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Volume 29, 2015 - Issue 2: Consumption, media and culture in South Africa: perspectives on freedom and the public
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Agency and affordability: being black and ‘middle class’ in South Africa in 1989

Mehita IqaniView further author information
Pages 126-145 | Published online: 13 May 2015

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Mehita Iqani. (2023) The Crooked Codes of the Luxury Handbag: Narratives of Empowered Feminine Consumption in Africa. Feminist Economics 29:3, pages 178-198.
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Mehita Iqani & Bridget Kenny. (2023) “A LOOT-a continua”? Inequality, humour, and broken aspirations in South African consumer culture. Consumption Markets & Culture 26:3, pages 181-193.
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Jabulani G. Mnisi & Mthobeli Ngcongo. (2023) Looking back to look forward: re-humanization through conspicuous consumption in four African masculine sartorial subcultures – from diamond field’s dandies to Izikhothane. African Identities 21:2, pages 341-354.
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Thabisani Ndlovu. (2022) Managing sullied pleasure: dining out while black and middle class in South Africa. Consumption Markets & Culture 25:4, pages 382-394.
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