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Popular Economies in South Africa

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ID2102797
AuthorsElizabeth Hull (0000-0002-1981-3533), Deborah James (0000-0002-4274-197X)
Year2012
Volume82
Issue1
Pages1-19
Publication date2012-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAfrica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0001-9720 • E-ISSN: 1750-0184
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0001972011000696
OpenAlexW2118071087
LanguageEN
Citations received50
References cited39

African economies have long been a matter of concern to anthropologists, not least in the pages ofAfrica.These economies are situated, somewhat contradictorily, between global settings of financialized capitalism on the one hand and impoverished local arenas where cash-based economic transfers predominate on the other. The more such economies appear to be tied to wider global arenas and operations that place them beyond the reach of ordinary people, the more necessary it is to explore the logics and decisions that tie them inexorably to specific everyday settings

Capitalism · Cash · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Macroeconomics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Situated · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · South African History and Culture

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Citations per year3,57
Citation span2012 - 2026 (15)
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