Written by Jerhron Muhammad Recent Sudanese history paints the current conflict waging between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the … Continue reading Civilians caught in the middle of Sudan conflict
Written by Keith Hart The originality of Keynes Commerce waxed and waned throughout the agrarian era, until the market became … Continue reading Austerity: An Economy of Words? Pt. 2
By Keith Hart This essay starts with a personal account of the near starvation of Europe after the Second World … Continue reading Austerity: An Economy of Words? – Pt. 1
By Jehron Muhammad Every year, including 2023 we in the United States celebrate the life and legacy of civil rights … Continue reading Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – Civil Rights Leader or Pan Africanist?
The Future Sudan Campaign reviewed the published details of the signing of the so-called framework agreement between General Abdel Fattah … Continue reading Signing of the Sudanese Framework Agreement by Zakia Muhammad Sadeeg
The film “The Woman King,” directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and starring award-winning actress Viola Davis, though receiving much acclaim, has … Continue reading Female African warriors and their brave fight against the African slave trade by Jehron Muhammad
“There’s a struggle that repeats itself throughout history, over and over again – the oppressors against the oppressed.”—Simon Bolívar Interestingly, … Continue reading Brazil’s Pendulum of Politics
The Museum of Black Civilizations, dubbed the world’s largest dedicated to Black Art, Culture and History, is an impressive building … Continue reading Dakar’s Museum Celebrates Blackness by Mohamadou Cisse
(Editor’s note: This article is published in its entirety with the permission of the author) The limits of naïvety I … Continue reading The anthropology of debt by Keith Hart
After 1971 World economy has reverted since the break-up of the Bretton Woods system of fixed parity exchange rates to … Continue reading The collapse of national capitalism — a Sophoclean tragedy – Part 2 – by Keith Hart
Abstract The global economic crisis is not merely financial, a moment in the historical cycle of credit and debt. The … Continue reading The collapse of national capitalism — a Sophoclean tragedy – Part 1 – by Keith Hart
by Nika Dubrovsky Keith Hart was the International Director of the Human Economy Programme, University of Pretoria and Professor of … Continue reading Interview with Keith Hart on Nationalism
This analysis is based on the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report for 2011-2012. It identifies twelve “pillars” of sustainable … Continue reading South Africa’s two-tier economy (2012-2022) by Keith Hart
Economic anthropologist Keith Hart (KH), one of the leading figures in African studies, spoke to Social Transformations editor Lisandro Claudio … Continue reading Liberal Revolutions and the African Future: An Interview with Keith Hart
(Keynote address for a World Customs Organization/World Bank conference on ‘Informality, international trade and customs’, Brussels, 3-4 June 2013) It … Continue reading Informality and international trade: The case for an African Customs Union Part 2 by Keith Hart
(Keynote address for a World Customs Organization/World Bank conference on ‘Informality, international trade and customs’, Brussels, 3-4 June 2013) It … Continue reading Informality and international trade: The case for an African Customs Union by Keith Hart
by Keith Hart Why Study Gypsy Economy? Looking at the contributions to this volume, I would pick out four themes: … Continue reading Gypsy Economy: The Promise and Limitations of Ethnography – Part 3
by Keith Hart Heads or tails? Martin Fotta referred to a lecture of mine on money, “Heads or tails? Two … Continue reading Gypsy Economy: The Promise and Limitations of Ethnography – Part 2
By Keith Hart The Promise and Limits of Ethnography I am usually rather concerned when I observe how unreflectingly my … Continue reading Gypsy Economy: the Promise and Limitations of Ethnography
It is important to understand that for more than fifty years, American foreign and defense policies such as EUCOM, PCOM, … Continue reading American Exceptionalism and Violent Protests
The Colossus of the South “When the resources of that vast country are taken into account,” the editors of the … Continue reading World Orders Old and New – Latin America
Noam Chomsky is the quintessential pioneering linguist, intellectual and political activist of the last fifty years. He is an American, … Continue reading The Chomsky Chronicles – Wild Man in the Wings
The dialectics of form. “General Forms have their vitality in Particulars, and every Particular is a Man” (William Blake). Most … Continue reading How the informal economy took over the World – Part 2 by Keith Hart
A la recherche du temps perdu (In search of lost time) The idea of an informal economy was born at … Continue reading How the informal economy took over the world by Keith Hart
The authors of this well-written book tell how they were pushed by their editor into writing for a general audience. … Continue reading Seeing Culture Everywhere: A Book Review by Keith Hart
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