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PERSONAL DATA: Place of Birth: Oakland, California University
Address: Urban Planning Program, Taubman College of Architecture
and
Urban Planning, and Department of Afroamerican and African
Studies, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2069 Home Address: 1801 Hermitage Road
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 [email protected] EDUCATION: B.A.
Philosophy University of San Francisco; 1967 M.A. Philosophy The
University of Texas at Austin; 1970 Ph.D. Sociology The University
of Texas at Austin; 1975 THESIS AND DISSERTATION TOPICS: M.A.
Thesis: Title: "Herbert Marcuse's Concept of ‘One Dimensionality’
and the Source of Its Explosion." Department of Philosophy,
University of Texas at Austin, 1970. Ph.D. Dissertation: Title:
"The Economic Functions of the State in Capitalist Society."
Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, 1975.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2009-present: Professor of Urban Planning,
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and Adjunct
Professor, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
(DAAS), University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
1990-2009: Professor, Department of Sociology, State University
of New York at Binghamton
1981-1990: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, State
University of New York at Binghamton 1974-1981: Assistant
Professor, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at
Binghamton 1973-1974: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology,
University of Missouri, Kansas City
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RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS: 2016: African Studies Centre, University
of Oxford [April-July, 2016] 2016: Research affiliation with Centre
for Urban Built Environment Studies (CUBES), School of
Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg (January-April 2016)
2014: Research affiliation with Centre for Urban Built
Environment Studies (CUBES), School of
Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg (June-July 2014)
2012: Research affiliation with Centre for Urban Built
Environment Studies (CUBES), School of
Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg (June 2012) 2011: Research affiliation with Centre for
Urban Built Environment Studies (CUBES), School of
Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg (June 2011) 2008: Research affiliation with Centre for
Urban Built Environment Studies (CUBES), School of
Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg (July 2008) 2006: Research affiliation with Centre for
Urban Built Environment Studies (CUBES), School of
Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg (May-June 2006)
2005: [Spring Term]; Sabbatical Leave 2004-2005: Visiting
Fellow, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies and
Department of
History, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
(September-February). 2004: Visiting Scholar, Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C.
[Non-residential appointment, January-May] 2000-present: Faculty
Associate in Research, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University.
1998: Senior Research Associate, Department of Sociology,
University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa [February-June]. 1998: Research
Associate, Centro de Estudos Africanos, Universidade Eduardo
Mondlane,
Maputo, Mozambique June-July. 1998: Research Associate,
Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town,
South Africa, July.
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1983: Visiting Researcher, African Studies Institute, University
of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa ACADEMIC LECTURESHIPS AND
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS: 2017: Fulbright Specialists Program (FSP)
Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES).
Technische Universität Dortmund (TU Dortmund University),
Germany. Series of Lectures and teaching a course on Settlement of
Refugees called “Arrival City.” May-June.
2009: Adjunct Lecturer. Department of Political Science, Colgate
University, Study Abroad
Program, Rambouillet, France; and Geneva, Switzerland
(January-May). 2007: Adjunct Lecturer. Colgate University, Fall
Term (University Studies Program) 2007: Invited Lectureship
[Lehrauftrag], African Studies Center, Universitāt Basel
(Basel,
Switzerland) [January-February 2007] 2007: Adjunct Lecturer.
Department of Political Science, Colgate University, Study
Abroad
Program, Rambouillet, France; and Geneva, Switzerland
(January-May) . 2007: Invited Lectures. Institut universitaire de
haute etudes internationals. May. Genève,
Switzerland [Series of three lectures on Cities in Africa for a
graduate seminar on African Politics]
2006: Adjunct Lecturer. Colgate University, Spring Term
(University Studies Program) 2003: Consultant/Lecturer, Colgate
University Study Abroad Program. Study Group to South
Africa, May-June. 2002-2003: Director of Undergraduate Studies
2001: Consultant/Lecturer, Colgate University Study Abroad Program.
Study Group to South
Africa, May-June. 1999: Consultant/Lecturer, Colgate University
Study Abroad Program. Study Group to South
Africa, May-June. 1998: Senior Lecturer, Department of
Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South
Africa [February-June]. 1990-96: Director of Undergraduate Studies
(Two Terms)
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1977: Visiting Lectureship, University of Cape Town, Cape Town,
South Africa, May-June. AWARDS AND HONORS 2019: Fellowship at
Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch
(South
Africa), January-May. 2016: Sabbatical Leave, Taubman College
(January-June, Winter term) 2015: Commemorating and Forgetting:
Challenges for the New South Africa Nominated by
University of Minnesota Press for the Jane Jacobs Urban
Communication Award 2013: Honorable Mention, Global Studies
Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems
(SSSP), for City of Extremes: The Spatial Politics of
Johannesburg 2012: African Studies Association, Melville J.
Herskovits Award, Finalist/Honorable Mention,
for City of Extremes: The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg,
November. 2010: Taming the Disorderly City: The Spatial Landscape
of Johannesburg after Apartheid was
selected by the Board of the American Sociological Association
for "Author-Meets-Critics" Special Session at the annual meetings
of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 2010.
2004: Dean’s Research Leave [spring term] 1995: Winner of
Distinguished Scholarship Award, Marxist Section, American
Sociological
Association for The Revolution Deferred: The Painful Birth of
Post-Apartheid South Africa (London: Verso, 1994).
1993: Nominated as possible Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in
the Behavioral Sciences,
Stanford University. 1978: Research Semester Award (granted by
the Dean of Arts and Sciences). Project Title:
"The Development of Capitalism in Colonial Indochina, 1870-1940"
[spring]. 1967 Alpha Sigma Nhu, National Jesuit Honor Society,
University of San Francisco [this award
at a Jesuit University is the functional equivalent of Phi Beta
Kappa]. 1963-67: Full Tuition Academic Fellowship [Four Years],
University of San Francisco BOOK SERIES EDITOR "Africa Connects"
Book Series [with Garth Myers, Trinity University; Ebenezer
Obadare, University of Kansas; and Caroline Kihato, University of
Johannesburg] Palgrave-Macmillan. Solicitation of book manuscripts
on globalization, development, and urbanization in Africa.
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Five books published in the Series, and one in press. BOOKS
PUBLISHED: Panic City: Crime and the Fear industries in
Johannesburg (Palo Alto, California: Stanford University Press, in
press, 2019). The Urbanism of Exception: The Dynamics of City
Building in the 21st Century (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2017). Commemorating and Forgetting: Challenges
for the New South Africa (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 2013). City of Extremes: The Spatial Politics of
Johannesburg (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011)
[Co-published in South Africa with the University of the
Witwatersrand Press, Johannesburg]. Taming the Disorderly City: The
Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg after Apartheid (Ithaca and
London: Cornell University Press, 2008). [Published in southern
Africa by University of Cape Town Press] Cities in Contemporary
Africa: Place, Politics, and Livelihood (New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2006). [Co-edited with Garth Myers] Paperback Edition
published in 2011.
[I contributed the following: (with Garth Myers), “Introduction:
Situating Cities in Africa,” pp. 1-25; (with Garth Myers),
“Culture, Imagination, Space, and Place,” pp. 27-29; with Garth
Myers, “Political Economy, Work, and Livelihood” pp. 119-124; (with
Garth Myers), “Urban Planning, Administration, and Governance,” pp.
237-239; and (with Photographer, Juanita Malan), “Photographic
Essay: Johannesburg Fortified,” pp. 95-101]. Paperback Edition
published 2011 The Revolution Deferred: The Painful Birth of
Post-Apartheid South Africa (London: Verso, 1994). Radical
Sociologists and the Movement: Experiences, Lessons, and Legacies
[co-edited with Martin Oppenheimer and Rhonda F. Levine]
(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990). I contributed the
following: "Introduction: The Movement and the Academy" (with
Martin Oppenheimer and Rhonda F. Levine), pp. 3-16; and "Building
Fires on the Prairie," pp. 96-112. South Africa: Time of Agony,
Time of Destiny. The Upsurge of Popular Protest (London: Verso/NLB,
1987. South African Capitalism and Black Political Opposition
(Boston: Alfred Schenkman, 1980). [Edited with the following
contributions by myself: "Part I: Theoretical Controversies and
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Methodological Approaches," [pp. 1-15]; "Part II: Contours of
European Settlement and Conquest from the Seventeenth to the Late
Nineteenth Centuries," [pp. 59-64]; "European Settlement and
Conquest: Dutch and British Commercial Hegemony from the
Seventeenth to the Late Nineteenth Century," [pp. 65-96]; "Part
III: The Development of Capitalist Production Processes," [pp.
127-136]; "Part IV: The Consolidation of Monopoly Capital,
1910-1948," [237-246]; "The Development of Non-European Political
Consciousness, 1910-1948," [pp. 327-360]; "Part V: Monopoly
Capitalism in the Apartheid Era, 1948-1980," [pp. 397-404]; "Part
VI: The Growth of Black Political Consciousness: Class and National
Responses to the Apartheid Regime," [pp. 615-622]; "The Nationalist
Party in Command: Apartheid and Political Challenge, 1948-1976,"
[pp. 651-684]. This book was banned in South Africa. The
Development of Capitalism in Colonial Indochina, 1870-1940
(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1980).
OCCASIONAL PAPERS “The Evolving Spatial Form of Cities in a
Globalising World Economy: Johannesburg and Sao Paulo,” Human
Sciences Research Council [Democracy and Governance Programme,
Occasional Paper #5] (Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council
Press, 2004) [61 pg]. [Highlighted in two feature news stories:
Tony Carnie, “A Tale of Four Cities,” Natal Mercury, 16 September
2004; and Tony Carnie, “A Modern Tale of Four Cities,” Pretoria
News, 20 September 2004]. ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS PUBLISHED:
“Re-Urbanism in Africa: Frictionless Utopias for the Contemporary
Urban Age,” Hope Franklin Institute, Duke University, 2018.
https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/re-urbanism-in-africa-frictionless-utopias-for-the-contemporary-urban-age/
“Cities on a Grand Scale: Instant Urbanism at the Start of the
Twenty-first Century,” in David Wilson, Byron Miller, Kevin Ward,
and Andrew Jonas (eds.), Routledge Handbook on Urban Spaces (New
York: Routledge, 2018), pp. 184-196. “Postsuburban Johannesburg,”
in Alan Berger and Joel Kotkin with Celina Balderas Guzman (eds.),
Infinite Suburbia (New York: Princeton University Press, 2017), pp.
