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INTERVIEW: AUTHOR ERIN TORKELSON

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Today on Styleskoops, we’re joined by Erin Torkelson, a human geographer whose new book, Predatory Welfare: How Finance Capital Profiteers from Social Grants, offers a powerful, ground-level look at how South Africa’s social grant system has become entangled with debt, finance, and everyday inequality. Drawing on seven years of immersive research with grant recipients, Erin challenges the idea that cash transfers are a simple solution to poverty and asks us to rethink what real economic justice could look like.
8 Jul English South Africa Arts · Music

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