Lecture and discussion with Patrick Bond

The expanding BRICS bloc – Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa – has fueled hopes for a “multipolar world order.” Yet its economies lack an emancipatory vision. Social movements from below instead call for an “anti-polar” internationalism that rejects both imperialist unipolarity and subimperialist multipolarity, challenging.

Monday, November 24th, 2025, 11:15 to 13:00 HS387 (Rudolfskai 42)

Patrick Bond is Political economist and political ecologist. He researches topics related to the political economy of Africa, international finance, eco-social development and political ecology, as well as development issues in contemporary South Africa and social mobilisation. Today, Bond is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg.

This talk is part of the lecture series Emancipatory Perspectives in a Multipolar World Full of Tensions organized by the University of Salzburg.