Nigel Gibson
Nigel Gibson is an activist, a scholar specializing in philosophy[1] and a noted author.[2] He was born in London and was an active militant in the 1984 -1985 Miners' Strike. While in London he also met South African exiles from the Black Consciousness Movement and, in conversation with the exiles, developed some influential academic work on the movement. He later moved to the United States where he worked with Raya Dunayevskaya in the Marxist Humanism movement, studied with Edward Said and became an important theorist of Frantz Fanon[3] on whom he has written extensively.[4] He has also coedited a major collection of work on Theodor Adorno with Andrew N. Rubin and is a co-editor of a collection of work on Steve Biko. His recent work has been marked by a return to an interest in Frantz Fanon (see his edited collection Living Fanon) with a particular focus on the reception of Fanon in popular struggles in South Africa (see Fanonian Practices in South Africa). He is a member of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and has addressed the United Nations.
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[edit] Affiliation
He was previously the Assistant Director of African Studies at Columbia University[5] and a Research Associate in African-American Studies at Harvard University.[6] He is currently Director of the Honors Program at Emerson College,[7] and an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Development Studies at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal.
[edit] Prizes
In 2009 he was awarded the Fanon prize by the Caribbean Philosophical Association. According to the association "Gibson has set a high standard in Fanon studies and historically-informed political thought on Africa and the Caribbean."[8]
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Books
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- Rethinking Fanon: The Continuing Legacy Humanity Books, 1999.
- Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories: Contemporary Africa in Focus (with George C. Bond) Westview, 2002.
- Adorno: A Critical Reader (with Andrew N. Rubin) Blackwell, 2002.
- Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination Polity, 2003.
- Challenging Hegemony: Social Movements and the Quest for a New Humanism in Post-Apartheid South Africa Africa World Press, 2006.
- Biko Lives: Contesting the Legacies of Steve Biko (with Andile Mngxitama and Amanda Alexander) Palgrave MacMillan, 2008.
- Fanonian Practices in South Africa: From Steve Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo UKZN Press and Palgrave MacMillan, 2011
- Living Fanon: Global Perspectives Palgrave MacMillan, 2011
[edit] Selected online articles
Black Consciousness 1977-1987: The Dialectics of Liberation in South Africa
The Pitfalls of South Africa's Liberation
Thoughts about doing Fanonism in the 1990s
Zabalaza, Unfinished struggles against apartheid: the shackdwellers' movement in Durban
A New Politics of the Poor Emerges from South Africa's Shanty Towns
Is Fanon Relevant? Towards an alternative introduction to the 'Damned of the Earth
Upright and free: Fanon in South Africa, from Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo
Democracy’s everyday death: South Africa's quiet coup co-authored with Raj Patel
Egypt and the revolution in our minds, Pambazuka, 18 February 2011
What Happened to the “Promised Land”? A Fanonian Perspective on Post-Apartheid South Africa, Antipode, 2011
London calling: Fanon, spontaneity and the English insurrections
50 years later: Fanon's legacy Pambazuka, 21 December 2011
[edit] References
- ^ Mugabe's Tunisia Day Will Come, Imraan Buccus, SACSIS, 2011
- ^ Fanonian practices and contemporary relevance, Justin Goslant, The Anchor, 14 November 14,2011
- ^ The Legacy of Great Caribbean Thinkers, Sonia Farmer, The Nassau Gaurdian, 26 November 2011
- ^ Nigel Gibson Biography, Churchland Programme, 2011
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- ^ Fanon, Translation, and the Postcolonial Imagination - A Conversation with Nigel Gibson
- ^ Emerson staff page
- ^ Caribbean Philosophical Association Press Release
