Federica Duca is a Senior Researcher at the Public Affairs Research Institute and a research associate at UJ. Dr Duca leads PARI’s Academic Engagement programme, and previously the Organisational and Institutional Studies programme at Wits University.  Her research focuses on state-society relations and the relationship between spatial and social forms in relation to wealth and privilege, as well as citizenship and the changing form of the nation state.

Federica is currently working on a smart city governance project and she is a member of the South African team of the Project NumSuD- Digital Technologies and Urban Services Management in Cities of the Global South  [Project] NumSud – Digital technologies and urban services management in cities in the Global South | Site Web IRD

Email: federicad@pari.org.za

Duca, F. and S. Meny-Gibert (eds) (2023) State-society Relations Around the World Through the Lens of the Covid-19 Pandemic. New York, NY and Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Duca, F. (2022) ‘Book review: Globalized Authoritarianism. Megaprojects, Slums and Class Relations in Urban Morocco’. Sagepub.com

Duca, F. (2022) ‘Golf, gates and the good life’. The Sociological Review, November, 2022.

Mail & Guardian Thought Leader. 14 October 2020. ‘A new part for the course’ by Federica Duca.

Soares Guimarães, A., F. Duca and T. Ndlovu (2018) ‘Taxation and State-Society Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa: the cases of Cameroon, Mozambique and South Africa’. A PARI report. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute.

Duca, F. (2018) ‘Towards a holistic understanding of taxes: coming to grips with the idea of the just tax in Cameroon’, in P. Rivera-Vargas, J. Muñoz-Saavedra, R. Morales Olivares and S. Butendieck-Hijerra (eds) Políticas Públicas para la Equidad Social. (pp. 277-86). Santiago de Chile: Colección Políticas Públicas, Universidad de Santiago de Chile.

Ledger, T., R. Brunette, F. Duca, I. Makukule and G. Tshimomola (2016) ‘2013/14 Red Zone Municipalities: Municipal Audit Outcomes Unpacked’. A PARI report. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute and South African Local Government Association.

Duca, F. (2016) ‘The Elite in the City: Spaces and Structures of Inequality in Johannesburg’, in A. Machin and N. Stehr (eds) Understanding Inequality: Social Costs and Benefits, pp. 403–18. Wiesbaden: Springer.

Duca, F. (2015) ‘Gating in urban Johannesburg: digging inside the social and political systems of a golf estate and an open suburb’, in S. Bagaeen and O. Uduku (eds) Beyond Gated Communities. Oxon: Routledge.

Duca, F. (2013) ‘New Community in a New Space: Artificial, Natural, Created and Contested. An Idea taken from a Golf Estate in Johannesburg’, Social Dynamics, 39(2): 191–209.