Texts and Contexts
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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? -
Epidemics and Social Observation: Why Africa Needs a Different Approach to Covid-19
Why haven’t social factors been more thoroughly scrutinised in the huge upsurge of scientific effort to combat Covid-19? -
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? -
Introducing ‘African Arguments-Debating Ideas’
Alex De Waal (Director at the World Peace Foundation and editor at African Arguments) introduces the ethos of Debating Ideas - the latest addition ...
