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Michael Neocosmos

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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]

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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.[3]

Works

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Books

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  • 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.

Articles

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References

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  1. ^ Thinking freedom: achieving the impossible collectively Archived 4 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine, Interview with Michael Neocosmos, 2018
  2. ^ University, Rhodes. "Rhodes University". Archived from the original on 15 November 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  3. ^ "The Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought". Archived from the original on 18 January 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
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