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Temporality and Technologies in South African Social Grant Life, 2020 and Beyond
In 2018, the South African government instituted a social assistance payment and registration system that it would administer through a public entity: the South African Post Office (SAPO).
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Balancing social welfare and private maintenance: the alleviation of poverty in South Africa
South African (family) lawyers continue to focus on the private maintenance obligation as the primary instrument for alleviating poverty.
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Complexities and Challenges Affecting the Progress of Community Development in South Africa’s Changing Sociopolitical Landscape
Gray, Mel and Antoinette Lombard. 2024. Complexities and Challenges Affecting the Progress of Community Development in South Africa’s Changi...
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A New Path to Welfare: Rights and Constitutionalism in the Global South
The rise of neoliberalism caused a ‘lost decade’ of development in large parts of the global South.
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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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Sorting out income’: transnational householding and austerity Britain
James, Deborah and Samuel Kirwan. 2019. ‘Sorting out income’: transnational householding and austerity Britain. Social Anthropology, 1469–86...
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Lonely Death: An Ecology of Living and Dying in Post-Miracle Japan
Stories of lonely death (kodokushi) are commonplace in what is considered an era of increasing isolation and social disconnectedness in post-Bubble Japan.
