Patrick Bond is a political economist with longstanding research
interests and NGO work in urban communities and with global justice
movements in several countries. He teaches political economy and
eco-social policy at SDS, directs the Centre for Civil Society and is
involved in research on economic justice, energy and water. In service
to the new South African government, Patrick authored/edited more than a
dozen policy papers from 1994-2002, including the Reconstruction and
Development Programme and the RDP White Paper, and he taught at the
University of the Witwatersrand Graduate School of Public and
Development Management from 1997-2004.
Patrick currently also serves as a visiting professor at Gyeongsang
National University Institute of Social Sciences, South Korea. He was
visiting professor in 2003 at York University Department of Political
Science and Faculty of Environmental Studies in Toronto; in 2004 at the
Africa University Institute for Peace, Leadership and Governance in
Mutare, Zimbabwe; in 2005 at the Central European University Summer
School on Transnational Flows, Structures, Agents and the Idea of
Development, Hungary; in 2006 at Chulalongkorn University’s Focus on the
Global South Course on Globalisation and Civil Society, in Bangkok,
Thailand; in 2007 at the Stellenbosch University Sustainability Institute, in 2008 at the State University of New York in Geneseo, and in 2009 at Suffolk University in Boston . In 2010-11 he is a visiting scholar at the University of California/Berkeley and the Story of Stuff Project.

   Patrick is an advisory board member of several international journals:
Socialist Register (York University), International Journal of Health
Services (Johns Hopkins School of Public Health), Historical Materialism
(London School of Economics), Journal of Peacebuilding and Development
(American University), Studies in Political Economy (Carleton
University), Capitalism Nature Socialism, Review of African Political
Economy, and the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (Unesco,
New York). He worked at Johannesburg NGOs during the early and
mid-1990s, and several social justice agencies in Washington and
Philadelphia during the 1980s. He was educated at Swarthmore College
Department of Economics, the Wharton School of Finance at the University
of Pennsylvania and the Johns Hopkins University Department of Geography
and Environmental Engineering where he received his PhD in 1993.
   Patrick was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1961, and is father to
a son and daughter. For information about his current research projects
please refer to the Centre for Civil Society  webpages.
Publications: 

Bond, P (2008) A Pilhagem na África. Rio de Janeiro: South Links More

Bond, P, R Dada and G Erion (eds) (2007) Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society: Negative Returns on South African Investments. Amsterdam, Rozenberg Publishers, and Pietermaritzburg, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press 2007. (190 pp).
     
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Bond, P. (2008), Social movements and corporations: social responsibility in post-Apartheid South Africa, Development and Change, 39, 6. More

Bond, P. (2008). Macrodynamics of globalization, uneven urban development and the commodification of water, Law, Social Justice and Global Development, 10, 2,  http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/lgd/2008_1/.
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Bond, P. (2008), Global uneven development, primitive accumulation and political-economic conflict in Africa: the return of the theory of imperialism, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, 4, 1, 23-37. More

Bond, P. (2008). Collaborations, co-optations and contestations in praxis-based knowledge production, Review of African Political Economy, 116, pp.89-93.More

Bond, P. (2008) Post-imperialist north-south financial relations?, Studies in Political Economy, 81, 77-97. More

Bond, P. (2008), Reformist reforms, non-reformist reforms and global justice: activist, NGO and intellectual challenges in the World Social Forum. Societies without Borders, 3, 4-19.More

Bond, P. and J.Dugard (2008), The Case of Johannesburg Water: what really happened at the pre-paid parish pump. Law, Democracy and Development, 12, 1, pp.1-28. More

Bond, P. (2008), Water, human rights and social conflict: South African experiences’ (with Jackie Dugard). Law, Social Justice and Global Development, 10, 1, February, http://www.go.warwick.ac.uk/elj/lgd/2008_1/bond_dugard.More

Bond, P. (2008), Decentralization, privatization and countervailing popular pressure: South African water commodification and decommodification, in V.Beard, F.Miraftab, and C.Silver (eds), Decentralization and Planning: Contested Spaces for Public Action in the Global South, London, Taylor and Francis, pp.36-54. More

Bond, P. (2008), Fra fiktive til reelle losninger pa klimaendringene, in H.Jundeberg (Ed), Klima for ny oljepolitikk, Oslo, Norad and Attac, pp.42-48. More

Bond, P. and G.Erion (2008), Against carbon trading as climate change mitigation, in D.McDonald (ed), Electric capitalism, Pretoria, Human Sciences Research Council, pp.339-358. More

