Richard Pithouse
Courses Taught
Philosophy & Event, Politics I
A Right to the City, Politics II
Contemporary Political Theory, Politics III
The Mind of the Oppressed (Postgrad course)
Frantz Fanon Fifty Years On (Postgrad course)
Supervision
Students can be accepted to work in the following broad areas:
BA (Hons), MA (Summa Cum Laude), UKZN
1. African Philosophy
2. Critical Race Studies
3. Emancipatory Political Theory
4. Urban Studies
5. Frantz Fanon
6. Popular Politics in the Global South
Research Projects
1. Race, Space, Popular Politics and the Making of Durban
2. Frantz Fanon Fifty Years Later
Publications
Richard Pithouse has published more than fifty journal articles, book chapters and research reports and hundreds of journalistic articles, some of which are available at the SACSIS site. There is a selection of publications below:
Journalism
1. The May 2008 Pogroms, Sanhati, June 2008
2. The KwaZulu-Natal Slums Act: Bloody Legislation Against the Expropriated, Pambazuka, May
2009
3. Damning the Flood, Mute Magazine, October 2008
4. The World Remade, Pambazuka, February 2008
5. Only Protected on Paper, Behind the Mask, March 2011
6. On the Murder of Andries Tatane, Pambazuka, April 2011
7. No Easy Path Through the Embers, CounterPunch, August 2011
8. On the Wall Street Occupation, CounterPunch, October 2011
9. To Grasp Things by the Root, SACSIS, November 2011
10. Frantz Fanon Fifty Years Later, CounterPunch, December 2011
Journal Articles
1. 'Fanon & the Dialectic of Solidarity', Radical Philosophy Review, Vol. 4, No.3, 2003
2. ' "That the tool never possess the man": Taking Fanon's Humanism Seriously', Politikon, Vol.
30, No.3, 2003
3. 'Frantz Fanon & the Explosive Alliance', The C.L.R. James Journal (Special Issue for Frantz Fanon's Eightieth Birthday), Vol. 11, No. 1. 2005
4. 'Struggle is a School: The Rise of a Shack Dweller's Movement in Durban, South Africa', Monthly Review, Vol. 57, No. 9, 2006
5. 'Shack dwellers on the Move', Radical Philosophy, No, 141, 2007
6. 'A Politics of the Poor: Shack Dweller's Struggles in Durban, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Vol. 43, No. 1, 2008
7. 'A Progressive Policy Without A Progressive Politics: Lessons from the failure to implement 'Breaking New Ground' ', Town and Regional Planning, No. 54, 2009
8. 'Abahlali baseMjondolo and the Struggle for the City in Durban, South Africa', Cidades, Vol. 6, No. 9, 2009
9. 'In the Forbidden Quarters: Shacks in Durban till the end of Apartheid, The Commoner, December 2009
10. 'Das Auf Begehere der Slums: Eine Wortmeldung Aus SudAfrika, Das Argument, Vol. 56, No 2., 2010
Book Chapters
1. 'Frantz Fanon & the Persistence of Humanism', in Philosophy, Protest & Engagement, edited by Patrick Giddy, Council for Research & Values, Washington DC, 2002
2. 'Solidarity, Co-option & Assimilation: The Neccesity, Promises & Pitfalls of Global Linkages for South African Movements', in Challenging Hegemony, edited by Nigel Gibson, Africa World Press, Trenton, NJ, 2006
3. 'Fanon & Us' in Shifting the Geography of Reason, edited by Marina Banchetti-Robino & Clevis Headley, Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge, 2006
4. 'Producing the Poor: The World Bank's new discourse of domination', in Development, Poverty, Hegemony, edited by David Moore, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg 2007
5. 'Introduction' in Living Learning edited by Mark Butler (with Anne Harley & Nigel Gibson), Church Land Programme, Pietermaritzburg, 2009
6. 'Shifting the Ground of Reason' in Re-imaging the Social in South Africa, edited by Heather Jacklyn & Peter Vale, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg, 2009
7. 'Abahlali baseMjondolo & the Popular Struggle for the Right to the City in Durban, South Africa', in Cities for All: Proposal & Experiences Towards the Right to the City edited by Ana Sugranyes & Charlotte Mathivet, Habitat International Co-alition, Santiago, 2010
8. 'Fidelity to Fanon' in Living Fanon edited by Nigel Gibson, Palgrave Macmillian, London, 2011
9. 'Move From, Not On the Occult Zone' in Transnationalism and Urbanism, edited by Stefan Kratke, Kathrin Wildner & Stefan Lanz, Routledge, London, 2012 (forthcoming)
10. 'Thinking Resistance in the Shanty Town', in People, Place & Space: A Reader edited by Jen Gieseking, William Mangold, Cindi Katz, Setha Low & Susan Saegert, Routledge, London, 2012 (forthcoming)
