Edward Ramsamy
· Associate ProfessorRutgers University · African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Active 1995–2018
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About
Edward Ramsamy, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies and a member of the graduate faculty of Geography, as well as the graduate faculty of Urban Planning and Policy Development at the Bloustein School. His areas of specialization include international development planning and geographies of globalization. Dr. Ramsamy is the author of the book The World Bank and Urban Development: From Projects to Policy (Routledge, 2006). His research encompasses international development planning, the political economy of transition and nation-building in post-colonial and developing societies, and the comparative politics of identity and race relations in South Africa and the United States. He has edited works such as Science, Culture and the Politics of Knowledge: Contexts and Conversations (forthcoming) and The Black Experience in America (2006). Dr. Ramsamy has published numerous articles on regional integration in southern Africa, as well as racial, ethnic, and national identity in post-apartheid South Africa. He serves as Secretary and a Founding Trustee of the Global Literary Project, Inc., and has received fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, and the Institute for Research on Women.
Research topics
- Political science
- Geography
- Development economics
- Economic growth
- Political economy
Selected publications
World Bank and Urban Development
2006-09-27 · 51 citations
book1st authorCorrespondingAs one of the world’s most powerful supranational institutions, the World Bank has played an important role in international development discourse and practice since 1946. This is the first book-length history and analysis of the Bank’s urban programs and their complex relationship to urban policy formulation in the developing world. Through extensive primary research, the book examines four major themes: the political and economic forces that propelled the reluctant World Bank to finally embrac…
BETWEEN NON‐RACIALISM AND MULTICULTURALISM: INDIAN IDENTITY AND NATION BUILDING IN SOUTH AFRICA
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie · 2007-09-01 · 43 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingABSTRACT The paper examines the rhetoric of nation‐building in South Africa with particular reference to the incorporation of South Africans of Indian descent into the post‐1994 political order. During its years as a protest movement, the ANC came to embrace ‘non‐racialism’, a doctrine emphasising a common South African identity, in order to provide a counter‐rhetoric to the racially exclusive doctrine of apartheid. However, the organisation had difficulty in garnering support from the Indian an…
Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An Encyclopedia
2012-01-01 · 9 citations
bookOpen accessPost-Settlement South Africa and the National Question: The Case of the Indian Minority
Critical Sociology · 1996-10-01 · 8 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingThe various liberation movements in South Africa historically have criticized ideologies that emphasize political mobilization along ethnic lines. However, the African National Congress (ANC) has had to contend with former KwaZulu Chief Minister Buthelezi's attempts to appeal to Zulu identity in order to mobilize political support, as well as the difficulty of attracting the Indian and coloured votes. These trends have forced the ANC to acknowledge in its political strategy the potential power o…
The Black Experience in America
2011-08-18 · 2 citations
book1st authorCorresponding
Frequent coauthors
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Andrea L. Stanton
University of Denver
- 1 shared
Carolyn Elliott
University of Vermont
- 1 shared
Gayle T. Tate
Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
- 1 shared
Peter Seybolt
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Awards & honors
- Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council
- Fellowship from the Center for the Critical Analysis of Cont…
- Fellowship from the Institute for Research on Women
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