Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
• Gilbert Achcar was born in Senegal, grew up in Lebanon, researched and taught in Beirut, Paris, and Berlin, and is currently Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at SOAS, University of London. An author published in over fifteen languages, his many books include: The Clash of Barbarisms: the making of the New World Disorder; Perilous Power: the Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy, coauthored with Noam Chomsky; The Arabs and the Holocaust: the Arab-Israeli War of Narratives; Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism; The People Want: a radical exploration of the Arab uprising and Morbid Symptoms: relapse in the Arab Uprising.
• Jackyn Cock·is a professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology and a Research Associate of SWOP, at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is a committed eco-feminist socialist and active in a number of social movements. Her most recent book is Writing the Ancestral River: A Biography of the Kowie.
• The late Margaret Daymond was Emeritus Professor of English at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her research interests were feminist theory and its application especially to African and southern African 19th and 20th century narratives. She passed away in December 2021.
• Shireen Hassim is Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and African Politics at Carleton University, Ottawa and Visiting Professor at WiSER, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is the co-editor, with Shahra Razavi, of Gender and Social Policy in Global Context: uncovering the gendered structure of the ‘social’, London: Routledge.
• Temba Middelmann is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of the Western Cape/Gauteng City Region Observatory, as part of the Off-grid Cities project. His research interests include energy transitions and climate justice, public space, local histories, social cohesion and contestation, and spatial justice.
• Thiven Reddy is associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies, University of Cape Town. His book publications include Hegemony and Resistance: Contesting Identities in South Africa and South Africa, settler colonialism and the failures of liberal democracy.
• Nafisa Essop Sheik works in the Department of History at the University of Johannesburg and is currently a writing fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS). Her research interests include histories of law, gender and labour in the British empire; theory and historiography. She is completing a book manuscript entitled ‘Colonial Rites: Sex, Law and States of Difference in a Nineteenth Century British South African Colony’.
