Raj Patel
Raj Patel is a British born academic, journalist, activist and writer [1] who has lived and worked in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the United States for extended periods. He is best known for his 2008 book, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.
According to Naomi Klein 'Stuffed & Starved' is "One of the most dazzling books I have read in a very long time. The product of a brilliant mind, and a gift to a world hungering for justice."
Biography
Born in London, Patel received a B.A in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, from Oxford, a Masters Degree from the London School of Economics and gained his PhD in Development Sociology from Cornell university in 2002. He has been a visiting scholar at Yale and the University of California, Berkeley. As part of his academic training, Patel worked at the World Bank, World Trade Organization and the United Nations. He has since become an outspoken and noted critic of all of these organizations, and has been teargassed on four continents protesting against his former employersCite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
He is currently a visiting scholar in the Center for African Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, a Fellow at Food First, also known as the Institute of Food and Development Policy, and a Research Associate at the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.The Voice of the Turtle.[2]
In 2007 he was invited to give the keynote address at the University of Abahlali baseMjondolo graduation ceremony. In 2008 he was asked to testify on the global food crisis before the House Financial Services Committee in the USA. He is regularly interviewed on the BBC, NBC, Al Jazeera, NPR etc.
Academic Writing
- 'Third Worldism and Lineages of Global Fascism: Neo-liberalism and the Regrouping of the Global South' (with Philip McMichael), 2004
- 'Global Fascism, Revolutionary Humanism and the Ethics of Food Sovereignty', 2005
- 'A Short Course in Politics at the University of Abahlali baseMjondolo'
- Promised Land: Competing Visions of Agrarian Reform', Book, Co-edited with Peter Rosset and Michael Courville, 2006
- 'The World Bank and Agriculture: A Critical Review of the World Bank’s World Development Report 2008', 2007.
- 'Transgressing rights: La Vía Campesina’s call for Food Sovereignty', 2007
- Electing Land Questions: A Methodological Discussion with Reference to Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Durban Shack Dwellers' Movement, 2007
Journalism
Interviews and video debates with Raj Patel
- Raj Patel interviewed by George Stroumboulopoulos on the Today Show in Canada
- Raj Patel interview by Anna Maria Tremonti on Canadian TV
- Raj Patel debating the World Bank on BBC
- Raj Patel interviewed on Food Riots on Democracy Now, 8 April 2008
- Raj Patel interviewed on Food Riots on Democracy Now, 8 April 2008, Part 2
- Raj Patel on National Public Radio, 18 May 2008
- Raj Patel, interview in the New York Times, 3 June 2008
- Video (and audio) interview/discussion with Patel by Megan McArdle on Bloggingheads.tv
- FORA TV Raj Patel discusses Stuffed & Starved
- Slow Food Nation interview: Raj Patel
External Links
- Raj Patel's website
- Stuffed & Starved Website
- Voice of the Turtle
- Via Campesina
- Abahlali baseMjondolo
Wiki Links
- Abahlali baseMjondolo
- Via Campesina
- MST
- Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Zapatistas)
- Slow Food
- Landless Peoples Movement
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References
- ^ RajPatel.com - About. Retrieved on March 30, 2008.
- ^ RajPatel.com - About. Retrieved on January 25, 2009.
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