414-427. [With Albert Fu], “Sentimentalizing Racial Reconciliation
in the ‘New South Africa’: Invictus and the Cinematic
Representation of the 1995 Rugby World Cup,” Black Camera 9, 1
(2017), pp. 22-46. “Large-scale, Master-planned Redevelopment
Projects in Urbanizing Africa: Frictionless Utopias for the
Contemporary Urban Age,” in Ayona Datta and Abdul Shaban (eds.),
Mega-Urbanization in the Global South: Fast Cities and New Urban
Utopias in the Postcolonial State (New York and London: Routledge,
2017), pp. 31-53.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=47&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjAoujQ97fcAhUs7YMKHQmcAAk4KBAWMAZ6BAgGEAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhumanitiesfutures.org%2Fpapers%2Fre-urbanism-in-africa-frictionless-utopias-for-the-contemporary-urban-age%2F&usg=AOvVaw0xWQzMjIpm0oK_-g1ozC8yhttps://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/re-urbanism-in-africa-frictionless-utopias-for-the-contemporary-urban-age/https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/re-urbanism-in-africa-frictionless-utopias-for-the-contemporary-urban-age/
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“Waterfall City (Johannesburg): Privatized Urbanism in
Extremis,” Environment & Planning A 47, 3 (2015), pp. 503-520.
[with Claire Herbert] “Building New Cities from Scratch: Privatized
Urbanism and the Spatial Restructuring of Johannesburg after
Apartheid,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
39, 3 (2015), pp. 471-494. “’City Doubles’: Re-Urbanism in Africa,”
in Faranak Miraftab, David Wilson, and Kenneth Salo (eds.), Cities
and Inequalities in a Global and Neoliberal World (New York:
Routledge, 2015), pp. 92-109. “City of Layers: The Making and
Shaping of Affluent Johannesburg after Apartheid,” in Marie
Huchzermeyer and Christoph Haferburg (eds.), Urban Governance in
Post-Apartheid Cities (Stuttgart: Schweizerbart, 2014), pp.
179-196. [with Albert Fu] “Glorified Fantasies and Masterpieces of
Deception: On Importing Las Vegas into the ‘New South Africa’,”
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 38, 3 (2014),
pp. 843–863. [with Andy Clarno], “Policing in Johannesburg after
Apartheid,” Social Dynamics 39, 2 (2013), pp. 210-227. [with Dana
Kornberg] “Informality in Urban Africa,” in Tom Spear (ed.), Oxford
Bibliographies in African Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2013.) 30 pages [Part of Oxford Bibliographies Series in a Variety
of Academic Fields] “Afterward: Re-engaging with Transnational
Urbanism,” in Tony Samara, Shenjing He, and Guo Chen (eds.),
Locating Right to the City in the Global South (New York:
Routledge, 2013), pp. 285-310. “The Quandary of Post-Public Space:
New Urbanism, Melrose Arch, and the Rebuilding of Johannesburg
after Apartheid,” Journal of Urban Design 18, 1 (2013), pp.
119-144. "Fire and Ice: Unnatural Disasters and the Disposable
Urban Poor in Post-apartheid Johannesburg," International Journal
of Urban and Regional Research 33, 1 (March 2009), pp. 165-192.
“The City in Fragments: Kaleidoscopic Johannesburg after
Apartheid,” in Gyan Prakash and Kevin Kruse (eds.), The Spaces and
the Modern City: Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008), pp. 144-178. [with
Albert Fu], “Cinema and the Edgy City: Johannesburg, Carjacking,
and the
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Postmetropolis,” African Identities 5, 2 (2007), 279-289.
[Reprinted in Fassil Demissie (ed.) Postcolonial African Cities:
Imperial Legacies and Postcolonial Predicament (New York and
London: Routledge, 2007)] “Building the ‘New South Africa’: Urban
Space, Architectural Design, and the Disruption of Historical
Memory,” in Hans Erik Stolten (ed.), History Making and Present Day
Politics: The Meaning of Collective Memory in South Africa
(Uppsala: Nordiska Arikainstitutet, 2007), pp. 227-247. “The
Spatial Dynamics of Postmodern Urbanism: Social Polarisation and
Fragmentation in Sao Paulo and Johannesburg,” Journal of
Contemporary African Studies [Grahamstown, South Africa] 22, 2
(2004), pp. 139-164. "Alien Strangers in our Midst: The Dreaded
Foreign Invasion and ‘Fortress South Africa’," Canadian Journal of
African Studies 37, 2-3 (2003), pp. 440-466. "Globalization y
Cuidades Fragmentadas: Urbanismo Postmoderno y Nuevos Regimenes de
Poder Espacial en Sao Paulo y Johannesburgo," en Victor Figueroa
(coordinador), America Latina en la Crisis del Patron Neoliberal de
Crecimiento: Memorias del Primer Simposio International sobre
America Latina en el Mundo (Zacatecas, Mexico: Unidad de Sciencia
Politica, UAZ, 2003), pp. 97-134. "The Formalization of
Informal/Precarious Labour in Contemporary Argentina" [With Clara
Olmedo], International Sociology 17, 3 (2002), pp. 421-443. "The
Prospects for Sustainable Democracy in Post-Apartheid South Africa"
(With Thembisa Waetjen), in Roland Axtmann (ed.), Balancing
Democracy [London: Pinter/Cassell, 2001), pp. 195-213. "Winners and
Losers in the New South Africa," Souls: A Critical Journal of Black
Politics, Culture, and Society 2, 2 (2000), pp. 40-49. "Factories
in the Fields: Capitalist Farming in the Bethal District, c.
1910-1950", in Jonathan Crush and Alan Jeeves (eds.), White Farms,
Black Workers: Agrarian Transition in South Africa, 1910-1948
(Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Hienemann, 1997), pp. 75-93. "The South
African Transition: More Trouble than It Looks," Southern Africa
Report [Toronto] 12, 1 (1996), pp. 20-22. "Editor's Introduction"
[with Thembisa Waetjen], Critical Sociology 22, 3 (1996), pp. 3-8.
Special Issue: "Social Change in South Africa." [edited with
Thembisa Waetjen]. "Moralizing the Agrarian Question: Concealed
Meanings and Competing Master Narratives in
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the Construction of an Imagined South African Countryside,"
Journal of Contemporary African Studies [Grahamstown, South Africa]
14, 1 (1996), pp. 5-28. "Apartheid and the National Question in
South Africa," in Berch Berberglou (ed.), The National Question:
Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict, and Self-determination in the 20th
Century (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995), pp. 61-76.
"Blackbirding at ‘Crooks' Corner’: Illicit Labour Recruitment in
the Northeastern Transvaal 1910-1940," Journal of Southern African
Studies 21, 3 (1995), pp. 373-397. "’A World after Their Own
Image’: The Marxist Paradigm and Theories of Capitalist Development
on a World Scale," in Don McQuarie and Patrick McGuire (eds.), From
the Left Bank to the Mainstream: Historical Debates and
Contemporary Research in Marxist Sociology (New York: General Hall,
1992), pp. 86-107. "’White Gold’ or ‘White Blood’? The Rubber
Plantations of Colonial Indochina, 1910-1940," Journal of Peasant
Studies 19, 3/4 (1992), pp. 41-67. [Also published in Valentine
Daniel, Henry Bernstein, and Tom Brass (eds.), Plantations,
Proletarians and Peasants in Colonial Asia (London: Frank Cass,
1992), pp. 41-67. "The Origins of the Opium Trade and the Opium
Regié in Colonial Indochina" [with Jean-Claude Gerlus and Hakiem
Nankoe] in John Butcher and Howard Dick (eds.), The Rise and Fall
of Revenue Farming: Business Elites and the Emergence of the Modern
State in Southeast Asia (London: Macmillan, 1992), pp. 182-195.
"The Struggle for Socialism in Vietnam" [with Steve Vieux],
Humanity and Society 15, 2 (1991), pp. 202-222. "The Origins of
Agrarian Capitalism in South Africa: A Critique of the ‘Social
History’ Perspective," Journal of Southern African Studies 15, 4
(1989), pp. 645-665. "’The Natives Are Always Stealing’: White
Vigilantes and the ‘Reign of Terror’ in the Orange Free State,
1918-1924," Journal of African History 30, 1 (1989), pp. 107-123.
"’Burning the Wheat Stacks’: Land Clearances and Agrarian Unrest
Along the Northern Middelburg Frontier, c. 1918-1926," Journal of
Southern African Studies 15, 1 (1988), pp. 102-22. "The Triumph of
Marxist Approaches in South African Social and Labour History,"
Journal of Asian and African Studies 23, 1-2 (1988), pp. 79-101.
