Books and Controversies
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African ArgumentsAfrican Arguments Book SeriesBooks and ControversiesDebating IdeasDigital SolutionsKenyaTexts and Contexts
Corporate Weaponization of Social Media Platforms Threatens Democracy
Democracies are vulnerable to social media misinformation. -
Book Review: Israel in Africa: Security, Migration, Interstate Politics
The second review in a four part debate series of Yotam Gidron's Israeli in Africa book -
Africa's Foreign EngagementsAfrican Arguments Book SeriesBooks and ControversiesDebating IdeasReviewsSudanTexts and Contexts
Africa and Israel: Re-Opening the Debate
Israel’s security strategy for Africa is a fusion of the principles of transactional politics the transnational political marketplace -
Israel in Africa: Security, Migration, Interstate Politics – Book Launch Webinar
Stream Yotam Gidron's Israel In Africa Book Launch from Royal African Society -
Village Life in Modern Africa – Review of Camila Toulmin’s Land, Investment and Migration: Thirty-five Years of Village Life in Mali
Camilla Toulmin documents the deepest historic change that humanity makes; the change from hand-to-mouth farming to modern agriculture. -
AnthropologyBooks and ControversiesCOVID-19Covid-19Debating IdeasEconomies and SocietiesPolitics and Political EconomySouth AfricaTexts and Contexts
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? -
Books and ControversiesCOVID-19Covid-19Debating IdeasEconomies and SocietiesSouth AfricaTexts and Contexts
Gifting and the Capable State in Times of Crisis
State gifting and the politics of bailouts in the time of Covid -
Will Covid-19 South Africa be Another Case of ‘Death Without Weeping’?
How do Covid-19 socialised responses to death and disease compare with previous pandemics? -
From AIDS to Covid-19 in South Africa: Thoughts from an Uxbridge Apartment
Pandemics not experienced in the setting of the clinic, but in the village and at home, hence understanding of social relations, cultural practices, and ...
