Hart, Gillian
Submitted by cmjones on February 27, 2007 - 12:47pm.
Name of Person:
Gillian Hart
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Department:
Geography, Professor
Research Interests:
Political economy, social theory, critical development studies, gender, agrarian and regional studies, labor, Southern Africa, Southeast Asia.
Achievements:
Gillian Hart is dean of the Center for African Studies and Chair of the undergraduate major in Development Studies. A native of South Africa, she is author of a number of publications on comparative development in her native country and globally. Her book Disabling Globalization: Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa (University of California Press, 2002) traces divergent post-apartheid dynamics in two towns and adjacent townships, and their connections with East Asia. She has also published numerous papers on critical ethnographies of power and neoliberal globalization, as well as on rural-urban linkages. Most notably, this includes the paper “Beyond the Urban-Rural Divide: Linking Land, Labour, and Livelihoods,” Transformation (55) 2004 (with Ari Sitas).