Bond, P. and M.Ndlovu (2008). Ideology and strategies in the fight against multinational corporate water privatization, in S.Jin (ed), Ideas and strategies in the alterglobalisation movements, Korea Research Foundation, Korean Federation of Public Service and Transportation Workers Union and Gyeongsang University Institute for Social Sciences (Jinju), Seoul, pp.201-259.More

Bond, P. (2007). Primitive accumulation, enclavity, rural marginalisation and articulation. Review of African Political Economy, 111, 29-38. More

Bond, P (2007) (ed.) Beyond Enclavity in African Economies: The Enduring Work of Guy Mhone. Johannesburg, Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa; Lilongwe, ActionAid; New Delhi, International Development Economics Associates; Nairobi, University of Nairobi Institute of Development Studies; and Durban, Centre for Civil Society. (56 pp).
       
     
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Bond, P, H Chitonge and A Hopfmann (eds). (2007) The Accumulation of Capital in Southern Africa: Rosa Luxemburg’s Contemporary Relevance. Berlin, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and Durban, Centre for Civil Society. (208 pp).
       
     
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Bond, P (2007) Développement Urbain Inégal, Financiarisation et Accès à L’eau en Afrique’. Alternatives Sud, 14, 2, 2007, 53-83.More

Bond, P and Dada, R (2007) A Death in Durban: Capitalist Patriarchy, Global Warming Gimmickry and our Responsibility for Rubbish’ Agenda, 73, August 2007, 46-55 More

Bond, P (2007) Anti-G8-Bewegungen: Ein Internationaler Vergleich’ (’Anti-G8 Movements: An International Scan’). Welt Trends, 55, Summer 2007, 37-52.More

Bond, P (2007) Microcredit Evangelism, Health and Social Policy. International Journal of Health Services, 37, 2, June 2007, 229-249.More

Bond, P (2007) Competing explanations of Zimbabwe’s long economic crisis. Safundi: Journal of South African and American Studies, 8, 2, June 2007, 149-181. More

Bond, P (2007) The Dispossession of African wealth at the cost of Africa’s health. International Journal of Health Services, 37, 1, March 2007. More

Bond, P (2007) Volatile, uneven and combined capitalism. In: R.Albritton, B.Jessop and R.Westra (eds), Political Economy and Global Capitalism: The 21st Century, Present and Future, New York, Anthem Press.More

Bond, P (2007) Resource extraction and African underdevelopment. In: B.Moyo (ed), Africa in the global power play, London, Adonis Abbey.More

Bond, P (2007) Johannesburg: of gold and gangsters. In: M.Davis and D.Monk (eds), Evil paradises: the dreamworlds of neoliberalism, New York, New Press.More

Bond, P and Dor, G (2007) Uneven health outcomes and political resistance under residual neoliberalism in Africa. In: V.Navarro (ed), Neoliberalism, globalization, and inequalities: consequences for health and quality of life, New York, Baywood.More

Bond, P (2007) Johannesburg as emblem of global apartheid. In: P.Subiros (ed), Apartheid: The South African mirror, Barcelona, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona,  90-99.More

Bond, P (2007). Introduction. (with Rehana Dada and Graham Erion) In: P.Bond, R.Dada and G.Erion (eds), Climate change, carbon trading and civil society: negative returns on South African investments, Amsterdam, Rozenberg Publishers and Pietermaritzburg, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 1-22. More

Bond, P (2007). Dirty politics: South African energy. In: P.Bond, R.Dada and G.Erion (eds), Climate change, carbon trading and civil society: negative returns on South African investments, Amsterdam, Rozenberg Publishers and Pietermaritzburg, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 23-52More

Bond, P (2007). Oil Companies and African Wealth Depletion. In: P.Bond, R.Dada and G.Erion (eds), Climate change, carbon trading and civil society: negative returns on South African investments, Amsterdam, Rozenberg Publishers and Pietermaritzburg, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 151-170.More

Bond, P (2007) Conclusion. In: P.Bond, R.Dada and G.Erion (eds), Climate change, carbon trading and civil society: negative returns on South African investments, Amsterdam, Rozenberg Publishers and Pietermaritzburg, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg, 2007, 171-176.More

Bond, P (2007) The Sociopolitical structure of accumulation and social policy in Southern Africa. In: J.Adesina (ed), Social policy in Subsaharan Africa, London, Macmillan,198-223.
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Bond, P (2007) Civil society and Wolfowitz’s World Bank: reform or rejection revisited, In: D.Moore (ed), The World Bank: poverty, development and hegemony, Pietermaritzburg, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007, 479-506.More

