Professor Premesh Lalu

Premesh Lalu holds a UK-SA Bilateral Chair in Technics and Culture at the
University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa. 

He served as director of the Centre for Humanities Research at UWC from 2008 to 2019, and convened the Programme on the Study of the Humanities from 2006 - 2008. 

Lalu has published extensively on the critique of apartheid as it relates to the co-evolution of the human and technology, postcolonial theory, subaltern studies, epistemological access and the post-apartheid university. 

He is author of The Deaths of Hintsa: Post-apartheid South Africa and the Shape of Recurring Pasts (2009) and more recently, Undoing Apartheid (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022).

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