Hickel, Jason


Dr Jason Hickel  

Department

Position held

Department of Anthropology

LSE Fellow

Non LSE positions held

Department

Position held

Various institutions

Policy Consultant on African Affairs and Economic Development

Experience keywords:

agriculture; African affairs; democracy; violence; economic development; trade unions; migration; political conflict; labour; HIV/AIDS

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

ConsultancyPolicy and Regulatory Bodies

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Sudan; sub-Saharan Africa; Zimbabwe; Africa; Swaziland; South Africa; South Sudan; Uganda; Nigeria; Southern Africa; Lesotho

Languages:

French [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]; Hindi [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]; SiSwati [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; Zulu [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Intermediate]

Media experience:

Has written for mainstream pressRadioTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7107 5064

Publications

The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.

2013

Hickel, Jason and Healy, Megan, (eds.) (2013) The politics of home in KwaZulu-Natal. University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Scottsville, South Africa.

Hickel, Jason (2013) The real experience industry: student development projects and the depoliticization of poverty. Learning and teaching, 5 (2). ISSN 1755-2273

2012

Hickel, Jason (2012) Neoliberal plague: AIDS and global capitalism. Al Jazeera

Hickel, Jason (2012) Book Review: the future is now: a new look at African diaspora studies. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Hickel, Jason (2012) The World Bank and the development delusion. Al Jazeera

Hickel, Jason (2012) Social engineering and revolutionary consciousness: domestic transformations in colonial South Africa. History and anthropology, 23 (3). pp. 301-322. ISSN 0275-7206

Hickel, Jason (2012) Book Review: Occupy! scenes from occupied America. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Hickel, Jason (2012) Book review: how Occupy activists fell in love with their own radical horizontalism and fetishized physical occupation. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Hickel, Jason (2012) Constituting the commons: oil and development in post-independence South Sudan. In: Winderquist, Karl and Howard, Mike, (eds.) Exporting the Alaska model: adapting the permanent fund dividend for reform around the world. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137006592

Hickel, Jason (2012) Can South Sudan learn from the Alaska model? The Africa Report

Hickel, Jason (2012) A short history of Neoliberalism (and how we can fix it). New left project

Hickel, Jason (2012) Egypt’s revolution is not yet over. Le Monde

Hickel, Jason (2012) Liberalism and the politics of Occupy Wall Street. Anthropology of this century, 4 ISSN 2047-6345

Hickel, Jason (2012) Neoliberal Egypt: the hijacked revolution. Al Jazeera

Hickel, Jason (2012) Neoliberal plague: the political economy of HIV transmission in Swaziland. Journal of Southern African studies, 38 (3). pp. 513-529. ISSN 0305-7070

Hickel, Jason and Khan, Arsaln (2012) The culture of capitalism and the crisis of critique. Anthropological quarterly, 85 (1). pp. 203-227. ISSN 0003-5491

Hickel, Jason (2012) Subaltern consciousness in South Africa’s labor movement: ‘workerism’ in the KwaZulu-Natal sugar industry. South African historical journal, 64 (3). pp. 664-684. ISSN 0258-2473

2011

Hickel, Jason (2011) Rich, white and crazy.

Hickel, Jason (2011) Sweatshop sugar: labour exploitation in South Africa’s cane fields.

Hickel, Jason (2011) Rethinking sweatshop economics.

Hickel, Jason (2011) Saving Uganda from its oil.

Hickel, Jason (2011) Saving Uganda from Its Oil.

Hickel, Jason (2011) Fallacy of ‘freedom’: USAid and neoliberal policy in Egypt.

Hickel, Jason (2011) Trading with the enemy.

2010

Hickel, Jason (2010) The US, the AU and the new scramble for Africa. Pambazuka news, 502 ISSN 1753-6839

Hickel, Jason (2010) Prosperity or plunder?: Nigeria slipping at an oily crossroads. Monthly review zine,

Hickel, Jason (2010) Rethinking Jeffrey Sachs and the ‘Big Five’: new proposals for the end of poverty. Pambazuka news, 470 ISSN 1753-6839

Hickel, Jason (2010) Africa, nature, and the march of the development technocrats. Monthly review zine,

Hickel, Jason (2010) From rights to commons: dispatches from the South African revolution. Monthly review zine,

Hickel, Jason (2010) Invictus: Hollywood pretends to learn from Nelson Mandela. Monthly review zine,

2009

Hickel, Jason (2009) Not so sweet history of sugar unions in South Africa. South African labour bulletin , 33 (3). ISSN 0377-5429

Hickel, Jason How to occupy the world.

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