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Book · 2015 Featured Work 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 ... Cite

The "dialectics of toil": Reflections on the politics of space after apartheid

Journal article Anthropological Quarterly · June 1, 2010 Featured Work 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 ... Full text Open Access Cite

Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities

Book · 2010 Featured Work 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 ... Open Access Cite

The Search for Economic Sovereignty

Book section · 2010 Featured Work “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 ... Cite

The Question of Freedom: Post-Emancipation South Africa in a Neoliberal Age

Book section · 2010 Featured Work 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 ... Cite

Poetic Justice: Xhosa Idioms and Moral Breach in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Book section · 2004 Featured Work Cite