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Andrew Nash

Andrew Nash has an M.A. degree from the University of Stellenbosch and a Ph.D. from the University of Cape Town. He taught for many years at Stellenbosch and the University of the Western Cape. From 2000 until March 2006 he was editorial director of Monthly Review Press in New York. He begins teaching at UCT in April 2006. His book The Dialectical Tradition in South Africa is forthcoming from Routledge later this year.

 His recent publications include:

 “Third Worldism,” African Sociological Review 7:1 (June 2003), pp. 94–116.

 “The Moment of Western Marxism in South Africa,” in Franco Barchiesi and Tom Bramble, ed., Rethinking the Labour Movement in the New South Africa (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2003), pp. 96–110.

 “Mandela’s Democracy,” in Sean Jacobs and Richard Calland, ed., Thabo Mbeki’s World: The Politics and Ideology of the South African President (Pietermaritzburg: Natal University Press / London: Zed Books, 2002), pp. 243–55.

 “The New Politics of Afrikaans,” South African Journal of Philosophy 19:4 (November 2000), pp. 340–64.

Contact details:

• Physical Address: Room 4.28, Robert Leslie Building, Upper Campus

• Postal Address: Department of Political Studies, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch 7700

• Tel.: +27 21 650 4219 (direct), 650 3381/3916 (messages), 6503799 (fax)

• Email: andrew.nash@uct.ac.za  

Courses convened:

Undergraduate

• POL3013S South African Political Thought & Traditions (2006) (Semester 2, 2007).

Postgraduate

• POL4027Z South African Political Thought (Semester 1, 2007)
• POL5003X Landmarks of Political Thought (2006 - next offered in 2008)

(updated 20 December 2007)

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