- Nationality
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Affiliation
- Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2019 1st Semester
Projects
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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. -
Law, Kinship, and the Formal Processes of Middle-Class Reproduction in Johannesburg, South Africa
This project investigates how legal and bureaucratic processes mediate inheritance in South Africa, as a window into the formal institutional dimensions of middle-class reproduction.
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