Publications

Bähre E. (2020), Ironies of Solidarity: Insurance and Financialization of Kinship in South Africa. London: Zed Books.

 

Bähre, E. Financialization, Solidarity, and Conflict.Economic Anthropology 7(1) (2020): 159-161.

 

Bähre, E. Wealth-in-people and practical rationality: aspirations and decisions about money in South AfricaEconomic Anthropology 7, no.2  (2020): 267-278.

 

Mulder, Nikki. “Bad Deaths, Good Funerals: The Values of Life Insurance in New Orleans.” Economic Anthropology 7, no. 2 (2020): 241-252

 

Mulder, Nikki. “Stories of Autonomy on Non-Sovereign Saba: Flipping the Script of Postcolonial Resistance.” Etnofoor 30, no. 1 (2018): 11-28.

 

Mulder, Nikki. “Postkoloniaal verzet 2.0.” ICA – Instituut Culturele Antropologie, no. 2 (2017): 9-11.

 

Bähre, Erik (2017) ‘The Enchantment of Weber’s Iron Cage: Financialisation and Insurance in South Africa’, in Jan-Bart Gewald and Iva Peša (eds.) Magnifying Perspectives. Contributions to History, A Festschrift for Robert Ross, 254-272. African Studies Centre: Leiden.

 

Bähre Erik. (2016), Murder for Gain: Commercial Insurance and Moralities in South Africa. In: Wiegratz J., Whyte D. (Eds.) Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud. London: Routledge. 142-154.

 

Mulder, Nikki. “Encounters with State Power: Methodological and Ethical Reflections.” LOVA Journal 37 (2016): 65-70.

 

Bähre, Erik. “Ethnography’s Blind Spot: Intimacy, Violence, and Fieldwork Relations in South Africa.” Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice 59, no. 3 (2015): 1-16. pdf file (297.85 KB)

 

Rodima-Taylor, Daivi, and Erik Bähre. “Introduction: Mutual Help in an Era of Uncertainty.” Africa 84, no. 4 (2014): 507-509. pdf file (215.57 KB)

 

Bähre, Erik. “A Trickle-Up Economy: Mutuality, Freedom and Violence in Cape Town’s Taxi Associations.” Africa 84, no. 4 (2014): 576-594. pdf file (306.42 KB)

 

van Est, Diny, and Erik Bähre. “Cash for Care in The Netherlands: Markets, Bureaucracies, and Personal Relations in Post-Cold War Healthcare Reform.” Etnofoor 25, no. 2 (2013): 99-118. pdf file (139.27 KB)

 

Bähre, Erik. “The Janus Face of Insurance in South Africa: From Costs to Risk, from Networks to Bureaucracies.” Africa 82, no. 1 (2012): 150-67. pdf file (148.79 KB)

 

Bähre, Erik, and Diny Van Est. “Tussen Vrije Markt en Solidariteit: Het Persoonsgebonden Budget in Beleid en Praktijk.” In Stille Ideologie: Onderstromen in Beleid en Bestuur, 131-148. Redactie: Cor van Montfort, Ank Michels en Wouter van Dooren ed. Den Haag: Boom Lemma, 2012.

 

Bähre, Erik. “Liberation and Redistribution: Social Grants, Commercial Insurance, and Religious Riches in South Africa.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 53, no. 2 (2011): 371-392. pdf file (194.21 KB)

 

Bähre, Erik. “Redes de Inclusão e Burocracias de Exclusão: Riscos e Seguros de Responsabilidade Civil Entre os Mais Pobres na África do Sul.” Etnográfica 14, no. 3 (2010). pdf file (181.71 KB)

 

Bähre, Erik. Money and Violence: Financial self-help groups in a South African Township. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. pdf file (2.88 MB)