Michael Neocosmos

Neocosmos holds a B.Sc. (1972, Loughborough University, UK), a MA (1973, Wye College, University of London, UK), and a Ph.D. (1982, Bradford University, UK).

He has taught at various universities in the United Kingdom and in Africa, most especially at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, at the University of Swaziland, at the National University of Lesotho where he headed the Department of Development Studies, at the University of Botswana where he was associate professor of sociology, the University of Pretoria where he held the position of Professor of Sociology,{{citation needed|date=February 2023}} at Monash University where he was Director of Global Movements Research and at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa where he was the Director of the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes University (UHURU).{{Cite news|url=https://www.ru.ac.za/uhuru/people/profmichaelneocosmos/|title=Rhodes University|last=University|first=Rhodes|access-date=2017-11-14|language=en|archive-date=15 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171115015059/https://www.ru.ac.za/uhuru/people/profmichaelneocosmos/|url-status=live}}

In 2017, Neocosmos's book Thinking Freedom in Africa, was awarded The Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought by the Caribbean Philosophical Association.{{Cite web |url=http://caribphil.org/frantz-fanon-prize.html |title=The Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought |access-date=18 January 2017 |archive-date=18 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118225948/http://caribphil.org/frantz-fanon-prize.html |url-status=dead }}

• {{cite book |title=Social Relations in Rural Swaziland |editor-first=Michael |editor-last=Neocosmos |publisher=University of Swaziland |date=1987 |location=Kwaluseni }}
• {{cite book |title=The Agrarian Question in Southern Africa and "Accumulation from Below": Economics and Politics in the Struggle for Democracy |date=1993 |publisher=Nordic Africa Institute |isbn=9789171063427 |first=Michael |last=Neocosmos |location=Uppsala }}
• {{cite book |url=http://www.codesria.org/Links/Publications/monographs/neocosmos.pdf |title=From Foreign Natives to Native Foreigners: Explaining Xenophobia in South Africa |location=Dakar |last=Neocosmos |first=Michael |publisher=Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa |date=2006 |isbn=9782869782006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216081607/http://www.codesria.org/Links/Publications/monographs/neocosmos.pdf |archive-date=16 December 2008 |via=Internet Archive }}
• {{cite book |title=Thinking Freedom in Africa: Towards a Theory of Emancipatory Politics |date=2016 |location=Johannesburg |publisher=Wits University Press |first=Michael |last=Neocosmos |isbn=978-1-86814-869-1 }}
• {{cite book |title=Politics and Culture in African Emancipatory Thought |date=2021 |isbn=9781990263330 |publisher= Daraja Press |first=Michael |last=Neocosmos }}
• {{cite book |title=Domains of politics and modes of rule: Political structures of the neocolonial state in Africa |date=2023 |isbn=9781990263774 |publisher= Daraja Press |first=Michael |last=Neocosmos }}

• [http://www.unisa.ac.za/Default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=11627 From people's politics to state politics: aspects of national liberation in South Africa 1984--1994], 1994
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060927121445/http://www.codesria.org/Links/Publications/icp1_04/neocosmos.pdf Thinking the Impossible? Elements of a Critique of Political Liberalism in South Africa], 2004
• [http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/files/review%20state%20of%20nation.pdf The State of the Post-apartheid State: the poverty of critique on the South African left], 2004
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080517000432/http://www.codesria.org/Links/conferences/general_assembly11/papers/neocosmos.pdf Citizenship, Rights and Development: Revisiting the social in Africa today], 2005
• [http://www.abahlali.org/node/1429 Civil society, citizenship and the politics of the (im)possible: rethinking militancy in Africa today], 2007
• [http://libcom.org/library/the-pogroms-south-africa-the-politics-fear-fear-politics-05062008 The Pogroms in South Africa: The Politics of Fear and the Fear of Politics], 2008
• [http://www.monash.ac.za/staff_details/research/mneocosmos/index.html Africa and Migration in a Globalised World]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, 2008
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20091216092223/http://info.interactivist.net/node/13492 The Political Meaning of the Attacks on Abahlali baseMjondolo], 2009
• [http://a.aaaarg.org/text/6413/political-conditions-social-thought-and-politics-emancipation-introduction-work-sylvain-la The Political Conditions of Social Thought and the Politics of Emancipation: An Introduction to the work of Sylvain Lazarus]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, 2009
• [http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/72163 Mass mobilisation, ‘democratic transition’ and ‘transitional violence’ in Africa], 2011
• [http://www.interfacejournal.net/2011/12/interface-volume-3-issue-2-feminism-womens-movements-and-women-in-movement/ Transition, human rights and violence: rethinking a liberal political relationship in the African neo-colony], Interface, 2011
• [http://www.ru.ac.za/media/rhodesuniversity/content/politics/documents/Neocosmos.pdf Are Those-Who-Do-Not-Count Capable of Reason? Thinking Political Subjectivity in the (Neo-)Colonial World and the Limits of History], 2012
• [http://longreads.tni.org/state-of-power-2018/thinking-freedom-achieving-impossible-collectively/ Thinking freedom: achieving the impossible collectively - Interview with Michael Neocosmos], 2018
• [https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/tri000014_ernest-wamba-dia-wamba-interview_29-06-2022_b.pdf The Thought and Practice of an Emancipatory Politics for Africa], Interview with Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba, 2022

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• [https://rhodes-za.academia.edu/MichaelNeocosmos Academia.Edu Profile]

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