James Ferguson (1) (1959–2025)
Author of The Anti-Politics Machine
For other authors named James Ferguson, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
James Ferguson is Susan S. and William H. Hindle Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. He is the author of Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order and the coeditor of Culture, Power, Place: show more Explorations in Critical Anthropology, both also published by Duke University Press. show less
Image credit: Ferguson at the University of Sussex in 2016
Works by James Ferguson
Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt (1999) 53 copies, 1 review
Associated Works
The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique (2002) — Contributor — 38 copies
Debating development discourse : institutional and popular perspectives (1995) — Contributor — 2 copies
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- FERGUSON, James
- Birthdate
- 1959-06-16
- Date of death
- 2025-02-14
- Gender
- male
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