Mahmood Mamdani

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Mahmood Mamdani (* 1946 in Bombay , India ) is an anthropologist and political scientist . Mamdani holds the Herbert Lehman Professorship and teaches at the Institute for Anthropology at Columbia University in New York City .

Mahmood Mamdani grew up as the son of Indian immigrants in the Ugandan capital Kampala . He lives with his wife, film director Mira Nair and their son in New York City and Kampala.

His academic career began at the University of Dar es Salaam . In 1996 he was appointed director of the Center of African Studies at the University of Cape Town . Due to disagreements with colleagues about the "decolonization of the university" he left the university and went to Columbia University in the USA. After 16 years, he returned to the University of Cape Town in the summer of 2017.

The anthropologist and political scientist writes about religious fundamentalism and its political effects. In 1998 he won the prestigious Herskovits Award of the African Studies Association for the book “ Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism ” in the USA .

In his book " Guter Moslem, Bad Moslem " published in 2006, he rejects the thesis of the secularized, western and the premodern, fanatical Muslims.

In April 2008, the US magazine Foreign Policy listed him as one of 100 major intellectuals in the world ("Top 100 Public Intellectuals") in the world. In 2017 he was made a member of the British Academy .

Fonts

  • Mahmood Mamdani, Joe Oloka-Onyango (Eds.): Uganda: Studies in living conditions, popular movements, and constitutionalism. Journal for Development Policy, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-901-40302-7 .
  • Citizen and subject: Contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1996, ISBN 0-691-01107-9 .
  • When victims become killers: Colonialism, nativism, and the genocide in Rwanda. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2002, ISBN 0-691-05821-0 .
  • Good Muslim, bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror. Pantheon, New York 2004, ISBN 0-375-42285-4 .
    • Translation: Good Muslim, bad Muslim: America and the roots of terror Nautilus, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-89401-475-X .
  • Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror. Pantheon, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-307-37723-4 .
    • Translation: Blind Saviors: About Darfur, Geopolitics and the War on Terror. Nautilus, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89401-736-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Good Muslim, bad Muslim: America and the roots of terror Nautilus, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-89401-475-X .
  2. ↑ UCT: Mamdani returns (accessed August 25, 2017)
  3. ↑ Foreign Policy The Top 100 Public Intellectuals: Bios (Viewed June 28, 2008)
  4. ^ Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research. British Academy , July 21, 2017, accessed July 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Mamdani, Mahmood
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian anthropologist and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Bombay