[Reader-list] `Racial Redress and Citizenship in Contemporary South Africa'- talk by Adam Habib

[Rajesh Ramakrishnan]

Friday, 10th October, 2008

Adam Habib will speak on

Racial Redress and Citizenship in Contemporary South Africa

11 AM, Seminar Room, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi – 110 054


South Africa's democratic experiment is confronted with a central
political dilemma: how to advance redress and address historical
injustices while building a single national identity. This issue lies
at the heart of many heated debates over issues such as economic
policy, affirmative action, and skills shortages.

Adam Habib is Deputy Vice-Chancellor- Research, Innovation and
Advancement at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He has
held academic appointments over the last decade at the Universities of
Durban-Westville and KwaZulu-Natal and the Human Science Research
Council. Prior to being appointed Executive Director of the Democracy
and Governance Programme of the Human Science Research Council in
2004, he served as the founding director of the Centre for Civil
Society and a research professor in the School of Development Studies
at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Habib has served as co-editor of
both the social science academic journal, Transformation and the
official disciplinary journal of the South African Association of
Political Science, Politkon. He also sits on the editorial boards of
Voluntas, South African Labour Bulletin, and UNESCO's 2009 World
Social Science Report.  Habib's research interests include
democratisation and development, contemporary social movements, giving
and solidarity, institutional reform, race, redress and citizenship,
and South Africa's role in Africa and beyond.

His recent publications include (ed. with Kristina Bentley) Racial
Redress and Citizenship in South Africa, Cape Town: HSRC Press (2008);
and (ed. with Richard Ballard and Imraan Valodia) Voices of Protest:
Social Movements in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Pietermaritzburg:
UKZN Press (2006)