With Nelson Mandela in critical condition in hospital, there has been a renewed public focus on his legacy and his life. Carleton has a number of experts available to speak to the media about his life.
Linda Freeman, professor with the Department of Political Science, Institute of African Studies.
Phone: 250-545-2654, until August 22, 2013, then 613-236-5843
Email: la_freeman@hotmail.com or linda_freeman@carleton.ca
Freeman is the author of The Ambiguous Champion – Canada and South Africa in the Trudeau and Mulroney Years and she specializes in African political economy, particularly southern Africa. Her current research is focused on South Africa’s post-apartheid foreign policy in the region and on the present crisis in Zimbabwe. She also retains an interest in Canada and southern Africa, the political economy of contemporary South Africa and more general issues of trade, industrial strategies and aid policy. She has testified regularly to parliamentary sub-committees, worked on Africa 2000 — a consultative committee for the Minister of State for External Affairs, and is a frequent commentator on African affairs for the Canadian media.
Blair Rutherford, director of the Institute of African Studies and professor with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
Phone: 613-520-2600 ext. 2422 or 2601
Email: blair_rutherford@carleton.ca
Rutherford is a socio-cultural anthropologist whose research interests gravitate around the politics and possibilities of international development, particularly concerning civil society in sub-Saharan Africa. Since 1992, he has principally applied this interest to commercial farm workers in Zimbabwe. He has been examining the economic strategies, institutional arrangements and the constitutive cultural politics shaping current and former farm-worker strategies.
Susanne M. Klausen, associate professor with the Department of History.|
Phone: (613) 520-2600 x2827
Email: Susanne.Klausen@carleton.ca
Klausen is an expert on the history of abortion in 20th Century Africa. She is currently conducting research on the politics of reproduction in South Africa during apartheid and is particularly interested in the passage and impact of the extremely restrictive 1975 abortion law and its relationship to the state’s program of population control in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013 in Experts Available
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