Fran Lisa Buntman (George Mason University, Washington, DC)

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Fran Lisa Buntman
Assistant Professor
George Mason University

Spring 2002:  Administration of Justice
Beginning Fall 2002: Department of Sociology

Mail address:
George Mason University
1221 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, #521
Washington, DC 20005  USA

phone:  202-248-2332
e-mail: fbuntman@gmu.edu 


Web site for Dept. of Sociology: http://www.gwu.edu/~soc/


My core interests are the nature and exercise of power and resistance
which I explore in a number of substantive areas. My forthcoming book on
Robben Island prison (Cambridge University Press, 2003) explores political
prisoner resistance under apartheid as well as its influence on the
apartheid state and anti-apartheid political movements. 

I currently teach and research mostly in criminal justice, ranging from
policing in democratic South Africa to juvenile probation in the United
States. 

I also work on race, law and constitutionalism, and social and political
change. My next project focuses on definitions and understanding of crime,
politics, and violence to examine how groups and states marshal law,
violence, and ideology to justify and/or challenge political and criminal
terror. One aspect of that study is a comparative analysis of Zimbabwe's
and South Africa's legal and discursive constructions of terrorism.


Selected publications

Book

Robben Island Prison and the Struggle Against Apartheid. Cambridge
University Press. Forthcoming 2003.


Journal Articles, Chapters, and Research Report

"Policing in a diverse and multi-cultural society: the South African
case." Special Issue of Police and Society [Israel] in cooperation with
the National Institute of Justice [US]. To be published in print and
on-line. Forthcoming Spring 2002. (With Rika Snyman.)

"Race, Reputation, and the Supreme Court: Valuing Blackness and
Whiteness." University of Miami Law Review 56, no. 1, October 2001.

"The Role of Political Imprisonment in Developing and Enhancing Political
Leadership: A Comparative Study of South Africa's and Taiwan's
Democratization." Journal of Asian and African Studies 35, no. 1 (2000):
43-66. (With Tong-yi Huang.) Also reprinted: In Taiwan in Perspective,
Wei-chin Lee ed.. Leiden: The Netherlands: Brill Publishers, 2000.

"Categorical and Strategic Resistance and the Making of Political Prisoner
Identity in Apartheid's Robben Island Prison." Social Identities 4, no. 3
(1998): 417-440. Also to be reprinted in After Apartheid: Social
Identities in the New South Africa, ed. Abebe Zegeye. Ashgate: Forthcoming
2001.

"South Africa's First Democratic Elections and their Political Context."
In Multiparty Democracy and Political Change: Constraints to
Democratization in Africa, ed. John Mukum Mbaku and Julius O. Ihonvbere.
Brookfield, Vermont and Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 1998.

"Resistance on Robben Island 1963-1976" and "How Best to Resist?  Robben
Island after 1976." In The Island: A History of Robben Island , ed.
Harriet Deacon. Cape Town: David Philip, 1996.

"Denis Goldberg," "Maxine Hart," "Albie Sachs," "Shawn Slovo," and
"Raymond Suttner." [In-depth interviews with four prominent former
political prisoners and the family member of a deceased fifth.] In Cutting
though the Mountain, ed. Immanuel Suttner. London and Johannesburg:
Penguin, 1997.

"The Limousine Lizard and the Taxi Proletariat: The Business Sector's
Involvement in Public Policy Change 1985-1989." In Policy Perspectives
1989: South Africa at the End of the Eighties. Johannesburg: Centre for
Policy Studies, 1989. (With Robin Lee.)

"Shopping for War: an analysis of consumerist militarism." In War and
Society: The Militarization of South Africa, (ed.) Cock, Jacklyn and
Nathan, Laurie. Cape Town: David Philip, 1989. (With Karen Jochelson.)

The Future of the Nonprofit Voluntary Sector in South Africa. Research
Report Five, Centre for Policy Studies, Johannesburg, 1988.  (With Robin
Lee.)


Newspaper Articles/Op-eds

"Jews must fight Israeli atrocities." The Baltimore Sun, April 21, 2002.
Search: http://www.sunspot.net/search/bal-archive-1990.htmlstory

"While praising de Klerk's courage, we must question, as well."  The
Beacon Journal, October 20, 1999.

"Hell hole where the human spirit triumphed." The Sunday Times , September
21, 1997.

Support for Inkatha is wrong approach to South Africa's problems" [Reply
to W. Buckley's "De Klerk's payments to Inkatha defensible"].
Austin-American Statesman, August 2, 1991. (With Jeanne-Marie Velickovic)

"Does the Jewish Nat betray his [her] roots?" Weekly Mail , October 27,
1988.