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Patrick Bond
Patrick Bond is a political economist, political ecologist and scholar of social mobilisation. From 2020-21 he was Professor at the Western Cape School of Government and from 2015-2019 was a Distinguished Professor of Political Economy at the University of the Witwatersrand School of Governance. From 2004 through mid-2016, he was Senior Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Built Environment and Development Studies and was also Director of the Centre for Civil Society. He has held visiting posts at a dozen universities and presented lectures at more than 100 others.
Preparations for the December 7-18 Copenhagen climate summit are going as expected, including a rare sighting of African elites’ stiffened spines. That’s…
On a day that 350.org and thousands of allies are valiantly trying to raise global consciousness about impending catastrophe, we can ask…
Here’s a fairly simple choice: the Global North would pay hard-hit Global South sites to deal with climate crisis either through complicated,…
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] EXPLANATORY NOTE: Some of these ideas were debated at the Gyeongsang University…
(Durban, 28 June 2009) — With high-volume class strife heard in the rumbling of wage demands and the friction of township "service…
With high-volume class strife heard in the rumbling of wage demands and the friction of township ‘service delivery protests’, rhetorical and real…
"We sometimes feed conflict by the way we award contracts, gain access to land, and deal with community representatives," Shell Nigeria admitted…
There are special places dedicated to the memories of Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi, Martin Luther King in Memphis, Malcolm X at…
The movement for reparations against transnational corporations that profited from apartheid is finally making progress within the generally hostile US judicial system,…