Patrick Bond

Patrick Bond "has longstanding research interests and applied work in global governance and national policy debates, in urban communities and with global justice movements in several countries. He is professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Development Studies where since 2004 he has directed the Centre for Civil Society. His research focuses on political economy, environment (energy, water and climate change), social policy and geopolitics, with publications covering South Africa, Zimbabwe, the African continent and global-scale processes.

"In service to the new South African government, Patrick authored/edited more than a dozen policy papers from 1994-2002, including the Reconstruction and Development Programme and the RDP White Paper. He held other positions at Johannesburg NGOs (the National Institute for Economic Policy, 1996-97 and Planact, 1990-94); at the University of Zimbabwe’s Department of Political and Administrative Studies (1989-90); and in Washington, DC at the Institute for Policy Studies, Pacifica Radio, MarketPlace Radio, and several international trade unions (late 1980s). He was also active in the international anti-apartheid movement and US student and community movements." (2003)

On April 3, 2008, Bond published an article titled "Where to, Zimbabwe?" on the website Pambazuka News.


 * Editor-at-large, Capitalism Nature Socialism
 * South Council, 50 Years Is Enough
 * Editorial Advisory Board, Amandla
 * Contributing Editor, Review of African Political Economy

Publications

 * Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society: Negative Returns on South African Investments (co-edited with Rehana Dada and Graham Erion for Rozenberg Publishers and UKZN Press, 2007)
 * Enclavity in African Economies: The Work of Guy Mhone (edited for Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa and International Development Economics Associates, 2007) - other contributors include Guy Mhone, Adebayo Olukoshi, Judica Amri-makhetha, Omano Edigheji, Tawanda Mutasah, Thandika Mkandawire, and Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (see)
 * The Accumulation of Capital in Southern Africa: Rosa Luxemburg’s Contemporary Relevance (co-edited with Horman Chitonge and Arndt Hopfmann for CCS and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, 2007)
 * Looting Africa: The Economics of Exploitation (Zed Books and the University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2006)
 * Talk Left, Walk Right: South Africa’s Frustrated Global Reforms (UKZN Press, 2006, 2004)
 * Trouble in the Air: Global Warming and the Privatised Atmosphere (edited with Rehana Dada for CCS and TransNational Institute, 2005)
 * Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa (UKZN Press, 2005, 2000)
 * Fanon’s Warning: A Civil Society Reader on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Africa World Press, CCS and AIDC, 2005, 2002)
 * Against Global Apartheid: South Africa meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance (Zed Books and the University of Cape Town Press, 2003, 2001) - In this books acknowledgements, Bond notes that: "The Human Sciences Research Council funded an early investigation along these lines in 1997, and the International Development Research Centre and the University of Natal Centre for Social and Development Studies were also benefactors." (p.xvii) See book review
 * Zimbabwe’s Plunge: Exhausted Nationalism, Neoliberalism and the Search for Social Justice (coauthored with Masimba Manyanya for UKZN Press, Merlin Press, Weaver Press and Africa World Press, 2003, 2002)
 * Unsustainable South Africa: Environment, Development and Social Protest (UKZN Press and Merlin Press, 2002)
 * Cities of Gold, Townships of Coal: South Africa’s New Urban Crisis (Africa World Press, 2000)
 * An RDP Policy Audit (coauthored with Meshack Khosa for Human Sciences Research Council Press, 1999)
 * Uneven Zimbabwe: A Study of Finance, Development and Underdevelopment (Africa World Press, 1998).

Forthcoming books include:


 * A Pilhagem na África (Sururu Produções Culturais, Lisbon and South Links, Rio de Janeiro)
 * Uneven and Combined South Africa: Crony Capitalism, Paranoid Nationalism, Tokenist Welfarism (coauthored with Ashwin Desai for Zed Books and UKZN Press)
 * Foreign Policy, Bottom-Up: A South African Diary of 21st Century Popular Globalisation (co-edited with Ashwin Desai for the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva and UKZN Press)
 * Beyond Two Economies: South African Political Economy Revisited (edited for Unisa Press, Pretoria)." (2003)

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Article Related to Cooption

 * Patrick Bond, Dennis Brutus and Virginia Setshedi "African Activists: Make Poverty History is being co-opted", Red Pepper, 08.07.2005.

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