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‘Displace, Dump and Cage?’: Contested logics of formalization of street trading in Harare and Kumasi
Recommended Citation Bandauko, E., & Asante, L. A. (2026). ‘Displace, Dump and Cage?’: Contested logics of formalization of street tradi...
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Money from nothing: popular economies and indebtedness in South Africa
This project explores the over-indebtedness of South African consumers, set against the longer history of exploitation of South African black people by the forces of capitalism, and interrogates how these currently manifest themselves in an allegedly ‘neoliberal’ social order.
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The “social work” of work: Gendered dependencies of rural livelihoods in southern Africa
While policy-makers and international development practitioners in southern Africa put a great weight on supporting job creation given several decades of jobless growth in the region, there is less attention on how women and men are both differentially situated in labour relations and how they differentially make claims on resources that come from work activities through, for example, idioms of kinship, family, patronage, or friendship.
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Social and gender norms informing, voicing, and reporting against sexual harassment among domestic workers in Kampala’s informal economy
Namuggala, Victoria F. and Marjoke Oosterom. 2023. Social and gender norms informing, voicing, and reporting against sexual harassment among...
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Migration Vulnerability and Access to Social Protection
The project concerns the availability, adequacy and access to social protection of three selected vulnerable migrant categories, i.
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The Role of Laws, Policies, and Constitutional Rights in Advancing Gender Equality in Africa and Globally
In every country, women earn less than men; in all but five, women are less likely to have paid employment.
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The temporalities of the Informality. The case of Benin-Nigeria Cross-border Fuel Smuggling
This research intends to analyze informality as a dimension of the social contract initiated by marginalized actors in response to the crisis of welfare state in Global South.
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Ubuntu commercial nests in African indigenous markets in Nairobi: alternative business model for an emerging ‘African metropolis’
This research proposes that there is an ‘African metropolis’ that has been struggling for space and ascendancy in the City of Nairobi.