"The Formation of the Rural Proletariat in the South African
Countryside: The Class Struggle and the 1913 Natives' Land Act," in
Charles Stephenson and Michael Hannagan (eds.),
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Confrontation, Class Consciousness, and the Labour Process:
Studies in Proletarian Class Formation (Westport, Connecticut:
Greenwood Press, 1986), pp. 97-122. "Conflict Theory: An Obituary"
[with Don McQuarie], in Scott McNall (ed.), Current Perspectives in
Sociological Theory, Volume 5 (Boulder, Colorado: JAI Press, 1984),
pp. 201-224. "The Formation of the Working Class in Colonial
Indochina, 1870-1940," in Barry Munslow and M.H.J. Finch (eds.),
Proletarianization in the Third World (London: Croom-Helm, 1984),
pg. 216-233. "The Formation of the Rural Proletariat in the South
African Countryside: The Class Struggle and the 1913 Natives' Land
Act," in M. Fransman, A. Graves, and N. Simelane (eds.), Southern
African Studies: Retrospect and Prospect (Edinburgh, Scotland:
Centre for African Studies, 1983), pp. 303-342. "The ‘Agrarian
Question’, Class Struggle and the Capitalist State in the United
States and South Africa" [with Charles Post], Insurgent Sociologist
11, 4 (1983), pp. 37-56. "Why Make a Socialist Revolution? The
Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the Capitalist World Economy"
[with Philip Picha], in Christopher Chase-Dunn (ed.), Socialist
State Policy in a Capitalist World-Economy (Beverly Hills: Sage,
1982), pp. 253-270. "Capitalism and South African Agriculture:
1890-1920," in Terence K. Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein (eds.),
Political Economy of the World System Annuals. Volume III (Beverly
Hills: Sage, 1980), pp. 158-166. "Agrarian Social Structure and
Rural Class Relations: Class Struggle in the Orange Free State and
the Transvaal, c. 1890-1920," Rural Africana 4-5 (1979), pp. 83-96.
"The Impediments to State Economic Planning: The Case of the United
States" [with Barry Truchil], Sociological Research Symposium VIII
(1979), pp. 118-122. "The Rubber Plantations of Colonial Indochina:
The Colonial State and the Class Struggle between Wage-labor and
Capital (1910-1940)," in Walter Goldfrank (eds.), The World-System
of Capitalism: Past and Present. Volume II: Political Economy of
the World-System Annuals (Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1979),
pp. 285-309. "The Limits to State Economic Planning: The Case of
the Postwar United States" [with Barry Truchil and Rhonda Levine],
Journal of Political and Military Sociology 7, l (1979), pp. 15-34.
"The Pharmaceutical Industry: A Further Study in Corporate Power"
[with Ned McCraine], International Journal of Health Services 8, 4
(1978), pp. 573-588.
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"Recent Views on the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism,"
Socialist Revolution 7, 4 (1977), pp. 64-91. "Dissatisfaction among
Government Workers: A Preliminary Statement" [with Rhonda Levine],
Summation 6, l/2 (1977), pp. 18-40. "International Capital Flows
and the Meaning of Capitalist Expansion: A Reply to Szymanski."
Review of Radical Political Economics 8, 2 (1976), pp. 68-73. "The
Pharmaceutical Industry: A Study in Corporate Power," International
Journal of Health Services 4, 4 (1974), pp. 625-640. "The United
States' Continuing Economic Interests in Vietnam," Socialist
Revolution 13/14 (1973), pp. 11-68. "The Post-Colonial State:
Investment and Intervention in Vietnam," Politics and Society 3, 4
(1973), pp. 437-461. "A Critique of Intersubjectivity," The Review
of Social Theory l, l (1972), pp. 79-96. SHORT ESSAYS AND COMMENTS:
Martin Murray, David Bieri, Megan Elliott, and Dan Kinkead, “The
Detroit Metropolitan Area: Metro Detroit,” in Christa Reicher
(ed.), Transforming City Regions: Polycentric City Regions in
Transformation – the Ruhr Agglomeration in International
Perspective (Dortmund: TU Dortmund University, 2015), pp. 22-29.
“Waterfall City (Johannesburg): Privatized Urbanism in Extremis,”
Eine Dokumentation der Ringvorlesung des OSI-Club e.V. an der
Freien Universität Berlin im Wintersemester 2014/2015, pp. 22-23.
“Cape Town beyond Apartheid,” [with Anne Pitcher] Canadian Journal
of African Studies/La Revue canadienne des études africaines 46, 1
(2012), pp. 139-143. “Lectures: Autour d'un livre. Kinshasa. Tales
of the Invisible City, de Filip de Boeck et Marie-Françoise
Plissart. Le Point de Vue" [with M. Anne Pitcher], Politique
Africaine 110 (juin 2008), pp. 175-179. "Exploring Cityscapes:
Kinshasa and Johannesburg" [with M. Anne Pitcher], African Studies
Review 50, 3 (2007), pp. 143-146. “Review Essay: Theorizing Cities
under Stress,” Cultural Geographies 12,2 (2005), pp. 235-246.
"Review Essay: Postmodern Urbanism: Reality or Fantasy?" [with
Natalie Cherot], Urban Studies
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Review 37, 3 (2002), pp. 431-437. "Configuring the Trajectory of
African Political History,” Canadian Journal of African Studies 34,
2 (2000), pp. 376-386. "Review Essay: Conflicting Interpretations
of the Vietnam War," [with Robert Brigham], Bulletin of Concerned
Asian Scholars 26, 1-2 (1994), pp. 111-118. "Review Essay:
Confronting the Dilemmas of Socialist Development," Bulletin of
Concerned Asian Scholars 24, 1 (1992), pp. 70-75. "Response to
Stanley Greenberg," Insurgent Sociologist 11, 4 (1983), pp. 61-62.
"On the Value of ‘Irrepressible Theorizing’: A Reply to Cohen,"
Socialist Review 38 (1978), pp. 104-108. "The Marxian Theory of
Modes of Production," Review of Radical Political Economics 9, 4
(1977), pp. 81-86. "Institutional Elites: A Comment," Social
Science Quarterly 55, 3 (1974), pp. 784-786. "Survey Essay: On
Vietnam and Veterans," Journal of Political and Military Sociology
2, l (1974), pp. 131-135. BOOK REVIEWS: Numerous book reviews in:
Sociology: Reviews of New Books Journal of Political and Military
Sociology Social Science Quarterly Canadian Journal of Political
Science American Journal of Sociology Contemporary Sociology
Canadian Journal of African Studies Insurgent Sociologist/Critical
Sociology International Journal of African Historical Studies
Journal of Southern African Studies Journal of Peasant Studies
Science and Society Labour/Le Travail South African Historical
Journal Journal of Modern Asian Studies Cultural Geographies
Tijdschrift voor Economishe en Sociale Geografie (TESG)
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Review of African Studies H-Net Africa
Reviews of My Work [Recent] Keith Beavon, “Review of Martin
Murray, City of Extremes,” Buchbesprechungen (2014), pp.
226-228.
Elizabeth Rankin, “Commemorating and Forgetting: Challenges for
the new South Africa, Martin J. Murray: Book Review,” De Arte 89
(2014), pp. 89-91.
Leslie Witz, “Visiting Memorial and Revisiting Binaries.
Commemorating and Forgetting: Challenges for the New South Africa.”
Journal of African History 55, 1 (2014), pp. 111-112.
H.J. Deacon, “Review of Commemorating and Forgetting,” African
Affairs 113, 450 (2014), pp. 143-145.
Melissa Levin, “Review of Commemorating and Forgetting,” African
Geographical Review 33, 1 (2014), pp. 96-97. Daniel Hammett,
“Review of Commemorating and Forgetting: Challenges for the New
South Africa by Martin Murray,” Transformation: Critical
Perspectives on Southern Africa 83 (2013 ), pp. 103-104. Aidan
Mosselson, “Review of Martin J. Murray: City of Extremes: The
Spatial Politics of Johannesburg,” International Journal of Urban
and Regional Research 37, 5 (2013), pp. 1862–1863. Pauline Guinard
(Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris), “Review of Martin J. Murray,
City of Extremes: The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg,” H-SAfrica
(October, 2013). Travis Vaughn, “Review of City of Extremes: The
Spatial Politics of Johannesburg,” International Bulletin of
Missionary Research 36, 2 (2012), pp. 105-106. Suzanne Hall,
“Review Essay: Lindsay Bremner, Writing the City into Being: Essays
on Johannesburg, 1998–2008; and Martin J. Murray, City of Extremes:
The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg, Antipode 44, 4 (2012), pp.
1569-1578. Loren Kruger, “Review Essay: City of Extremes: The
Spatial Politics of Johannesburg, by Martin Murray; and Marginal
Spaces: Reading, by Ivan Vladislavič,” Research in African
Literatures 43, 2 (2012), pp. 195-199. Clara Irazabal, “Review of
Taming the Disorderly City,” Journal of Architectural and Planning
Research 28, 1 (2011), pp. 89-90.
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Alan Mabin, “Book Review: Martin Murray, Taming the Disorderly
City,” Urban Studies 48, 9 (2011), pp. 1971-1973. Lindsay Bremner,
“A Review of “Taming the Disorderly City: The Spatial Landscape of
Johannesburg After Apartheid,” The Professional Geographer 62, 1
(2010), pp. 143-144 A.J. Christopher, “Book review: Murray, M.J.,
Taming the Disorderly City,” Progress in Human Geography 34 (2010),
p. 540. Andy Clarno, Book Reviews: Taming the Disorderly City,”
City & Community 8, 1 (2009), pp. 85-87. Owen Crankshaw,
“Review of Martin Murray 2008: Taming the Disorderly City.”
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 34, 2 (2010),
pp. 440–441. Bill Freund, “Review of Taming the Disorderly City:
The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg after Apartheid,” African
Studies Review 53, 1 (2010), pp. 151-152. Garth Myers, “Review of
Taming the Disorderly City,” Journal of Cultural Geography 26, 1
(2009), pp. 105-106. Eric Petersen, “Book Review: City of Extremes:
The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg,” Urban Geography 33, 7
(2012), pp. 1087–1088. GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2019: [with Geoff
Thun and Maria Arquero, University of Michigan; Christa Reicher,
Aachen
University; and Mona El Kafif, University of Virginia],
“Emerging Urbanisms in Deindustrializing City-Regions: the
Afterlife of leftover Spaces,” Urban Studies Foundation
($24,000).
2019: [with Maria Arquero and Olaia Chivite] “Green over Rust:
The Contested Urbanisms of
Abandonment,” Michigan Mellon Project: Mapping the Equalitarian
Metropolis: Detroit’s Spaces of Hope ($10,000).
