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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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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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From first-generation students to the second: An inter-generational study of post-apartheid South African higher education
During this last half century of global expansion in higher education, attention focused on the population of first-generation students: those whose parents had not been to university.
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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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Doing being middle-class in the global South: comparative perspectives and conceptual challenges
Lentz, Carola. 2020. Doing being middle-class in the global South: comparative perspectives and conceptual challenges. Africa, 90(3), 439–46...
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Migrants as an Indicator of Global and Local Inequality: The Case of African Refugees
Adam, Heribert. 2015. Migrants as an Indicator of Global and Local Inequality: The Case of African Refugees. In Understanding Inequality: So...
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Multi-class families, regional disparities and the emergence of middle classes in Africa
Drawing on my own fieldwork in Ghana as well as secondary sources on West Africa, but also other African countries, this project will explore two challenges in particular.
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A transdisciplinary analysis of the role of social identity on performance under social stratification and stigmatisation
The emergent fields of stratification economics and identity economics offer new theoretical insights for explaining economic inequality, specifically the unique role that intersectionality (the existence of multiple social identities) might play.
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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.
