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'''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 <ref>[http://longreads.tni.org/state-of-power-2018/thinking-freedom-achieving-impossible-collectively/ Thinking freedom: achieving the impossible collectively] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804193007/https://longreads.tni.org/state-of-power-2018/thinking-freedom-achieving-impossible-collectively |date=4 August 2020 }}, Interview with Michael Neocosmos, 2018</ref> and a fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research at the [[University of the Western Cape]]. |
'''Michael Neocosmos''' is a South African Marxist philosopher. He is an emeritus professor in humanities at [[Rhodes University]], Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the [[University of Connecticut]] Humanities Institute <ref>[http://longreads.tni.org/state-of-power-2018/thinking-freedom-achieving-impossible-collectively/ Thinking freedom: achieving the impossible collectively] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804193007/https://longreads.tni.org/state-of-power-2018/thinking-freedom-achieving-impossible-collectively |date=4 August 2020 }}, Interview with Michael Neocosmos, 2018</ref> and a fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research at the [[University of the Western Cape]].{{citation needed|date=February 2023}} |
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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 |
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,{{citation needed|date=February 2023}} 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).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ru.ac.za/uhuru/people/profmichaelneocosmos/|title=Rhodes University|last=University|first=Rhodes|access-date=2017-11-14|language=en|archive-date=15 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171115015059/https://www.ru.ac.za/uhuru/people/profmichaelneocosmos/|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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==Awards== |
==Awards== |
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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]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://caribphil.org/frantz-fanon-prize.html |title=The Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought |access-date=18 January 2017 |archive-date=18 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118225948/http://caribphil.org/frantz-fanon-prize.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://caribphil.org/frantz-fanon-prize.html |title=The Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought |access-date=18 January 2017 |archive-date=18 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118225948/http://caribphil.org/frantz-fanon-prize.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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==Works== |
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===Books=== |
===Books=== |
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* {{cite book |title=Social Relations in Rural Swaziland |editor-first=Michael |editor-last=Neocosmos |publisher=University of Swaziland |date=1987 |location=Kwaluseni }} |
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*Social Relations in Rural Swaziland (editor) (1987)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://humanities.uwc.ac.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70:professor-michael-neocosmos&catid=44:visiting-research-professors&Itemid=57|title=Professor Michael Neocosmos|last=Administrator|website=humanities.uwc.ac.za|language=en-gb|access-date=2017-11-14|archive-date=14 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114202150/http://humanities.uwc.ac.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70:professor-michael-neocosmos&catid=44:visiting-research-professors&Itemid=57|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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* {{cite book |title=The Agrarian Question in Southern Africa and "Accumulation from Below": Economics and Politics in the Struggle for Democracy |date=1993 |publisher=[[Nordic Africa Institute]] |isbn=9789171063427 |first=Michael |last=Neocosmos |location=Uppsala }} |
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*The Agrarian Question in Southern Africa (1993)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://humanities.uwc.ac.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70:professor-michael-neocosmos&catid=44:visiting-research-professors&Itemid=57|title=Professor Michael Neocosmos|last=Administrator|website=humanities.uwc.ac.za|language=en-gb|access-date=2017-11-14|archive-date=14 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114202150/http://humanities.uwc.ac.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70:professor-michael-neocosmos&catid=44:visiting-research-professors&Itemid=57|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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*{{cite book |url=http://www.codesria.org/Links/Publications/monographs/neocosmos.pdf |title=From Foreign Natives to Native Foreigners: Explaining Xenophobia in South Africa |location=Dakar |last=Neocosmos |first=Michael |publisher=Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa |date=2006 |isbn=9782869782006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216081607/http://www.codesria.org/Links/Publications/monographs/neocosmos.pdf |archive-date=16 December 2008 |via=Internet Archive }} |
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* {{cite book |title=Thinking Freedom in Africa: Towards a Theory of Emancipatory Politics |date=2016 |location=Johannesburg |publisher=Wits University Press |first=Michael |last=Neocosmos |isbn=978-1-86814-869-1 }} |
