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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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Anthropology Covid-19 COVID-19 Debating Ideas Public Health South Africa

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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