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Associate Professor
Sociology
Rhodes University
South Africa
I have a Masters degree in Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada and a PhD from Rhodes University. My main research interests are agrarian-land reform, civil society and theories of social emancipation. My main country focus is Zimbabwe. I supervise a large number of PhD and Masters students (many of my students’ theses focus on Zimbabwe). I spent twenty years in Zimbabwe, including working in the field of rural development. I rejoined academic life in 2006. I am currently involved in research projects on the citrus industry in South Africa, on neo-liberalising processes in South Africa and on unemployment in the Eastern Cape.
Agrarian and land reform, civil society and social movements, politics of emancipation