Works in Progress

Articles Under Consideration

McDermott, J.L., and M. Bisciglia. “Dependency, Extractivism, and Informality in Africa: Connecting Primarization and Informal Employment.”

McDermott, J.L., F. Manju. “Maintaining Dispossession: Contemporary Plantation Capitalism and the Contested Legacy of an Oil Palm Land Grab in Pujehun, Sierra Leone.”

Articles in Progress

McDermott, J.L., F. Manju, and L. Musa. “A Case Study of Plastic Waste and Class Differentiation in Freetown’s Kroo Bay Neighborhood.”

McDermott, J.L., and G. Kamara. “The Role of Class in the Farmer/Herder Conflicts in West Africa: A Case Study of Tonko Limba Chiefdom, Northern Sierra Leone”

Burley, D., K. Gilbert, and J.L. McDermott. “Far-Right Politics and the Ideology of Anti-Wolf Violence in the Mountain West.”

Books in Progress

McDermott, J.L. The People’s Work: Informality, Irregular Labor, and New Peripheral Capitalism in 21st Century Africa.