Jess Auerbach, Author at African Arguments

Author: Jess Auerbach

Jess Auerbach

Jess Auerbach is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at North-West University, South Africa. She holds a PhD from Stanford an an MSc from Oxford. She is the author of From Water to Wine: Becoming Middle Class in Angola (University of Toronto Press, 2020) and and the author of Archive of Kindness: stories from the other side of the South African pandemic (BK Publishing, 2021).

Politics Society South Africa Top story

By Jess Auerbach
July 15, 2021
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South Africa unrest: We are not a failed state, but a failed global system

South Africa encapsulates global inequalities – and the kinds of tumult we’ll see more and more of worldwide – inside national borders. South Africa is in ...

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Angola Covid-19 Society

By Jess Auerbach
March 19, 2020
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Writing about “that kind of country” in a time of coronavirus

Now more than ever, it is essential that writing on Africa focuses not just on devastation and despair but beauty, success, dignity, love and laughter. Read ...

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Mauritius Politics Society Top story

By Jess Auerbach
October 29, 2019
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Mauritius’ micro-politics: Everybody needs good neighbours

In some elections, people vote for the soul of their nation. In Mauritius, they vote for their neighbours. Politics in Mauritius is perhaps unique in the ...

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