In the past decade, South Africa's" miracle transition" has been interrupted by waves of
protests in relation to basic services such as water and electricity. Less visibly, the post …

Shaking Up the City critically examines many of the concepts and categories within
mainstream urban studies that serve dubious policy agendas. Through a combination of …

This book on rights, entitlements and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa shows how
the playing field has not been as levelled as presumed by some and how racism and its …

Treating the “state” as a finished product gets in the way of understanding it. The state is
always in the making. This article, which acts as the Introduction to a special issue, argues …

The anthropology of policing draws from a range of intellectual traditions to generate new
understandings of the police as an institution and policing as a social practice. This article …

The research for this book began in 1997, when Brazil's elites still hoped to achieve the
integration of the country into a modern global order, and of the urban poor into a …

This Introduction to the special issue develops a theoretical argument around the
interrelations of space and time in sites of confinement by exploring the relationships …

This vivid evocation of the lives of 32 boys from a Johannesburg township is essential
reading for anybody wishing to understand black masculinity in South Africa Becoming Men …

Stolen Cars is an innovative ethnography of urban inequalities and violence in São Paulo,
Brazil. Organized around the journeys of five stolen cars, each chapter discusses a specific …

In Fighting for Dignity, Sarah S. Willen explores what happened when the Israeli government
launched an aggressive deportation campaign targeting newly arrived migrants from …