Ivor ChipkinMay 25, 20204 minSTATE CAPTURE AND DEMOCRACYThis is an edited excerpt from 'Democracy, Politics and Administration: Defining State Capture in South Africa', Forthcoming in 2020.
Ivor ChipkinMay 24, 20203 minHOW SA LITERATURE ON CORRUPTION GETS IT WRONG"Work on corruption "tends to be moralising and normative.The problem with such an approach is that even when it pretends to historical...
Ivor ChipkinMay 21, 20201 minTHINKING ABOUT DEMOCRACY IN THE FACE OF THE CORONAVIRUS.In 2012 I published Notes Towards a Theory of the Democratic Limit on the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe for a special edition...
Ivor ChipkinMay 21, 20206 minWORK: DEMOCRATIZE, DECOMMODIFY, REMEDIATEWorking humans are so much more than “resources.” This is one of the central lessons of the current crisis. Caring for the sick;...