Items where Author is "James, Deborah"

Article

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2024) Beyond social policy? ‘patchwork’ livelihoods. Global Social Policy, 24 (2). 322 - 326. ISSN 1468-0181

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2024) What relevance has division of labour in a world of precarious work? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. ISSN 0962-8436 (In Press)

Zaloom, Caitlin and James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2023) Financialization and the household. Annual Review of Anthropology, 52. 399 - 415. ISSN 0084-6570

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2022) Owing everyone: debt advice in the UK’s time of austerity. Ethnos, 87 (1). 59 - 77. ISSN 0014-1844

Koch, Insa and James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2022) The state of the welfare state: advice, governance and care in settings of austerity. Ethnos, 87 (1). 1 - 21. ISSN 0014-1844

Simpson, Nikita ORCID: 0000-0001-5260-3266, Angland, Michael, Bhogal, Jaskiran K., Bowers, Rebecca, Cannell, Fenella, Gardner, Katy ORCID: 0000-0002-5608-7585, Lohiya, Anishka ORCID: 0000-0001-6437-9177, James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X, Jivraj, Naseem, Koch, Insa, Laws, Megan ORCID: 0000-0002-7652-4279, Lipton, Jonah, Long, Nicholas J. ORCID: 0000-0002-4088-1661, Vieira, Jordan ORCID: 0000-0002-9278-6375, Watt, Connor, Whittle, Catherine, Zidaru, Teodor ORCID: 0000-0003-4258-561X and Bear, Laura (2021) Good and ‘bad’ deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from a rapid qualitative study. BMJ Global Health, 6 (6). ISSN 2059-7908

Breckenridge, Keith and James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2021) Recentring the margins: theorizing African capitalism after 50 years. Economy and Society, 50 (1). 1 - 8. ISSN 0308-5147

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2021) Life and debt: a view from the south. Economy and Society, 50 (1). 36 - 56. ISSN 0308-5147

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2020) Householding and social reproduction: comment on Newberry and Rosen. Focaal, 2020 (86). 125 - 128. ISSN 0920-1297

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X and Kirwan, Samuel (2019) Sorting out income: transnational householding and austerity Britain. Social Anthropology, 28 (3). pp. 671-685. ISSN 0964-0282

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2019) New subjectivities: aspiration, prosperity and the new middle class. African Studies, 78 (1). pp. 33-50. ISSN 0002-0184

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2018) Mediating Indebtedness in South Africa. Ethnos, 83 (5). pp. 814-831. ISSN 0014-1844

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2017) Deductions and counter-deductions in South Africa. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 7 (3). pp. 281-304. ISSN 2049-1115

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2017) Not marrying in South Africa: consumption, aspiration and the new middle class. Anthropology Southern Africa, 40 (1). pp. 1-14. ISSN 2332-3256

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2015) 'Women use their strength in the house': savings clubs in an Mpumalanga village. Journal of Southern African Studies, 41 (5). pp. 1035-1052. ISSN 0305-7070

Forbess, Alice and James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2014) Acts of assistance: navigating the interstices of the British state with the help of non-profit legal advisers. Social Analysis, 58 (3). pp. 73-89. ISSN 0155-977X

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X and Rajak, Dinah (2014) Credit apartheid, migrants, mines and money. African Studies, 73 (3). pp. 455-476. ISSN 0002-0184

Phillips, Laura and James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2014) Labour, lodging and linkages: migrant women's experience in South Africa. African Studies, 73 (3). pp. 410-431. ISSN 0002-0184

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2014) 'Deeper into a hole?': borrowing and lending in South Africa. Current Anthropology, 55 (S9). pp. 17-29. ISSN 0011-3204

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2013) Citizenship and land in South Africa: from rights to responsibilities. Critique of Anthropology, 33 (1). pp. 26-46. ISSN 0308-275X

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2013) Regulating credit: tackling the redistributiveness of neoliberalism. Anthropology of This Century, 6. ISSN 2047-6345

Hull, Elizabeth and James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2012) Introduction: popular economies in South Africa. Africa: the Journal of the International African Institute, 82 (01). pp. 1-19. ISSN 0001-9720

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2012) Money-go-round: personal economies of wealth, aspiration and indebtedness. Africa, 82 (01). pp. 20-40. ISSN 0001-9720

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X and Killick, Evan (2012) Empathy and expertise: case workers and immigration/asylum applicants in London. Law and Social Inquiry, 37 (2). pp. 430-455. ISSN 0897-6546

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2011) The return of the broker: consensus, hierarchy and choice in South African land reform. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 17 (2). pp. 318-338. ISSN 1359-0987

