Michael Neocosmos is a Marxist philosopher. He is an emeritus professor in humanities at Rhodes University, Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute [1] and 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, the University of Pretoria where he held the position of Professor of Sociology,[3] at Monash University where he was Director of Global Movements Research and at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa where he was the Director of the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes University (UHURU).[4]
Awards
In 2017, Neocosmos's book Thinking Freedom in Africa, was awarded The Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought by the Caribbean Philosophical Association.[5]
Works
Books
- Social Relations in Rural Swaziland (editor) (1987)[6]
- The Agrarian Question in Southern Africa (1993)[7]
- From Foreign Natives to Native Foreigners: Explaining Xenophobia in South Africa (2006).
- Neocosmos, Michael (2016). Thinking Freedom in Africa: Towards a Theory of Emancipatory Politics. Johannesburg: Wits University Press. ISBN 978-1-86814-869-1.
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[permanent dead link], 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[permanent dead link], 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
- Thinking freedom: achieving the impossible collectively - Interview with Michael Neocosmos, 2018
References
- ^ Thinking freedom: achieving the impossible collectively Archived 4 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine, Interview with Michael Neocosmos, 2018
- ^ Administrator. "Professor Michael Neocosmos". humanities.uwc.ac.za. Archived from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ Staff profile at Monash University[permanent dead link]
- ^ University, Rhodes. "Rhodes University". Archived from the original on 15 November 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ "The Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought". Archived from the original on 18 January 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ Administrator. "Professor Michael Neocosmos". humanities.uwc.ac.za. Archived from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ Administrator. "Professor Michael Neocosmos". humanities.uwc.ac.za. Archived from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.