S'appuyant sur des travaux de recherche menés dans la région rurale du KwaZulu-Natal, cet article montre comment les personnes vivent l’État et d'autres institutions dans une multiplicité de rencontres étalées dans le temps, sans cohérence, et au travers d'intermédiaires divers. Les aspirations évoluent avec le temps et en réaction à ces rencontres. L'article trait...

The achievement of upward mobility through participation in international labour markets has become possible for nurses in the context of a ‘new’ democratic South Africa, but this contrasts sharply with the predicament of many in the post-apartheid context, for whom economic vulnerability and unemployment are the prevailing norm. Such a stark contrast has tended to...

African economies have long been a matter of concern to anthropologists, not least in the pages of Africa. These economies are situated, somewhat contradictorily, between global settings of financialized capitalism on the one hand and impoverished local arenas where cash-based economic transfers predominate on the other. The more such economies appear to be tied to...