PUBLICATIONS

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Academic articles

Oppel, A. (2025) ‘Meritocratic masks and the colonial echo of racial distinction’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2513374

Oppel, A., (2024) ‘Centring Race: Unpacking Informality Through the Lens of Black Tax’, The European Journal of Development Research, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-024-00662-9

Oppel, A., (2023) ‘Black Tax and coloniality – emancipation, re-interpretation and alienation’, Social Identities, https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2023.2188183

Apgar M., Fournie G., Haesler B., Higdon G., Kenny L., Oppel A., Pauls E., Smith M., Snijder M., Vink D., Hossain M., (2023) ‘Revealing the Relational Mechanisms of Research for Development Through Social Network Analysis’, The European Journal of Development Research, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-023-00576-y

Oppel, A., (2022) ‘Patterns and lived realities: exploring informal social protection across race and education’, International Journal of Social Welfare, https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.12548

Oppel A., (2021) ‘Normalizing necessity? Support networks and racial inequality in Namibia’, World Development Journal, 147 (105649), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105649

Oppel A., (2021) ‘Sending the elevator back down: a mutual constitution between horizontal and vertical inequality’, SN Social Sciences, 1 (148), https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-021-00162-1