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Deborah James

United Kingdom
Department of Anthropology
London School of Economics
Fellow:
  • 2012 and earlier
  • 2013 First Semester
  • 2018 Second Semester
  • 2019 First Semester

Involved in these STIAS projects

The new middle class in Africa in comparative perspective

Comparative perspectives from the global south can tell us much about the meteoric rise of the new middle class in Africa. They suggest that we should be wary of purely quantitative/objective characterisations,...
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Money from nothing: popular economies and indebtedness in South Africa

This project explores the over-indebtedness of South African consumers, set against the longer history of exploitation of South African black people by the forces of capitalism, and interrogates how these...
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Iso Lomso

Iso Lomso Fellowship call now open – apply by 15 October 2019

23 August 2019
Fellows' seminars

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

6 May 2019
Fellows' seminars,  STIAS theme

Examining the new middle class in Africa – Fellows’ seminar by Deborah James, Carola Lentz, Isidore Lobnibe and Thabisani Ndlovu

15 April 2019
 

Related publications

Book/Book Chapter

Principles or pragmatics?

James, Deborah. 2023. Principles or pragmatics? In M. Pelkmans & H. Walker (Eds.), How People Compare (pp. 107–127). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003283669-8

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Book/Book Chapter

Redistribution and indebtedness: a tale of two settings

James, Deborah. 2020. Redistribution and indebtedness: a tale of two settings. In C. Hann & D. Kalb (Eds.), Financialization: Relational Approaches. pp. 196–219. Berghahn Books. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/103429/1/James_redistribution_and_indebtedness_published.pdf

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Journal Article

“Deeper into a Hole?” Borrowing and Lending in South Africa

Deborah James. 2014. “Deeper into a Hole?” Borrowing and Lending in South Africa. Current Anthropology, 55 (Supplement 9), S17-S29

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Book/Book Chapter

Money From Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa

Deborah James. 2014. Money From Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa. Stanford University Press (Palo Alto) and Wits Press (Johannesburg), 304 pp. ISBN: 978-0-804-79267-7

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Journal Article

Sorting out income’: transnational householding and austerity Britain

James, Deborah and Samuel Kirwan. 2019. ‘Sorting out income’: transnational householding and austerity Britain. Social Anthropology, 1469–8676.12619. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12619

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