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Carla Lever

Research Fellow at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town

Research Fellow at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town Dr Carla Lever is a cultural anthropologist interested in spectacle, place and embodied practice in a South African context. Her interdisciplinary PhD examined the performative nature of national identities under former president Jacob Zuma, focussing particularly on embodied socio-political phenomena such as sport, public art interventions and political protest. She is currently lecturing on South African protest history while undertaking research on statue-based protest in the US and South Africa at The Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, UCT.