Publication
‘If Angola were Libya’: protest and politics in Angola
Gastrow, Claudia. 2022. ‘If Angola were Libya’: protest and politics in Angola. Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, 10...
Project
Power, Patronage and the Informal Sector: co-optation and coercion in state-society relations in Zimbabwe and Zambia
This project will use a multi-site comparative design to explore how ruling parties in Zambia (and Zimbabwe) extend their reach through dispensing ‘public’ goods such as market and bus stalls as well as housing developments to rule by co-optation rather than coercion in increasingly adverse political or economic climates.
Publication
Assessing states: Water service delivery and evolving state–society relations in Accra, Ghana and Cape Town, South Africa
Harris, Leila M. 2019. Assessing states: Water service delivery and evolving state–society relations in Accra, Ghana and Cape Town, South Af...
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Contingency and Uncertainty: Working with and against the state in South Africa
This project asks the question: under what circumstances, with what political resources, and under what kinds of assumptions are women able to make claims on the state to address gender inequalities?
