- Nationality
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- Affiliation
- Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
- Field of study
- Social Sciences
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2023 1st Semester 2021 2nd Semester 2019 1st Semester
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public lecture / seminar
Socialist remains: Rethinking African urbanism from Luanda’s ‘Cuban buildings’ - Fellows' seminar by Claudia Gastrow
This presentation outlines the beginning of a book project which focuses on what Angolans call the ‘Cuban buildings’, mid-rise apartment blocks designed and built by Cubans in Luanda during the 1980s.
publication
‘If Angola were Libya’: protest and politics in Angola
Gastrow, Claudia. 2022. ‘If Angola were Libya’: protest and politics in Angola. Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, 108(1), 11–34. ht...
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Material politics - Fellows' seminar by Claudia Gastrow
Property, belonging and ‘licit ownership’ in Luanda, Angola How is property recognised outside of official laws and regulations?
publication
Gastrow, Claudia. 2020. Housing middle-classness: formality and the making of distinction in Luanda
Gastrow, Claudia. 2020. Housing middle-classness: formality and the making of distinction in Luanda. Africa, 90(3), 509–528. https://doi.org/10.1017/S00019...
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Urban States: The Presidency and Planning in Luanda, Angola
Gastrow, Claudia. 2020. Urban States: The Presidency and Planning in Luanda, Angola. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 1468–2427.12854....
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Approaching a shared topic from different angles: studying the new middle classes in southern Africa - Fellows' seminar by Maxim Bolt, Claudia Gastrow and Preben Kaarsholm
Context is important. What is middle class in Amaoti is different to Sandton.
public lecture / seminar
Examining the new middle class in Africa - Fellows’ seminar by Deborah James, Carola Lentz, Isidore Lobnibe and Thabisani Ndlovu
Paradoxically, while in Europe and America the old middle class is said to be in crisis, its newer incarnation in the Global South is celebrated as being on the rise.
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STIAS Lecture Series 2019: Claudia Gastrow - The Discomforts of Home: Class, Infrastructure and Aesthesis in Luanda, Angola
Claudia Gastrow, Lecturer in Anthropologyat the University of Johannesburgand STIAS Iso Lomso fellowwill present a talk with the title: The Discomforts of Home: Class, Infrastructure and Aesthesis in Luanda, Angola Abstract This talk investigates how infrastructures – both official and unofficial – are the objects through which residents of Luanda experience exclusion and status.
news-article
Second Iso Lomso cohort selected
STIAS is pleased to announce its second cohort for the Iso Lomso Fellowships for Early Career African Researchers.
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STIAS launches Iso Lomso Fellowships for early career researchers
Iso Lomso, the Eye of Tomorrow in isiXhosa, is a new fellowship programme that will boost the careers of some of the brightest minds in African academia.