Nigel Gibson
{{Short description|British activist}}
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Nigel Gibson is an activist-intellectual,[https://web.archive.org/web/20120907081237/http://truth-out.org/news/item/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=user&id=47260&Itemid=252 Nigel Gibson], Biography at Truthout a scholar specialising in philosophy[http://www.sacsis.org.za/site/article/631.1 Mugabe's Tunisia Day Will Come], Imraan Buccus, SACSIS, 2011 and author{{cite web | url=http://www.theanchoronline.org/news/2011/11/14/fanonian-practices-and-contemporary-relevance/ | title=Fanonian practices and contemporary relevance | first=Justin | last=Goslant | work=The Anchor | date=14 November 2011 | access-date=16 November 2011 | archive-date=3 June 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120603071311/http://www.theanchoronline.org/news/2011/11/14/fanonian-practices-and-contemporary-relevance/ | url-status=dead }} whose work has focussed, in particular, on Frantz Fanon.[http://berkeleybeacon.com/news/2012/10/11/faculty-lecture-on-uprisings-in-the-middle-east Faculty lecture on uprisings in the Middle East] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018154720/http://www.berkeleybeacon.com/news/2012/10/11/faculty-lecture-on-uprisings-in-the-middle-east |date=18 October 2012 }}, by Luara Gomez, The Berkeley Beacon, 11 October 2012 Edward Said described Gibson's work as "rigorous and subtle".[http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=0745622615 Fanon: The Post-Colonial Imagination], Polity Press He has been described as a leading figure in Fanon scholarship.[http://oppidanpress.com/upm-applies-biko-fanon-and-marx-to-sa/ UPM applies Biko, Fanon and Marx to SA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927170550/http://oppidanpress.com/upm-applies-biko-fanon-and-marx-to-sa/ |date=27 September 2013 }}, Amanda Xulu, Oppidan Press, September 2012
Biography
Gibson was born in London, graduated from Aberystwyth University, and was an active militant in the 1984–1985 Miners' Strike.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20131018003133/http://mediadiversityuk.com/2013/10/09/black-consciousness-an-intersection-of-theory-and-praxis/ BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS: AN INTERSECTION OF THEORY AND PRAXIS]}}, by Youlendree Appasamy, Media Diversity UK, 9 October 2013 While in London he met South African exiles from the Black Consciousness Movement and, in conversation with the exiles, developed academic work on the movement. He later moved to the United States where he worked with Raya Dunayevskaya in the Marxist Humanism movement, studied with Raymond Geuss and Edward Said and became an important theorist of Frantz Fanon[http://www.thenassauguardian.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17584&Itemid=59 The Legacy of Great Caribbean Thinkers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111130095922/http://www.thenassauguardian.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17584&Itemid=59 |date=30 November 2011 }}, Sonia Farmer, The Nassau Guardian, 26 November 2011 on whom he has written extensively.[http://www.churchland.org.za/padkos%20articles/Nigel%20Gibson%20bio.pdf Nigel Gibson Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425230200/http://www.churchland.org.za/padkos%20articles/Nigel%20Gibson%20bio.pdf |date=25 April 2012 }}, Churchland Programme, 2011 Gibson endorsed the statement in support of the South African shack dweller organization, Abahlali baseMjondolo, against state violence.{{Cite web|url=https://libcom.org/library/statement-support-abahlali-basemjondolo|title=Statement in support of Abahlali baseMjondolo}}
Books
Gibson has co-edited a collection of work on Theodor Adorno with Andrew N. Rubin and is a co-editor of a collection of work on Steve Biko. His recent work has been marked by a return to an interest in Frantz Fanon (see his edited collection Living Fanon) with a particular focus on the reception of Fanon in popular struggles in South Africa (see Fanonian Practices in South Africa). His Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination was translated into Arabic in 2013.{{cite web|url=http://english.dohainstitute.org/content/3de40cf6-ce37-410f-9028-6ba6654f89f2 |title=Nigel Gibson's "Fanon: The Post-Colonial Imagination"-A Translation |website=English.dohainstitute.org |date=2013-05-30 |accessdate=2016-09-18}}
His most recent works are Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics, written with Roberto Beneduce, and preface by Alice Cherki, published by Rowman and Littlefield, with an African edition published by Wits University Press; Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth published by Daraja Press. Frantz Fanon: Combat Breathing published by Polity (publisher) with a South African edition published by Wits University Press.
Affiliation
He was previously the Assistant Director of African Studies at Columbia University and a Research Associate in African-American Studies at Harvard University. He is currently Professor at the Marlboro Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College (Boston, MA){{cite web |title=Emerson College |url=https://emerson.edu/faculty-staff-directory/nigel-gibson |website=Emerson.edu |access-date=29 December 2023}} and an Honorary Research Professor at the Humanities Unit of the University currently known as Rhodes. He is a member of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa.
Prizes
In 2009 he was awarded the Fanon prize by the Caribbean Philosophical Association. According to the association "Gibson has set a high standard in Fanon studies and {{Sic|hide=y|historically|-}}informed political thought on Africa and the Caribbean."{{Cite web |url=http://www.caribbeanphilosophicalassociation.org/Frantz_Fanon_Prize_Previous_Recipients.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=10 October 2016 |archive-date=19 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819085127/http://www.caribbeanphilosophicalassociation.org/Frantz_Fanon_Prize_Previous_Recipients.html |url-status=dead }}
Bibliography
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- Rethinking Fanon: The Continuing Legacy, Humanity Books, 1999.
- Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories: Contemporary Africa in Focus (with George C. Bond), Westview, 2002.
- Adorno: A Critical Reader (with Andrew N. Rubin), Blackwell, 2002.
- Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination, Polity, 2003.
- Challenging Hegemony: Social Movements and the Quest for a New Humanism in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Africa World Press, 2006.
- Biko Lives: Contesting the Legacies of Steve Biko (with Andile Mngxitama and Amanda Alexander), Palgrave MacMillan, 2008.
- Fanonian Practices in South Africa: From Steve Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo, UKZN Press and Palgrave MacMillan, 2011
- Living Fanon: Global Perspectives, Palgrave MacMillan, 2011
- Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics (with Roberto Beneduce), Rowman and Littlefield International and Wits UP, 2017
- Fanon and the Rationality of Revolt, Daraja Press, 2020
- Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth (Editor), Daraja Press, 2021
- Fanon: Combat Breathing, Polity (Black Lives), 2024
References
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External links
- [http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/default.asp?3,28,10,1019 Review of Gibson's Fanon & the Post-Colonial Imagination]
- [http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/default.asp?3,28,11,1276 Review of a Public Lecture by Nigel Gibson]
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