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Youth Challenges in Namibia During COVID-19: Engaging Joblessness, Violence, and E-Learning
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and harsh lockdown regulations have impacted the wellbeing of the youth globally. The pandemic has also caused...
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De-migranticizing as methodology: rethinking migration studies through immobility and liminality
De-migranticization is becoming a core strategy for overcoming the fetishization of migrants in migration studies. However, this shift in...
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Cultural Developments Between the Final MSA and the Robberg at Umbeli Belli, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
The Early Later Stone Age (ELSA) in southern Africa is one of the most poorly understood periods in the subcontinent. This is due to a lack of sites...
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Pathways into the Middle: Rites of Passage and Emerging Middle Classes in Namibia
This anthropological chapter analyses how members of the NamibiaNamibia n middle class have thoroughly changed the form and meaning of important...
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Access to material resources and the subjective well-being of children in Brazil and Chile
This article analyzes the relationships between the material conditions and the subjective well-being of 3,716 children (50.5% girls) between 10 and...
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Gender Differentiation, Equality and Equity in Off-Grid Solar Usage in Rural Tanzania: A Fraying Thread?
Women and low-income groups experience energy poverty burdens disproportionately. Despite this, many electrification plans are gender and...
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Introduction: Africa’s Middle Classes in Critical Perspective
In this introductory chapter, the editors dissect the growing interest in the rise of middle classes in Africa. The apparently healthier rates of...
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The exclusion of national liberation war heroes of the opposition parties in the memorial landscape: an analysis of the Angolan toponymic law
Under the MPLA ruling government only Agostinho Neto, among the leaders of the three movements of the liberation struggle, has a marked presence on...
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A systematic review of gated communities and the challenge of urban transformation in African cities
Globalization and the spread of neo-liberal models of urban restructuring have resulted in the rise in gated communities worldwide, including in...
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African Middle Classes: Formation and Destabilizing Effects
This chapter demonstrates how the formation and expansion of middle classes in Africa have taken place within particular economic and political...
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Sending the elevator back down: a mutual constitution between vertical and horizontal inequality
This paper explores inequality through a lens of mutual constitution between context and behaviour. It combines group-based, horizontal inequality...
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Introduction: The Middle Class Debate and Its Limits
The question of class and inequality is again on the agenda of social science. Piketty’s book Capital and books by Therborn (The Killing Fields of...
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Afterword. The (Idea of) African Middle Classes: Theorizing from Africa
This concluding chapter engages with the individual contributions to this volume and shows how they represent an important response to the otherwise...
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The Authoritarian Origins of Dominant Parties in Democracies: Opposition Fragmentation and Asymmetric Competition in India
What explains the electoral dominance of a single party over a prolonged period of time in a democracy? Focusing on the case of India’s former...
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Urban Governance of “Messy” Cities: Housing and the African City
A focus on housing illuminates multiple dimensions of African cities. In particular housing issues shed light on matters of politics and of power, as...
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Teaching Women’s Studies in Africa
The study of women in the academy, and of African women in the African and global academy, is the result of developments in feminist activism in the...
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The Relative Importance of “Cooperative Context” and Kinship in Structuring Cooperative Behavior
Kin relations have a strong theoretical and empirical basis for explaining cooperative behavior. Nevertheless, there is growing recognition that...
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Foreign Policy: A Double-Edged Sword—A History of Racism in U.S. Foreign Policy
U.S. domestic racism directly and profoundly influences the conduct of U.S. foreign affairs. Defending slavery and isolating foreign threats to it...
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Reciprocal migration: the coloniality of recent two-way migration links between Angola and Portugal
Reciprocal migration—which we define as the mutual exchange of origin and destination by two different migrating groups—is hardly acknowledged in the...
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‘A German Whore and no Money at that’: Insanity and the Moral and Political Economies of German South West Africa
While the links between colonial psychiatry and racism figure prominently in histories of the diagnosis, treatment and institutionalisation of the...