
More commerce than chaos
In Johannesburg’s Jeppe precinct, what looks like disorder is in fact a dense, transnational system of trade, labor, and survival at the heart of the global economy.
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Stéphanie Perazzone is an International Political Sociologist and a Lecturer in International Development at the University of Glasgow’s School of Social and Political Science. Her research cuts across various disciplinary fields within social sciences and focuses in African politics, post and decolonial theory, feminist theory, and urban studies.

In Johannesburg’s Jeppe precinct, what looks like disorder is in fact a dense, transnational system of trade, labor, and survival at the heart of the global economy.

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