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My present research explores the Royal Bafokeng Nation in South Africa as an example of the persistence of "traditional" forms of patriarchal governance in Africa in the midst of democratisation, modernization, and new discourses of universal and individual "rights." An ethnic group formed in part as a means of consolidating the community's claims to significant mineral wealth (platinum), the Bafokeng are preserving "tradition" by corporatizing their assets and administration. "The Business of Being Bafokeng" not only analyses the legal, economic, and political process of corporatization, but also the symbolic and ideological aspects of this change.
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I am a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Previously, I was visiting Assistant Professor (research) at the Watson Institute for International Studies from 2001-2003, and Director of the Cambodian Genocide Program at Yale from 1999-2001. In addition to research on contemporary South Africa, I have worked and published extensively in the field of comparative genocide studies. I recently published an edited volume entitled "Genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda: New Perspectives" (Transaction Publishers 2006). |
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