- Nationality
- 🇩🇰 Denmark
- Affiliation
- Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2019 1st Semester
Projects
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Urban informality and middle-class aspirations in South Africa and Kenya
This project will take its point of departure in field work carried out by Bodil Folke Frederiksen and myself in two urban slum areas in South Africa and Kenya from the mid-1990s onwards. -
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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From abolition of the slave trade to protection of immigrants: Danish colonialism, German missionaries, and the development of ideas of humanitarian governance from the early eighteenth to the nineteenth century
Kaarsholm, Preben. 2020. From abolition of the slave trade to protection of immigrants: Danish colonialism, German missionaries, and the development of ide...
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From abolition of the slave trade to protection of immigrants: Danish colonialism, German missionaries, and the development of ideas of humanitarian governance from the early eighteenth to the nineteenth century
Kaarsholm, Preben. 2020. From abolition of the slave trade to protection of immigrants: Danish colonialism, German missionaries, and the development of ide...