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Citations
35274
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5448
National Ranking
2565

Overview

James Ferguson is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their recent research work includes publications in academic venues such as UNC Libraries.

One of Ferguson's recent papers is titled Conveying strength in emerging adulthood and during a pandemic, published in 2025 by UNC Libraries.

Frequent collaborators in Ferguson's research include Jeannette Wade.

Ferguson's publication record features works published in the following venue:

  • UNC Libraries

Best Publications

  • Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference

    Akhil Gupta;James Ferguson

  • The anti-politics machine : "development," depoliticization, and bureaucratic power in Lesotho

    James Ferguson

  • Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality

    James Ferguson;Akhil Gupta

  • Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt

    James Ferguson

  • Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order

    James Ferguson

  • The Anti-Politics Machine

    James Ferguson

  • Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology

    Akhil Gupta;James Ferguson

  • The Anti-Politics Machine: 'Development', Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho.

    Colin Murray;James Ferguson

  • Culture, power, place: ethnography at the end of an era

    Akhil Gupta;James Ferguson

  • The Uses of Neoliberalism

    James Ferguson

  • Anthropological locations : boundaries and grounds of a field science

    Akhil Gupta;James Ferguson

  • Seeing Like an Oil Company: Space, Security, and Global Capital in Neoliberal Africa

    James Ferguson

  • Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution

    James Ferguson

  • Declarations of dependence: labour, personhood, and welfare in southern Africa

    James Ferguson

  • MÁS ALLÁ DE LA "CULTURA": ESPACIO, IDENTIDAD Y LAS POLÍTICAS DE LA DIFERENCIA

    Akhil Gupta;James Ferguson

  • Of Mimicry and Membership: Africans and the "New World Society"

    James G. Ferguson

  • Formalities of Poverty: Thinking about Social Assistance in Neoliberal South Africa

    James Ferguson

  • The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho

    Gail M. Gerhart;James Ferguson

  • Culture/Power/Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology

    Dorothy L. Hodgson;Akhil Gupta;James Ferguson

  • The Anti-Politics Machine: “Development” and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho

    J. Ferguson;L. Lohmann

  • Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt

    James A. Pritchett;James Ferguson

  • Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science

    Rena Lederman;Akhil Gupta;James Ferguson

  • Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt

    Angelique Haugerud;James Ferguson

  • The Anti-Politics Machine: Development, Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho

    Dominique Darbon;James Ferguson

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