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Richard Pithouse
Jun 5, 2011, 10:10:42 AM6/5/11
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Hello everyone
Sally tells me that at the meeting last week it was decided to follow Len's suggestion and to use this week's Critical Studies Seminar as our weekly reading and discussion. The details of that are below.
I'll also organise an opportunity for those of you that wish to meet Nigel Gibson to do so on Tuesday evening. It would be useful to have a sense of how many people are interested in meeting with Gibson on Tuesday before working out an arrangement so if you'd like to be part of the Tuesday event please drop me an email on Monday so that I can make an appropriate arrangement.
Cheers
Richard
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Sally tells me that at the meeting last week it was decided to follow Len's suggestion and to use this week's Critical Studies Seminar as our weekly reading and discussion. The details of that are below.
I'll also organise an opportunity for those of you that wish to meet Nigel Gibson to do so on Tuesday evening. It would be useful to have a sense of how many people are interested in meeting with Gibson on Tuesday before working out an arrangement so if you'd like to be part of the Tuesday event please drop me an email on Monday so that I can make an appropriate arrangement.
Cheers
Richard
Please note that Mark Hunter's book, 'Love in the Time of AIDS', is now available at Van Schaik's book shop in Grahamstown.
Gibson has also worked on Biko and Black Consciousness for more than twenty years and, in the late 1980s, wrote a seminal paper on Black Consciousness as a philosophical praxis that continues to be widely cited. He is also an expert on the intellectual debates in South African political struggle from the 1970s onwards and his work on South Africa is, unusually and commendably for a scholar from the North, deeply rooted in an appreciation of the detail of these debates.
Gibson is also a noted scholar on popular politics in post-apartheid South Africa. His work in this regard has, unlike much of the work that has been produced, taken the intellectual work done in popular struggles seriously rather than just uncritically applying Northern
theory to South African experiences.
He is the editor of the Journal of Asian & African Studies and a member of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa. His books include:
The seminar paper is attached to this email is available online at
The 2011 Critical Studies Seminar Series Hosted by the Departments
of Politics and International Studies & Sociology at Rhodes University
Speaker: Nigel Gibson
Topic: The New North African Syndrome
Venue: Department of Sociology
Date & Time: 8 June 2011: 3:00 p.m - 4:30 p.m
Format: Dr. Gibson will speak to his paper for twenty minutes following which questions will be taken. It will be assumed that all participants have read the paper.
Speaker: Nigel Gibson
Topic: The New North African Syndrome
Venue: Department of Sociology
Date & Time: 8 June 2011: 3:00 p.m - 4:30 p.m
Format: Dr. Gibson will speak to his paper for twenty minutes following which questions will be taken. It will be assumed that all participants have read the paper.
Nigel Gibson is a philosopher working in the Marxist Humanist tradition. He was born in London and politicised by The Clash and the miner’s strike. He worked closely with Raya Dunayevskaya as an activist in Detroit and studied with Edward Said in New York. He has
taught at Columbia and Harvard and written well regarded work on a wide range of theorists including Adorno, Marx and of course Fanon. He is best known internationally for his work on Fanon and is considered, in global terms, as a leading Fanon scholar. Last year the Caribbean Philosophy Association awarded him a prize for his life’s work on Fanon.Gibson has also worked on Biko and Black Consciousness for more than twenty years and, in the late 1980s, wrote a seminal paper on Black Consciousness as a philosophical praxis that continues to be widely cited. He is also an expert on the intellectual debates in South African political struggle from the 1970s onwards and his work on South Africa is, unusually and commendably for a scholar from the North, deeply rooted in an appreciation of the detail of these debates.
Gibson is also a noted scholar on popular politics in post-apartheid South Africa. His work in this regard has, unlike much of the work that has been produced, taken the intellectual work done in popular struggles seriously rather than just uncritically applying Northern
theory to South African experiences.
He is the editor of the Journal of Asian & African Studies and a member of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa. His books include:
- Rethinking Fanon: The Continuing Legacy Humanity Books, 1999.
- Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories: Contemporary Africa in Focus (with George C. Bond) Westview, 2002.
- Adorno: A Critical Reader (with Andrew Rubin) Blackwell, 2002.
- Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination Polity, 2003.
- Challenging Hegemony: Social Movements and the Quest for a New Humanism in Post-Apartheid South Africa Africa World Press, 2006.
- Biko Lives: Contesting the Legacies of Steve Biko (with Andile Mngxitama and Amanda Alexander) Palgrave, 2008.
- Fanonian Practices in South Africa UKZN Press & Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
- Living Fanon: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Palgrave Mamcillan, 2011
Van Schaik's book shop have copies of his 2003 book, a classic in Fanon studies, Fanon & the Post-Colonial Imagination, as well as his new book, Fanonian Practices in South Africa, which was first launched last week.
If you would like to present a paper in this seminar series, or to suggest a presenter, please contact Kirk Helliker in the Sociology Department or Richard Pithouse in the Politics Department.
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