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2011) Tenure reformed: planning for redress or progress in South Africa. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 61 (Winter). pp. 19-32. ISSN 0920-1297

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X and Killick, Evan (2010) Ethical dilemmas? UK immigration, Legal Aid funding reform and caseworkers. Anthropology Today, 26 (1). pp. 13-16. ISSN 0268-540X

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2009) David Webster: an activist anthropologist twenty years on. African Studies, 68 (2). pp. 287-297. ISSN 0002-0184

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2009) Burial sites, informal rights and lost kingdoms: the contesting of land claims in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Africa, 79 (2). pp. 228-251. ISSN 0001-9720

McNeill, Fraser G. and James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2008) Singing songs of AIDS in Venda, South Africa: performance, pollution and ethnomusicology in a ‘neo-liberal’ setting. South African Music Studies, 28. pp. 1-30. ISSN 0258-509X

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X, Ngonini, Alex Xola and Nkadimeng, Geoffrey Mphahle (2005) (Re)constituting class?: owners, tenants and the politics of land reform in Mpumalanga. Journal of South African Studies, 31 (4). pp. 825-844. ISSN 0305-7070

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X and Schrauwers, Albert (2003) An apartheid of souls: Dutch and Afrikaner colonialism and its aftermath in Indonesia and South Africa – an introduction. Itinerario, 27 (3/4). pp. 49-80. ISSN 0165-1153

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X and Nkadimeng, Geoffrey (2003) 'A sentimental attachment to the neighbourhood': African Christians and land claims in South Africa. Itinerario, 27 (3/4). pp. 243-262. ISSN 0165-1153

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2002) “To take the information down to the people” : life skills and HIV/AIDS peer educators in the Durban area. African Studies, 61 (1). pp. 169-191. ISSN 1469-2872

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2001) Land for the landless : conflicting images of rural and urban in South Africa’s land reform programme. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 19 (1). 93 -109. ISSN 1469-9397

Kaarsholm, Preben and James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2001) Cultura popolare, sviluppo e democrazia: un'introduzione al dibattito. Afriche e Orienti, 2. pp. 4-13. ISSN 1592-6753

Kaarsholm, Preben and James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2000) Popular culture and democracy in some southern contexts: an introduction. Journal of Southern African Studies, 26 (2). pp. 189-208. ISSN 0305-7070

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2000) Hill of thorns : custom, knowledge and the reclaiming of a lost land in the new South Africa. Development and Change, 31 (3). pp. 629-649. ISSN 0012-155X

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2000) "After years in the wilderness" : the discourse of land claims in the new South Africa. Journal of Peasant Studies, 27 (3). pp. 142-161. ISSN 0306-6150

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (1999) Bagagešu / those of my home : migrancy, gender and ethnicity in the Northern Province, South Africa. American Ethnologist, 26 (1). pp. 69-89. ISSN 0094-0496

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (1997) 'Music of origin': class, social category and the performers and audience of "Kiba", a South African migrant genre. Africa: the Journal of the International African Institute, 67 (3). pp. 454-475. ISSN 0001-9720

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (1990) Musical form and social history: research perspectives on black South African music. Radical History Review (46/47). pp. 309-319. ISSN 0163-6545

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (1990) A question of ethnicity: Ndzundza Ndebele in a Lebowa village. Journal of Southern African Studies, 16 (1). pp. 33-54. ISSN 0305-7070

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (1988) Land shortage and inheritance in a Lebowa village. Social Dynamics, 14 (2). pp. 36-51. ISSN 0253-3952

Book Section

Hann, Chris and James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2024) Introduction: Argonauts revisited. In: Hann, Chris and James, Deborah, (eds.) One Hundred Years of Argonauts: Malinowski, Ethnography, and Economic Anthropology. Berghahn Books, 1 - 22. ISBN 9781805395218

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2022) Principles or pragmatics? Debt advice as a comparative encounter. In: Pelkmans, Mathijs and Walker, Harry, (eds.) How People Compare. Routledge, 107 - 127. ISBN 9781032229973

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X, Neves, David and Torkelson, Erin (2022) Saving, investment, thrift? Welfare beneficiary households and borrowing in South Africa. In: Alexander, Catherine and Sosna, Daniel, (eds.) Thrift And Its Paradoxes: From Domestic to Political Economy. Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy. Berghahn Books, New York, USA, 49 -73. ISBN 9781800734623