* {{cite book |title=Thinking Freedom in Africa: Towards a Theory of Emancipatory Politics |date=2016 |location=Johannesburg |publisher=Wits University Press |first=Michael |last=Neocosmos |isbn=978-1-86814-869-1 }} |
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* {{cite book |title=Politics and Culture in African Emancipatory Thought |date=2021 |isbn=9781990263330 |publisher= Daraja Press |first=Michael |last=Neocosmos }} |
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* {{cite book |title=Domains of politics and modes of rule: Political structures of the neocolonial state in Africa |date=2023 |isbn=9781990263774 |publisher= Daraja Press |first=Michael |last=Neocosmos }} |
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===Articles=== |
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===Open access online articles=== |
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*[http://www.unisa.ac.za/Default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=11627 From people's politics to state politics: aspects of national liberation in South Africa 1984--1994], 1994 |
*[http://www.unisa.ac.za/Default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=11627 From people's politics to state politics: aspects of national liberation in South Africa 1984--1994], 1994 |
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060927121445/http://www.codesria.org/Links/Publications/icp1_04/neocosmos.pdf Thinking the Impossible? Elements of a Critique of Political Liberalism in South Africa], 2004 |
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060927121445/http://www.codesria.org/Links/Publications/icp1_04/neocosmos.pdf Thinking the Impossible? Elements of a Critique of Political Liberalism in South Africa], 2004 |
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*[http://www.ru.ac.za/media/rhodesuniversity/content/politics/documents/Neocosmos.pdf Are Those-Who-Do-Not-Count Capable of Reason? Thinking Political Subjectivity in the (Neo-)Colonial World and the Limits of History], 2012 |
*[http://www.ru.ac.za/media/rhodesuniversity/content/politics/documents/Neocosmos.pdf Are Those-Who-Do-Not-Count Capable of Reason? Thinking Political Subjectivity in the (Neo-)Colonial World and the Limits of History], 2012 |
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*[http://longreads.tni.org/state-of-power-2018/thinking-freedom-achieving-impossible-collectively/ Thinking freedom: achieving the impossible collectively - Interview with Michael Neocosmos], 2018 |
*[http://longreads.tni.org/state-of-power-2018/thinking-freedom-achieving-impossible-collectively/ Thinking freedom: achieving the impossible collectively - Interview with Michael Neocosmos], 2018 |
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*[https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/tri000014_ernest-wamba-dia-wamba-interview_29-06-2022_b.pdf The Thought and Practice of an Emancipatory Politics for Africa], Interview with [[Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba]], 2022 |
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== References == |
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==External links== |
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* [https://www.ru.ac.za/uhuru/people/profmichaelneocosmos/ Staff Profile at Rhodes University] |
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* [https://rhodes-za.academia.edu/MichaelNeocosmos Academia.Edu Profile] |
* [https://rhodes-za.academia.edu/MichaelNeocosmos Academia.Edu Profile] |
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Latest revision as of 21:50, 25 April 2024
Michael Neocosmos is a South African 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.[citation needed]
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,[citation needed] 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).[2]
Awards
[edit]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.[3]
Works
[edit]Books
[edit]- Neocosmos, Michael, ed. (1987). Social Relations in Rural Swaziland. Kwaluseni: University of Swaziland.
- Neocosmos, Michael (1993). The Agrarian Question in Southern Africa and "Accumulation from Below": Economics and Politics in the Struggle for Democracy. Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute. ISBN 9789171063427.
- Neocosmos, Michael (2006). From Foreign Natives to Native Foreigners: Explaining Xenophobia in South Africa (PDF). Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa. ISBN 9782869782006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 December 2008 – via Internet Archive.
- Neocosmos, Michael (2016). Thinking Freedom in Africa: Towards a Theory of Emancipatory Politics. Johannesburg: Wits University Press. ISBN 978-1-86814-869-1.
- Neocosmos, Michael (2021). Politics and Culture in African Emancipatory Thought. Daraja Press. ISBN 9781990263330.
- Neocosmos, Michael (2023). Domains of politics and modes of rule: Political structures of the neocolonial state in Africa. Daraja Press. ISBN 9781990263774.
Artikel
[edit]- 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
- The Thought and Practice of an Emancipatory Politics for Africa, Interview with Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba, 2022
References
[edit]- ^ Thinking freedom: achieving the impossible collectively Archived 4 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine, Interview with Michael Neocosmos, 2018
- ^ 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.
External links
[edit]- South African sociologists
- Academic staff of Rhodes University
- Alumni of Loughborough University
- Alumni of the University of Bradford
- Academic staff of the University of Pretoria
- Living people
- South African Africanists
- South African Marxists
- Academic staff of the University of Botswana
- Alumni of Wye College
- 20th-century South African philosophers
- South African philosophers