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Collapsing Structures and Public Mismanagement

Seibel, Wolfgang. 2022. Collapsing Structures and Public Mismanagement. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030...

Wolfgang Seibel Wolfgang Seibel

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The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles

Piot, Charles. 2019. The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles. Durham: Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-fixer

Charles Piot Charles Piot

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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.

Maxim Bolt Maxim Bolt
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