Nigel Gibson
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Nigel Gibson is an activist and scholar. He was born in London and was an active militant in the 1984 -1985 Miners' Strike. While in London he also met South African exiles from the Black Consciousness Movement and, in conversation with the exiles, developed some influential academic work on the movement. He later moved to the United States where he worked with Raya Dunayevskaya in the Marxist Humanism movement, studied with Edward Said and became an important theorist of Frantz Fanon on whom he has written extensively. He has also edited a major collection of work on Theodor Adorno. His work has been widely influential in South Africa where it is often cited by academics and activists.[1] He appears to be closely associated[2] with the South African shackdwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo. He is a member of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Books
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- Rethinking Fanon: The Continuing Legacy (editor) Humanity Books, 1999.
- Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories: Contemporary Africa in Focus (with George C. Bond) Westview, 2002.
- Adorno: A Critical Reader (with Andrew Rubin) Blackwell, 2002.
- Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination Polity, 2003.
- Challenging Hegemony: Social Movements and the Quest for a New Humanism in Post-Apartheid South Africa Africa World Press, 2006.
[edit] Articles available online
Black Consciousness 1977-1987: The Dialectics of Liberation in South Africa
The Pitfalls of South Africa's Liberation
Is Fanon Relevant? Translations, the postcolonial imagination and the second stage of total
Zabalaza, Unfinished struggles against apartheid: the shackdwellers' movement in Durban
A New Politics of the Poor Emerges from South Africa's Shanty Towns
[edit] References
- ^ University of Abahlali baseMjondolo | Abahlali baseMjondolo
- ^ Article on the Abahlali baseMjondolo website mentioning Gibson
