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Hickel's initial work explored resistance to the values of western liberalism in South Africa. ''Democracy as Death'' (2015) showed why migrant workers from Zululand disputed aspects of western democracy, based on the hierarchical order of domestic space, and visions of collective wellbeing. A collection edited with Meghan Healy-Clancy, ''Ekhaya: The Politics of Home in KwaZulu-Natal'' again linked domestic environments to control and resistance over South African history since the mid 1800s. Research on finance in South Africa showed how the central bank manages market expectations interest rates and foreign capital flows communications with the public. |
Hickel's initial work explored resistance to the values of western liberalism in South Africa. ''Democracy as Death'' (2015) showed why migrant workers from Zululand disputed aspects of western democracy, based on the hierarchical order of domestic space, and visions of collective wellbeing. A collection edited with Meghan Healy-Clancy, ''Ekhaya: The Politics of Home in KwaZulu-Natal'' again linked domestic environments to control and resistance over South African history since the mid 1800s. Research on finance in South Africa showed how the central bank manages market expectations interest rates and foreign capital flows communications with the public. |
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''The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions'' (2017) attracted attention for arguing that an economic ‘progress narrative’ is false, and that global [[poverty]] is persistent, supported by the structure of the political order.<ref>https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2017/08/03/book-review-the-divide-a-brief-guide-to-global-inequality-and-its-solutions-by-jason-hickel/</ref> Aid transfers and loans are greatly outweighed by the problems caused by [[sovereign debt]]. He also argues that global [[economic growth]] is at the root of worsening [[Ecological crisis|environmental crises]]. Alternatives to growth are explored in ''More: How Degrowth Will Save the World'' (2020). |
''The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions'' (2017) attracted attention for arguing that an economic ‘progress narrative’ is false, and that global [[poverty]] is persistent, supported by the structure of the political order.<ref>https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2017/08/03/book-review-the-divide-a-brief-guide-to-global-inequality-and-its-solutions-by-jason-hickel/</ref> Aid transfers and loans are greatly outweighed by the problems caused by [[sovereign debt]]. He also argues that global [[economic growth]] is at the root of worsening [[Ecological crisis|environmental crises]]. Alternatives to growth are explored in ''Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World'' (2020). |
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His work has been funded by Fulbright, the [[National Science Foundation]], the [[Wenner-Gren Foundation]], the Charlotte Newcombe Foundation, and the [[Leverhulme Trust]]. |
His work has been funded by Fulbright, the [[National Science Foundation]], the [[Wenner-Gren Foundation]], the Charlotte Newcombe Foundation, and the [[Leverhulme Trust]]. |
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Jason Hickel | |
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| Occupation(s) | Academic, Author |
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Jason Hickel is an anthropologist, author, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Background
Hickel was born and raised in Manzini, Swaziland (now Eswatini) where his parents were doctors at the height of the AIDS crisis.[2] He holds a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Wheaton College, USA (2004). He then worked in the non-profit sector in India and Swaziland[3], and received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Virginia in 2011 (Democracy and Sabotage: Moral Order and Political Conflict in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), teaching at Virginia as an ACLS Faculty Fellow.[4]. He was then an Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is currently senior lecturer in anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London and a visiting fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics.
He served on the U.K. Labour Party task force on international development in 2018-2019.[5][6]
Scholarship
Hickel's initial work explored resistance to the values of western liberalism in South Africa. Democracy as Death (2015) showed why migrant workers from Zululand disputed aspects of western democracy, based on the hierarchical order of domestic space, and visions of collective wellbeing. A collection edited with Meghan Healy-Clancy, Ekhaya: The Politics of Home in KwaZulu-Natal again linked domestic environments to control and resistance over South African history since the mid 1800s. Research on finance in South Africa showed how the central bank manages market expectations interest rates and foreign capital flows communications with the public.
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (2017) attracted attention for arguing that an economic ‘progress narrative’ is false, and that global poverty is persistent, supported by the structure of the political order.[7] Aid transfers and loans are greatly outweighed by the problems caused by sovereign debt. He also argues that global economic growth is at the root of worsening environmental crises. Alternatives to growth are explored in Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (2020).
His work has been funded by Fulbright, the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Charlotte Newcombe Foundation, and the Leverhulme Trust.
Journalism
Hickel writes on global development and political economy, contributing regularly to The Guardian, Foreign Policy and Al Jazeera, as well as Jacobin and other popular outlets.[8]
Awards
- All-University Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, University of Virginia
- Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2010
- ASA/HEA National Award for Excellence in Teaching Anthropology
Books
- Hickel, Jason (2020). Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. Penguin Random House. ISBN 9781785152498.
- Hickel, Jason (2017). The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4735-3927-3.
- (2018). The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets. WWNorton. ISBN 978-0-393-65136-2
- Hickel, Jason; Haynes, Naomi (2018). Hierarchy and Value: Comparative Perspectives on Moral Order. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-998-1.
- Hickel, Jason (2015). Democracy as Death: The Moral Order of Anti-Liberal Politics in South Africa. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-95986-6.
- Healy-Clancy, Meghan; Hickel, Jason (2014). Ekhaya: The Politics of Home in KwaZulu-Natal. University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. ISBN 978-1-86914-254-4.
References
- ^ https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2018/10/13/the-case-for-reparations
- ^ https://renegadeinc.com/the-divide/
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePQ1u8RCncQ
- ^ https://anthropology.virginia.edu/node/1948
- ^ "Dr Jason Hickel". lse.ac.uk. Retrieved December 25, 2019.
- ^ "Jason Hickel". unitedagents.co.uk. Retrieved December 25, 2019.
- ^ https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2017/08/03/book-review-the-divide-a-brief-guide-to-global-inequality-and-its-solutions-by-jason-hickel/
- ^ https://www.jasonhickel.org/#/essays/
Further reading
- Hickel, Jason (2017). "The Development Delusion: Foreign Aid and Inequality". American Affairs. Vol. I, no. 3. pp. 160–73.
- Hickel, Jason (7 August 2019). "Progress and its Discontents". New Internationalist.
- Hickel, Jason (March 2019) “Degrowth: a theory of radical abundance”, Real-World Economics Review, issue no. 87, 19, pp. 54–68.
- Hickel, Jason (February 10, 2017). "Why less is more". International Politics and Society.
External links
- Jason Hickel articles for The Guardian.
- Jason Hickel articles for Al Jazeera
- Jason Hickel articles for Jacobin.
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