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Science and Technology in Indian Agriculture: History, Evolution and Emerging Challenges
This project is essentially a plan to write a book on the interrelationships between science, technology and agriculture in India, with specific reference to the challenges of sustainable development and climate change.
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Knowledge, Power, and Policy: Constructing a Political Economy of Innovation and Research in Post-Apartheid South Africa
South Africa has long been a leader in scientific research and innovation on the African continent.
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Archives of the Ethical: Market Exchange, Ethical Relations, and Sensory Politics in the Urban South
Archives of the Ethical: Market Exchange, Ethical Relations, and Sensory Politics in the Urban South brings together in comparative perspective, historically situated ethnographic insights of urban market practices in Cape Town, Accra, and Mumbai.
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Theory from the South
‘The Global South’ is rarely seen as a source of explanation for world historical events.
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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 Global Crisis and the Future of Democracy
The project is concerned with the sustainability of democracy around the globe in the wake of the 2008-2009 financial and economic crisis.
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Rethinking Capitalist Crisis: A Neo-Polanyian Perspective
This project seeks to overcome the (economistic, functionalist) limitations of received understandings of crisis, by drawing on the thought of Karl Polanyi, especially his 1944 work, The Great Transformation.
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The Agrarian Question in the 21st Century
Since the start of my career the focus of my scholarly research has been what has been defined as the agrarian question.
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Routes to Reform. Education Politics in Latin America
Schneider, Ben Ross. 2024. Routes to Reform. Education Politics in Latin America. Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/p...
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Chinese Investment in Africa
Mazwi, Freedom, George T. Mudimu and Kirk Helliker. (Eds.). 2024. Chinese Investment in Africa. Springer International Publishing. https://d...
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Gramsci at Sea
Chari, Sharad. 2023. Gramsci at Sea. University of Minnesota Press. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/gramsci-at-sea
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Constitutionalism and the Economy in Africa
Fombad, Charles M. and Nico Steytler. (Eds.). 2022. Constitutionalism and the Economy in Africa. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10...
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The political economy of oral health in sub-Saharan Africa – uncovering the silent oral health crisis and exposing reasons for low public health priority
Oral diseases are among the most common and among the most neglected diseases of mankind.
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Africa’s New Global Politics: Regionalism in International Relations
Edozie, Rita Kiki and Moses Khisa. 2022. Africa’s New Global Politics: Regionalism in International Relations. Lynne Rienner Publishers. htt...
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Coups and the dynamics of media freedom
Bjørnskov, Christian, Andreas Freytag and Jerg Gutmann. 2022. Coups and the dynamics of media freedom. Economic Modelling, 116(2), 106025. h...
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Prospects for Regional Integration in Africa – A Comparative Perspective
The African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) is the current initiative to form the world’s largest free-trade zone in terms of number of countries.
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Teacher Unions, Political Machines, and the Thorny Politics of Education Reform in Latin America
Schneider, Ben Ross. 2021. Teacher Unions, Political Machines, and the Thorny Politics of Education Reform in Latin America. Politics & ...
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Neo-Abolitionism
Ellerman, David. 2021. Neo-Abolitionism. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62676-1
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Government by grants: the post-pandemic politics of welfare
Dubbeld, Bernard, and Fernanda Pinto de Almeida. 2020. Government by grants: the post-pandemic politics of welfare. Transformation: Critical...
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Unsettled Futures: Precarity and the Project of Post-Apartheid in the Countryside
This research focuses on South Africa’s democratic period and in particular on the state ambition- which I call the post-apartheid project— to provide a better life for all its citizens.
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Technical Education in the Middle Income Trap: Building Coalitions for Skill Formation
Doner, Richard and Ben Ross Schneider. 2019. Technical Education in the Middle Income Trap: Building Coalitions for Skill Formation. The Jou...
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Are We All Amazon Primed? Consumers and the Politics of Platform Power
Culpepper, Pepper D., and Kathleen Thelen. 2019. Are We All Amazon Primed? Consumers and the Politics of Platform Power. Comparative Politic...
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‘Possessing Culture’: Political Economies of Community Subjects and Cultural Rights
Rosemary J. Coombe. 2009. ‘Possessing Culture’: Political Economies of Community Subjects and Cultural Rights. Ownership and Appropriation
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Theory from the South: Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa (The Radical Imagination)
Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff. 2012. Theory from the South: Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa (The Radical Imagination). P...
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Smallholder Irrigation Schemes, Agrarian Reform and ‘Accumulation from Above and from Below’ in South Africa
Ben Cousins. 2013. Smallholder Irrigation Schemes, Agrarian Reform and ‘Accumulation from Above and from Below’ in South Africa. Journal of ...
