[Peace] Fwd: Transnational Seminar Friday 3 pm with Patrick Bond, South Africa

[Alfred Kagan]

>Reminder
>
>>>TRANSNATIONAL SEMINARS
>>>
>>>SOCIOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, GLOBAL STUDIES
>>>
>>>
>>>Who
>>>Patrick Bond
>>>University of Witwatersrand Graduate School of 
>>>Public and Development Management, Johannesburg
>>>
>>>What
>>>South Africa and Global Apartheid: Is the Reform Strategy Working?
>>>When
>>>Friday, November 14, 3 pm
>>>Where
>>>Lincoln Hall 336
>>>Chair
>>>Faranak Miraftab, Urban and Regional Planning
>>>Discussant
>>>Merle Bowen, Political Science
>>>Paper
>>>Download Patrick Bond’s paper at:
>>><http://www.soc.uiuc.edu/trans_seminar_fa03.asp>http://www.soc.uiuc.edu/trans_seminar_fa03.asp
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>ABSTRACT
>>>
>>>This paper covers a variety of political and 
>>>economic aspects of Africa’s relationship to 
>>>the world. It considers the context of global 
>>>apartheid, in terms of international 
>>>stagnation, uneven development and African 
>>>marginalisation, and evaluates the South 
>>>African setting as a telling site of worsening 
>>>inequality. This allows us to ask where the 
>>>New Partnership for Africa’s Development 
>>>stands on the largest economic and political 
>>>problems. We then take up the matter of South 
>>>Africa’s proposed global reforms. Finally, we 
>>>record an emerging ideology based not on 
>>>commodification via globalisation but on 
>>>decommodification and deglobalisation, and the 
>>>strategies, tactics and alliances required for 
>>>African and international progress.
>>>
>>>Patrick Bond is professor at University of 
>>>Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and visiting 
>>>professor at York University, Toronto. He was 
>>>educated at Swarthmore, University of 
>>>Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University. 
>>>Originally from Northern Ireland, he has lived 
>>>in South Africa since 1990, and was a 
>>>representative of the civics to numerous 
>>>policy-drafting committees in the 
>>>post-apartheid government. During the 
>>>mid-1990s he served in the office of President 
>>>Nelson Mandela, worked for Haitian president 
>>>Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Washington office, 
>>>and taught at Johns Hopkins School of Public 
>>>Health. Since 1997 he has been at Wits, and 
>>>works with numerous unions and social 
>>>movements in South Africa, Zimbabwe and the 
>>>US. He has authored numerous publications on 
>>>South African politics, economics, development 
>>>and environment. His latest books are Against 
>>>Global Apartheid (2003, Zed Books, London); 
>>>Zimbabwe's Plunge (with Masimba Manyanya, 
>>>2003, Merlin Press, London); Unsustainable 
>>>South Africa (2002, Merlin Press, London); and 
>>>Fanon's Warning (edited, 2002, Africa World 
>>>Press, Trenton).
>>>
>>>


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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801, USA

tel. 217-333-6519
fax. 217-333-2214
e-mail. akagan at uiuc.edu
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