- Nationality
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2019 1st Semester / 2020 2nd Semester
Projects
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Reading black middle-classness
For this project I am reading the burgeoning publication of essays that tackle black middle-classness and related aspects such as masculinities, femininities and race - indeed, intersections of these. -
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. -
Text, Human Rights and pandemics: Being human in times of contagion
Partly prompted by and responding to the effects of Covid-19, our project takes a long-shot view of text, contagion, and ideas of the rights-bearing human over time.
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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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Examining what it means to be human in times of contagion - Fellows' seminar by Irikidzayi Manase, Robert Muponde, Thabisani Ndlovu and Cheryl Stobie
Partly prompted by and responding to COVID-19, our project takes a long-shot view of text, contagion and ideas of the rights-bearing human over time, said Thabisani Ndlovu of the Department of Arts at Walter Sisulu University.
Publication
Shuttling between the suburbs and the township: the new black middle class(es) negotiating class and post-apartheid blackness in South Africa
Ndlovu, Thabisani. 2020. Shuttling between the suburbs and the township: the new black middle class(es) negotiating class and post-apartheid blackness in S...
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Playing with anxiety: black middle-class masculinities in the humorous works of Fred Khumalo and Ndumiso Ngcobo
Ndlovu, Thabisani and Increment Andile Dlulani. 2020. Playing with anxiety: black middle-class masculinities in the humorous works of Fred Khumalo and Ndum...
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Pandemic Literatures and Being Human in Times of Mass Infection and Catastrophe: Some African Perspectives
Manase, Irikidzayi and Thabisani Ndlovu. 2022. Pandemic Literatures and Being Human in Times of Mass Infection and Catastrophe: Some African Perspectives. ...