Patrick Bond

Patrick Bond (born 1961, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where he has directed the Centre for Civil Society since 2004. His research interests include political economy, environment, social policy, and geopolitics.

Background

Bond was born in Northern Ireland and his family moved to Alabama the United States when he was seven, during the Civil Rights era.[1] He was educated at Swarthmore College Department of Economics, the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania. He worked with several social justice agencies in Washington and Philadelphia during the 1980s. He then enrolled in a doctoral program, supervised by David Harvey,at the Johns Hopkins University Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering where he received his Ph.D. in 1993 ("Finance and uneven development in Zimbabwe").[2]

He relocated to South Africa in 1990 and worked with Johannesburg NGOs including Planact, during the early and mid-1990s. From the end of the apartheid regime in 1994 until 2002, he was in Mandela's new South African government, authoring or editing more than a dozen policy papers including the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) and the RDP White Paper.[3] He also taught at the University of the Witwatersrand Graduate School of Public and Development Management from 1997-2004.

Contributions

Bond's work is primarily on the political economy of Africa, international finance, eco-social development and political ecology, and development issues in contemporary South Africa. He works in urban communities and with global justice movements in several countries. He has launched strong critiques against neoliberal governance regimes in South Africa and beyond, and the failures of capitalist states to tackle social justice and environmental degradation.

He is a prolific author, and one of the most highly cited social scientists in South Africa.[4]

Bond is an advisory board member of several international journals: Socialist Register (York University), International Journal of Health Services (Johns Hopkins School of Public Health), Historical Materialism, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development (American University), Studies in Political Economy (Carleton University), Capitalism Nature Socialism, Review of African Political Economy, and the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (Unesco, New York).

Bond is also a member of the International Organization for a Participatory Society[5] of which he anticipates "immense learning and activist opportunities".[6]

Major Publications

Books

Articles

*Lessons of Zimbabwe: An exchange between Patrick Bond and Mahmood Mamdani (2008) Published in Links

References

  1. http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/files/patrick%20in%20mercury.JPG
  2. University of KwaZulu-Natal Patrick Bond profile
  3. Center for Civil Society Patrick Bond profile
  4. http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=mE2VPFAAAAAJ&hl=en
  5. "International Organization for a Participatory Society: Consultative Committee". International Organization for a Participatory Society. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  6. "International Organization for a Participatory Society: Testimonials". International Organization for a Participatory Society. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
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