Joshua McDermott

Southeastern Louisiana University

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Department Of Communication And Theatre

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Southeastern Louisiana University

NoneJoshua Mcdermott is currently serving as a Communication And Theatre faculty at Southeastern Louisiana University.

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Joshua McDermott

Southeastern Louisiana University

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Reclaiming the Class Struggle in Africa Today: Four Propositions on the Revolutionary Potential of the Urban Working Class in Africa and a Marxist Critique of Factory-Workerism. International Critical Thought (2025)

Difference Between Global South Cities: Mexico City, Freetown and the Global Division of Urban Informal Labour. Urban Studies (2024)

The Dilemma of Consumerist Masculinity in Capitalist West Africa: Men Navigating Gender, Class, and Romance in Sierra Leone’s Informal Economy. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (2024)

Changes in Care: Aging, Migration, and Social Class in West Africa. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (2023)

Joshua Lew McDermott

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Searching for the Informal Labor Movement: Theorizing Class and Collective Action Among Informal Workers in West Africa. Review of Radical Political Economics (2022)

Understanding West Africa’s Informal Workers as Working Class. Review of African Political Economy (2021)

Towards an Icon Model of Gentrification: Global Capitalism, Policing, and the Struggle for Iconic Spaces in Mexico City. Urban Studies (2019)

Joshua McDermott

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