Prof. Andries Bezuidenhout

Andries Bezuidenhout is an academic, poet, musician and artist. He is professor of development studies at the University of Fort Hare in Alice, in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. He holds a BA, BA (honours) and MA degrees from the University of Pretoria, another MA (in creative writing) from Stellenbosch University, and a PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand, where he worked as senior researcher at the Society, Work and Development Institute (1998-2010), before joining the University of Pretoria as an associate professor in the Department of Sociology (2010-2017). One of his books (co-authored with Edward Webster and Rob Lambert), Grounding Globalization: Labour in the Age of Insecurity (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), was the winner of the Distinguished Scholarly Book Prize, awarded by the American Sociological Association’s Labour and Labour Movements section in 2009. His most recent books are Critical Engagement with Public Sociology: A Perspective from the Global South (2022, Bristol University Press), co-edited with Sonwabile Mnwana and Karl von Holdt, and Labour Disrupted: Reflections on the Future of Work in South Africa (Wits University Press, 2023 - forthcoming), co-edited with Malehoko Tshoaedi and Christine Bischoff.