Journal ArticleSAQ: The South Atlantic Quarterly
This essay explores the legacy of racially allocated welfare in South Africa, focusing on the history of the migrant labor system. In outlining a relationship between racial capitalism and precarity—the immediate consequence of the denial of welfare—the es ...
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