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    The Sociology of Ground Zero: The South African Variant and Colonial Prejudice

    By Leslie Bank
    February 25, 2021
    Colonial prejudice: the sociology of Ground Zero
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    Exhumed Bodies: Reburials and Cultural Resistance in Covid Times

    By Leslie Bank Aneza Madini
    February 10, 2021
    Politics of burial during Covid-19 in South Africa
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    Plastic Bodies, Public Policy and Popular Anger in Rural South Africa

    By Mark Paterson Leslie Bank
    February 2, 2021
    How the South African Government got it wrong on Covid-19 burials
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    African Voices, African Arguments Podcast, Episode 5: Campaigning Against Corruption: A Discussion with Hennie Van Vuuren

    By African Arguments
    September 11, 2020
    Campaigning against corruption
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    Funeral Practices and Cultural Dignity in the Time of Covid

    By Vuyokazi Nelly Sharpley Leslie Bank
    July 31, 2020
    Funeral Practices and Cultural Dignity in the Time of Covid
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    Covid-19 in South Africa: Whither Migrants?

    By Ncumisa Willie Faisal Garba
    June 17, 2020
    Nationalistic approaches to the covid-19 pandemic overlook the interdependent nature of social relations
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    People’s Science and Translocality in South Africa

    By Leslie Bank
    June 15, 2020
    Can failure to take account of social embeddedness of economics account for the mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic?
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    Covid-19, the Working Class and the Poor in South Africa

    By Ncumisa Willie Faisal Garba
    June 12, 2020
    South Africa’s racial capitalism has consumed numerous Black working class lives.
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    Gifting and the Capable State in Times of Crisis

    By Leslie Bank
    May 25, 2020
    State gifting and the politics of bailouts in the time of Covid
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