Dr Ziyana Lategan

Lecturer

Room 5.23, Robert Leslie Social 

 

  • Roles

    Teaching & Supervision

    Humanities Faculty Curriculum Advisor 

    Mellon Pipeline Development Program Mentor

  • Biography

    Lategan holds a BSocSci (UCT), a BA Honours (UCT), MA (UCT), and PHD (SUNY Binghamton). She has previously held TA/teaching/visiting academic positions at UCT, UWC, UNISA, and Binghamton University (upstate New York). 

  • External Appointments

     

  • Useful Links

    Miami Institute for the Social Sciences, Philosophy Forum Q&A

    2nd Black August International Intellectual & Cultural Festival of the Azanian Philosophical Society

  • Research, Knowledge Exchange and Impact

    Research Interests

    Lategan's research interests include comparative politics, political and social theory, Third World Marxisms, World-Systems Analysis, dialectics, African politics, South African intellectual history, anti-colonial thought and traditions, black studies.  

    In 2017, Lategan co-organized the Graduate Workshop "Decolonising Social Scientific Thought" with Dr Lushaba, who was a recipient of the UCT's Decoloniality Research Grant.  

    Current Research Activities

     

    Research Projects

     

  • Teaching

    Undergraduate teaching

    POL2038F - Comparative Politics 

     

    Postgraduate teaching

    POL4059F - African Political Theory

    POL5001F - Comparative Politics 

  • Postgrad Supervision

    Lategan supervises students in comparative politics, World-Systems analysis/dependency theory, anti-colonial thought, South African politics. 

  • Publications

    • Lategan, Ziyana. “Conquest, Colonialism, and Capitalist Reproduction: A Return to Hosea Jaffe.” African Economic History 52, no. 1 (April 2024): 115-133. ISSN 0145-2258 / E-ISSN 2163-9108. 
    • Lategan, Ziyana. “An Old Materialism for a New Ground.” Philosophy Today (October 2023). DOI: 10.5840/philtoday2023105507.
    • Lategan, Ziyana. “Review of Against Racial Capitalism: Selected Writings by Neville Alexander.” Social Dynamics (December 2024): 1-3. DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2024.2415173
    • Lushaba, Lwazi and Lategan, Ziyana. “Review of What is Africanness? Contesting nativism in race, culture and sexualities by Charles Ngwena.” Journal for Juridical Science 44, no. 1 (August 2019): 139 – 144. DOI: 10.18820/24150517/JJS44.i1.6
    • Lushaba, Lwazi and Lategan, Ziyana. “Review of Critique of Black Reason by Achille Mbembe.” South African Historical Journal 70, no. 3 (July 2018): 619-624. DOI:10.1080/02582473.2018.1495755
    • Lategan, Ziyana. “Review of Citizen youth: culture, activism, and agency in a neoliberal era by Jacqueline Kennelly.” Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies 28, no. 1 (February 2014): 161-164. DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2014.883702
    • Williams, Gaarith and Lategan, Ziyana. “Displacement and Attachment: Examining Relations in the Production of Post-Apartheid Buildings in ‘Black Spaces’.” In Place Meaning and Attachment: Authenticity, Heritage and Preservation, edited by Dak Kopec and AnnaMarie Bliss. Philadelphia: Routledge, 2020.