Anne-Maria B Makhulu, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African & African American Studies

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Curriculum Vitae

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• PhD University of Chicago 2003
• MA University of Chicago 1996
• BA (summa cum laude) Columbia University 1994

Specialties:

Africa

Post Colonialism

Marxism

Neoliberalism

Globalization

Urban Anthropology

Finance

Political Economy

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, occult economies, neoliberalism, Marxism, anthropology of finance, as well as questions of aesthetics, including the literature and cinema of South Africa. Her book manuscript, currently under review, is entitled The Geography of Freedom: Cape Town in Transition (working title). The project examines the status and meaning of the South African city under apartheid and immediately after the transition to democracy focusing on the ways in which matters of citizenship, labor, and race critically intersected with the “urban,” and thereby came to constitute it as a strategic space in which marginal subjects, specifically, the black metropolitan poor, sought to make claims on the apartheid state. Makhulu is a contributor to Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age (2004), and New Ethnographies of Neoliberalism (2010). She is a co-editor of Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities (2010).

Representative Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. with Beth A. Buggenhagen and Stephen Jackson. 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 pp. [24b027x0]  [abs]
2. Beth A. Buggenhagen and Stephen Jackson. "Introduction." Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities. Edited by Anne-Maria B. Makhulu, Beth A. Buggenhagen, and Stephen Jackson. The University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection (also published in hardcopy) (2010): 240 pages. [24b027x0]  [abs]
3. Anne-Maria B. Makhulu. "The Search for Economic Sovereignty." Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities. Edited by Anne-Maria B. Makhulu, Beth A. Buggenhagen and Stephen Jackson. The University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection, (also published in hardcopy) (2010): 240 pages. [24b027x0]  [abs]
4. Anne-Maria Makhulu. "The Question of Freedom: Post-Emancipation South Africa in a Neoliberal Age." Ethnographies of Neoliberalism. Edited by Carol J. Greenhouse.  (2010): 376 pages.  [abs]
5. Anne-Maria B. Makhulu. "“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.  [abs]
6. Anne-Maria B. Makhulu. "Poetic Justice: Xhosa Idioms and Moral Breach in Post-Apartheid South Africa." Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age. Edited by Brad Weiss. Studies of Religion in Africa vol. 26 (2004): 229-261.