
The Vocation of Sociology – Exposing Slow Violence
Sociologists don’t come more engaged than Jackie Cock. A pioneer of South African sociology, she has consistently and constantly explored the relationship between violence and inequality: from her classic Maids and Madams, a feminist analysis of domestic work, to her interrogation of gender and war in Colonels and Cadres and her revelations of environmental injustice in The War Against Ourselves. She...