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Anne-Maria B. Makhulu

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Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
amakhulu@duke.edu
Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0091
205 Friedl Building, Durham, NC 27708
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Scholarly Works - Journal articles

30 Years of Democracy: 1994–2024 Roundtable

Journal article South African Historical Journal · January 1, 2024 Full text Cite

#CiteBlackWomen

Journal article Cultural 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 text Cite

Citing Black Women: From Citational Refusal to Recognition

Journal article Cultural 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 ... Full text Cite

Afterword: Labour, insecurity and violence in South Africa

Journal article Journal of Southern African Studies · September 2, 2016 Full text Open Access Cite

Reckoning With Apartheid: The Conundrum of Working Through the Past, An Introduction

Journal article Comparative 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. ... Open Access Cite

Labour, Insecurity and Violence in South Africa: An Afterword

Journal article Journal of Southern African Studies · 2016 Open Access Cite

Introduction

Journal article SAQ: The South Atlantic Quarterly · 2016 Full text Open Access Cite

Introduction: Reckoning with apartheid the conundrum of working through the past

Journal article Comparative 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 ... Full text Open Access Cite

The conditions for after Work: Financialization and informalization in posttransition South Africa

Journal article Pmla · 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 ... Full text Open Access Cite

The question of freedom: Post-emancipation South Africa in a neoliberal age

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 ... Open Access Cite

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

Journal article Anthropological Quarterly · June 1, 2010 Featured Publication 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

The Search for Economic Sovereignty

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 ... Cite

A Brief History of the Social Wage: Welfare before and after Racial Fordism

Journal article SAQ: 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 ... Open Access Cite