2019: [with Maria Arquero and Olaia Chivite] “Detroit: The
Contested Urbanisms of
Abandonment,” Proposal Accepted for the Seoul Biennale of
Architecture and Urbanism, Seoul, South Korea, October 2019.
2019: University of Michigan Organized Research (UMOR),
Subvention Funding. Matching
funds from Department of Afro-American and African Studies and
Taubman College ($10,000).
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2015: African Studies Center, International Institute,
University of Michigan, Research Grant for Studying “Emerging
Satellite Cities in Africa” ($5,000).
2015: Office of Research Faculty Grants and Awards Program,
University of Michigan [UMOR],
“Satellite Cities in Urban Africa” [$20,000 matching grant,
Urban Planning (Taubman College) and Department of Afro-American
and African Studies]
2015: African Heritage Initiative, SEED Grants for Collaborative
Research Projects, African
Studies Center, “Sites of Memory/Sites of Mourning in South
Africa: Forgotten, Abandoned, and Ignored Memories in the Official
Discourse and Practice of Cultural Heritage” [with Dr. Cecil
Madell, Cape Peninsula University, Cape Town], $10,000.
2013: Founding Member of University of Michigan Coordinating
Committee, “Rethinking the
African Humanities: A Trans-Continental Collaboration.”
Collaboration between African Studies Center, University of
Michigan, and WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic
Research), University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg). $1.2
million collaborative grant from the Mellon Foundation.
2013: Founding Member, Coordinating Committee, Michigan Meeting:
“Learning from Detroit:
Turbulent Urbanism in the 21st Century,” $50,000 for a two‐day
Michigan Meeting conference, Rackham Graduate School, University of
Michigan (May 5-6).
2012: Center for International and Comparative Studies (CICS),
International Security &
Development Fellowship for 2012-2013, University of Michigan.
[$16,000] 2010: Rackham Graduate School (University of Michigan)
2010 Spring/Summer Research
Grants Program Award for “Mega-Cities of the Global South”
Project [$6,000] 2010: Office of Vice President for Research
(University of Michigan) Publication Subvention
Award [$1,500] 2009: Harpur College Grant in Support of
Research, Scholarship, and Creative Work. Project
Title: “Technical Support for Book Manuscript.” [$3000] 2008:
United University Professions Individual Development Award,
SUNY-Binghamton
[$1,000] 2004-2005: In-Residence Research Fellowship at the
Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical
Studies, Princeton University [September-February] Project
Title: The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg after Apartheid 2002:
Project Director, National Science Foundation, Doctoral
Dissertation Research for Clara
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Olmedo. Project title: The Role of State Regulation in the
Process of Informalization of Labor in Argentina: the Case of La
Rioja, 1991-2001. [Project No. 1023813. Award Amount: $7,500]
1998: "The Prospects for Sustainable Democracy in Post-Apartheid
South Africa," Joint
American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation
Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Grant.
1998: Project Director, Dissertation Support for Adam Flint:
"Popular Movements, NGO's and
the Transition to Democracy in El Salvador", The Aspen Institute
[Amount: $40,000]. 1993: Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, Africa
Research Program 1993-1994 [June-August 1993].
[Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Durban, South Africa].
Affiliated with the Department of Sociology and the Development
Policy Unit, University of Cape Town; Centre for Social and
Development Studies, University of Natal (Durban); and the African
Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
(Johannesburg).
1991: SUNY Research Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship.
Project Title: "Race and Class
in South African Agriculture." 1990: SUNY-Binghamton Curriculum
Development Grant: "Vietnam War and Social Protest." 1989: Joint
American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation
Problems of the
Discipline Grant. 1989: SUNY-Binghamton Curriculum Development
Grant: "Teaching the Vietnam War." 1986: Joint Committee on African
Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and
Social Science Research Council. Project Title: "Form and
Character of ‘The Long Wave’ of Popular Protest in South Africa,
1955-1985." Research Trip to Harare, Zimbabwe. (June-July).
1983: Sabbatical Leave, Fall semester [Research Trip to Cape
Town, Johannesburg and
Pretoria, South Africa]. 1980: National Science Foundation
(#SES-8007141). Project Title: "Race Relations and Political
and Economic Development" [South Africa]. 1980: SUNY Research
Foundation, Faculty Research Fellowship and Grant-in-Aid. Project
Title:
"From Segregation to Apartheid: Black Labour in South Africa."
1980: Co-organizer, East Coast Socialist Sociology Conference,
State University of New York at
Binghamton (April 1980)
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1979: "Research Support for Junior Faculty" Award, Office of
Graduate Studies and Research,
State University of New York at Binghamton. 1978: Co-organizer,
Conversations in the Disciplines, "New Directions in the Labor
Process"
Conference (State University of New York at Binghamton, May 5-7,
1978). 1976: Faculty Research Fellowship and Grant-in-Aid, The
Research Foundation of State
University of New York; Project Title: "United States'
Development Policy Goals and Vietnam: 1945-1975."
1974: Faculty Research Grant, Research Council, University of
Missouri at Kansas City. 1974: Louis M. Rabinowitz Foundation
Research Grant [on Research Leave from State
University of New York at Binghamton, Fall term, 1974]. INVITED
PARTICIPANT: KEYNOTE ADDRESSES, LECTURE SERIES, SYMPOSIA, AND
SPECIAL CONFERENCES 2019: Michigan-Mellon-University of the
Witwatersrand Conference Co-Organizer (“The Built
Environment”) 5-7 May (WISER, University of the Witwatersrtand).
2018: Invited Keynote Lecture. “DIY Urbanism.” Project meeting of
the Practice and Politics of
Urban Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Efforts at the Margins,
Nordic Africa Institute (NAi), Uppsala, Sweden, 20 February
2018.
2017: “The Practice and Politics of DIY Urbanism in Urban
Africa,” Keynote Address at
Workshop sponsored by the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) in
Uppsula (Sweden), and the Sultan Maccido Institute at the
University of Abuja, along with the Embassies of Norway and Sweden.
December 7th at the Norwegian Embassy in Abuja (Nigeria), followed
by a reception at the Swedish Embassy.
2017: Keynote Address. The Divergent Trajectories of Global
Urbanism at the Start of the 21st
Century.” Our Urban Futures Conference. Rosenfield Program in
Public Affairs, International Relations, and Human Rights. Grinnell
University, 5 September.
2017: Sponsored Fulbright Lecture. “The ‘Refugee Crisis’ at the
Start of the 21st Century: Myths
and Realities.” TU Dortmund, 17 May 2017. 2016: Invited
Presentation in Lecture Series. “Heavy Metal in the Streets:
Private Security and
the Clampdown on Public Space in Contemporary Johannesburg,”
Emory University (Atlanta), 2 November.
2016: Keynote Address: “Divergent Trajectories of Global
Urbanism at the Start of the 21st
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Century” presented at the Workers and Global Cities: Detroit and
Beyond. 38th Annual North American Labor History Conference, Wayne
State University, 20-22 October.
2016: Keynote Address: “Re-Urbanism in Africa: Building Cities
from Scratch.” Conference on
“Ancient Cities, Modern Inquiries: Contemporary Debates Focusing
on Africa and the Middle East,” Yale Macmillan Center for
International and Area Studies, Yale University, 8-9 July.
2016: Plenary Address, “Divergent Pathways for Global Urbanism,”
Smart Cities and Social
Justice, Workshop in Urban Futures, Leeds University (United
Kingdom), 29 June. 2016: Invited Lecture: “Extended Security
Networks: Public Law Enforcement and Private
Security Policing in Johannesburg,” New School for Social
Research, 24 April. 2016: Invited Formal Presentation on Gated
Communities in Johannesburg. City Safety and
Security Initiative, Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department
(JMPD). This meeting involved Heads of JMPD, key real estate
developers, and city of Johannesburg planning officials to discuss
safety and security in gated enclaves. 3 May. [I was the only
non-South African invited to participate].
2016: Invited Formal Presentation on Gated Communities in
Johannesburg. Sponsored by
Office of Strategic Planning and City of Johannesburg Planning
Department and Gauteng City Regional Observatory, 16 March.
2015: Invited Lecture, “Re-Urbanism in Africa,” John Hope
Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke
University, 6 October. 2015: Invited Participant for Concluding
Remarks, and U.S. Session Coordinator: Polycentric City
Regions in Transformation: The Ruhr Agglomeration in
International Perspective. Urban Research Network, Technische
Universität Dortmund, Dortmund (Germany), 11-14 June.
2015: Co-Organizer (University of Michigan), “Infrastructure,
Informality, and the Desegregating
City.” Workshop sponsored by Andrew Mellon Foundation (jointly
organized by University of the Witwatersrand and the University of
Michigan), Johannesburg, 4-10 May.
2015: Invited Lecture. “Building Master-Planned ‘Private Cities’
from Scratch: The Example of
Waterfall City (Johannesburg),” Columbia University, 26 March
2015. 2015: Invited Participant, 2015 Gwendolen Carter Conference,
“Connecting Disciplines in
Design + Development,” University of Florida, 13-15 March
2015.
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2014: Invited Participant and Session Coordinator. Workshop:
“Beyond the Straw Men”: Post-Colonial Urban Theory and ‘Western’
Urban Theory. Universiteit Gent, Ghent, Belgium 12-13 November.
2014: “Inequalities against Democracy: The New South Africa
through the lens of Post-
Apartheid Johannesburg.” Invited Public Lecture. “Afrika.
Revolution – Stadt – Wahl Lecture Series, Otto-Suhr-Institut (OSI)
Club, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, 9 September.
2014: “Fast-Forward Urbanism” Building Cities from Scratch in
the (so-called) Global South Re-
Urbanism in Africa.” Center for Global Studies 11th Annual
Spring Conference, Cities at the Center of the World, Co-Sponsored
by George Mason University and Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington
DC, 24 April 2014.
2014: “Re-Urbanism in Africa: Frictionless Utopias for the
Contemporary Urban Age.” Invited
Participant. Building the City: Planning, Participation, and
Practice in East Africa. British Institute in Eastern Africa,
Nairobi (Kenya) 6-7 March 2014.
