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Education:
- 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 the following geographic and conceptual areas, broadly defined: 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. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled The Geography of Freedom: Revolution and the South African City. 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. It also explores how such claims have been renegotiated given the post-apartheid state’s focus on liberalization. Makhulu is a contributor to Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age (2004), and Politics, Publics, Personhood: New Ethnographies at the Limits of Neoliberalism (under review at the University of Pennsylvania Press). She is a co-editor of Creativity beyond Crisis: Perspectives on the Politics of Agency in Africa, currently under review with the University of California Press. An article for a special issue of Social Text honoring the work of Jean Comaroff is in preparation.
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- with Beth A. Buggenhagen and Stephen Jackson. Creativity Beyond Crisis? Perspectives on the Politics of Agency in Africa. The University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection, (also published in hardcopy) University of California Press, 2008. (Under Review) [abs]
- Beth A. Buggenhagen and Stephen Jackson. "Introduction." Creativity Beyond Crisis? Perspectives on the Politics of Agency in Africa. Edited by Beth A. Buggenhagen, Stephen Jackson, and Anne-Maria B. Makhulu. The University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection (also published in hardcopy) (2008). (Under Review) [abs]
- Anne-Maria B. Makhulu. "The Search for Economic Sovereignty." Creativity Beyond Crisis? Perspectives on the Politics of Agency in Africa. Edited by Beth A. Buggenhagen, Stephen Jackson, and Anne-Maria B. Makhulu. The University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection, (also published in hardcopy) (2008). (Under Review) [abs]
- Anne-Maria B. Makhulu. "The Question of Freedom: Post-Emancipation South Africa in a Neoliberal Age." Politics, Publics, Personhood: New Ethnographies at the Limits of Neoliberalism. Edited by Carol Greenhouse. (2008). (Under Review) [abs]
- Anne-Maria B. Makhulu. "Race, Space, and Place: The New Urban Politics after Apartheid." Social Text (2008). (In preparation)
- 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.