Prof. Patrick Bond is a political economist and political ecologist. He conducts research on African political economy, international finance, eco-social development and political ecology as well as development issues in contemporary South Africa and social mobilization. He works in urban communities and with global justice movements in several countries. He is sharply critical of neoliberal systems of governance in South Africa and the failures of capitalist states to address social justice and environmental degradation.
As a professor, he has held positions at the Western Cape School of Government, the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Built Environment and Development Studies and Gyeongsang National University in South Korea. Among other things, he was Director of the Center for Civil Society in Durban.
Today, Bond is a professor at the University of Johannesburg in the Department of Sociology.
Patrick Bond will speak at the opening polylogue “Global Governance and Geopolitics” on Friday, November 21st at 17:30.
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