2014: “The Social Life of Nature: Unnatural Disasters and the
Everyday Vulnerability of the
Disposable Poor in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg.” Invited
Presentation. Urban Natures Conference, Sponsored by Center for
Cultural Analysis/Objects and Environments Seminar, Rutgers
University, 14 February 2014.
2013: “Private Housing: Inner-City Johannesburg.” Invited
Presentation. MIT Planning Practices
that Matter: Housing for Resilient Cities Symposium to be held
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 15-16 November,
2013
2013: Invited Participant. Meetings and events with faculty and
Ph.D. students at American
Studies Department, TU Dormund Universität, 2 September 2013.
2013: Invited Participant: “Connecting to the City: Borders and
Belongings to Urban Places in
the Past and Present.” The Cities Co-Curricular Initiative
Symposium, April 20, 2013, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.
Paper Presentation: “Building Holistic, Master-Planned Cities from
Scratch: Waterfall City (Johannesburg).”
2013: PICS International Security and Development Fellow
Lecture. “Rethinking Urban Theory:
Transnational Urbanism at the Start of the 21st Century.”
University of Michigan, February 8th.
2012: Building Holistic, Master-Planned Cities from Scratch:
Privatized Urbanism in Urban Africa,” African Studies Center,
Michigan State University, November 1.
2012: “Ten Theses on Living in a Walled City.” “Faces of the
City” Lecture Series sponsored by
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CUBES, the Gauteng City Region Observatory and the NRF Chair in
Development Planning, School of Architecture, University of the
Witwatersrand, 19 June.
2012: Invited Keynote Speaker, “New City-Building in Urban
Africa: Implanting World-Class
City Spaces, or Creating Forms of Spatial Inequality?” Cities
and Inequalities in a Transnational World Conference, University of
Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, March 2.
2011: Invited Participant: Two-day Conference on the “Art of
Citizenship, Cities in Africa.”
Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, 6-7 May. 2010:
Invited Participant, Two-Day Workshop on Mid-sized Cities in
Sub-Saharan Africa.
University of Erlangen, Erlangen/Nuremberg, Germany, 27-28
September. 2010: Invited Participant, Urbanization in Africa
Workshop, Paper Presentation: “Case Study:
Johannesburg.” CENTRA Technology, Arlington, Virginia, 22
September 2010.
2009: Invited Participant, African Development and Human
Security Project (ADHS), Inaugural Conference of the African
Studies Center, University of Michigan, March 14-16. Paper Title:
"Normalizing Catastrophe: the Metropolitan Hazardscape,
Environmental Vulnerability, and the Disposable Urban Poor in
Johannesburg after Apartheid."
2008: Invited Participant. UNU-Wider Project Workshop. "Beyond
the Tipping Point: African
Development in an Urban World. Cape Town, 26-28. Paper Title:
"Entrepreneurial Urbanism and the Private City: Social Exclusion in
Johannesburg after Apartheid."
2005: Invited Participant, Academic Workshop on Urbicide: The
Killing of Cities? University of
Durham (England). Topic: “Post-Apartheid Dumping Groundings: the
Case of Greater Johannesburg,” 24-25 November.
2003: Invited Speaker: Caroline Werner Gannett Lecture Series,
2002-2003: "Globalization,
Human Rights and Citizenship." Rochester Institute of Technology
(Rochester, New York) Topic: "Post-Apartheid South Africa:
Globalization and the Racial Politics of Place and Space." 16
January 2003.
2002: Keynote Speaker and Discussant: "Collective Memory and
Present-Day Politics in South
Africa and the Nordic Countries" Conference. Centre for African
Studies, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Copenhagen, 22-23 August.
Presentation entitled "Globalisation, Siege Architecture, and
Postmodern Urbanism: The Evolving Spatial Geography of Johannesburg
after Apartheid."
2002: Invited Participant: Primer Simposio International sobre
America Latina en el Mundo, La
Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas, 14 Marzo. Presentation
entitled "Ciudades de placer y ciudades de proteccion en Africa:
una experiencia a seguir en America Latina?"
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2001: Invited Participant: "Contesting African Cities:
Authority, Social Movements, Cultural
Expressions" Conference, Center for African Studies, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, May 30, 2001. Presentation entitled "The
Harmony of Illusions: Inventing the Foreign Menace in Urban South
Africa." Second presentation entitled "Conference Overview." [One
of four panelists asked to critically assess the Conference. 30-31
May 2001.]
2000: Invited Participant: "Conference on Peacebuilding in
Africa." Munk Centre for
International Studies, University of Toronto, 23-24 June.
Presentation entitled "An Ambiguous Success Story: South Africa,
Post-war and Post-Apartheid: A Commentary."
1999: Invited Chair. Panel entitled "Space, Time, and Memory."
The Truth and Reconciliation
Commission: Commissioning the Past Conference, University of the
Witwatersrand, 13-14 June.
1999: Invited Participant: "Opportunities for Graduate Education
in the United States." Mini-
Conference organized jointly by Universidade Eduardo Mondlane,
and United States Information Service, Maputo, Mozambique, 17
May.
1997: Invited Participant, "Business Associations in Africa"
Conference, American University,
Washington, D.C., 8 February. Presentation [with Christopher
Johnston] entitled "The Structure and Organization of Large-Scale
Business in Contemporary South Africa."
1994: Invited Participant: 20th Anniversary Conference sponsored
by Journal of Southern
African Studies, "Paradigms Lost, Paradigms Regained? Southern
African Studies in the 1990s." University of York, England,
September 9-11. Presentation entitled "Moralizing the Agrarian
Question: Concealed Meanings and Competing Master Narratives in the
Construction of an Imagined South African Countryside."
1992: Invited Participant: Joint U.S./Cuban Philosophical
Symposium, Fourth Conference of
North American and Cuban Philosophers. Co-sponsored by the
Faculty of Philosophy, History and Sociology, University of Havana;
and the (U.S.) Radical Philosophy Association. Universidad de
Habana (Habana), and Universidad Central de Las Villas (Santa
Clara), Cuba, May 29-June 12.
1992: Invited Participant: Workshop on Agriculture and
Apartheid: South African Agrarian
Transformation in Historical and Contemporary Perspective.
Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; May 10-13.
Presentation entitled "The Agrarian Question in South Africa."
1990: Invited Participant: "Capitalist Plantations in Colonial
Asia" Conference, Center for Asian
Studies. Amsterdam, 25-29 September. Presentation entitled "The
Rubber Plantations
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in Colonial Indochina, 1870-1940." 1989: Invited Participant:
U.S.-Indochina Reconciliation Project. "Educators Tour": 7-week
trip
that included Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam (June-July).
1985: Invited Lecture, Social Sciences Program. "Popular Struggle
in South Africa." University
of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; October 17. 1982: Invited
Participant: International Symposium entitled "A Critical
Examination of the
Vietnamese Experience since 1975." Transnational Institute,
Amsterdam, Holland, 2-6 June. Presentation entitled "Rebuilding
Vietnam."
1980: Invited Participant: Symposia on Critical Perspectives on
Development in Asia. Institute
of Asian Research, University of British Columbia; Vancouver,
British Columbia. February 16. Presentation entitled "Colonial
Indochina and the Modes of Production Controversy."
AREAS OF SPECIAL INTEREST: Global Urbanism at the start of the
21st Century
Urban Studies Cities in Contemporary Africa
Social and cultural geographies Historical Sociology
Methodologies of Socio-historical Inquiry Theoretical Studies
Southern Africa Development Studies The Vietnam War and Social
Protest Courses taught (undergraduate): Introduction to Sociology;
Political Sociology; Social Problems; Social Stratification; Social
Movements; Social Research Methods; Sociological Theory; Social
Change in the United States; Revolutionary Theory and Ideology
[cross-listed with Department of History], Post-World War II
America [cross-listed with Department of History and Afro-American
Studies Program]; Vietnam War and Social Protest; Cities in the
Popular Imagination; Urban Studies; Globalization, Modernism, and
Modernity; Senior Honors Seminar. Courses Taught (undergraduate,
University of Michigan): Cities in Contemporary Africa; First-year
Seminar; Required Writing Course Courses taught (graduate): Studies
in Theory; Globalization, Modernism, and Post-Modernity; Global
Cities/Ordinary Cities; Problems of Method; Urban Studies in World
Historical Perspective; Urban-Industrial Studies; Colonialism and
Decolonization; The State and Economic Development; Images of
Class; Research Design; Theoretical Studies; Space and Time in
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Historical Sociology; Agrarian Relations and Rural Resistance;
Interrogating Nationalism; Dissertation Seminar. Courses taught
(graduate, University of Michigan): Pro-seminar in African Studies;
Comparative Urban Policy; Infrastructure in the United States and
Developing Countries; Qualitative Methods ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENTS:
Completed 74 minute film, "After Sorrow Comes Joy: Indochina
Rebuilds" (VHS format,
1989), chronicling present-day life in Laos, Cambodia and
Vietnam [with Robert Brigham]. This film has been purchased by more
than 50 colleges and universities in the United States, Canada, and
Europe.
PLACEMENT OF PH.D. STUDENTS [SELECTED] Post-Doctorial
Fellowship, University of Dublin (Carla Kayanan) Drexel University
(Philadelphia) (Claire Herbert) World Bank, Washington D.C.
