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

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Curriculum Vitae

• PhD University of Chicago 2003
• MA University of Chicago 1996
• BA (summa cum laude) 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 articles in Anthropological Quarterly and PMLA. A book manuscript, entitled The Geography of Freedom: Cape Town in Transition, is under review (Duke University Press).

Representative Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. Anne-Maria Makhulu. The Geography of Freedom: Cape Town in Transition.  2012. (in preparation for resubmission)  [abs]
2. 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]
3. Anne-Maria Makhulu. "The Conditions for after Work: Financialization and Informalization in Posttransition South Africa." PMLA. Edited by Vicky Unruh.  vol. 127 no. 4 (January, 2012): 782-799.  [abs]
4. 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]
5. 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]
6. 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]
7. 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]
8. 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.