Towards This Generation's New Left: Impediments and Possibilities
Dr. Richard Sandbrook is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Toronto who recently retired after 41 years of service. However, he remains active as a teacher and writer. He has focused his research since 2000 on three related topics: the experience of the democratic left in the Global South, the relevance of social-democratic thinking to the reshaping of the neoliberal global order and the utility of a framework based on Karl Polanyi’s “double movement” for understanding counter-hegemonic struggles. He has conducted field work mainly in Africa, especially in Kenya, Ghana and Mauritius, and has also travelled widely in Latin America and Asia. He has published about 60 scholarly articles and chapters and 12 books, most recently Reinventing the Left in the Global South: the Politics of the Possible (Cambridge University Press, August 2014), Civilizing Globalization: A Survival Guide (SUNY Press, June 2014 – a co-edited, revised and expanded edition with Ali Burak Guven) and Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects (Cambridge University Press, 2007 – co-author).
Dr. Richard Sandbrook is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Toronto who recently retired after 41 years of service. However, he remains active as a teacher and writer. He has focused his research since 2000 on three related topics: the experience of the democratic left in the Global South, the relevance of social-democratic thinking to the reshaping of the neoliberal global order and the utility of a framework based on Karl Polanyi’s “double movement” for understanding counter-hegemonic struggles. He has conducted field work mainly in Africa, especially in Kenya, Ghana and Mauritius, and has also travelled widely in Latin America and Asia. He has published about 60 scholarly articles and chapters and 12 books, most recently Reinventing the Left in the Global South: the Politics of the Possible (Cambridge University Press, August 2014), Civilizing Globalization: A Survival Guide (SUNY Press, June 2014 – a co-edited, revised and expanded edition with Ali Burak Guven) and Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects (Cambridge University Press, 2007 – co-author).