(Kathryn Owens, University of Michigan) UCLA (Ruben Hernandez-Leon,
Cesar Ayala) State University of New York at Buffalo (Piya
Pangsapa) University of Hawaii and Oberlin (Rick Baldoz) Queens
University, Belfast (Eric Morier-Genoud) University of Puerto Rico
at Aguadilla (Robinson Rodriquez) Wichita State University (Charles
Koeber) Post-doctoral Fellowships at University of Pennsylvania
(Ruben Hernandez-Leon), Stanford University (Rick Baldoz), and
Oxford University (Eric Morier-Genoud) Director, U.S. Refugee
Center (Washington DC) (Elizabeth Campbell) JOURNAL PARTICIPATION:
Editorial Committee, Critical Sociology, 1982-2005 Contributing
Editor, Kapitalistate (1973-1982) International Associate Editor,
Transformation (Durban, South Africa) Manuscript Reviewer: Social
Science Quarterly Journal of Political and Military Sociology
American Sociological Review American Historical Review
Sociological Forum Canadian Journal of African Studies
International Review of Modern Sociology Social Forces
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Social Problems Journal of Developing Areas Current Perspectives
in Sociological Theory International Journal of African Historical
Studies Sociological Spectrum City and Community Tujdschrift Voor
Economische en Sociale Geografie [TESG] Critical Sociology Rural
Sociology Political Power and Social Theory Planning Theory
International Journal of Heritage Studies Journal of Southeast
Asian Studies (National University of Singapore) Asia-Pacific
Journal The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Journal
of Urban Development Urban Geography Journal of Urban Design
Environment & Planning A Landscape and Urban Planning Critical
African Studies Social and Cultural Geography Cultural Dynamics
Journal of African Cinemas Environment & Planning A Geoforum
Urban Studies International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
Journal of Southern African Studies UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES: State
University of New York at Binghamton East Asian Studies Committee
(1986-1990) Academic Council, Off Campus College (1981-83) Harpur
College Council, Spring 1977; Spring, 1984; Fall, 1984 Fulbright
Committee, State University of New York at Binghamton (1979-2002)
Graduate Council, 1993-1994 Junior Initiating Personnel Committee,
Afro-American and African Studies Department, 1991, 1993 Chair,
Committee on Committees, Faculty Senate (Fall, 1994) Member of
Dean's Research Semester Panel for Junior Faculty, 2007 University
of Michigan
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Urban Planning Ph.D. Graduate Admissions Committee (2009-2010;
2014-2015) Urban Planning Ph.D. Student Evaluation Committee
(2009-2010) Urban Planning Graduate Standing Committee (2012-2015)
CAAS Fellowship Committee, (2009-2010; 2010-2011) Urban Planning,
Masters of Urban Planning Admissions Committee (2011, 2012, 2013)
CAAS Curriculum Committee, 2010-2012 DAAS Co-Director of Graduate
Certificate in African Studies Program, 2010-2016 DAAS
Co-Organizer, “Africa Workshop” Lecture Series, 2009-2016. DAAS
Executive Committee, Two year term (Fall, 2016—Winter 2018)
PROFESSIONAL REVIEWING ACTIVITIES: Outside Reviewer, Tenure and
Promotion to Associate Professor Texas Tech University (1982)
University of Oregon (1983) University of Cape Town, [South Africa]
(1984) California State University at Long Beach (1986) University
of Toledo (1990) American University (1995) University of Tennessee
(1996) Borough of Manhattan Community College (1996) University of
Toledo (1997) University of Redlands (1998) University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign (2002) Rutgers University at New Brunswick (2006)
University of KwaZulu/Natal (2006) [promotion to Lecturer]
Lafayette College (2008) Ohio State University (2010) University of
California at Davis (2011) George Mason University (2011)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2012) Outside Reviewer,
Promotion to Full Professor Department of Sociology, University of
Toledo (1992) Marietta Morressey Department of Sociology,
University of Louisville (1995), Morton Wenger Department of
Sociology, Auburn University (1996), James Gundlach Department of
Geography, University of Calgary (2007) Miriam Grant American
University of Beirut (2012) Department of Architecture and Design,
Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, at the American Robert
Saliba External Reviewer Programs External Reviewer, Ph.D. Program,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 6-9 October 2002. External
Reviewer, Ph.D. Program, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 14-15
November 2005.
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Manuscript Reviewer Temple University Press (1981); Oxford
University Press (1989); Africa World Press (1989); Guilford Press
(1990); University of California Press (1995); Verso (1996);
Routledge (2001); University of Illinois Press (2002); RIT Press
(2006); Palgrave/Macmillan (2007); University of Minnesota Press
(2009); Indiana University Press (2011, 2016); University of Cape
Town Press (2011); Routledge (2011); Routledge (2012), University
of the Witwatersrand (2012, 2013); University of Toronto Press
(2017, 2018); University of Wisconsin Press (2017) Outside
Reviewer, Ph.D. Committees Ph.D. Qualifying Examinations:
Department of Geography, Clark University: Sagie Narsiah (2002)
Masters of Arts Degree, University of Cape Town (South Africa):
Andrew Murray (1993) Ph.D. Degree, University of Cape Town: S.M.
Gallo-Cuninghame (1997) Ph.D. Degree, York University [Toronto]
Caroline Bassett (2002) Ph.D. Degree, Department of Geography Clark
University: Sagie Narsiah (2004) Ph.D. Degree, Department of
History, Rhodes University [Grahamstown, South Africa]: Chandré
Michelle Gould (2005) Ph.D. Degree, University of South Africa
(Pretoria): Caroline Kihato (2009) Ph.D. Senior Doctorate (Doctor
of Science in Architecture, Lindsay Bremner): Faculty of
Engineering and the Built Environment, School of Architecture,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (2009)
External Reviewer: Grant Applications Grant Application, Social
Science Research Council of Canada (1995, 1996) Grant Application,
The British Academy, The Committee for Southeast Asian Studies
(2002) Grant Application, National Science Foundation (2003) Grant
Application, University of Toronto (2007) Grant Application, Graham
Foundation (2010) Grant Application, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
(Belgium) (2012) Grant Application, Maria Arquero de Alacon,
University of Michigan, University of Michigan Office of Research
External Evaluator: Research Productivity Assessment Panel: Outside
Reviewer for the National Research Foundation (South Africa).
Performing and Creative Arts, and Design Panel, reviewing the
academic accomplishments of
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Professor Federico Freshi, University of Johannesburg, 2016.
Professor Philip Harrison, Commissioner National Planning
Commission, South Africa, and South African Research Chair in
Development Planning and Modeling, University of the Witwatersrand
(2014) Evaluation of the quality of the research output of
Professor Marie Huchzermeyer, Department of Urban Planning,
University of the Witwatersrand, for the National Research
Foundation (NRF) of South Africa (2010) Evaluation of the quality
of the research output of Professor Loren Landau, Forced Migration
Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand, for the
National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa (2011) 2012:
Professor Loren Landau, Promotion to a Personal Professorship.
University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Fellowship Selection Committees Mellon/MacArthur Fellowships
Selection Committee, University of Michigan, 2017 Selection
committee for the 2007-08 competition for the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowships (Mellon/ACLS
Early Career Fellowship Program) Meeting held at offices of the
American Council of Learned Societies, New York (March 15, 2008)
Book Prize Selection Committees Member of Melvin J. Herskovits Best
Book Prize, African Studies Association Four-Year term (2016-2019).
Chair, 2018, 2019 Consultancies Consultant, Inauguration of Ph.D.
Program, International Political Economy, La Universidad Autonoma
de Zacatecas (March 2002) PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS HELD: Executive
Committee, Elected Position, Department of Afro-American and
African Studies Department, University of Michigan (two year term:
2016-2018) Program Committee, Organizer of Section on "Youth and
Urban Space." Annual Meetings of the African Studies Association,
Philadelphia, November 2003. Elected Member of Council, Political
Economy of the World System Section, American Sociological
Association (1980).
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Elected Chair, Marxist Section, American Sociological
Association (1988-1989). Organizer, Refereed Roundtables, Marxist
Section, American Sociological Association (1991). Co-Organizer,
Refereed Roundtables, Comparative Historical Sociology Section,
American Sociological Association (1994). Elected Member of
Council, Marxist Section, American Sociological Association,
Three-year Term (1995-98) PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: Member,
Association of American Geographers Member, American Sociological
Association Member, African Studies Association Member, Canadian
African Studies Association Member: Society for the Study of Social
Problems COUNTRIES VISITED FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES Germany, Belgium,
England, Holland, France, Sweden, Denmark, South Africa,
Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Angola, Kenya, Nigeria,
Switzerland, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Denmark, Canada,
Northern Ireland, Mexico RESEARCH AND WRITING PROJECTS IN PROGRESS:
(1). Trajectories of Global Urbanism at the Start of the 21st
Century [draft written) PROFESSIONAL PARTICIPATION: Over one
hundred formal paper presentations, names and titles available on
request. PROFESSIONAL PARTICIPATION Invited Lectures and Conference
Presentations 1976: "The Pharmaceutical Industry in the United
States." Two Lectures delivered at the
College of Physicians and Surgeons, The School of Public Health,
Columbia University, February 26-27.
1976: "Continuity and Change in Graduate Education of
Sociologists." Presentation prepared
for the 27th Annual Meetings of the Pennsylvania Sociological
Society; Bloomsburg State College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania,
October 22.
1977: "Labor Force Renewal and Labor Force Maintenance in the
Colonial Situation: The Case
of Colonial Indochina, 1890-1940." Paper presented at the
Sociology Board, College VII, University of California at Santa
Cruz; January 10.
1977: "The ‘World-Systems’ Perspective: Its Theoretical
Relevance for an Analysis of the
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Ante-Bellum and Post-Bellum Periods in the United States'
South." Paper presented for the American Studies Program, Merrill
College, University of California at Santa Cruz, January 11.
1977: "State Economic Planning in Advanced Capitalism." Paper
presented at the "State and
Capitalism since 1800." Faculty Seminar, The Center for European
Studies, Harvard University; Cambridge, Massachusetts, March
11.
1977: "Recent Critiques of Theories of Modernization." Lecture
delivered at the Department
of Sociology, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South
Africa; May 25. 1977: "Theories of Development and the Case of
Colonial Indochina." Lecture delivered at the
Department of Sociology, The University of Stellenbosch,
Stellenbosch, South Africa; May 25.
1977: "Recent Theories of Development." Lecture delivered at the
Department of Sociology,
University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa; May 29.
