James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa in which
states give cash payments to their low income citizens. These programs, Ferguson argues …

In Plantation Life Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi examine the structure and governance
of Indonesia's contemporary oil palm plantations in Indonesia, which supply 50 percent of …

Dependence on others has often figured, in liberal thought, as the opposite of freedom. But
the political anthropology of southern A frica has long recognized relations of social …

Conventional agriculture has made the search for sustainability urgent, more so with regards
to climate change. This has extended to the grape and wine industry, an important industry …

Poverty studies frequently fail to address the underlying processes that produce and
reproduce poverty over time, preferring instead a descriptive focus on its correlates and …

This article questions the export of 'social exclusion'discourse to the field of development
and poverty studies. It considers the findings of ongoing research into chronic poverty in the …

During the Zimbabwean crisis, millions crossed through the apartheid-era border fence,
searching for ways to make ends meet. Maxim Bolt explores the lives of Zimbabwean …

The article reviews research on change in the South African wine industry, and links the
sociology of farming styles and paternalism in Western Cape farm labour relations to work …

Unsettled History examines South African society and the construction and presentation of
its public pasts, from Nelson Mandela's release from prison in 1990 to South Africa's hosting …

This paper presents key findings from a livelihoods survey of households in four poor
neighbourhoods in the Western Cape district of Ceres, one of the centres of South Africa's …