South Africa is one of the world’s most unequal societies. Social disparities provoke massive social protests, considered to be among the most frequent worldwide. Some of these are class-based, …

  With this article we want to show how socio-cultural differentiation within the African middle class can be grasped conceptually and empirically. This analysis of socio-cultural difference adds a further …

    This article examines how looking at perspectives of the Future contributes to distinguishing milieus in the “middle-classes” of urban Kenya. The rise of millions of Africans out of …

  This chapter draws attention to the ‘shadow spaces’ of the creativity paradigm: Small and mid-size cities at the fringes of the Global South that are constructed as irrelevant places …