Bear, Laura, James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X, Simpson, Nikita ORCID: 0000-0001-5260-3266, Alexander, Eileen, Bhogal, Kiran, Bowers, Rebecca, Cannell, Fenella, Lohiya, Anishka ORCID: 0000-0001-6437-9177, Koch, Insa, Laws, Megan ORCID: 0000-0002-7652-4279, Lenhard, Johannes, Long, Nicholas J. ORCID: 0000-0002-4088-1661, Pearson, Alice, Samanani, Farhan, Wuerth, Milena, Vicol, Dora Olivia, Vieira, Jordan ORCID: 0000-0002-9278-6375, Watt, Connor, Whittle, Catherine and Zidaru, Teodor ORCID: 0000-0003-4258-561X (2020) Changing care networks in the United Kingdom. In: Eckert, Andreas and Hentschke, Felicitas, (eds.) Corona and Work around the Globe. Work in Global and Historical Perspective (11). Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin, DE, 103 - 110. ISBN 9783110716894

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2020) Redistribution and indebtedness: a tale of two settings. In: Hann, Chriss and Kalb, Don, (eds.) Financialization: Relational Approaches. Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy (6). Berghahn Books, 196 - 219. ISBN 9781789207514

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X and Koch, Insa (2020) Economies of advice. In: Aldenderfer, Mark, (ed.) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Oxford Research Encyclopedias. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2019) Indebtedness and aspiration in South Africa. In: Soudien, Crain, Woolard, Ingrid and Reddy, Vasu, (eds.) Poverty and Inequality: Diagnosis, prognosis and responses. Human Sciences Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 214-231. ISBN 9780796924421

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2017) Undoing apartheid? From land reform to credit reform in South Africa. In: Christophers, Brett, Mann, Geoff and Leyshon, Andrew, (eds.) Money and Finance After the Crisis: Critical Thinking for Uncertain Times. Wiley-Blackwell, London, UK. ISBN 9781119051435

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X and Rajak, Dinah (2014) Debt or savings? Of migrants, mines and money. In: Rankin-Smith, Fiona, Phillips, Laura and Delius, Peter, (eds.) A long way home: migrant worker worlds 1800-2014. Wits University Press, Johannesburg, South Africa. ISBN 9871868147670

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X and McNeill, Fraser G. (2011) Singing songs of AIDS in Venda, South Africa: performance, pollution and ethnomusicology in a ‘neo-liberal’ setting. In: Barz, Gregory, (ed.) The Culture of AIDS: Hope and Healing Through the Arts in Africa. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 193-212.

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2010) 'Doing business with a development ethic’: new look land redistribution in South Africa. In: Freund, Bill and Witt, Harald, (eds.) Development Dilemmas in Post-Apartheid South Africa. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. ISBN 9781869141899

Fay, Derrick and James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2010) Giving land back or righting wrongs? Comparative issues in the study of land restitution. In: Walker, Cherryl, Bohlin, Anna, Hall, Ruth and Kepe, Thembela, (eds.) Land, Memory, Reconstruction, and Justice: Perspectives on Land Claims in South Africa. Ohio University Press, Athens, USA, pp. 41-61. ISBN 9780821419274

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2009) David Webster: a postscript English translation of “Posfácio: David Webster”. In: Webster, David J., (ed.) A Sociedade Chope: Indívíduo e Aliança No Sul De Moçambique (1969-1976). Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, Lisbon, Portugal. ISBN 9789726712213

Fay, Derrick and James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2008) The anthropology of land restitution: an introduction. In: Fay, Derrick and James, Deborah, (eds.) The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution: ‘Restoring What Was Ours’. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 1-24. ISBN 9780415461085

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2007) Property and citizenship in South African land reform. In: Dorman, Sara, Hammett, Daniel and Nugent, Paul, (eds.) Making Nations, Creating Strangers. African social studies series (16). Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 123-144. ISBN 9004157905

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2006) The tragedy of the private: owners, communities and the state in South Africa's land reform programme. In: Benda-Beckmann, Franz von, Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von and Wiber, Melanie G., (eds.) Changing Properties of Property. Berghahn Books, Oxford, UK, pp. 243-268. ISBN 1845451392

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2006) Black background: life history and migrant women’s music in South Africa. In: Reily, Suzel, (ed.) The Musical Human: Rethinking John Blacking's Ethnomusicology in the 21st Century. SOAS musicology series. Ashgate Dartmouth, Aldershot, UK, pp. 71-86. ISBN 075465138X

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2005) Civil society in South Africa. In: Glasius, Marlies, Lewis, David and Seckinelgin, Hakan, (eds.) Exploring Civil Society: Political and Cultural Contexts. Routledge, London, pp. 149-153. ISBN 9780415325455

