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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], Interview with Michael Neocosmos, 2018</ref> and a fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research at the [[University of the Western Cape]].<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> |
'''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]].<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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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,<ref>[http://www.monash.ac.za/staff_details/research/mneocosmos/index.html Staff profile at Monash University]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 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}}</ref> |
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,<ref>[http://www.monash.ac.za/staff_details/research/mneocosmos/index.html Staff profile at Monash University]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 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== |
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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> |
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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==Bibliography== |
==Bibliography== |
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Revision as of 12:21, 11 February 2023
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]
Bibliography
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 & 2010).[8]
- 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[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.
- ^ From Foreign Natives to Native Foreigners: Explaining Xenophobia in South Africa Archived 2011-08-13 at the Wayback Machine, Michigan State University Press
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