Leslie J Bank Author & Editor

Leslie J. Bank is a Deputy Director at the Human Sciences Research Council in Cape Town and an emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Fort Hare, where he was formerly the Director of Social and Economic Research. His previous books include Home Spaces, Street Styles: Contesting Power and Identity in a South African City (Pluto Press, London, 2011), Inside African Anthropology: Monica Wilson and her Interpreters (edited with A. Bank, Cambridge University Press, 2013), Imonti Modern: Picturing the Life and Times of a South African Location (with Mxolisi Qebeyi, HSRC Press, 2017) and Anchored in Place: Universities and City Building in South Africa (edited with N. Cloete, African Minds, 2018). He is also finalizing an edited book on Migrant Labour after Apartheid (HSRC Press, forthcoming).