Fikile Masikane
Biographic Data
| ID | 4448883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fikile Masikane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fikile |
| FAMILY NAME | Masikane |
| SIGNATURE | MASIKANE F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Twitter (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1941-628X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Workers’ power and platform capitalism: The Embryo Towards an Alternative
Symbolic inclusion and systemic exclusion: Exploring our precarious journeys to becoming black women academics at a South African university through the lens of fieldwork
This perspective piece surfaces financially vulnerable black (women) students as predominant fieldwork research assistants and precarious frontline workers of/in the university in marginalised and volatile communities, often with disabling consequences. Research is a time-consuming, indispensable site for knowledge production and empowerment. Yet, as ‘assistants’, black women’s contributions and capabilities remains in a constant phase of infancy…
Not entirely displacement: Conceptualizing relocation in Ethiopia and South Africa as “disruptive re-placement”
Residents’ lived experiences of movement into state directed housing frequently evidence contradictory outcomes. Often, movement is articulated in terms of displacement, noting its profoundly negative outcomes. However, displacement does not always fully capture contradictions, particularly where housing programmes form part of wider developmental strategies, themselves ambiguous in practice. Adopting a relational analysis, the paper argues for c…
Beyond traditional trade unionism: Innovative worker responses in three African cities
Insufficient attention has been given to how workers organizations are challenging precarious work through new hybrid forms of organizing in the Global South. In this article we examine three examples where workers innovate and experiment with new forms of worker organization in three African cities. These include a traditional union reaching out to precarious workers in Cape Town, hybrid forms of worker organizations in Kampala, and workers in t…
Not entirely displacement: Conceptualizing relocation in Ethiopia and South Africa as “disruptive re-placement”
Residents’ lived experiences of movement into state directed housing frequently evidence contradictory outcomes. Often, movement is articulated in terms of displacement, noting its profoundly negative outcomes. However, displacement does not always fully capture contradictions, particularly where housing programmes form part of wider developmental strategies, themselves ambiguous in practice. Adopting a relational analysis, the paper argues for c…
Beyond traditional trade unionism: Innovative worker responses in three African cities
Insufficient attention has been given to how workers organizations are challenging precarious work through new hybrid forms of organizing in the Global South. In this article we examine three examples where workers innovate and experiment with new forms of worker organization in three African cities. These include a traditional union reaching out to precarious workers in Cape Town, hybrid forms of worker organizations in Kampala, and workers in t…
Workers’ power and platform capitalism: The Embryo Towards an Alternative
Beyond traditional trade unionism: Innovative worker responses in three African cities
Insufficient attention has been given to how workers organizations are challenging precarious work through new hybrid forms of organizing in the Global South. In this article we examine three examples where workers innovate and experiment with new forms of worker organization in three African cities. These include a traditional union reaching out to precarious workers in Cape Town, hybrid forms of worker organizations in Kampala, and workers in t…
Not entirely displacement: Conceptualizing relocation in Ethiopia and South Africa as “disruptive re-placement”
Residents’ lived experiences of movement into state directed housing frequently evidence contradictory outcomes. Often, movement is articulated in terms of displacement, noting its profoundly negative outcomes. However, displacement does not always fully capture contradictions, particularly where housing programmes form part of wider developmental strategies, themselves ambiguous in practice. Adopting a relational analysis, the paper argues for c…
Symbolic inclusion and systemic exclusion: Exploring our precarious journeys to becoming black women academics at a South African university through the lens of fieldwork
This perspective piece surfaces financially vulnerable black (women) students as predominant fieldwork research assistants and precarious frontline workers of/in the university in marginalised and volatile communities, often with disabling consequences. Research is a time-consuming, indispensable site for knowledge production and empowerment. Yet, as ‘assistants’, black women’s contributions and capabilities remains in a constant phase of infancy…
Workers’ power and platform capitalism: The Embryo Towards an Alternative
Economics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (2 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (2 works) · Power (physics (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis (1 works)