Two Gavin Williams seminars in Abuja - not to be missed
The Centre for Democracy and Development
and
Department of Political Science of the University of Abuja
Invites you to two seminars by Gavin Williams, Fellow in Politics and Sociology, St Peter’s College, University of Oxford.
First Seminar
Date: 22nd February 2010
Second Seminar
Time: 11 am to 1 p.m.
Topic: The Academic Vocation in an era of Commoditization
Gavin Williams is a Fellow in Politics and Sociology at St Peter’s College at the University of Oxford. He has worked extensively on the empirical study of politics and society, on political and social theory and in the impact of ideas, good and bad, on social and political action. Born in South Africa, Gavin graduated from Stellenbosch in Law and Political Philosophy, before moving to the UK where he further studied politics before lecturing in sociology and social anthropology at the Universities of Durham and Sussex. He took up his present position in Oxford in 1975.
Gavin began his research career here in Nigeria, at NISER in 1970-71. He has published on politics, political economy and land and agricultural policies in Africa, particularly Nigeria and South Africa, and is currently studying the history of the wine industry in South Africa. He has supervised over 40 doctoral theses in Oxford, many of them on Nigeria. Nigerian academia remembers him for his significant 1980 publication on State and Society in Nigeria. Gavin was founding editor of the Review of African Political Economy (1974-2000) and remains a Contributing Editor.
He edited and contributed to:
Sociology and Development (with Emmanuel de Kadt) Tavistock, 1974
Nigeria: Economy and Society, Rex Collings, 1976
Rural Development in Tropical Africa (with J Heyer & P Roberts) Macmillan 1981.
Sociology of Developing Societies: Sub-Saharan Africa (with C Allen) Macmillan 1982
Democracy, Labour and Politics in Africa and Asia: Essays in Honour of Björn
Beckman. Centre for Research and Documentation, Kano, 2004.
Among his other publications are:
‘Taking the part of peasants: rural development in Nigeria and Tanzania’ in PCW Gutkind and I Wallerstein, eds. The Political Economy of Contemporary Africa. Sage 1975/ 1985
The Origins of the Nigerian Civil War, Open University Case Study, 1983.
‘Why is there no agrarian capitalism in Nigeria?’ Journal of Historical Sociology, 1, 4, 1988.
‘Why structural adjustment is necessary and why it doesn’t work’ Review Of African Political Economy 60, 1994
‘Power, politics and democracy in Nigeria’ (with Shehu Othman) in J. Hyslop, ed., African Democracy in the Era of Globalisation, Witwatersrand University Press.
‘Democracy as Idea and as Process in Africa’, Journal of African-American History, 88, 4, 2003
‘Studying development and explaining policies, Oxford Development Studies, 31, 1, 2003
‘Land reform in South Africa’ (with R. Hall). In M. Baregu and C. Landsberg, eds, From Cape to Congo: Southern Africa’s Evolving Security Challenges, Lynne Rienner, 2003
‘Political economies, democratic citizenship and African studies, Review Of African Political Economy, 102, 2004.
‘Black empowerment in the South African wine industry’, Journal of Agrarian Change, 5, 4, 2005
2009 ‘Free and unfree labour in the Cape wine industry, 1838-1888′ in J. Heyer and B. Harriss-White, eds The Political Economy of Development: Africa and South Asia, Routledge, 2009.
Books Dedicated to Gavin Williams
Ike Okonta When Citizens Revolt: Nigerian Elites, Big Oil and the Ogoni Struggle for Self-determination. Transaction, 2007
V. M. Hewitt, Political Mobilisation and Democracy in India: States of Emergency. Routledge, 2008.
A. Adebajo & A.R. Mustapha, ed., Gulliver's Troubles: Nigeria's Policy after the Cold War, University of KwaZiulku-Natal Press, 2008 (with Anthony Kirk-Greene).
A. R. Mustapha & Lindsay Whitfield, eds, Turning Points in African Democracy, James Currey, 2009.
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