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Knowing Ethnicity
Recommended Citation Balaton-Chrimes, S. (2026a). Knowing Ethnicity. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009707831
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All too real: race thinking and thinking about race in post-1994 South Africa
The project is to work towards completion of a book under the working title of ‘All too real: race thinking and thinking about race in South Africa’.
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Double Vision
This project will be a work of creative non-fiction, exploring issues of identity, boundaries, and vision that have been of concern for many years to a scholar who has been both literary critic and biographer.
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The Days Lived in Yellow
How do we come to know what we think we know?
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Race Changes: Shifting Identities in World History
Race Changes is a book about people whose seemingly permanent racial or ethnic identities in fact change over the course of their lifetimes.
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Recognition and Identity: Ethical and Theological Explorations
This project engages with the notion of recognition as a crucial moral, political, and theological category.
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Interview: ‘The elephant in the room’: talking (physics of) blackness with Michelle M Wright
Phiri, Aretha and Michelle M. Wright. 2023. Interview: ‘The elephant in the room’: talking (physics of) blackness with Michelle M. Wright. C...
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Certain uncertainties: Identity politics, power and categorisation in postcolonial Kenya
Before the 2017 election, Kenya’s President declared the minority ethnic Makonde community recognised as ‘the 43rd tribe of Kenya’.
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Transgressing Borders: (Re)imagining Africa(ns) in the World
Phiri, Aretha. (Ed.). 2020. Transgressing Borders: (Re)imagining Africa(ns) in the World. In African Philosophical and Literary Possibilitie...
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Ethiopia’s Challenge: Multiple Identities vs. Mono-Identity
Identity conflicts abound globally.
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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...
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White Women Engaging Black Lives Matter: Problematizing Solidarity in a Time of Identity Politics
The brutal police killing of George Floyd in America on 25 May 2020 has led to global mass protest action through the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement against police brutality and other institutionalized forms of violence against Black people.
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Debating African Philosophy: Perspectives on Identity, Decolonial Ethics and Comparative Philosophy
Okeja, Uchenna. 2019. Debating African Philosophy: Perspectives on Identity, Decolonial Ethics and Comparative Philosophy. In G. Hull (Ed.),...
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Complexity, Difference and Identity— an ethical perspective
Paul Cilliers and Rika Preiser (editors). 2010. Complexity, Difference and Identity— an ethical perspective. Heidelberg, New York, London: S...
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Debating love, human rights and identity politics in East Africa: The case of Uganda and Kenya
Oloka-Onyango, Joe. 2015. Debating love, human rights and identity politics in East Africa: The case of Uganda and Kenya. African Human Righ...
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Birthmark
Clingman, Stephen. 2015. Birthmark. Johannesburg: Jacana. http://www.jacana.co.za/book-categories/biography-a-memoir/birthmark-detail.
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Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Citizenship, and Identity in South Africa, Germany, and Canada
Adam, Heribert, and Kogila Moodley. 2015. Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Citizenship, and Identity in South Africa, Germany, and Canada. P...
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Living Together, Living apart? Social Cohesion in a Future South Africa
Ballantine, Christopher, Michael Chapman, Kira Erwin and Gerhard Maré. Eds. 2017. Living Together, Living apart? Social Cohesion in a Future...
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Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa
Eze, Chielozona. 2018. Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa. University of Rochester Press. https://boydellandbrewer...
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STIAS Series Volume 3: Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Citizenship and Identity in South Africa, Germany and Canada
Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Citizenship and Identity in South Africa, Germany and Canada Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley SUN PRESS (2...
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Towards a Politics of Singularity, or Beyond Identity Politics
Cutting across the boundaries of recent political theory, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, this project aims to show that the link between one human being and another, the social bond, consists of a traumatic encounter.
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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.
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In/appropriate Personae: Contemporary Culture and the Politics of Appropriation
This project, a prospective monograph entitled In/appropriate Personae: Contemporary Cultural Production and the Politics of Appropriation, seeks to examine the growing awareness of the politics of representation and ethics of appropriation in contemporary culture, especially in relation to depictions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.
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Women’s Associations in a Pastoralist Society in Transformation: Implications for Gender-Based Livelihood Improvement Policies in Benin
How does the organization of women transform gender relations and living standards of Fulani women in pastoralist communities of northern Benin?
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Devil With Blue Eyes
Devil With Blue Eyes is a novel of dislocation that seeks to explore and expose the rise of xenophobia in South Africa.
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Writing Across Borders – In Praise of Impurity
The idea of combining and possibly merging ‘ethnography’ and ‘fiction’ emanates from my research on literature’s role in the transition processes of South Africa and Argentina (Fiction and Truth in Transition : Writing the present past in South Africa and Argentina,2012), which brought me in the end, to my own surprise, to the crossroads of Literature and Anthropology.
