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Carolyn Bassett

Carolyn BassettAssociate Professor

Carolyn Bassett researches and teaches in the areas of political economy of development, globalization, and the political role of labour and organized social movements with a research focus on South Africa. Her current research is on the production of knowledge for policy engagement in the Congress of South African Trade Unions, and she is completing a study of popular budgeting in South Africa.


Recent publications:

  • "The Spectre of Debt in South Africa", Labour, Capital and Society 41.2 (2008).
  • “The South African People’s Budget Campaign as a Challenge to Neo-Liberal Policy Framework and Methodology,” in Neoliberalism and Globalization in Africa: Contestations from the Embattled Continent, ed. Joseph Mensah. Palgrave, 2008.
  •  “Revisiting capital’s ‘formative action’ in South Africa”, Review of African Political Economy 35.116 (2008).
  • “The Zuma Affair, labour and the future of democracy in South Africa” (co-authored with Marlea Clarke), Third World Quarterly 29.4 (2008).
  • “South African Trade Unions and Globalization: Going for the High Road, Getting Stuck on the Low Road” (co-authored with Marlea Clarke), Work, Organisation, Labour and Globalisation 2.1 (2008).
  • “Labour and hegemony in South Africa’s first decade of majority rule,” Studies in Political Economy 76 (autumn 2005).
  • “The Demise of the Social Contract in South Africa,” Canadian Journal of African Studies, 38.3 2004.

 
Teaching

Introductory courses:
POLS 1603 Politics of Globalization
POLS 2303 Introduction to Comparative Politics

Advanced courses:
POLS 3711 Political Economy of Development in Africa*
POLS 3712 Transnational Linkages and Globalization*
POLS 3713 The Global Economy in the New Millennium*
POLS 3721 Beverages and International Development in Historical Perspective*
POLS 3722 Women, Gender and Development*#

*International Development Studies electives
# Women's Studies core course

  • Dr. Bassett is also an associate faculty member in the International Development Studies program and a core faculty member in the Women's Studies program at UNB.
  • Dr Bassett previously taught in the School of Social Sciences, Atkinson Faculty, York University (2005-2008) and the International Development Studies Program at Trent (2003-2005).
  • Education: Dr Bassett holds a PhD in Political Science from Toronto’s York University (2000), an MA from Carleton (1991) and a BA from Trent.
  • Professor Bassett joined the Department of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick in 2008.


Contact Information:

Carolyn Basset

Associate Professor
Office: Tilley 214
Phone: (506) 458-7192