- Nationality
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- Affiliation
- Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2019 1st Semester
Projects
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Multi-class families, regional disparities and the emergence of middle classes in Africa
Drawing on my own fieldwork in Ghana as well as secondary sources on West Africa, but also other African countries, this project will explore two challenges in particular. -
The new middle class in Africa in comparative perspective
Comparative perspectives from the global south can tell us much about the meteoric rise of the new middle class in Africa.
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Examining the new middle class in Africa - Fellows’ seminar by Deborah James, Carola Lentz, Isidore Lobnibe and Thabisani Ndlovu
Paradoxically, while in Europe and America the old middle class is said to be in crisis, its newer incarnation in the Global South is celebrated as being on the rise.
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Approaching a shared topic from different angles: studying the new middle classes in southern Africa - Fellows' seminar by Maxim Bolt, Claudia Gastrow and Preben Kaarsholm
Context is important. What is middle class in Amaoti is different to Sandton.
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Doing being middle-class in the global South: comparative perspectives and conceptual challenges
Lentz, Carola. 2020. Doing being middle-class in the global South: comparative perspectives and conceptual challenges. Africa, 90(3), 439–469. https://doi....
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Imagining Futures: Memory and Belonging in an African Family
Lentz, Carola and Isidore Lobnibe. 2022. Imagining Futures: Memory and Belonging in an African Family. Indiana University Press. https://books.google.co.za...