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Anne-Maria B. Makhulu, Associate Professor

Anne-Maria B. Makhulu
Office Location:  205 Friedl Building, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:  (919) 668-5251
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Office Hours:  

Office Hours: By Appointment
Location: Friedl Building (East Campus), Room 201E | Zoom

Teaching (Spring 2024):

  • Aaas 503s.01, The black radical tradition Synopsis
    Perkins 070, Th 01:25 PM-03:55 PM
  • Culanth 530s.01, Racial capitalism Synopsis
    East duke 108, Tu 01:25 PM-03:55 PM
Education:
  • Ph.D. The University of Chicago 2003
  • M.A. The University of Chicago 1996
  • B.A. Columbia University 1994
Specialties:

Africa
Post Colonialism
Neoliberalism
Globalization
Urban Anthropology
Political Economy
Finance
Social Movements
Culture Theory

Research Interests:

Anne-Maria Makhulu is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Duke University. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2003. Her research interests cover: Africa and more specifically South Africa, cities, space, globalization, political economy, neoliberalism, the anthropology of finance, as well as questions of aesthetics, including the literature of South Africa. Makhulu is co-editor of Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities (2010). She is a contributor to Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age (2004), New Ethnographies of Neoliberalism (2010), and the author of Making Freedom: Apartheid, Squatter Politics and the Struggle for Home (2015) as well as articles in Anthropological Quarterly and PMLA. A new project, "Black and Bourgeois: Defining Race and Class After Apartheid," examines the relationship between race and mobility in post-apartheid South Africa.

Representative Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. Makhulu, A-M. Making Freedom: Apartheid, Squatter Politics, and the Struggle for Home. Duke University Press, 2015. (In press)  [abs]
  2. with Makhulu, A-M; Buggenhagen, BA; Jackson, S. Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities. The University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection, (also published in hardcopy) University of California Press, 2010. 240 pages pages pp. [24b027x0]  [abs]
  3. Makhulu, AM. "The conditions for after Work: Financialization and informalization in posttransition South Africa." Pmla. Edited by Vicky Unruh.  vol. 127 no. 4 (October, 2012): 782-799. [repository], [doi]  [abs]
  4. Makhulu, AM. "The "dialectics of toil": Reflections on the politics of space after apartheid." Anthropological Quarterly. Edited by Jesse Weaver Shipley. Ethics of Scale: Relocating Politics After Liberation vol. 83 no. 3 (Summer, 2010): 551-580. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  5. Makhulu, A-M. "The Search for Economic Sovereignty." Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities. Edited by Makhulu, A-MB; Buggenhagen, BA; Jackson, S. The University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection, (also published in hardcopy) ( 2010): 28-47. [24b027x0]  [abs]
  6. Makhulu, A-M. "The Question of Freedom: Post-Emancipation South Africa in a Neoliberal Age." Ethnographies of Neoliberalism. Edited by Greenhouse, CJ.  ( 2010): 131-145.  [abs]
  7. Makhulu, A-M. "Poetic Justice: Xhosa Idioms and Moral Breach in Post-Apartheid South Africa." Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age. Edited by Weiss, B. Studies of Religion in Africa vol. 26 ( 2004): 229-261.

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