Growing awareness of the size and organizational potential of informal economies in the era
of globalization has triggered a profusion of research on linkages between the formal and …

In The Politics of Operations Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson investigate how capital
reshapes its relation with politics through operations that enable the extraction and …

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 …

Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become an extreme yet unexceptional
embodiment of forces at play in many other regions of the world: intensifying inequality …

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 book addresses the on-going crisis of informality in rapidly growing cities of the global
South. The authors offer a Southern perspective on planning theory, explaining how the …

The COVID-19 pandemic presents a particular challenge to countries with high levels of
labour market informality. Informal workers and their households are especially vulnerable …

The livelihoods of S outh A frica's rural A frican poor have long been characterized by
diverse activities, and intertwined with urban opportunities. This paper examines the …

The paper provides a survey of commercial agriculture in S outh A frica since 1994. It
emphasizes, first, how effectively 'organized agriculture'positioned itself for the new …

This article builds on existing literature on the material effects of cash transfers. It explores
people's own perceptions of the role of unconditional cash transfers in building, maintaining …