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Carin Runciman is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Social and Political Science. Her research focuses on Black working-class popular politics and social movements in post-apartheid South Africa. She examines political organizational dynamics, community protest, and new forms of precarious worker organizing. Runciman is particularly interested in activism that helps to understand experiences of quality in post-apartheid democracy, with a keen focus on how indigenous concepts of democracy can be articulated through community organizations. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, she collaborates as a Co-Principal Investigator on the UJ/HSRC COVID-19 Democracy survey, which seeks to understand the social and economic impacts of the pandemic along with factors influencing vaccine hesitancy. She actively supervises PhD projects related to protest, social movements, and practices of citizenship and democracy. Runciman is also an editorial board member for several journals including Sociological Review and Journal of Contemporary African Studies.
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