Bond, P. (2007) Commodification, capitalist crisis and uneven/combined development. In: S.Jeong (ed), Theories and practices of alternative economic systems, Gyeongsang National University Institute for Social Sciences, Jinju, Korea, 2007, 246-273.More

Bond, P (2007). Postimperialistiske okonomiske forhold mellom Nord og Sor?: Hva Horge I realiteten skylder Afrikanske debitorer. (Postimperialist Economics Between North and South? What Norway Really owes African Debtors). In: O.Manum (ed), Umthetho: Atte Afrikanske Forslag til Norsk Utenriskpolitikk, Oslo, Fellesradet for Afrika (Norwegian Council for Africa) and Solidaritet Forlag, 2007, 11-24.More

Bond, P (2007) Perils of elite pacting. In: H.Melber and C.Wilß (Eds), G8 Macht Politik: Wie die Welt Beherrscht Wird, Berlin, Brandes and Apsel, 37-52.More

Bond, P (2007) A Political Programme for the WSF? In: J.Sen and M.Kumar (eds), A Political programme for the World Social Forum? Democracy, substance and debate in the Bamako Appeal and the global justice movements, New Delhi, CACIM and Durban, CCS, 2007, 20-22More

Bond, P (2007) Discussing the Porto Alegre Manifesto. J.Sen and M.Kumar (eds), A Political programme for the World Social Forum? democracy, substance and debate in the Bamako Appeal and the global justice movements, New Delhi, CACIM and Durban, CCS, 2007, pp.95-98.More

Bond, P and Chitonge, H (2007). Introduction. In: P.Bond, H.Chitonge and A.Hopfmann (eds), The Accumulation of capital in Southern Africa Berlin, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and Durban, Centre for Civil Society, 2007, 1-4.More

Bond, P (2007) South African subimperial accumulation. In: P.Bond, H.Chitonge and A.Hopfmann (eds), The accumulation of capital in Southern Africa, Berlin, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and Durban, Centre for Civil Society, 2007, 90-106.More

Bond, P and Wilson, Z (2007) A Water Policy Revolution? Global Social Policy, 7, 2, June 2007, 143-146.More

Bond, P. (2006). Talk Left, Walk Right: South Africa’s Frustrated Global Reforms (second edition).  Pietermaritzburg:University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.
       
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Bond, P. (2006). Ten Years of Democracy: A Review In: A. Alexander (ed.), Articulations: A Harold Wolpe Memorial Lecture Collection, Durban:Centre for Civil
Society and Trenton: Africa World Press, p.37-64. More

Bond, P. (2006). Looting Africa: the Economics of Exploitation. London: Zed Books and Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.
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Bond, P. (2006). Resource Extraction and African Underdevelopment. Capitalism Nature Socialism. 17(2), p5-25.More

Bond, P. (2006). Global Governance Campaigning and MDGs: from top-down to bottom-up anti-poverty work. Third World Quarterly, 27(2), March, p.339-354; republished as 'OMD et Gouvernance Mondiale: Quelles Luttes Contre la Pauvrete' Alternatives Sud, 13(1), p127-147. More

Bond, P.(2006). Johannesburg's resurgent urban social movements. Gibson, N.(ed), Challenging Hegemony: Social Movements in Post-Apartheid South Africa and the Quest for a New Humanity. Trenton: Africa World Press. p103-128.More

Bond P. (2006). Civil society on global governance: Facing up to divergent analysis, strategy and tactics. Voluntas, 17(4), 357-369.More

Bond P. (2006). Reconciliation and economic reaction: Flaws in South Africa’s elite transition. Journal of International Affairs, 60(1), 141-156.More

Bond P. (2006). Competing theories of Zimbabwe’s long economic crisis. Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, 24: December. More

Bond, P. and P. McInnes (2006). 'Decommodifying Electricity in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg’ In: H.Leitner, J.Peck, E.Sheppard (eds), Contesting Neoliberalism: The Urban Frontier, New York, Guildford Press, 2006.
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Bond P. (2006). Zimbabwe, South Africa and the IMF. South African International Affairs Yearbook, E Siridopoulos (ed), South African Institute for International Affairs.More

Bond, P. (2006). A Crise Econômica Global e a Pilhagem da África’,Tensios Mundiais.
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Bond,P. (2006). Water Commodification: Can Human Rights Trump the Market? Asian Exchange, 22, 1, June, 39-59.
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Bond, P. (2006). South African Subimperialism.Contra/Relatos, June 2, (2), 115-206.
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Bond, P. and Desai, A.(2006). Explaining Uneven and Combined Development in South Africa. B. Dunn (ed): Permanent Revolution: Results and Prospects 100 Years On. London: Pluto. p230-245. More

