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Staff
Jeremy
Seekings
Jeremy
Seekings has a joint appointment as Professor of Political
Studies and Sociology at the University of Cape Town.
He is also active in the Centre
for Social Science Research (CSSR), where he heads the
Social Surveys Unit.
Professor
Seekings has been at UCT since 1992.
In this time he has also held visiting appointments at
Yale (in 1994, 1999 and 2002) and Oxford (1999).
He has an undergraduate degree in Politics, Philosophy
and Economics from Oxford, an Honours degree in African
Politics from the University of the Witwatersrand, and a
D.Phil in Politics from Oxford.
His doctorate was a study of political mobilization and
organization in South African townships between 1978 and 1984.
His
books include:
- Heroes
or Villains: Youth Politics in the 1980s (Ravan Press,
1993)
- The
UDF: A History of the United Democratic Front in South
Africa, 1983-2001 (Ohio University Press, David Philip
and James Currey, 2000), which won South Africa’s top
academic book prize.
- From
Race to Class: The Changing Nature of Inequality in South
Africa
(co-authored with Nicoli Nattrass, forthcoming from Yale
University Press).
Professor
Seekings has edited the journal Social Dynamics since
2000. Among
recent issues are special issues on:
-
Quantitative
Studies of South African Society:
special issue of Social Dynamics 27,1 (2001).
-
AIDS
and Society in Southern Africa:
special issue of Social Dynamics 28,1 (2002)
(co-edited with Donald Skinner)
-
Welfare
Reform in South Africa:
special issue of Social Dynamics 28,2 (2002)
-
Households
and Families in Southern Africa:
special issue of Social Dynamics 29,2 (2003)
He
is also on the editorial board of the International Journal
of Urban and Regional Research.
In 2000 he edited a symposium in the Journal (vol.24,
no.4) on Urban Studies
in South Africa After Apartheid.
Other
recent and forthcoming publications include:
- ‘The
Politics of the Basic Income Grant in South Africa,
1996-2002’, in Guy Standing and Michael Samson (eds), A
Basic Income Grant for South Africa (Cape Town:
University of Cape Town Press, 2003), pp.56-76
(co-authored with Heidi Matisonn).
- ‘Trade
Unions, Social Policy and Class Compromise in
Post-Apartheid South Africa’, Review of African
Political Economy no.100 (June 2004), pp.299-312.
- ‘The
New (Global) Economy and Inequality in South Africa’, in
Melvin Ayogu and Don Ross (eds), Development Dilemmas:
The Finance and Political Ethics of Growth Policies
(London: Routledge, forthcoming 2004) (co-authored with
Nicoli Nattrass).
- ‘Institutional
Design, Cultural Diversity and Economic Solidarity: A
Comparison of South Africa, Brazil and Nigeria’, in
Philippe van Parijs (ed.), Cultural Diversity versus
Economic Solidarity (Brussels: Deboeck University,
Francqui Scientific Library, forthcoming 2004).
- ‘Welfare
Reform: The International Context for Domestic Debates’,
in Saul Dubow and Alan Jeeves (eds), Worlds of
Possibility: South Africa in the 1940s (Cape Town:
Double Storey, forthcoming, 2005)
- ‘The
Electoral Implications of Social and Economic Change Since
1994’, in Lia Nijzink and Jessica Piombo (eds), Election
’04 South Africa: Celebrating Ten Years of Democracy
(Cape Town: David Philip, and London/New York: St
Martin’s Press, forthcoming 2004).
- ‘The
UDF and the Transition to Democracy’, in Andries
Oliphant (ed.), Democracy X (Cape Town: Iziko
Museums, forthcoming 2004).
- ‘The
Political Economy of the Basic Income Grant in South
Africa’, in M. Lewis, S. Pressman and K.
Widerquist (eds), The Ethics and Economics of Basic
Incomes (London: Ashgate, forthcoming 2005).
Professor
Seekings has recently taught courses in the analysis of survey
research, contemporary South African politics and society,
democratic theory and comparative politics.
In
2005 and 2006 Professor Seekings will be spending most of his
time in the Centre for Social Science Research.
He directs two linked survey projects in Cape Town: the
Cape Area Study (focused on adults) and the Cape Area Panel
Study (focused on adolescents).
These surveys cover a range of social, political,
economic and psychological issues.
Currently,
Professor Seekings is conducting research on:
- Growing
up in the new South Africa
- Welfare
policy in South Africa in comparative perspective
- Democratisation
and the transformation of urban politics in South Africa.
His contact details:
Professor Jeremy Seekings,
Departments of Sociology & Political Studies, Room No.4.41
Robert Leslie Building, Upper Campus, Rondebosch, 7701
Telephone: +27 21 650 3505
Email: jseeking@commerce.uct.ac.za
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