Project
Speaking Through Houses: Property and Personhood in Zimbabwe’s Urban Margins
In contexts of displacement and marginality, people’s aspirations and active material and political struggles for secure housing – alongside their multi-layered efforts at home-making – might be construed as acts of either insurgent optimism or necessary anticipatory investment.
Project
Generation, Democratization and Gang Violence in the Shanties: Haiti and South Africa
In this project, I seek an opportunity at STIAS to write several chapters of a book based on a comparative account of the nexus between violence and democracy in two shantytowns in Haiti and South Africa.
