Dr Shari Daya

• Co-Investigator University of Cape Town, South Africa
• Email: shari.daya@uct.ac.za

Shari's research interests lie in the sub-discipline of cultural geography and her theoretical work focuses on questions of modernity and identity in the global South - particularly Africa and India. She is also interested to understand how modernity is not just talked and written about, but embodied, enacted and otherwise materialised in everyday life. To this end, she explores how people imagine and participate in different economic systems, including formal capitalist markets, informal trading, 'green' and alternative economies such as cooperatives and the Fair Trade movement, and creative industries. Her current empirical work is on the economies of craft in urban Cape Town, alcohol consumption in the Western Cape, and the ethical production of fynbos in Flower Valley on the Agulhas Plain.

She is a Co-Investigator for the South African case study.