Michael Neocosmos
Michael Neocosmos, is an author, translator, Professor and current Director of the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes University. He was formerly the Director of Global Movements Research at the University of South Africa, in Pretoria South Africa. He is currently the Director of the Unit for the Humanities (UHURU) at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa.[1] He is also a fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape.[2]
Neocosmos graduated B.Sc. (1972, Loughborough University, UK); MA (1973, Wye College, University of London, UK), Ph.D. (1982, Bradford University, UK). He has taught at various universities in the United Kingdom and in Africa, most especially at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, at the University of Swaziland, at the National University of Lesotho where he headed the Department of Development Studies, at the University of Botswana where he was Associate Professor of Sociology, and at the University of Pretoria where he held the position of Professor of Sociology.[3]
The Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought
In 2017 Neocosmos's 2016 book, Thinking Freedom in Africa was awarded The Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought by the Caribbean Philosophical Association.[4]
Bibliography
Books
- Social Relations in Rural Swaziland (editor) (1987)[5]
- The Agrarian Question in Southern Africa (1993)[6]
- From Foreign Natives to Native Foreigners: Explaining Xenophobia in South Africa (2006 & 2010).[7]
- Thinking Freedom in Africa, 2016
Open access online articles
- From people's politics to state politics: aspects of national liberation in South Africa 1984--1994, 1994
- Thinking the Impossible? Elements of a Critique of Political Liberalism in South Africa, 2004
- The State of the Post-apartheid State: the poverty of critique on the South African left, 2004
- Citizenship, Rights and Development: Revisiting the social in Africa today, 2005
- Civil society, citizenship and the politics of the (im)possible: rethinking militancy in Africa today, 2007
- The Pogroms in South Africa: The Politics of Fear and the Fear of Politics, 2008
- Africa and Migration in a Globalised World, 2008
- The Political Meaning of the Attacks on Abahlali baseMjondolo, 2009
- The Political Conditions of Social Thought and the Politics of Emancipation: An Introduction to the work of Sylvain Lazarus, 2009
- Mass mobilisation, ‘democratic transition’ and ‘transitional violence’ in Africa, 2011
- Transition, human rights and violence: rethinking a liberal political relationship in the African neo-colony, Interface, 2011
- Are Those-Who-Do-Not-Count Capable of Reason? Thinking Political Subjectivity in the (Neo-)Colonial World and the Limits of History, 2012
References
- ↑ Staff Profile at Rhodes University
- ↑ Professor Michael Neocosmos
- ↑ Staff profile at Monash University
- ↑ The Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought
- ↑ Professor Michael Neocosmos
- ↑ Professor Michael Neocosmos
- ↑ From Foreign Natives to Native Foreigners: Explaining Xenophobia in South Africa, Michigan State University Press
External links
- Staff Profile at Rhodes University
- Academia.Edu Profile
- Open Access PDF of 'From Foreign Natives to Native Foreigners: Explaining Xenophobia in South Africa'