Achille MBEMBE

 

Institute of Social and Economic Research

University of the Witwatersrand

Johannesburg

 

Present Position

Research Professor in History and Politics

University of the Witwatersrand

Johannesburg (South Africa)

 

EDITORIAL COMMITTEES

 

2001-              Editorial Board

Social Analysis: The International  Journal of Cultural and Social Practice (Australia)

 

1998 -             Contributing Editor

                        Public Culture  (USA)

 

1998 -             Regional Editor

                        Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (UK)

 

1997 -             Editorial Advisory Board

Journal of Modern African Studies  (UK)

 

 

BOARDS      

 

 

1999 - 2001    Social Sciences Cooperation Fund

                        French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France)

 

1998 -             Prince Claus Fund (The Netherlands)

 

1997-2000          CODESRIA-MacArthur Foundation Programme

on “African Real Economies”

 

PUBLICATIONS – A small selection

 

BOOKS

 

2001                On the Postcolony. Berkeley: University of California Press,  274 pp.

 

2000                On Private Indirect Government. Dakar: CODESRIA, 117 pp.

           

1996                La naissance du maquis dans le Sud-Cameroun (1920-1960)  

                        Histoire des usages de la raison en colonie. Paris: Karthala, 438 pp.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

 

2003                Logiques de transformation sociale et la recomposition des espaces de pouvoir en Afrique de l’Ouest. In L’Afrique de l’Ouest dans la competition mondiale. Quels atouts possibles ? (edited by Jacqueline Damon and John O. Igue). Paris: Karthala. 197-218.

 

2002                (with J.  Roitman), Figures of the Subject in Times of Crisis. In Under Siege: Four African Cities (edited by Okwui Enwezor and  al.). Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Publishers. 99-128.

 

2002                The Power of the Archive and its Limits. In Refiguring the Archive, edited by Carolyn Hamilton. Cape Town: David Philip. 19-26.

 

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS

 

2003                Necropolitics. Public Culture. 15 (1): 11-40.

 

2002                L’Afrique entre localisme et cosmopolitisme. Esprit. (288): 65-74.

 

2002                African Modes of Self-Writing. Public Culture. 14(1): 239-274.

 

2002                Notes sur le pouvoir du faux. Le Débat. (118): 49-58.

 

2001                Ways of Seeing: Beyond the New Nativism.

                        African Studies Review. 44(2): 1-14.