Leslie Bank

1.4k total citations
74 papers, 698 citations indexed

About

Leslie Bank is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Leslie Bank has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 698 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 18 papers in Anthropology and 10 papers in Law. Recurrent topics in Leslie Bank's work include South African History and Culture (27 papers), African history and culture studies (12 papers) and African studies and sociopolitical issues (11 papers). Leslie Bank is often cited by papers focused on South African History and Culture (27 papers), African history and culture studies (12 papers) and African studies and sociopolitical issues (11 papers). Leslie Bank collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United Kingdom and United States. Leslie Bank's co-authors include Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Roger Southall, Dorrit Posel, Tim Hart, Nancy J. Jacobs, Caroline White, Benedict Carton, Nico Cloete, Mary Paterson and François Van Schalkwyk and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, African Affairs and Anthropological Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Leslie Bank

67 papers receiving 550 citations

Peers

Leslie Bank
Andrew D. Spiegel South Africa
Derick Fay United States
Cherryl Walker South Africa
Belinda Dodson Canada
Colin Bundy United Kingdom
Harri Englund United Kingdom
Barbara Oomen Netherlands
Charles van Onselen South Africa
William H. Worger United States
Lionel Cliffe United Kingdom
Andrew D. Spiegel South Africa
Leslie Bank
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Countries citing papers authored by Leslie Bank

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Fields of papers citing papers by Leslie Bank

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leslie Bank

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bank, Leslie. (2024). Life After Plastic-Wrapped Bodies: COVID, the State and the Crisis of Social Reproduction in Rural South Africa. Anthropological Quarterly. 97(3). 449–480. 2 indexed citations
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Bank, Leslie. (2023). The spirit of gifts: Public housing, citizenship and the ambiguities of home in South Africa. Transformation. 112(1). 164–192. 1 indexed citations
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Bank, Leslie, et al.. (2021). The politics of cultural defiance: exhumations and rural reburials in Covid times. 1 indexed citations
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Bank, Leslie. (2021). Ground zero: deep-seated colonial prejudice fuelled the pandemic in the rural Eastern Cape. 1 indexed citations
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Bank, Leslie. (2018). Approaches to the university, place and development. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 2 indexed citations
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Cloete, Nico & Leslie Bank. (2018). Anchored in Place. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 3 indexed citations
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Bank, Leslie & Tim Hart. (2017). How land reform and rural development can help reduce poverty in South Africa. 1 indexed citations
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Bank, Leslie. (2017). Deficiencies of our decolonisation efforts contain lessons for the future. 1 indexed citations
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Bank, Leslie. (2016). Engaging Mafeje’s Ghost: Fort Hare and the Virtues of ‘Homeland’ Anthropology. African Studies. 75(2). 278–295. 1 indexed citations
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Bank, Leslie. (2015). The Berlin Mission Society and German linguistic roots of volkekunde: The background, training and Hamburg writings of Werner Eiselen, 1899-1924. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 41(1). 166–197. 4 indexed citations
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Bank, Leslie, et al.. (2013). Salvage Anthropology in a City Without History: East London and Photographic Collections of Joseph Denfield, 1950–1969. South African Historical Journal. 66(1). 55–78. 3 indexed citations
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Bank, Leslie. (2007). The Rhythms of the Yards: Urbanism, Backyards and Housing Policy in South Africa. Journal of Contemporary African Studies. 25(2). 205–228. 27 indexed citations
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Bank, Leslie. (2002). Home-made ethnography: Revisiting the Xhosa in Town trilogy. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 28(1). 146–171. 2 indexed citations
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Bryceson, Deborah Fahy & Leslie Bank. (2001). End of an Era: Africa's Development Policy Parallax. Journal of Contemporary African Studies. 19(1). 5–23. 41 indexed citations
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Bank, Leslie. (2000). Evolution and Racial Theory: The Hidden Side of Wilhelm Bleek. South African Historical Journal. 43(1). 163–178. 14 indexed citations
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Bank, Leslie. (1997). THE GREAT DEBATE AND THE ORIGINS OF SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY. The Journal of African History. 38(2). 261–281. 14 indexed citations
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Bank, Leslie, et al.. (1996). We live in paraffin and burn in it': Fire, fuel use and social dislocation in an East London township, 1986-96. Journal of Energy in Southern Africa. 7(4). 118–123. 5 indexed citations
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Bank, Leslie. (1996). Of ‘native skulls’ and ‘noble caucasians’: phrenology in colonial South Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies. 22(3). 387–403. 32 indexed citations
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Bank, Leslie. (1984). Finding a job in QwaQwa: A study of employment opportunity resources. Open University of Cape Town (University of Cape Town). 5 indexed citations

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