In this article we explore the relationship between money and violence in the Philippine war
on drugs. Building on long-term ethnographic and political engagement with a poor urban …

This article explores policing and urban ordering in the Philippine war on drugs. With an
empirical point of departure in ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Bagong Silang, a poor …

The police say brutal things. Research has documented how officers, when amongst
themselves, talk about people in derogatory ways or openly fantasize about the use of …

This paper explores how shame is constructed in working-class “coloured” men's talk about
their violence against women partners in Cape Town, South Africa. It examines how men …

Contemporary South Africa remains the dominant country in sub-Saharan Africa, both
economically 1 and politically. 2 Despite this, it is also one of the most socially fractured and …

This paper is about the geopolitics of animal health governance. Through a biosecurity
event in South Africa's pig sector we examine changes in the way the governance of disease …

The appointment of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa in 1994 signalled the end
of apartheid and transition to a new democratic constitution. This book studies discursive …

This article explores the social and moral implications of Duterte's war on drugs in a poor,
urban neighbourhood in Manila, the Philippines. Drawing on long-term ethnographic …

People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD), a Cape Town-based movement that
arose out of the context of some of the most violent and crime-ridden Coloured townships in …

This paper aims to investigate the responses available to urban and rural community
members in the Western Cape Province of South Africa after witnessing, experiencing, or …