Publications and communications of Thomas Mc Namara

Lochery, E., Mc Namara, T., & Musonda, J. (2024). Subsidising Extraction: Care at Work in Zambia's Copper Mines. Antipode. doi:10.1111/anti.13029

Mc Namara, T. (2021). A Reasonable Negotiation? Workplace-based unionists’ subjectivities, wage negotiations and the day-to-day life of an ethical-political project. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. doi:10.1111/1467-9655.13420

Mc Namara, T. (2021). The union has reoriented towards entrepreneurship: neoliberal solidarities on Zambia’s Copperbelt. Third World Quarterly. doi:10.1080/01436597.2021.1908827

Geenen, K., & Mc Namara, T. (2021). Union Elections: Marketing “Modern” Unionism. In B. Rubbers, Inside Mining Capitalism. The Micropolitics of Work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts (pp. 89-104). James Currey.

Geenen, K., & Mc Namara, T. (2021). Strikes: Claiming Union Power in Chinese Companies. In B. Rubbers, Inside Mining Capitalism. The Micropolitics of Work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts (pp. 105-126). James Currey.

Mc Namara, T., & Kapesa, R. (2020). ‘We are not just a union, we are a family’ class, kinship and tribe in Zambia’s mining unions. Dialectical Anthropology, 44 (2), 153–172.

Mc Namara, T., & Spyridakis, M. (2020). Introduction—trade unions in times of austerity and development. Dialectical Anthropology, 44 (2), 109-119. doi:10.1007/s10624-020-09586-2

Mc Namara, T. (2019). Me and the NGO staff, We Live like Azungu; Malawian Moral Economies of Development. Human Organization, 78 (2019) (21). doi:10.17730/0018-7259.78.1.43

Mc Namara, T. (November 2018). A Reasonable Negotiation?’ Trade Unions’ conflicting responsibilities in Zambian Neoliberalism [Paper presentation]. American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting.

Mc Namara, T. (2018). Pray for Productivity, Pray for Zambia, Pray for Development: Narratives of Productivity, wages and national development on the Zambian Copperbelt [Paper presentation]. African Studies Association of the US.

Mc Namara, T. (2018). A Reasonable Negotiation? Wage negotiations and subjectivities on Zambia’s Copperbelt [Paper presentation]. European Association of Social Anthropologists Bi-annual Conference.

Mc Namara, T. (2017). Do the Chinese Bring Chitukuko? Rural Malawian Understandings of Chinese Development. Journal of International Development, (8).

Mc Namara, T. (2017). Who is from the community here? Zambian concepts of rationality and legitimacy [Paper presentation]. 40th African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific Annual Conference.

Mc Namara, T. (2017). “They Are Not Understanding Sustainability Contested Sustainability Narratives at a Northern Malawian Development Interface. Human Organization. doi:10.17730/0018-7259.76.2.121

Mc Namara, T. (2017). The EITI and the Copperbelt: Against the Primacy of Community [Paper presentation]. Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth Annual Meeting.

Mc Namara, T. (2017). Local Global and Must Importantly Relational: the creation and translation of mining policy legitimacy in the global south [Paper presentation]. European Association of Development Research Bi-Annual Conference.

Mc Namara, T. (2017). Everyday Unionism as a Political Act: Utilizations and Creations of Union Discourse in Actions [Paper presentation]. 7th European Conference on African Studies.

Geenen, K., Rubbers, B., Mc Namara, T., Lochery, E., Pugliese, F., & Musonda, J. (2016). WORKINMINING: Reinventing paternalism. The micropolitics of work in the mining companies of Central Africa [Paper presentation]. Comparing Africa’s Copperbelt, Uppsala, Sweden.

Mc Namara, T. (2015). Witchcraft, Jealously and Traditional Healing: Intersecting and Contradictory Narratives [Paper presentation]. 38th Annual African Studies Association of Australia and the Pacific Conference.

Mc Namara, T. (2015). Witchcraft, Development and Malawi’s Elite. Australasian Review of African Studies, 32 (2).

Mc Namara, T. (2015). English, Community and Opportunity in Northern Malawi. Australian Journal of Anthropology, 26 (3).

Mc Namara, T. (2014). The Intersection of Witchcraft and Development in Malawi [Paper presentation]. 37th Annual African Studies Association of Australia and the Pacific Conference.

Mc Namara, T. (2014). She Wants all the Vitamins: Female Experiences of ‘Becoming Urban’ Among Rural Malawian NGO Staff [Paper presentation]. Australian Anthropological Society Conference.

Mc Namara, T. (2014). Not the Malawi of our Parents: Attitudes toward Homosexuality and Perceived Westernization in Northern Malawi. African Studies, 74 (1).

Mc Namara, T. (2014). NGOs as Actants and Placeholders [Paper presentation]. Devnet Biannual Conference.

Mc Namara, T. (2013). The Creation and Implications of Rural Malawian Understandings of Donors and Development [Paper presentation]. 36th Annual African Studies Association of Australia and the Pacific Conference.

Mc Namara, T. (2013). NGO Presence and the Changing Role of Chiefs in Rural Malawi [Paper presentation]. 36th Annual African Studies Association of Australia and the Pacific Conference.

Mc Namara, T. (2013). Local Utilization of NGO Presence in Changing Discourses of Education in Malawi [Paper presentation]. African Association for Teaching and Learning, International Interdisciplinary Conference on Education and Development.

Mc Namara, T. (2013). Local Utilization of NGO Presence in Changing Discourses of Education in Malawi. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 4 (7).

Mc Namara, T. (2013). English, Community and Opportunity in Northern Malawi [Paper presentation]. Australian Anthropological Society Conference.

Mc Namara, T. (2012). Preliminary Findings on Land Tenure Reform in Malawi and the Possible Effects on Tenure and Food Security for Smallholder Farmers. Australasian Review of African Studies.