Michael Neocosmos

Michael Neocosmos, is an author, translator and Professor and Director of Global Movements Research at Monash University, in Johannesburg South Africa. He is also a fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape.^[1]

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, and at the University of Pretoria where he held the position of Professor of Sociology.^[2]

Books

• Social Relations in Rural Swaziland (editor) (1987)^[3]
• The Agrarian Question in Southern Africa (1993)^[4]
• From Foreign Natives to Native Foreigners: Explaining Xenophobia in South Africa (2006 & 2010).^[5]

Open Access Online Articles

• Thinking the Impossible? Elements of a Critique of Political Liberalism in South Africa, 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
• African and Migration in a Globalised World, 2008
• The Political Meaning of the Attacks on Abahlali baseMjondolo, 2009
• Mass mobilisation, ‘democratic transition’ and ‘transitional violence’ in Africa, 2011

External links

• Staff profile at Monash University
• Open Access PDF of 'From Foreign Natives to Native Foreigners: Explaining Xenophobia in South Africa'

References

1. ^ Professor Michael Neocosmos
2. ^ Staff profile at Monash University
3. ^ Professor Michael Neocosmos
4. ^ Professor Michael Neocosmos
5. ^ From Foreign Natives to Native Foreigners: Explaining Xenophobia in South Africa, Michigan State University Press

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