Antina von Schnitzler
Antina von Schnitzler is an Assistant Professor at GPIA. She completed her PhD in Anthropology at Columbia University in 2010 and has a BA (Hons) in Anthropology from the University of Sussex. Before joining the New School she was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at Reed College. Her research and teaching has focused on citizenship and political subjectivities, cities and urban infrastructures, liberalism and neoliberalism, colonialism and postcoloniality and South Africa. She has conducted research on the corporatization of water provision in Johannesburg focusing in particular on a controversial water infrastructure project in Soweto. She is currently working on a book manuscript on citizenship, protest and neoliberal reforms in post-apartheid South Africa.
Recent Publications:
"Gauging Politics: Water, Commensuration and Citizenship in South Africa" Anthropology News, January 2010, Special Issue on the Anthropology of Water.
"Citizenship Prepaid: Water, Calculability and Techno-Politics in South Africa" Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 34, No. 4, December 2008.
"Liberalism" and "Neoliberalism" International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed., edited by William Darity Jr., Detroit: MacMillan Reference USA, 2007.
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