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Insights: The material semiotics of halal: neoliberal Islam in practice
Shaheed Tayob
One evening in Johannesburg in 2011, I was having dinner with Fayroza, her husband and family. Discussing my interest in halal prompted a reflection: …if I go to a [Muslim/family] function and different people have brought deserts and stuff, I don’t just naturally eat it because I don’t know what cream they’ve used. I know Clover creamRead more
Creative Destruction: Capitalism and Creativity. A Commentary on ‘Creative Destruction, Destructive Creation’
Kedron Thomas
This collection of essays thematizes ‘creative destruction’, a phrase coined by Karl Marx and popularized by Joseph Schumpeter (1994) in his seminal work on the promises of capitalist entrepreneurship. Destruction, the second term in this felicitous formulation, does not need much description or discussion here. As evidenced in the introductory essay, we have robust vocabulariesRead more