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Land, Labour and the Production of Affliction in Rural Southern Africa
Bridget O’Laughlin. 2013. Land, Labour and the Production of Affliction in Rural Southern Africa. Journal of Agrarian Change, 13 (1), pp 175...
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Commercial Agriculture in South Africa since 1994: ‘Natural, Simply Capitalism’
Henry Bernstein. 2013. Commercial Agriculture in South Africa since 1994: ‘Natural, Simply Capitalism’. Journal of Agrarian Change, 13 (1), ...
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The Impact of the Great Recession on Regime Change: Economic and Political Interactions
Berg-Schlosser, Dirk. 2015. The Impact of the Great Recession on Regime Change: Economic and Political Interactions. Taiwan Journal of Democ...
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Labour after Globalisation: Old and New Sources of Power
Webster, Eddie. 2015. Labour after Globalisation: Old and New Sources of Power. In Labour and Transnational Action in Times of Crisis: From ...
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Die Suid-Afrikaanse Staat en Ekonomie voor en na 1994: het die luiperd sy kolle verander?
Bekker, Simon. 2016. Die Suid-Afrikaanse Staat en Ekonomie voor en na 1994: het die luiperd sy kolle verander? LitNet Akademies. https://www...
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Foreign Aid and National Ownership in Mali and Ghana
Brown, Stephen. 2017. Foreign Aid and National Ownership in Mali and Ghana. Forum for Development Studies, 44(3), 335–356. https://doi.org/1...
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The Paradox of Isabel dos Santos. State Capitalism, Dynastic Politics, and Gender Hostility in a Resource-Rich, Authoritarian Country
Pitcher, Anne and Edalina S. Rodrigues. 2019. The Paradox of Isabel dos Santos. State Capitalism, Dynastic Politics, and Gender Hostility in...
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The political economy of oral health in sub-Saharan Africa – uncovering the silent oral health crisis and exposing reasons for low public health priority
The focus of the Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA) 2019 will be on constitutionalism and the economy in Africa.
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Planetary Prejudices: Race, Migration, and Technology in the New Global Order
Taking racism as the engine of capitalism, the study of racial capitalism offers a potent framework for understanding how racism structures modern life.
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The Politics of Education Reform in Middle-Income Countries
A growing scholarly consensus views high quality education as essential for sustained and equitable development.
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A Place to Call Home: A comparative study of the urban housing boom in Luanda and Nairobi
Despite their very different political and economic contexts, both Luanda and Nairobi have experienced housing booms and urban property bubbles over the last fifteen years.
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Neo-Abolitionism: The Case Against the Employer-Employee System
The controversial institution in the economic system throughout most of the world is not the market or private property but the employer-employee relationship.
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Is the European Union a Role Model for Africa? - Lessons from 60 Years of European Integration for Africa
The project deals with the lessons of European integration for African attempts to regionally integrate further.
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From Sovereignty to Property (and back): The spatial transition of colonial and developmentalist claims over land
Central to the question of land grabs around the world is a tension between the sovereignty of States - and its internal manifestation in the form of eminent domain - and the property rights of individuals and communities.
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APOCALYPSE 2016-2019: Decline of Jacob Zuma, Rise of South Africa?
The three years 2016 to 2019 will change South Africa more significantly than any other time since the dawn of democracy in 1994.
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Comparative regionalism: The political economy of regional security organizations
After the end of the Cold War a respacing of international politics has begun – a new world order is emerging that is increasingly described as multipolar.
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Property – Obstacle or Key to Success for South Africa's Constitutional Democracy?
The inclusion of a clause protecting the deprivation of property in South Africa’s Constitution was controversial.
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Analysing sub-Saharan African states through a limited access lens
During the past decade, an extraordinary disconnect regarding the futures of states in sub-Saharan Africa has emerged: ‘Aspiring Africa, the world’s fastest growing continent’ (in the words of The Economist on its title page), on the one hand, and, in the words of an economist, ‘informalised and subsistence Africa, with swathes of survivalist pockets of existence, remains the overriding economic reality’ in these states, on the other.
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The Importance of Being Modern: A Chronicle of Contemporary India
This project involves the writing of a rather particular anthropological history of contemporary India.
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The Performance of Democracies
Over the last century, several waves of democracy have swept over the globe, bringing representative democracy to places where it seemed inconceivable.
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The impact of a global economic crisis on political parties in competitive democracies
The research project deals with the impact of a severe global economic crisis on political parties in representative democracies.
