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Title Ironies of solidarity: insurance and financialization of kinship in South Africa
Full text https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3158772
Date 2020
Author(s) Bähre, E.
Abstract Set in one of the world's most unequal and violent places, this ethnographic study reveals how insurance companies discovered a vast market of predominantly poor African clients. After apartheid ended in 1994, South Africa became a 'testing ground' for new insurance products, new marketing techniques and pioneering administrative models with a potentially global market. Drawing on Rorty's notion of irony for understanding how the contradictions inherent to solidarity affect inequality and conflict as well as drawing on a vast array of case studies, <em>Ironies of Solidarity</em> examines how both Africans enjoy the freedoms that they have gained in financial terms and how the onset of democracy effected the risks faced in everyday life. Bähre examines the ways in which policies are sold and claims are handled, offering a detailed analysis of South Africa's insurance sector. - Horizon 2020(H2020) - 682467 - Global Challenges (FSW)
Language en
Publisher Zed Books
Type of publication Book (monograph); info:eu-repo/semantics/book; Text
Format application/pdf
Source Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
Rights https://hdl.handle.net/1887/license:3
Identifier isbn:9781786998583; eisbn:9781786998545; doi:10.5040/9781350220867; lucris-id:323350420
Repository Leiden - University of Leiden
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