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Author: Leslie Bank

Leslie Bank

Leslie Bank is a research director in the Inclusive Economic Development Unit at the Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa and professor of social anthropology at Walter Sisulu University. He is the co-author of a new volume on South African migration dynamics entitled Migrant Labour After Apartheid: The Inside Story (HSRC Press, 2020), https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/migrant-labour-after-apartheid.

Anthropology Covid-19 COVID-19 Debating Ideas Politics and Political Economy Social Policy South Africa

By Leslie Bank
March 16, 2021
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Culture, Covid and Social Cohesion in Rural Southern Africa

Social rules in rural South Africa ahead of the Third Wave

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Anthropology Covid-19 COVID-19 Debating Ideas Decolonisation Social Policy South Africa

By Leslie Bank
February 25, 2021
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The Sociology of Ground Zero: The South African Variant and Colonial Prejudice

Colonial prejudice: the sociology of Ground Zero

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Anthropology Books and Controversies Covid-19 COVID-19 Debating Ideas Economies and Societies Politics and Political Economy South Africa Texts and Contexts

By Leslie Bank
June 15, 2020
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People’s Science and Translocality in South Africa

Can failure to take account of social embeddedness of economics account for the mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic?

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Books and Controversies Covid-19 COVID-19 Debating Ideas Economies and Societies South Africa Texts and Contexts

By Leslie Bank
May 25, 2020
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Gifting and the Capable State in Times of Crisis

State gifting and the politics of bailouts in the time of Covid

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