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2005) Pedi women and Kiba performance. In: Lucia, Christine, (ed.) The World of South African Music: a Reader. Cambridge Scholars Publishers, Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 272-278. ISBN 1904303366

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X and Mphahle Nkadimeng, Geoffrey (2003) The land and the word: missions, African Christians, and the claiming of land in South Africa. In: Draper, Jonathan, (ed.) Orality, Literacy and Colonialism in Southern Africa. Semeia Studies (46). Society of Biblical Literature, Leiden, pp. 111-134. ISBN 9781589831179

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X and Kaufman, Carol (2001) The reproductive consequences of shifting ethnic identity in South Africa. In: Makhlouf Obermeyer, Carla, (ed.) Cultural Perspectives on Reproductive Health. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 193-220. ISBN 9780199246892

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2000) Sister, spouse, lazy woman: commentaries on domestic predicaments by Kiba performers from the Northern Province. In: Brown, Duncan, (ed.) Oral Literature and Performance in Southern Africa. James Currey (Firm), Oxford, UK, pp. 176-194. ISBN 0852555547

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (1996) 'I dress in this fashion' transformations in sotho dress and women's lives in a Sekhukhuneland village, South Africa. In: Hendrickson, Hildi, (ed.) Clothing and Difference: EMBOdied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa. Duke University Press, Durham, USA, pp. 34-65. ISBN 0822317915

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (1994) Basadi ba baeng/visiting women: female migrant performance from the Northern Transvaal. In: Gunner, Elizabeth, (ed.) Politics and Performance: Theatre, Poetry and Song in Southern Africa. Wits University Press, Johannesburg, South Africa, pp. 81-110. ISBN 1868142140

Monograph

Bear, Laura, Simpson, Nikita, Angland, Michael, Bhogal, Jaskiran K., Bowers, Rebecca, Cannell, Fenella, Gardner, Katy ORCID: 0000-0002-5608-7585, Lohiya, Anishka ORCID: 0000-0001-6437-9177, James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X, Jivraj, Naseem, Koch, Insa, Laws, Megan ORCID: 0000-0002-7652-4279, Lipton, Jonah, Long, Nicholas J. ORCID: 0000-0002-4088-1661, Vieira, Jordan ORCID: 0000-0002-9278-6375, Watt, Connor, Whittle, Catherine and Zidaru, Teodor ORCID: 0000-0003-4258-561X (2020) 'A good death' during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK: a report on key findings and recommendations. . London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Bear, Laura, James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X, Simpson, Nikita ORCID: 0000-0001-5260-3266, Alexander, Eileen, Bazambanza, Caroline, Bhogal, Jaskiran K., Bowers, Rebecca, Cannell, Fenella, Lohiya, Anishka ORCID: 0000-0001-6437-9177, Koch, Insa, Lenhard, Johannes, Long, Nicholas J. ORCID: 0000-0002-4088-1661, Pearson, Alice, Samanani, Farhan, Vicol, Olivia, Vieira, Jordan ORCID: 0000-0002-9278-6375, Watt, Connor, Wuerth, Milena, Whittle, Catherine and Zidaru, Teodor ORCID: 0000-0003-4258-561X (2020) A right to care: the social foundations of recovery from Covid-19. . London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X and Forbess, Alice (2011) Rights, welfare and law. Legal aid advocacy in austerity Britain. . London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2002) 'Human rights' or 'property'? State, society, and the landless in South Africa. . Human Rights Institute, Storrs, Connecticut, USA.

Book

Hann, Chris and James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2024) One hundred years of Argonauts: Malinowski, ethnography, and economic anthropology. Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy. (13). Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781805395218

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2015) Money from nothing: indebtedness and aspiration in South Africa. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, USA. ISBN 9780804792677

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X and Toren, Christina (2010) Introduction: culture, context and anthropologists’ accounts. Berghahn Books, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9781845456412

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2006) Gaining ground: ’rights’ and ’property’ in South African land reform. Routledge-Cavendish, Abingdon. ISBN 9781904385622

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (1999) Songs of the women migrants: performance and identity in South Africa. International African library. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748613045

Online resource

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2022) Tackling consumer indebtedness and unscrupulous lending in South Africa. LSE Business Review (18 Aug 2022). Blog Entry.

Forbess, Alice and James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2017) The end of austerity? Not for the most needy. British Politics and Policy at LSE (05 Jan 2017). Website.

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2012) LSE Research: The explosion of debt in South Africa. Africa at LSE (05 Mar 2012). Website.