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The following content is the main page content.Owen Sichone
Owen Sichone is author of Learning Globalism: Opposing Xenophobia in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Owen Sichone is a graduate of the University of Zambia and obtained his postgraduate qualifications from Sussex University and Cambridge in England. He has taught at several southern African Universities and held the prestigious Nelson Mandela Chair in African Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2005. Prof. Sichone teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on research methods, urban anthropology, gender, health, globalization, development studies and political economy perspective. He has also participated in southern African civil society since he was a student and belongs to several activist networks.
Research interests currently consist of several different projects using anthropology to better understand political culture with specific reference to accountability and transparency as competing anti-corruption devices, security sector governance as a key element in post-conflict reconstruction and development and the challenges of migration and climate change in Southern Africa.
Recent publications include: ‘Xenophobia and xenophilia in South Africa: African migrants in Cape Town’ in Pnina Werbner (ed.) Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism: Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives, Oxford: Berg, 309-324p, and ‘Xenophobia’ in Nick Shepherd and Steven Robins (eds.) New South African Keywords, Johannesburg: Jacana/ Athens: Ohio University Press, 255-263p.
“I am fascinated by the Building Global Democracy and CLGD projects for academic and general welfare reasons as both could make important contributions towards the democratization of local and global politics thus widening the knowledge production base and helping to create a better life for all.”
