Toby Leon Moorsom

Ph.D. Candidate

Email: email: 4tlm1@queensu.ca

 

Education

BA(honours, combined), International Development Studies and Political Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax
MA, York University, Toronto

 

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About

PHD Research

My research is on capitalist development and the political economy of agriculture in Africa. My dissertation is based on fieldwork conducted among Tonga commercial farmers in the Southern Province of Zambia.

Selected Publications

"Statues and spectacle: Senegal's petit-dictator is the West's man" Al Jazeera English
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/201221510275187337.html
see Al Jazeera English for more recent analysis

"Is Africa Rising of Flailing?", Pambazuka, Feature, 2011/09/14
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/76251

"The zombies of development economics: Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid and the fictional African entrepreneurs" Review of African Political Economy Vol. 37, No. 125, September 2010, 361–371

Does Zambia Need a Post-Liberalization Era? Review of Left Behind: Rural Zambia in the Third Republic, by Jeremy Gould (Lusaka: The Lembani Trust, 2010), The Bulletin and Record, April, 2011, Lusaka, Zambia

Review article, Revolutionary Traveler by John S. Saul, Socialist Studies Vol 6, No. 2, 2010

Thaddeaus Sunseri.Wielding the Ax: State Forestry and Social Conflict in Tanzania, 1820-2000. Athens, Ohio: Ohio U.P. 2009. 184pp. In Canadian Journal of African Studies, forthcoming

"Is it Really That Shocking?", Review of Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, New Socialist, February-march, 2008

"Black and Proud or Colonial Mentality? James Brown, Fela Kuti and the limits of Black Power", Relay, #18, July-August 2007

Recent Teaching Work

2011 
HIST 252S Africa in the Modern World
POLB90H3 Course Instructor, Comparative Development in International Perspective, U of T Scarborough

2010  
POLB90H3 Course Instructor, Comparative Development in International Perspective, U of T Scarborough
DEVS 230, TA Political Economy of Development, Queen's

2010
HIST 333 Southern Africa to c.1890

2009-10        
HIST 4410Y Course Instructor, Rebellions and Civil Wars in Africa, Trent University

2008
HIST 470a Teaching Fellow, The Development of Capitalism in Africa

Additional Research Work:

2006 South African Imperialism in the American Empire, for the Municipal Services Project, IDRC funded. Research contributed to David McDonald' (ed) (2008) Electric Capitalism: Recolonizing Africa on the Power Grid, Earthscan