Professor Darlene Miller

	Name	Darlene Miller
	Highest qualification	PhD
	Current Institution and position held	Associate Professor (Citizenship Studies), TM-School, Unisa
	Contact details	milledr@unisa.ac.za
	Research interests/expertise	South African food multinational corporations in Africa; social theory; matriarchal leadership; coloured identity; Krotoa
	Teaching/supervision	Political Economy of Development; Indigenous Feminisms; Community Food Gardens; Women's Leadership
	Current projects	Community Food Gardens, KZN; Food retail multinationals Krotoa

Short biography

Darlene Ajeet Miller is Associate Professor at the TM-School (Unisa). She completed a doctorate in Sociology at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore). She has held various senior research positions in South Africa (Human Sciences Research Council, PLAAS – Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies), Paris (International Science Council) and New York (Human Rights Watch), and was the Director of the Institute for African Alternatives (IFAA, South Africa) as well as being Principal Investigator on various research projects (Sa in Africa, Red Tent, Green Leadership School). She has published a number of book chapters and journal articles. Her current research focuses on matrilineage, coloured identity and women's leadership, as well as the expansion of South African food multinational corporations in Africa.

Selected publications

• Miller, D. (2020). Enchanted gardeners in urban food gardens – a case study of Khayelitsha. In Spirituality, organisation and neoliberalism: Understanding lived experiences, edited by E. Bell. Edward Elgar:107–125.
• Miller, D. (2016). Excavating the vernacular: “Ugly feminists”, generational blues and matriarchal leadership. In Fees Must Fall - Student revolt, decolonisation and governance in South Africa, edited by S. Booysen. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.
• Miller, D. (2008). “Retail renaissance” or company rhetoric: The failed partnership of a South African corporation and local suppliers in Zambia. Labour, Capital and Society.
• Miller, D. (2005). New regional imaginaries in post-apartheid southern Africa: Retail workers at a shopping mall in Zambia. Journal of Southern African Studies, 31(1):117–145.
• Miller, D. (2004). South African multinational corporations, Nepad and competing spatial claims on post-apartheid southern Africa. African Sociological Review, 8(1).