Bond, P. (2005). Elite Transition: from Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa. Second edition. London: Pluto and Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.
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Bond, P (ed). (2005). Fanon's Warning: A Civil Society Reader on the New Partnership for Africa's Development. 2nd edition. Trenton: Africa World Press, Durban: Centre for Civil Society and Cape Town: AIDC.
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Bond, P. and Saunders, R. (2005). Labour, the state and the struggle for a democratic Zimbabwe. Monthly Review, 57(7), December, p42-55. More

Bond, P. (2005) Gramsci, Polanyi and impressions on the World Social Forum from Africa. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 29(2), p433-440.More

Bond, P. (2005) Urban policy and practice in post-apartheid South Africa. Policy Studies, 26(3), p337-358.More

Bond, P. (2005) Zimbabwe’s hide and seek with the IMF: Imperialism, nationalism and the South African proxy. Review of African Political Economy, 32(106), p609-619. More

Bond, P. (2005).  Johannesburg civil society, bringing the citizens In: Civil Society in Globalizing Cities of the South. Raiser S and Volmann K (eds), Freie Universitat Berlin Osteuropa-Institut Working Paper Series, 54.
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Bond, P. and Saul, J. (2005) Post-Apartheid. A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English,  Poddar P and Johnson D (eds), Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, p378-384.

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Bond P. (2005). Oil companies drain Africa, now – and with Pretoria’s help, in future? In: Trouble in the Air: Global Warming and the Privatised Atmosphere. Bond P and Dada R (eds), Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, p197-214.
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Bond P. (2005). Recalcitrant reforms require tougher tactics. African Voices on Development and Social Justice, Manji F and Burnett P (eds), Mkuki na Nvota Publishers, Dar es Salaam, p157-165.
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Bond, P.(2005) Neoliberalism in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Structural Adjustment to NEPAD. In : Neoliberalism: A Critical Reader . Saad-Filho A and Johnstone D (Eds) , Pluto Press, London, p230-236.More

Bond P and Dada R (eds) (2005) Trouble in the Air: Global warming and the privatised atmosphere. Durban:Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal and Amsterdam: Transnational Institute.
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Bond, P. (2005) Bottom-up or top-down? Debating Globalisation, Held D (ed), Polity Press, Cambridge, p83-92.More

Bond, P. (2005). Debates in local economic development policy and practice. Local Economic Development in the Developing World, Nel E and Rogerson C (eds), Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, p57-74.
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Bond, P. (2005) Suedafrikas Kapitulation vorm Neoliberalismus. Das Argument, 262, 47, 4, November, p.543-551.
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Bond P. (2005). The Economics of Water Resources Allocation. In: Water Encyclopedia: Domestic, Municipal, and Industrial Water Supply and Waste Disposal. Jay H. Lehr (Editor-in-Chief), Jack Keeley (Editor), p215-218. More

 Bond, P. (2005) Bottom-up or top-down? Debating Globalisation, Held D (ed), Polity Press, Cambridge, p83-92.More

Bond, P. (2005). What's wrong with our energy system? In: Trouble in the Air: Global Warming and the Privatised Atmosphere. Bond P and Dada R (eds), Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, p5-27.
     
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Bond P.(2004) ‘Il Sudafrica e L’Apartheid Globale: La Strategia Riformista Funziona?’ Alternative, 2. More

Bond P.(2004) Bankrupt Africa: Imperialism, subimperialism and financial politics. Historical Materialism, 12(4) More

Bond P.(2004) Decommodification and deglobalisation: Strategic challenges for African social movements’. Afriche e Oriente, 7(4). More

Bond P.(2004) From people, planet and prosperity to poverty, property and pollution. Development Update, 6(1). More

Bond P.(2004) From racial to class apartheid: South Africa’s frustrating decade of freedom. Monthly Review, 55(10). More

Bond P. (2004)Should the World Bank be ‘fixed’ or ‘nixed’? Reformist posturing and popular resistance. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 15(2), p85-105 More

Bond P. (2004) South Africa at 10: Left critiques’. African Review of Books, December. More

Bond P.(2004) South African tackles global apartheid: is the reform strategy working? South Atlantic Quarterly, 103(4).More

Bond P.(2004). Talk left, walk right: rhetoric and reality in the new South Africa. Global Dialogue, 6(4). More

Bond P. (2004) The ANC’s ‘left turn’ and South African sub-imperialism. Review of African Political Economy, 31(102), p599-616.More

Bond P.(2004) Water commodification and de-commodification: South African narratives from Johannesburg to Kyoto to Cancun and back. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 15(1), p7-25. More

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