Gavin Kitching

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Gavin Kitching (B.Sc., D.Phil) is a British author and professor of social sciences and international relations (formerly head of School Politics and International Relations) at the University of New South Wales, where he has taught since 1991. In 2007 Kitching became a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

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Gavin Kitching is an expert on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and has made important contributions to the philosophy behind Marxism. He has also made leading contributions to development studies through the 1980s, with the early best selling course text Development and Underdevelopment (1989). In earlier work Kitching had focussed on development in Africa, particularly Tanzania and Kenya. Since the early 1990s his focus shifted to post-soviet Russia during the process of de-collectivisation of land, and later the effects of globalisation on social justice in the twenty first century economy.

Kitching is also a publishing novelist and playwright. The main characters play out their roles in the the North-East of England, and the novels are intriguing whodunnit crime stories.

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Academic titles
  • Class and economic change in Kenya (1980) Yale University Press, ISBN 0300023855
  • Development and Underdevelopment in Historical Perspective (1989) 2nd Ed. Routledge, ISBN 0415034493
  • Rethinking Socialism (1983) Meuthen, ISBN 0416358403
  • Marxism and Science: Analysis of an Obsession[1] (1994) Penn State Press, ISBN 0271010266
  • Seeking Social Justice through Globalisation: Escaping a Nationalist Perspective (2001) Penn State Press, ISBN 0271021624
  • Wittgenstein and Society: Essays in Conceptual Puzzlement (2003) Ashgate, ISBN 0-7546-3342-X
Academic articles
Fiction work
  • The Death of a Politician (2007) online
  • The Truth of the Matter (2007) online
  • Sons and Smugglers (2007) online
  • An Impossible Honesty: Scenes from the life of Ludwig Wittgenstein (2003) online, freely downloadable
  • A Dream of Gazza (2001) online, freely downloadable
  • Karl Marx in Hell (2002) online, freely downloadable

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  1. ^ Link to website

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