1977: "The Capitalist World System and Its Relevance to Theories of
Urban Planning." Paper
presented at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning,
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; June 7.
1977: "The `World Systems Perspective' and the Colonial Era in
Indochina." Lecture delivered
for the Department of Sociology, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; June 14.
1978: "The Rubber Plantations of Colonial Indochina: The
Colonial State and the Class Struggle
between Wage-labor and Capital (1910-1940)." Paper presented at
"The World-System of Capitalism: Past and Present" Conference,
sponsored by the Political Economy of the World-System Section of
the American Sociological Association, University of California at
Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California; March 31.
1978: "Nation-State and World-System." Paper presented at the
Conference on the Theory of the State and Its Relevance for
Socialist Politics; New York University; New York, New York; April
8.
1978: "The Vietnam War, the `New Left' and Political Protest in
the United States." Paper
presented at the "Relevance of the 1960's" Symposium, Trinity
University; San Antonio, Texas; April 20.
1978: "Studying Colonialism in French Indochina, 1870-1940."
Lecture delivered for the
Department of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin;
Austin, Texas; April 21.
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1978: Discussant, panel on "Vietnam in the World System Today,"
at the "Vietnamese Marxism in Comparative Perspective" Conference,
Vietnam Studies Group, Asian Studies Association, George Washington
University, Washington, D.C.; October 27.
1978: "The Historical Foundations of the Present Political
Crisis in South Africa." Paper
presented at the Second National Conference on the Third World;
Omaha, Nebraska; November 16.
1979: "The Political Economy of South Africa." Paper presented
at the "Political Economy of
the Third World" Conference sponsored by the Union for Radical
Political Economics Society, The New School for Social Research,
New York; April 22.
1979: "The Development of Capitalism in South African
Agriculture, 1902-1952." Paper
presented at "Processes of the World-System" Conference,
sponsored by the Political Economy of the World-System Section of
the American Sociological Association, State University of New York
at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York; May 12.
1979: "South Africa: Processes of Capitalist Development from
the Late Nineteenth Century to
the Present." Lecture presented at Graduate Symposium,
Department of Sociology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling
Green, Ohio; May 15.
1979: "The Development of Capitalism in South African
Agriculture: Conceptualizing the Class
Struggle in the `Phase of Transition' (1890-1920)." Lecture
presented at Graduate Symposium, Department of Anthropology and
International Studies Center, Michigan State University, East
Lansing, Michigan; May 17.
1980: "The African Mine Labourer in Zimbabwe." Panel discussion
at Third Annual Conference
on Working Class History, State University of New York, College
at Brockport; March 15. 1980: Workshop Participant, "Class, Tribe,
Race, and Nation in Southern Africa," Southern
African Research Program, Yale University; April 5. 1981:
"French Indochina," Lecture, Department of Sociology, Bowdoin
College, Brunswick,
Maine; April 24. 1981: "Capitalist Agriculture in the South
African Countryside," Lecture, Department of
Economics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California; June 3.
1982: Participant, "Social Democracy Seminar," Hobart and William
Smith Colleges; Geneva,
New York; May 13-15. 1983: "Development of Agricultural
Capitalism in South Africa." Paper presented at Southern
African Studies Conference: Retrospect and Prospect, University
of Edinburgh;
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Edinburgh, Scotland; June 1. 1984: Discussant, "States and
Markets in the World System," Eighth Annual Political Economy
of the World System Conference; Brown University, Providence,
Rhode Island; April 24. 1985: "Apartheid in South Africa." Howard
University, Washington, D.C., March 25. 1985: "Apartheid in South
Africa." Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, October 16. 1986:
"Apartheid: The Myth of Reform." Crisis in Southern Africa
Conference. SUNY/College
at Old Westbury, April 14. 1987: "South Africa: Time of Agony,
Time of Destiny." Cornell University, December 2. 1988: "South
Africa," Colgate University, May 2. 1989: "Colonialism in Vietnam,"
Community College of Vermont, Bennington, Vermont,
September 19. 1989: "South Africa," University of Scranton,
Scranton, Pennsylvania, November 1. 1990: "After the Cold War: The
Third World and the Superpowers," Hartwick College,
Oneonta, New York; January 25. 1990: "Professors and the
Anti-War Movement," DeBenedetti Memorial Conference on the
Anti-War Movement, University of Toledo; May 5. 1991: “’White
Gold’ or ‘White Blood’? The Rubber Plantations of Colonial
Indochina, 1910-
1940.” Paper presented at the Shelby Collum Davis Center for
Historical Studies, Princeton University,
March 15. 1991: "The Origins of U.S. Involvement in Vietnam,"
Asian Studies Program, Colgate University,
Hamilton, New York, November 25. 1993: "Marxism in a
Post-Marxist World." Department of Sociology Honours Seminar,
University of Cape Town, June 11. 1993: "Cuba Today." Department
of Sociology Faculty/Staff Seminar, University of Cape Town;
June 24. 1993: "The Situation in Cuba Today." Centre for Social
and Development Studies Seminar,
University of Natal, Durban; 1 July.
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1993: "Critique of the Social History Perspective in South
African Agrarian Studies."
Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg; July 28. 1993: "`Slave Driving' and the `Poor Man's
Friend': Capitalist Farming in the Bethal District, ca.
1910-1950." African Studies Institute Seminar, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; 2 August.
1994: "The Painful Birth of Post-Apartheid South Africa,"
International Studies in Planning,
Spring Lecture Series, Cornell University; 11 February. 1998:
"The Structure and Organisation of Large-Scale Business in
Contemporary South Africa,"
Paper presented at Graduate School of Public Development
Management, University of the Witwatersrand; 24 May.
1998: "What is Old and What is New in the `New South Africa',"
Paper presented at
Department of Sociology Seminar Series, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; 12 June.
1999: "Myth and Memory in the `New South Africa'," Invited
Lecture at the Graduate School of
Public and Development Management, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; 15 May.
2000: "Exploring Urban Landscapes after Apartheid: Fortification
Aesthetics and the
Revanchist City." Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts; 15
May. 2000: "Myth and Memory in the New South Africa." Invited
Presentation, University of York,
York, Ontario; 20 June. 2001: "Spatial Politics and the New
South Africa." Invited Presentation, Center for Ethics and
World Societies Lecture Series, Colgate University, 15 November.
2002: "Spaces of Pleasure, Spaces of Confinement: Urban South
Africa after Apartheid."
Historisches Seminar, Gastvortrage zur Geschichte Afrikas,
Universitat Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 23 May.
2006: Invited Lecture: “The Eclipse of Modernist City-Building
Entrepreneurial Urbanism and
the Private City,” Centre for Urban Built Environment Studies,
School of Architecture and Planning, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 30 May 2006.
2006: Invited Lecture: “Taming the Disorderly City: The Spatial
Landscape of Johannesburg
after Apartheid,” School of Architecture and Planning,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 7 June 2006.
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2006: “Fire and Ice: Normalizing Urban Catastrophe and the
Disposable Urban Poor in
Johannesburg.” Paper presentation at the International Visual
Sociology Association “Eyes on the City” Conference, July 4,
Urbino, Italy [Also Organizer and Chair of Panel “Contemporary
Cities on the Margins of Modernity: Privatized Urbanism and Social
Exclusion”]
2007: Invited Lecture. “Johannesburg Fortified: The New ‘Virtual
Reality’ Apartheid,”
Historisches Seminar, Universität Basel (Switzerland) and Basler
Afrika Bibliographien, Basel, 30 January.
2007: Keynote Lecture: Invited. “Privatized Urbanism, the
Entrepreneurial City, and Post-Public
Space: City Improvement Districts in Johannesburg after
Apartheid,” African History and Politics Seminar, Oxford
University, 19 February.
2008: Invited Lecture: “Research Agendas in Urban Studies,"
Centre for Urban Built
Environment Studies, School of Architecture and Planning,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, July 15.
2008: Invited Lecture. “Is Johannesburg a Post-Colonial City?
Urban Theory and the
Classification of Cities.” Queen’s Postcolonial Research Forum,
School of Languages, Literatures, and Performing Arts. Queen’s
University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. March 2.
2008: Invited Participant, Africa Workshop, Center for
Afro-American and African Studies
(CAAS), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, December 4. Paper
title: Social Exclusion and the Right to the City in Johannesburg
after Apartheid.
2009: Discussant on Panel at “21st Century Urbanization: Social
Science Perspectives on
China’s Urban Transformation,” University of Michigan October 3.
2010: Invited Lecture: "Panic-City: Agoraphobia, Capsular
Architecture, and the Triumph of
Post-Public Space in Johannesburg after Apartheid: Museum for
African Art, Columbia University, April 7.
2011: [with Claire Herbert], “’City Doubles’: Re-Urbanism in
Africa,” Seminar Series, Centre for
Built Environment Studies, School of Architecture and Planning,
University of the Witwatersrand, 5 July.
2012: “Rethinking Transnational Urbanism.” Paper presented at
the “Spaces and Flows”
Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, October 12th.
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2012: Chair: Open Microphone Session, “New Insurgency: The Port
Huron Statement in its Time and Ours” Conference, University of
Michigan, November 2.
2012: “Rethinking Transnational Urbanism.” Paper presented at
the “Spaces and Flows”
Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, October 12th, 2012.
2012: “Ten Theses on Living in a Walled City.” Paper presented at
“Faces of the City” Seminar,
Centre for Urban Built Environment, University of the
Witwatersrand, 12 June 2012. 2014: “Re-urbanizing Africa and
Beyond: Building Master-planned Cities from Scratch.” Paper
presented at “Faces of the City” Seminar, Centre for Urban Built
Environment, University of the Witwatersrand, 24 June 2014.
2016: “The Spatial Geography of Johannesburg,” Lecture delivered
at the Department of
Geography, University of the Witwatersrand, 2 March. 2016:
“Trajectories of Global Urbanism at the Start of the 21st Century”
Lecture delivered at
“Faces of the City” Lecture Series, Sponsored by School of
Architecture, University of the Witwatersrand, 8 March.
