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In September and again in November 2015 the famous German car company, Volkswagen AG at its headquarter in Virginia, received […]
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#Podcast Interview Round Up: The Best of March
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My Brother is an Only Child. Precarity and Solidarity in Post-Neoliberal Societies
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The State and International Relations, Ethnographically: Sites, Objects, Lives
This week begins a new thematic thread conceived around the topic, “The State and International Relations, Ethnographically: Sites, Objects, Lives.”
REDUX: “Cleaning Up the Streets”
Hillbrow, Johannesburg: It’s April 2008. I am in the lobby of the Ambassador Hotel, one of Johannesburg’s most happening nightclubs