Nigel Gibson is an activist-intellectual,Nigel Gibson, Biography at Truthout a scholar specialising in philosophyMugabe's Tunisia Day Will Come, Imraan Buccus, SACSIS, 2011 and author whose work has focussed, in particular, on Frantz Fanon.Faculty lecture on uprisings in the Middle East , by Luara Gomez, The Berkeley Beacon, 11 October 2012 Edward Said described Gibson's work as "rigorous and subtle".Fanon: The Post-Colonial Imagination, Polity Press He has been described as a leading figure in Fanon scholarship., Amanda Xulu, Oppidan Press, September 2012
Biography Gibson was born in London, graduated from Aberystwyth University, and was an active militant in the 1984–1985 Miners' Strike., by Youlendree Appasamy, Media Diversity UK, 9 October 2013 While in London he met South African exiles from the Black Consciousness Movement and, in conversation with the exiles, developed academic work on the movement. He later moved to the United States where he worked with Raya Dunayevskaya in the Marxist Humanism movement, studied with Raymond Geuss and Edward Said and became an important theorist of Frantz FanonThe Legacy of Great Caribbean Thinkers , Sonia Farmer, The Nassau Guardian, 26 November 2011 on whom he has written extensively.Nigel Gibson Biography , Churchland Programme, 2011 Gibson endorsed the statement in support of the South African shack dweller organization, Abahlali baseMjondolo, against state violence.
Books Gibson has co-edited a collection of work on Theodor Adorno with Andrew N. Rubin and is a co-editor of a collection of work on Steve Biko. His recent work has been marked by a return to an interest in Frantz Fanon (see his edited collection Living Fanon) with a particular focus on the reception of Fanon in popular struggles in South Africa (see Fanonian Practices in South Africa). His Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination was translated into Arabic in 2013.
His most recent works are Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics, written with Roberto Beneduce, and preface by Alice Cherki, published by Rowman and Littlefield, with an African edition published by Wits University Press; Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth published by Daraja Press. Frantz Fanon: Combat Breathing published by Polity (publisher) with a South African edition published by Wits University Press.
Affiliation He was previously the Assistant Director of African Studies at Columbia University and a Research Associate in African-American Studies at Harvard University. He is currently Professor at the Marlboro Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College (Boston, MA) and an Honorary Research Professor at the Humanities Unit of the University currently known as Rhodes. He is a member of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa.
Prizes In 2009 he was awarded the Fanon prize by the Caribbean Philosophical Association. According to the association "Gibson has set a high standard in Fanon studies and informed political thought on Africa and the Caribbean."
Bibliography
Books Rethinking Fanon: The Continuing Legacy, Humanity Books, 1999. Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories: Contemporary Africa in Focus (with George C. Bond), Westview, 2002. Adorno: A Critical Reader (with Andrew N. Rubin), Blackwell, 2002. Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination, Polity, 2003. Challenging Hegemony: Social Movements and the Quest for a New Humanism in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Africa World Press, 2006. Biko Lives: Contesting the Legacies of Steve Biko (with Andile Mngxitama and Amanda Alexander), Palgrave MacMillan, 2008. Fanonian Practices in South Africa: From Steve Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo, UKZN Press and Palgrave MacMillan, 2011 Living Fanon: Global Perspectives, Palgrave MacMillan, 2011 Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics (with Roberto Beneduce), Rowman and Littlefield International and Wits UP, 2017 Fanon and the Rationality of Revolt, Daraja Press, 2020 Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth (Editor), Daraja Press, 2021 Fanon: Combat Breathing, Polity (Black Lives), 2024
References
External links Review of Gibson's Fanon & the Post-Colonial Imagination Review of a Public Lecture by Nigel Gibson