2016: “Heavy Metal on the Ground: Extended Security Networks in
Johannesburg and the
end of Public Space.” LunchUp Lecture Series, Taubman College of
Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, 21
October.
2017: “Urbanism of the Future: New Master-planned,
Holistically-designed Satellite Cities in
Africa,” Univerisität Kassel, 22 May. 2017: “New City Building
Projects in Urban Africa: Prospects and Challenges,”
Geographisches Institut/Heidelberg Center for American Studies,
Univerisität Heidelberg 15 May.
2017: Invited Lecture. “The Changing Spatial Geography of
Johannesburg,” Michigan State
University, 25 April 2017. 2017: “DIY [Do-it-yourself] Urbanism
in Distressed Cities in Africa.” Bi-Annual Meetings of
the European Consortium on African Studies (ECAS), Basel
[Switzerland] 2 July. 2018: Roundtable Participant: “Development,
Urbanization and the Global South,” Malmö
University, 22 February 2018. 2018: Invited Participant:
International Symposium: Urban integration: From Walled City to
Integrated City, 28-29 May, Zollverein Essen and TU Dortmund
University.
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2018: Invited Participant: “Austerity,” Intellectual and
Cultural Life under Conditions of Austerity, 4-7 May, Maputo,
Mozambique.
Presentations at Professional Associations 1972: "The
Pharmaceutical Industry: A Study in Corporate Power" [with James
Gundlach].
Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Southwestern
Social Sciences Association; San Antonio, Texas, 30 March.
1972: "The Disaccumulation Phase of Capitalism and the Division
of Labor." Paper presented
at the Annual Meetings of the Southwestern Social Science
Association; San Antonio, Texas, 31 March.
1973: "Investment and Intervention: The Vietnam Case." Paper
presented at the Annual
Meetings of the Southwestern Social Science Association; Dallas,
Texas, 28 March. [Paper reprinted by permission by the
International Affairs Library, Columbia University, New York].
1974: "The Conflict Perspective: A Critique." Paper presented by
invitation at the Annual
Meetings of the Southwestern Social Science Association; Dallas,
Texas, 28 March. 1974: Chairperson, "Urbanism in Developing
Nations." Panel Discussion at the Annual
Meetings of the Midwest Sociological Association; Omaha,
Nebraska, 4 April. 1975: "Dissatisfaction among Government
Employees." Paper presented by invitation at the
Annual Meetings of the Southwest Sociological Association; San
Antonio, Texas, 27 March.
1975: "The Impact of French Colonialism on United States
Intervention in Vietnam." Paper
presented by invitation at the Annual Meetings of the Southwest
Political Science Association; San Antonio, Texas, 28 March [Paper
reprinted by permission by the Foreign Affairs Research
Documentation Center; Washington, D.C.].
1976: "Colonialism and Imperialism in Indochina." Paper
presented at the Annual Meetings of
the East Coast Conference of Socialist Sociologists; Marymount
Manhattan College, New York, New York, 7 February.
1976: "Conflict Theory: A Reassessment." Paper presented with
Donald McQuarie (Bowling
Green State University) at the Annual Meetings of the North
Central Sociological Association; Louisville, Kentucky, 7 May.
1976: Chairperson and Discussant, "Capitalism, Liberalism and
the Welfare State." Panel
discussion at the Annual Meetings of the Society for the Study
of Social Problems; New York, New York, 28 August 28.
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1976: "The Obstacles to State Economic Planning in the United
States." Paper presented by
Invitation at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological
Association; New York, 30 August.
1976: "Capitalist Expansion and the Colonial System." Paper
presented at the Annual
Meetings of the American Sociological Association; New York, 2
September. 1977: "The Economic Basis for Socialism in Vietnam."
Paper presented at the Annual Meetings
of the Asian Studies Association; New York, 25 March. 1977:
"Primitive Accumulation and French Colonial Policy in Indochina:
1860-1920." Paper
presented at the Annual Meetings of the Society for the Study of
Social Problems; Chicago, Illinois, 4 September.
1978: "The Impediments to State Economic Planning: The Case of
Postwar United States"
[with Barry Truchil]. Paper presented at the Eighth Annual
Sociological Research Symposium, Department of Sociology and
Anthropology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia;
17 February.
1978: Organizer and Discussant, "International Tensions in
Southern Africa," International
Tensions Division for the Annual Meetings of the Society for the
Study of Social Problems, San Francisco, California; 4
September.
1978: "The Pharmaceutical Industry: A Further Study in Corporate
Power." Paper presented
[with Ned McCraine] at the Annual Meetings of the American
Sociological Association; San Francisco, California; 6
September.
1978: "Studying Capitalist Development in Indochina." Paper
presented at the Annual
Meetings of the American Sociological Association; San
Francisco, California, 8 September.
1979: "The Development of Capitalism in South African
Agriculture: Class Struggle, the
Capitalist State, and the Labor Process (1902-1952)." Paper
presented at the Annual Meetings of the Society for the Study of
Social Problems, Boston, Massachusetts; 25 August.
1979: "South Africa's Racial Policies, Economic Development, and
Cultural Relations." Informal
Discussion, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological
Association, Boston, Massachusetts; 31 August.
1979: "Class Struggle in the South African Countryside,
1890-1920." Paper presented at the
Annual Meetings of the Social Science History Association,
Boston, Massachusetts; 3
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November. 1979: "The Development of Capitalism in South African
Agriculture: Theoretical Controversies
and Historical Debates." Paper presented at the Fourth Annual
Conference on the Current State of Marxist Theory, University of
Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky; 22 November.
1980: "Contributions of Nicos Poulantzas to the Theory of
Capitalist Development." Paper
presented at the Annual Meetings of the Eastern Sociological
Society, Boston, Massachusetts; 21 March.
1980: "The `World-Systems' Perspective and French Colonial Rule
in Indochina." Paper
presented at the Annual Meetings of the Association for Asian
Studies, Washington, D.C.; 25 March.
1980: Organizer and Discussant, "Social Problems as the
Institutional Nexus of Rebellion."
Panel Session at the Annual Meetings of the Society for the
Study of Social Problems, New York, New York; 25 August.
1980: "Collective Labour Action in South African Agricultural
Production." Paper presented at
the Annual Meetings of the Social Science History Association,
Rochester, New York; 7 November.
1980: "Capitalist Development in Agriculture and the Class
Struggle: The 1913 Natives' Land
Act in South Africa." Paper presented at the Fifth Annual
Meetings of the Current State of Marxist Theory, Louisville,
Kentucky; 15 November.
1981:"Why Make a Socialist Revolution? The Socialist Republic of
Vietnam in the Capitalist
World Economy." Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the
International Studies Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 19
March.
1981: "The Modern World System II," Panel Participant, Eastern
Sociological Society;
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 21 March. 1981: Chair and
Discussant, "Capital and Labor in the 1980s." Labor Studies
Division, Annual
Meetings of the Society for Social Problems, Toronto, Ontario;
24 August. 1981: "Controversies in the Theory of Capitalist
Development in Agriculture." Informal
Discussion, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological
Association, Toronto, Ontario; 25 August.
1981: "The Development of the Working Class in Colonial
Indochina." Annual Meetings of the
Social Science History Association, Nashville, Tennessee; 23
October.
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1983: "The Workplace, Community, and National Identity: The
Class Struggle in Contemporary
South Africa." Paper presented at Annual Meetings of the
American Sociological Association; Detroit, Michigan; 30
August.
1984: "The Interplay Between Race and Class Oppression in South
Africa Today," Paper
presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological
Association; San Antonio, Texas; 27 August.
1985: "Forms of Popular Unrest in South Africa." Paper at
International Studies Association
Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., 24 March. 1985: "South
Africa." Paper presented at Roundtable Discussion, Annual Meetings
of the
American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., 30 August.
1986: "Capitalist States and Socialist States." Roundtable. Annual
Meetings of the American
Sociological Association, New York, New York, 31 August. 1986:
"Race and Class in South Africa." Roundtable. Annual Meetings of
the American
Sociological Association, New York, New York, 2 September. 1987:
"South Africa: The Exceptional State." Annual Meetings of the
Eastern Sociological
Society, 1 May. 1987: "Contemporary Economic Crises." Organizer
and Discussant, Annual Meetings of the
American Sociological Association, Chicago, Illinois; 19 August.
1988: Chairperson and Organizer. "Apartheid and South Africa,"
Annual Meetings of the
Society for the Study of Social Problems, Atlanta; 21 August.
1988: "Popular Struggle and Internal Conflict: Politics in
Contemporary South Africa." Society
for the Study of Social Problems, Atlanta; 21 August. 1988:
Presider, "Structuring an Agenda for Change." Annual Meetings of
the American
Sociological Association, Atlanta; 24 August. 1990:
"Reconstruction in Present-Day Vietnam: A First-Hand View," paper
presented at
Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association,
Atlanta; 13 August. 1991: "What Are the Aims of
Theoretically-Informed and Historically-Grounded Research?"
Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American
Sociological Association, Cincinnati, Ohio; 20 August.
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1993: "Marxism in a Post-Marxist World" [with Steven Vieux].
Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological
Association, Miami Beach; 14 August.
1993: "The Current Situation in South Africa Today." Roundtable
presentation at the Annual
Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Miami Beach;
14 August. 1994: "Book Forum," Formal Presentation at Annual
Meetings of the American Sociological
Association, Los Angeles; 5 August. 1994: "The Painful Birth of
Post-Apartheid South Africa," Roundtable presentation at the
Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Los
Angeles; 8 August. 1995: Presider, Discussant, Presenter, Refereed
Roundtables, "Emergent Democratization in
South Africa." Presentation at Annual Meetings of American
Sociological Association, Washington, D.C.; 20 August.
1996: "Humanizing or Modernizing Capitalism? The `New South
Africa' at the Crossroads,"
Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American
Sociological Association, New