Considerations on southern Marxism: Fanon and beyond
| When: | Thursday, 21 July 2016 - Thursday, 21 July 2016 |
| Where: | Braamfontein Campus East Humanities Graduate Seminar Room, Southwest Engineering Building |
| Start time: | 17:00 |
Professor Michael Burawoy from the University of California, Berkeley will present this lecture.
The Departments of Sociology and International Relations are hosting the second lecture in the Democratic Marxism series. Professor Michael Burawoy (University of California, Berkeley) will present the lecture. Burawoy is a leading Marxist Sociologist and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
His books include Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism—a study of work and organizations—The Politics of Production, and The Extended Case Method. He spent four years (1968-1972) in Zambia studying the mining sector and has a long history with South Africa. He studied the fall of state socialism in Hungary (1982-1989) and the transition to capitalism in Russia (1991-2002).
He is a former president of the American Sociological Association (2004) and the International Sociological Association (2010-2014). Professor Dilip Menon (Wits University) will be the discussant.
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