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Thabo Mbeki’s speech last Saturday morning at the UN is the highest-profile opportunity yet for the South African leader to plead for…
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.
Bond and Karen Bakker The July 5-8 "Blue Planet" conference in Vancouver opened with a call by Maude Barlow to promote "a…
In South Africa, three interesting processes related to ‘sustainable development’-that ghastly phrase, denoting an allegedly more eco-friendly capitalism, often with a…
Bond In South Africa, three interesting processes related to "sustainable development"–that ghastly phrase, denoting an allegedly more eco-friendly capitalism, often with a…
Patrick Bond Last year, I spent June rambling the roads of Zimbabwe’s Eastern Highlands mountains. The human warmth of the Shona people…
ACCRA — Notwithstanding the horrific soccer stadium disaster in which at least 165 people were killed in a police-incited stampede on May…
Bond / Johannesburg One of the most painful preventable diseases known to humankind, cholera, continues to spread in South Africa, affecting hundreds…
Prokosch The Local Faces of Anti-(Corporate) Globalization In the year since Seattle, the movement for global economic justice has shown that…
Patrick Bond (Review of `Globalization from Below: The Power of Solidarity,’ by Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello and Brendan Smith, Cambridge, MA, South…
Patrick Bond If you had a choice, which host city would you choose for Rio+10, a.k.a. the 2002 `World Summit on Sustainable…