Mafeje: scholar-activist with noble convictions
SOURCE: Review of African Political Economy
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2020
TITLE AUTHOR(S): P.T.Jacobs
KEYWORDS: LIBERATION STRUGGLES, MAFEJE, ARCHIE, POLITICS
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11613
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/15503
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15503
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2020
TITLE AUTHOR(S): P.T.Jacobs
KEYWORDS: LIBERATION STRUGGLES, MAFEJE, ARCHIE, POLITICS
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11613
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/15503
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15503
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Abstract
This critical review of an edited volume of Archie Mafeje's writings closes gaps in what is known about his political upbringing, his scientific methodology and posthumous intellectual influence. Trained in the radical political tradition of the Unity Movement of South Africa, Mafeje was a celebrated social theorist, broke with liberal functionalism in social anthropology and wrote prolifically. This important volume is silent on standout questions, such as: why did Mafeje, the mature scholar-activist, dissociate himself from practical politics after relocating from Cairo to Pretoria, given the crisis of the radical left in South Africa? To what extent did Mafeje wield his mastery of dialectical logic not only to interpret the world but actively change it? What was Mafeje's orientation toward agrarian transitions beyond capitalism in countries like South Africa? In response to these thematic questions, this essay synthesises insights from relevant chapters.-
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