Her book Children of a Bitter Harvest (2013) on child labour in the Cape wine industry in South Africa introduces a creative style of non-fiction writing based on the ‘flash fiction.’ The ‘flash ethnography’ provides an alternative to the potentially alienating language of much academic writing, thus promoting a space for a more public anthropology. She is the editor of Medicine and the Politics of Knowledge (2012), a book that focusses on the ways in which medical diagnosis are produced and interpreted by people in Southern Africa, Latin America, China, and India. She has won a Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Cape Town and a national teaching award in South Africa and is currently editing a book on critical pedagogy from the South.