James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa in which
states give cash payments to their low income citizens. These programs, Ferguson argues …

Em seu novo livro, o sociólogo Ruy Braga busca fundamentar etnograficamente a crise da
globalização neoliberal iniciada em 2008, a partir da comparação entre três países …

With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines
how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without …

Money from Nothing explores the dynamics surrounding South Africa's national project of
financial inclusion—dubbed" banking the unbanked"—which aimed to extend credit to black …

Why do some parties formed by social movements develop top-down structures while others
stay more open and responsive to their social bases? The first rigorous comparative study of …

Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become an extreme yet unexceptional
embodiment of forces at play in many other regions of the world: intensifying inequality …

The ambition of this book is to resituate the problem of'world literature', considered as a
revived category of theoretical enquiry, by pursuing the literary-cultural implications of the …

Since the onset of the global economic crisis in 2007/2008 two key trends have made it
necessary to reconceptualize the relationship between development and sustainability: the …

In recent years, as peace between Israelis and Palestinians has remained cruelly elusive,
scholars and activists have increasingly turned to South African history and politics to make …

Drawing their power not from the ballot box but from a supposedly ancient wellspring of
power, hereditary traditional authorities in postcolonial Africa have frequently posed …