Mark Hunter

Using historical-ethnographical methods, and a spatial lens, my research aims to provide an original perspective on the social roots of everyday inequalities in health, education, addiction, and labour—that is I am concerned with documenting, theorizing, and challenging "structural violence." Focused mainly on South Africa, a country I have had the privilege of working in for more than 30 years, my research thus addresses how acts embedded in sexuality, friendship, labour, families, education, and addiction, are shaped by and shape social and spatial inequalities. I have written books on HIV/AIDS and education/race in South Africa, and now have a SSHRC-funded project on drug use. I welcome applications from students working in the areas of education, health, gender, race, addiction, and development. Some of the theorists I grapple with (in no particular order) are Marx, Fanon, Bourdieu, Foucault, Hall, and Gramsci.

Publications

Mark Hunter. 2019. Race for Education: Gender, White Tone, and Schooling in South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[Winner of the 2020 Joel Gregory Prize]

Mark Hunter. 2010. Love in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press; Pietermaritzburg, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.
[Winner of the 2010 C. Wright Mills Award & the 2010 Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology]

2020. “Race and the Geographies of Education: Markets, White Tone, and Racial Neoliberalism,” Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 110 (4): 1224-1243.

2011. "Beneath the Zunami: Jacob Zuma and the Gendered Politics of Social Reproduction in South Africa," Antipode 43(4): 1102-1126.