Claudia Gastrow is part of the 2019 1st Semester, 2021 2nd Semester, and 2023 1st Semester cohorts at STIAS.
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STIAS Lecture Series 2019: Claudia Gastrow - The Discomforts of Home: Class, Infrastructure and Aesthesis in Luanda, Angola
Claudia Gastrow, Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Johannesburg and STIAS Iso Lomso fellow will present a talk with the title: The Discomforts...
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STIAS launches Iso Lomso Fellowships for early career researchers
Iso Lomso, "the Eye of Tomorrow" in isiXhosa, is a new fellowship programme that will boost the careers of some of the brightest minds in African academia....
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Second Iso Lomso cohort selected
STIAS is pleased to announce its second cohort for the Iso Lomso Fellowships for Early Career African Researchers. The STIAS Research and Fellowship Progr...
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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 ...
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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. We are examining the different self-understandings and identity politics of ...
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Material politics - Fellows' seminar by Claudia Gastrow
Property, belonging and ‘licit ownership’ in Luanda, Angola “How is property recognised outside of official laws and regulations? As part of a book project...
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Socialist remains: Rethinking African urbanism from Luanda’s ‘Cuban buildings’ - Fellows' seminar by Claudia Gastrow
'“This presentation outlines the beginning of a book project which focuses on what Angolans call the ‘Cuban buildings’, mid-rise apartment blocks designed ...
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Urban States: The Presidency and Planning in Luanda, Angola
Gastrow, Claudia. 2020. Urban States: The Presidency and Planning in Luanda, Angola. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 1468–2427.12854....
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Gastrow, Claudia. 2020. Housing middle-classness: formality and the making of distinction in Luanda
Gastrow, Claudia. 2020. Housing middle-classness: formality and the making of distinction in Luanda. Africa, 90(3), 509–528. https://doi.org/10.1017/S00019...
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‘If Angola were Libya’: protest and politics in Angola
Gastrow, Claudia. 2022. ‘If Angola were Libya’: protest and politics in Angola. Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, 108(1), 11–34. ht...